Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

No, this is not a Washington, D.C. crime scene. Just someone dropping their jar of roasted red peppers smack in the middle of the st...

So everyday, I pass this broken escalator in the Washignton D.C. Metro system. Does it even look like an escalator anymore--all open...

I took this photo of this Design logo on the side of a bag this guy was carrying.  It is from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum...

So I saw this game called Taboo when doing the grocery shopping today.  (This one is the Jewish edition.) Having never played this bef...

You can try to hide your feeling, but it won't work... Your emotions are now an open book to anyone with facial-recognition software,...

So occasionally in the office, people perhaps forget where they are... And instead of working together to solve problems, they go to war...

So true story... There is a wonderful lady in the workplace...one of the nicest people.  Unfortuantely, she has a disability and it is...

So yesterday was the 70th anniversary memorial of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp, More than 1.1 million Jews and 100,000 oth...

The Secret Service is one of the finest agencies in the Federal government, but unfortunately, the "recreational" drone crash la...

I took this photo the other day of a truck loaded from front to back with compressed gas cylinders in downtown, Washington, D.C. I under...

So apparently data mining can be used for all sorts of research... In the New York Times today, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tries his ha...

This was a beautiful story that I heard from a very senior colleague recently. Years ago, when she started working, for whatever reason,...

Heroic remarks from NYC Councilman Greenfield after pro-Palestinian activists protested the commemoration of 1.1 million people murdered i...

So periodically, I like to take a quick pulse of America. So I find a way to ask someone(s) what they are seeing and experiencing, and w...

The kids hit the shoe store on the weekend. Shoes and bags are always favorites. Anyway, one tried on these cool blue boots.  ...

Puzzling that the Israel's Prime Minister (our Major Strategic Ally ) is accused of " Breaking Protocol ." And how? By a...

Before we get too rosy on the State of the Union... Fascinating article in Forbes on the threat from nuclear armageddon.  - The...

Just a quick lesson I wanted to share from my grandfather. He used to say (or so my dad used to tell me), " You open your eyes ...

Thought these socks were pretty cool. POW! WHAM! ZAAP! KAPOW! SPLAT! We are living in an age with potential for great upheaval whe...

So today, we saw the movie American Sniper , which topped the long weekend box office with over $105 million in receipts. Why are peop...