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

I took this picture of a tall clock on a pedestal.  There is a man in a dark suit walking in the background.  He represents us all, ...

Waiting for the train this morning--on the platform, there is a blind woman. The train pulls up, and I help the blind lady to the tra...

I saw this lovely and clever poem on Facebook posted by Yona Lunger, I assume a relative of the 11 year old girl who wrote this. ...

Someone put this lovely card on my car recently. Hey, I know I know I'm not the best driver in the world-- BUT this is insulti...

This guy was terrific. We were at Chesapeake Beach on the Bay. There was a sign warning of jelly fish. Unfortunately, this place...

This picture is from the train home from work this week.  This lady took the opportunity to literally sprawl herself out on the train. ...

These are two pictures of beautiful butterflies that I took today while hiking.  The first is a black and white butterfly with some gol...

There's a cliff.   At the bottom is a body. What do you think may have happened? It's a matter of how you interpret what...

Aside from the cholesterol, generally speaking two eggs are better than one. Two eggs here, as you can see, are two friends--in it toge...

Remember the Pet Rock--someone made millions of dollars selling lonely people a rock with instructions for care. Playing around on the c...

I was taken aback today to see this young lady walking her dog with a rubber chicken hanging off the back of her pants.  The chicken was...

Senator Chuck Grassley posted a video of the Acting Director of the ATF sternly warning employees that "if you don't find the ...

An article in the Daily Beast/Newsweek called "Is the Web Driving Us Mad?" postulates that we are addicted to the Intern...

This is a disturbing 2-hour documentary called Zeitgeist (2007) by filmmaker Peter Joseph.  The first few minutes are a little weird so ...

What a great question--what's the Internet or your Smartphone worth to you?  Most people seems to say they wouldn't give these ...

I took this picture a number of weeks ago of an artistic American flag with a peace symbol over it--and this is a wonderful goal and w...

This photo was just wild from the metro bus today. Some lady--assume she's a cosmetologist in training--working on this manne...

There is an ice cream shop in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia called of all things -- SCOOPS.  Aside from the yum ice cream, the...

I don't know a lot about huge dump trucks. But I wondered what this meant when it says on the back of this multi-ton vehicle--...

Here's to a very stylish iPhone case. As you can see it has bunny ears, and in pink nonetheless.  No, the rabbit ears are not ...

This is a picture from today of people tubing gathered under the Harpers Ferry Bridge in West Virginia.  The hiking along the Appala...

I circled back to an article that I saved away for the last 10 years (5 years before I started blogging and practically before it real...

The photo comes from a site called CollegeHumor , but there is also a pretty cool video on YouTube .   This is some very clever...

There is a very good interview in the Wall Street Journal today (14-15 July 2012) with George Shultz, former Secretary of State, Treas...

I came across of photo from United With Israel , a global advocacy group, taken in Nitzan, Israel.  Nitzan is home to about 600 fam...

What a distorted editorial this morning in the Wall Street Journal called " What's Really Behind the Entitlement Crisis ."...

So I saw this advertisement for a "100% burglar proof" system and I was just bewildered. Does anyone really think we can b...

I thought this picture was sort of humorous.  This lady is walking down the street with this big green umbrella, but there is NOT a ...

In the last couple of days, there's been an influx of Segways and bikes spinning around Washington D.C. It's sort of nice to...

This was a strange sight today... A blue broom stuck in a flag pole holder from the second floor window of this building. I wasn...

Today, I took this picture near the office of these beautiful flowers with a bee hovering right to the upper right.  The bee looks l...

This was a nature picture that I took today while on a little hike in a local park in Maryland. I like the perspective of this pictu...

Yesterday, I read in the Wall Street Journal (7-8 July 2012) about end of life decisions.  With healthcare costs spiraling out of co...