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

Amazed to see this posting on Facebook by Montel Williams. This hits the bulls eye with what enterprise architecture--both organizati...

Of all things, here's an innovation to the seat belt.  In the movies, we've all seen cars plunging into the water and submerging...

Almax , the Italian maker of mannequins has a new high-tech version that does more than stand around and look pretty. The EyeSee Manne...

On the third night of Chanukah, my true love gave to me...nah. So wanted to share this nice pair of menorah Chanukah socks.  Unfor...

I remember learning how the Nazi's in the Holocaust and WWII would take great care of their dogs, while at the same time extermi...

I came away with some thoughts on risk taking watching this scene from the movie "Lies and Alibis." The girl says: " ...

It all started on the first night Of Chanukah...   Yeah, I know it's a miracle! ;-) (Source Comic At Bitstrips: Andy B...

A new article by Andy Blumenthal called " The Information High " at Public CIO Magazine (29 November 2012). "In addit...

I took this video of a flying drone at Brookstone at Avetura Mall in Miami.  The drone is flying among the crowds and actually goes righ...

I had the distinct honor to attend the first Washington D.C. High School Ethics Bowl at American University. There were eight teams ...

I remember as a teenager visiting, on occasion, the Catskill Mountain hotels for the holidays and watching not only the enormous amounts ...

It was interesting getting out of Washington D.C. this week and talking to people outside the Capital about what they were thinking. D...

The autocomplete feature in search engines can tell us a lot about what people are thinking and asking about. According to the N...

We went on a awesome excursion today...a helicopter ride over Miami Beach.  We got picked up and taken to the air strip in Pembroke Pine...

I had to get rid of an old Kindle e-Reader from my daughter today. She's looking forward instead to the next generation Kindle Fire ...

With so much of U.S. manufacturing activity going abroad, it is almost hard to believe that there is still a store in Elma, N.Y. called “...

I love seeing the sign on the bus commemorating the heroism of Rosa Parks for civil rights. However, on this Thanksgiving, I was remind...

I took this photo coming into Miami. The beauty of the water, beaches, islands, intercoastal, modern high-rises, and more is just am...

"The Guardian of Israel neither slumbers or sleeps." (Psalms 121:4) Much is being celebrated about Israel's new Iron Dome...

It's tough to get the truth from people in the organization as to how things are really going. Are their programs successful...

This is a wonderful, moving music video by Israeli composer Asaf Avidan, remixed by German DJ--the song is called One Day/Reckoning (Wan...

Okay, so here's the dirtly little secret... The "Fiscal Cliff" that everyone is supposedly working on to avert--is reall...

I understand when someone says they are just going to hang out, but this is ridiculous--a lion hanging out of the window, overlooking...

This turtle was awesome.  Another hiker found him at the top of the mountain. When he first showed it to us, the turtle's head w...

Took a long hike today for Veterans Days. Along the hike, I found a tall branch (maybe 10 feet) that I took for a hiking stick.  It wa...

I watched on TV, a congressman from Staten Island talk about the complex response to Hurricane Sandy--in particular, how people whose home...

Talking with my daugter today, I learned that times have changed for our children and I realized for us as well. It used to be that ki...

There is a fascinating article in The Atlantic (November 2012) on an emerging bioweapons storm that is brewing that could be used in a d...