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

For those interested in the field of cybersecurity, I wanted to share some useful websites that I've come across:  1) Cybersecurity ...

So my daughter goes to New York for break and brings me back "Meshuga Mints." "Meshuga" in Yiddish and Hebrew means ...

I saw the movie Olympus Has Fallen , where the North Koreans attack the White House and take the President and the National Security Counc...

There's an old saying that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.  And this is true in cyberspace as well... Like ...

I have a new article in Public CIO Magazine about working to perfect ourselves in an imperfect world. Please read the article here  onli...

Gordon Crovitz wrote about Big Data in the  Wall Street Journal (25 March 2013) this week. He cites from a book called "Big Data: ...

I took this photo in the mall at a nail salon. They were advertising nail art and these were some life-like examples.  At first it see...

So I tried out Twitter's new Vine App--and it is a thoroughly mind numbing experience.  There is an old saying that "wine is fi...

Many of you may have probably the seen the movie, "Children of Men,"--it is themed around a time in the future when women are in...

This is a display at a retailer in posh Rockville, Maryland. As crazy as these mugs are including their $4 price tag, what adds to this ...

After being sick the last week with the flu and still on antibiotics, I ventured out today and took the girls hiking in Harpers Ferry.  ...

What does SpongeBob mean to you? I thought this was funny--thinking what if people actually looked like this?  Hey, they actually...

A Chinese company, Ecovacs , has developed a robot that cleans your windows--and it looks quite like an iRobot that cleans your floors. Y...

Some people give out the newspapers in the morning with a loud and resonant, "Get your daily newspaper!" Others with a call to...

Fascinating opinion piece by Fisman and Sullivan in the Wall Street Journal on Friday (15 March 2013) called " The Unsung Beauty of ...

This guy from the military used to joke that they were always being told to hurry up only to find that once they got to their destinatio...

This machine is hilarious. It is called the "useless machine," well...because it is utterly useless.  When you push the switc...

There is a very interesting discussion of the protection of Federal Networks and the Fourth Amendment in “Cybersecurity, Selected Legal ...

This was just too much on the D.C. Metro today. This lady is sitting with her badge and bag and a red pillowcase wrapped around her h...

So we turned the clock forward this morning and spring was here...it was warm enough to go hiking again. It was a lo...

This was just too awesome. They do the Harlem Shake at NASA.  Who says engineers can't dance? ;-)

So recently, I saw the movie Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise who plays a wealthy playboy who has everything, but has a horrible disfiguring ...

Berkeley Bionics (now Ekso Bionics ) has done miracles here in helping the disabled to walk again.  Based on the Human Universal Load Ca...

This is an interesting video on Plato's Allegory of The Cave.  It is long-winded, but if you watch a little I think you will get the...

Here's a little joke my father tells--hope you enjoy it: A man buys his wife a grave for her birthday. The next year, he doesn...

This is unbelievable design work by Jacque Fresco--architect, futurist and only 96-years old! As you watch this video, you just have to ...

My daughter, Rebecca, did an amazing job on this portrait of Einstein.  I now have it sitting on my desk and I love it! From the ha...

So probably everyone knows the game of chicken. They play this game in the movie Footloose --driving these big tractors towards each ...

There is an interesting new crowdsourcing application called  Seesaw . And like a seesaw goes up and down, you can take a picture and cr...

So we went to Five Below today where everything sells for--that's right--less than $5. They had these cool Frisbees with faces on t...

This program at Draper University of Heroes was written up in  Bloomberg BusinessWeek (25 Feb. 2013) as The Silicon Valley Survival Scho...

Gone are the days when Sony made innovative products like the Walkman and great products like televisions that you willingly paid top do...

This was a funny painting on the window of this eatery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  The woman is thinking romance, but the man is thin...