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

This is a pretty cool advance in robotics.  The robot doesn't just perform tasks, but it interacts with the person--sensing his movem...

I took this photo today while hiking.  I reached a summit and when I stopped to take some drink, I saw this amazing butterfly. The but...

Bret Stephens had an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (28 May 2013) called "The Retreat Doctrine." He arg...

What a welcome to the world this baby in China got. According to Discovery News , the baby was flushed down a toilet...alive! Reside...

This was a really crazy Memorial Day weekend: 1. When I was kayaking, a guy in another boat races after us. He yells out about his wife ...

It's been a week since Zach Sobiech, age 18, died from a rare bone cancer, called Osteosarcoma. Zach was diagnosed at just the tende...

While hiking in the mountains today, I came across this beautiful flower.  The yellow with the orange accent is so amazing. I brough...

You can only live about 3 days without water--that's why protecting our water is so critical. Emergency Management (May/June 2...

This is a funny video about some really bad customer service experiences. - From Seinfeld who goes to the trouble of making a reservatio...

Ray Kurzweil the famous futurist is an amazing person, but like everyone he has his good and bad days. When it comes to the Singularity-...

I can only say that my fascination with Google continues to grow daily.  Years ago, I used to joke, "What is this G-O-O-G-L-E?...

We are reaching an exciting but dangerous phase of technology adoption where our dependence is virtually complete.  From mobile to socia...

In the context of the brutal raping and murder last year of a 23-year old women on a bus to the disgusting rape of a 5-year girl more rece...

I saw a frightening movie a while back about a girl that had been drugged and brutally raped.  In the movie, the girl is eerily warned, ...

So I took this picture of this baby frog while hiking.  This was the first one we saw--on the foliage it completely blended in, but on t...

In light of the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh and another in Cambodia this week, there is an promising crowdsourcing service calle...

I think this is probably as close as I will come to seeing Zach Galifianakis.  Someone at 7-Eleven had this awesome coffee mug with Gali...

In the old Starkist Tuna commercials, Charlie the cool tuna thinks he's all that, but he keeps getting rejected by Starkist, because h...

As I would imagine most of you felt this week, I was really surprised by news that individuals in the IRS targeted certain political oppo...

I remember as a child, the nursery rhyme that went something like--"How much is that doggie in the window?  The one with the waggly t...

As a kid, I was all too familiar with factory settings--my dad worked in one.  Dad is an incredibly persistent hard worker who went to t...

If you haven't seen this, Inc. ran an article (19 February 2013) on " 11 Life-Changing Questions You Musk Ask Yourself." I...

This was a funny picture today on the street in downtown D.C.  This guy was getting a cheap ride down the thoroughfare in a bin.  She ...

Great job by the ANAR (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) Foundation in Europe to aid abused children.  The ad is hidden from adul...

This is a brilliant little video on IT Security.  What I like about it is that it doesn't just tell you what not to do to stay safe,...

Beautiful stained glass in the synagogue in Rockville, Maryland. (Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

This is an  awesome action video --5 minutes and totally worth it. It feels like being inside a single player shooting game.  I fi...

This family had just come out of Costco loaded with groceries.  They are heading to the garage to pack it into their car.  A BMW comes...