You can choose a white shirt, a white shirt, or a white shirt.
Decisions, Decisions!
Great thing is simplicity and that you can dress in the dark in the morning.
Bad thing is you are a lifeless, colorless buffoon. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
September 1, 2020
Best Wardrobe
You can choose a white shirt, a white shirt, or a white shirt.
Decisions, Decisions!
Great thing is simplicity and that you can dress in the dark in the morning.
Bad thing is you are a lifeless, colorless buffoon. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 31, 2020
Just Call It By My Name
It a matter of Quid Pro Quo!
Just a few examples of naming after people:
Carnegie Hall
Rockefeller Center
Whitney Museum
If you call it by their names, then they feel like they are somebody!
Even the rich and mighty people know they are going to die, but they want to be remembered long after.
Everyone should say their names!
But honestly, it's not only completely egotistical, but also idolatrous.
The wealth that G-d grants us is for us to live and do good in the world--not to glorify ourselves.
Having your name on a building, museum, hospital, university or stadium doesn't demonstrate you're charitableness as much as your narcissism and desire for some sort of immortality.
However, there is only one G-d and it's by Him that we should give honor, credit, and thanks!
Giving charity is what you do because you can and it's the right thing to help others, especially when you have an overabundance.
Donating to put your name in lights and on people's tongues is nothing but self worship.
All building should be stripped of the names of these people.
Recognize and raise up G-d. Man is just his servant. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 30, 2020
Every Little Thing
Every little thing that Hashem provides for us is truly a big deal. It’s so easy to become complacent, arrogant, and overconfident in all that we have today. But if we just remember that without every little thing we have, we could be in some big, big trouble tomorrow.
Our bodies, minds, and spirit can be strong, but without the ingredients we need to survive, we are all just dust and ashes. Before the High Holidays, when we ask Hashem to forgive us, and we try to make amends, and pray for a good New Year, now is a great time to appreciate every little thing!
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 29, 2020
Teaching Kids To You Know What
Mini toilets to teach the kids to go potty.
The big pot can probably be scary for a little kid.
Don't want them to end up falling in and whoosh!
Ok, not funny!
Seriously though, these little training toilets are cute.
Honestly, I think there are some adults that need some potty training too.
Yes, you know who you are! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 28, 2020
Better Than Hand Sanitizer LOL
Just use this bottle of Social Belonging!
Better than dish detergent or hand sanitizer.
Good for attaining love, friends, societal and other belonging needs.
22 fluid ounces!
That's enough to get you through the Coronavirus quarantine's loneliness and then some. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 27, 2020
Rope Light
August 26, 2020
Porsche Lovers
August 25, 2020
Happy Days
This smiley face in the yard in front of the house was a perfect real estate addition.
As my father used to sing so beautifully:
When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you!
It really is a beautiful and positively contagious thing! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 24, 2020
90-10 Charity Rule
In Genesis 14:20:
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
In Genesis 28:22
[Jacob says] And in all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
In Leviticus 27:30:
A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the L-rd, it is holy to the L-rd.
In general, G-d lets you keep 90% and he commands that you give 10% to charity.
I understand that some righteous people even give 20% of their income to charity.
I learned from Rabbi Yaron Reuven that:
For those that are miserly and not charitable and don't tithe, G-d reverses the equation, and He takes back the 90% and lets you keep the 10%.
Very ingenious and where the punishment fits "the crime" so to say.
So what do you want the 90% or the 10%--it's your choice to give or have it given for you! ;-)
(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
August 23, 2020
August 22, 2020
No, It's Not Fort Knox
I don't think I've ever seen this many surveillance cameras in one relatively small room that's not related to national security!
And there were even more cameras around me--they were freakin everywhere.
I get that people are afraid and want security, but seriously over a dozen cameras in the entry/waiting room to see a doctor!
Did someone go a little overboard here?
Maybe they had a bad experience, who knows.
Still, this is beyond dystopian and never a private moment shall one have! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 21, 2020
You Get Your Own Special Table
Reserved for Mr. and Mrs. Social Distance. Thank You.
Wow, for people that are rightfully worried about Coronavirus or maybe they're just hypochondriacs, there is a secluded table for you in the restaurant, so you can still go out and eat and enjoy yourselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Social Distance, you are sitting far away but still part of the living, Halleluja! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 20, 2020
Man Lamp
Probably great for your man cave.
It stands on 2 legs.
Its spine is the electrical cord running down the middle.
And the lamp shade is the hat.
Sort of design ingenious.
And during Coronavirus quarantine, it makes you feel perhaps like you have a little extra companionship.
Even if it's just a lamp! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Facebook)
August 19, 2020
Merging Of Man
I can't remember--do I work at home or do I live at work?
Maybe this is the ultimate merging of the two halves of ourselves--the worker and the family man/woman.
These days were seeing a lot of mergers like this:
- Man-machine with embedded technology, robotics, and AI
- Man-environment with environmentalism and greening technologies
- Man-media with social media and other 100% always-on social computing
So why not Man Family-Work, it's just another merger of near equals in our day-to-day lives. ;-)
August 18, 2020
When Planning Is A Joke
The College of Architecture and Planning apparently didn't plan enough space for the "C" of college and so it's plastered to the brick wall at a corner angle.
Talk about irony!
Would you want them teaching your architect and planners?
Oy this is just too classic. ;-)
(Source Photo: Facebook)
August 17, 2020
Pink Bear
Like a politician speaks falsehoods!
My dad would rightfully say, "Be careful, don't step in the hoy[t]a!"
Compliments of some good old Native American humor.
At one point, probably from Reader's Digest! :-)
(Credit Photo; Andy Blumenthal)
August 15, 2020
Holes In The Eyes
What I do know is that there are some people (not all) in this world who are very bad people that are blind to truth and good.
They see themselves not only first and foremost but only themselves--they are truly selfish pr*cks!
Next, they see their buddies from the "old boy's network" where one dirty hand washes the other even dirtier hand.
They see everyone else as pawns to get what they want--power, money, prestige--and in turn others are for their abuse and as a punching bag.
People born and bred on immediate and self-gratification at the expense of doing what's right.
Power used to intimidate, to harass, to bully, to step on, to shame, and to kick to the gutter.
To them it's just what it takes "to make it" in this world. And for them they don't consider what they are giving up in the world to come.
It's an ancient war of good over evil where bad people seem very strong indeed.
But where we can't cower from a fight for what we know in the end is right.
Where did their eyes go? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 14, 2020
30,000 Chances To Get It Right
Teshuvah (Repentance) is really not just a yearly process, it is a daily one. And 80 years is almost 30,000 days, with every day that we wake up, get up, and start up the process of another day again, we have the opportunity to get it right this day, this time around!
Every day that we awake and arise is a great opportunity to try again where we failed in prior days and we can potentially think holier thoughts, say kinder words, and treat each other better, more compassionately and righteously.
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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