Boston
Custom image created by Perplexity AI Boston The road to recovery continues, and each day I regain some strength. It was time to venture out on a trip. We decided to go to Boston and visit our son who lives there. After loading our luggage, I entered Raffles Boston into the Tesla’s flat panel and […]
Where Were You When
Where Were You When Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that President Kennedy was assassinated? Or maybe when Jerry Garcia […]
The Hot Dog
Custom image created by Perplexity AI The Hot Dog One day last week, I had lunch with a friend at the Ridgewood Country Club. A menu item caught my attention, the Grilled “Hummel Brothers” Hot Dog $8. It seemed expensive for a hot dog but it was really good. Then this week, Joanne and I […]
A Fine Mess
A Fine Mess I just finished reading A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fair, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R Reid. The book is very well written and delves into what is behind many things about taxes which frustrate many of us. It made me think about some of my experiences […]
The Slide Rule
Technology museum at the corner of my workshop The Slide Rule I just finished reading The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid. Reid did an enormous amount of research on all the names and technologies of the 1950s and 60s. I was an electrical engineering student from […]