Promised Land

The weather for a hike in the Delaware State Forest near Promised Land, Pennsylvania was perfect — not too hot and not too cold. Promised Land State Park is in the Pocono Plateau, 1,800 feet above sea level and is about is 3,000 acres in size, surrounded by more than 12,000 acres of state forests. […]

Bob, John, Jim

Bob, John, or Jim There are 2 images of Bob below, 1 of Jim, and 2 of John – try to guess the sequence.Click on a thumbnail image if you need help. Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Click to enlarge Click to enlarge PDFs of the images: (in an alternate order […]

Credit Cards

There are approximately 1,500,000,000 credit cards in the United States — an average of five cards for every man, woman, and child. I have always thought it would be great to have just one. If I could have just one it would be the American Express platinum card. The fee is quite high but my […]

Virginia R. Patrick

Click to enlarge A pdf version of Mom’s portrait may be found here and a handwriting sample can be viewed here.

Google Voice

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of technologies that enable voice communications over the Internet (and corporate intranets). Strong double-digit growth has placed VoIP into everyday life for many millions of people. In the early days I used Packet8. Then a VoIP system was created by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström, […]