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Brazilian Adventure – Day 2

The flight arrived on time in Sao Paulo and things went smoothly through immigration and customs. An Embraer driver was waiting to take me up to San Jose dos Campos — about 75 miles north of Sao Paulo. Sao Jose dos Campos is a city of more than 600,000 people and headquarters of Embraer, the […]

Brazilian Adventure – Day 1

It was a great summer and now it seems so long ago. September was a blur with board meetings, charitable events, a high school reunion, the marriage of one of my sons, a trip to Demo in San Diego with a stopover along the way in Telluride with some friends, and then the business trip […]

Special Libraries Day

The flight down to Dulles on the Socata TBM 700 was smooth as glass and surprisingly quiet for such a fast airplane. A short shuttle ride got us to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an enormous facility which provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot […]

NASA 50th

There are more than a billion Internet users in the world and tens of billions of web pages. Things were quite different in 1994 when I first showed the world wide web to the senior management team of IBM. Most of the web sites at that time were government or education related and my favorite […]

Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Aviation has been a hobby for me since I first learned to fly in a Cessna 150 in 1970. Later earning a commercial ticket and an instrument rating made flying not only fun but practical. After moving away from the Philadelphia area to Connecticut in 1981, flying became less practical for a number of reasons […]