Do you think the characters in science fiction movies are all make believe? Like cyborgs and robocops and transformers and megazilla? Well think again. Just this week a United Nations expert called for a global moratorium on the testing and production of armed robots that can select and kill targets without human command. While no countries …
This topic is inspired by Fred's post on "Failure." It is the urge, or obsession, that everything has to be just right. Whenever I get my haircut, and my haircutter Audrey is the best, I return home and carefully examine it. I see that she missed one little hair, it is sticking out like a flagpole. I take out my scissors and snip away. Later, …
Thursday was a beautiful day so I took the day off and Eve and I drove up to Amenia for a 21 mile bike ride. The sun was blazing and the air was warm as we started along the Harlem Valley Rail trail past the farms and hills of Dutchess County. We came upon an open stretch of the path with a lovely large pond bounded by a hill on the far side and …
Before the first Mother's Day Eve and I shared a few years ago we excitedly went shopping for our mothers. It was the first time our parents all met. It was a lovely day and our mothers sat together opening their gifts and telling the other that they hoped we would get married one day. I remember it well. It was a very happy day. Now, my mothe …
At times I feel like a loser. But I am getting better. I bought a new pair of reading glasses about six months ago that I carry with me to the office every day and then back home. I am surprised that I have not lost them yet, though they once fell out of my pocket in Grand Central and someone kindly picked them up and tapped me on the sho …
It has been a long time since I was hooked on a TV show. The last time I watched as religiously was Hill Street Blues, a long time ago. Now, 30 years later, it is Game of Thrones. The woman who cuts my hair told me to watch it. She particularly liked the sex scenes she said, which seem to have waned a bit after season 1. I like the tension in …
The fallout from Boston this past week included among other things whether we are entering an era of Big Brother, and if so, is that such a bad thing. Without the cameras, how long would it have taken law enforcement to figure out who was responsible for the bombing? They could have left the country by the time they were identified. While I count …
One night this past week I walked into the kitchen as Eve was preparing dinner and from behind gently rested my face against hers. It took only a few seconds for her to lightly shriek and turn around and say "you shaved!" and then tell me that I have such a cute face. My mother used to say the same thing. "Why do you cover your nice face wi …
Thinking of golf, thank you Mitch, we have thought about taking it up this year. In the past I have played only twice each season -- once at the Gotham outing, and the second time is with my sons and son in law at the Bernstein Annual Father's Day Golf Tournament. You wouldn't know I only play twice a year with the way I crush my golf cart compan …
There was big news this week, if you get excitied about the origin of the cosmos. It even came with a picture on the front page of the New York Times, what the universe looked like when it was a baby, only a few hunderd thousand years old. They also tell us that the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. All those universe bir …
I think my wife may be leaving me. You know when you just have a hunch about something, and find little signs? It is for Justin Timberlake. She seems to be watching his music videos a lot lately and smiling and talking about him. I am not even sure he knows it yet, but she is coming. I have to say that it is not a bad choice, especially wit …
I would not be a very good president. Not that anyone is asking. Most of us are not thinking about the next race already having grown tired of the last one. But just to be clear for the record, I am not running and will not accept my party's nomination. For one, as nice as the White House must be, I would not work well at home. I would be go …
They say great men make great decisions. I think of this when I am confronted with my morning ritual, which, on Sunday, includes what to write. I often wake up Sunday morning, as I did today, blank. First comes the cat and what to feed her. She has many choices including all sorts of fish and meats in the cans stacked up in the pantry and I tr …
This is Purim, and it is a time for remembering and forgetting. It is sometimes confusing. For example we are told in the Torah that when God grants us safety from all our enemies "in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." Then it says in the next sentenc …
It looks like Carnival Cruise lines is in some hot water. Not only from the lawsuits by angry passengers, but I would wager that their business has got to be bad for some period of time. I think a lot of people are going to pick vacation choice number 2 instead of a cruise. The national park service should run a counter-commercial with a coup …
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