Having lived in Charlottesville for more than a decade (and Ann Arbor and Cambridge before that), I had become used to not donning a suit or sport jacket when going to shul (synagogue). As a matter of fact, in Charlottesville, where about 1/3 of the congregants were native Israeli’s going to UVA, many folks going to shul didn’t even wear “nice clothes”- jeans (not torn, of course) and slacks for women were de rigeur.
Electric cars. Electric trucks. Yeah, we’ve seen them. Even some self-driving versions of the vehicles.
Continue reading Up, up, and away..
I have been saving up this subject for a while. Because I wanted to be able to provide it a unique spin. Unfortunately, the spin is not really the one I was hoping to provide, but it needs to be discussed. But, first, some introduction.
Continue reading We’ve come a long way since Darpanet.
I recall that wonderful poem by Edgar Allen Poe well. It was probably the first poem that piqued my fancy. (Oh, sure, Annabelle Lee almost came close- but then I was introduced to the sublime e.e. cummings…) But, I digress.
Continue reading Quoth the raven: Nevermore…
So I was catching up on my reading (it has been the week from hell, sorry) and noticed a piece in the Wall Street Journal, written by Jon Kamp– but that is not what really attracted my attention.
Continue reading Sailing, sailing…
What motivates us? Are we internally (aka, intrinsically) driven or extrinsically (aka, instrumentally) driven? Or maybe both?
Continue reading Drive. More may be worse.
