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Barack is the real thing
Tonight, my wife and I had the privilege of attending a small reception for Barack Obama at the home of Ann and Gordon Getty. All I can say, is he is more impressive and more fun in person than on TV. They closed off the street in front of the Getty’s home which is on Broadway and Lyon in San…
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I am not bionic (yet) but I am slowly falling apart
I am slowly falling apart. As you can see from the sub title of this blog, I am 63 years old. I am not even a boomer. They started being born about nine months after me. I am an actual WWII baby (that is world war two for those of you so young that you think WWII is some kind…
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I am not a collector
About 30 years ago, I bought my first painting. As a musician (sort of) I was always puzzled about visual art where one copy of a work exists or in the case of photos and prints, as small series. With music, the more people that have a copy of a work, the more successful one is. But with visual art,…
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Do little screens lead to little minds
I have a very dear friend. We are like brothers (and nearly the same age). A while back, my friend got a very significant position at one of the leading internet companies. Not only was it a great personal opportunity for him but it also offered him the ability to do some real good in the world. I was delighted…
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2008: The year of DNA
Genealogy I have just sent my DNA in to Ancerstry.com. I am investigating my parental linage via the Y chromosome and my maternal linage via the mitochondrial DNA. For those that do not know, the Y chromosome is past from father to son. For instance, my father, I, my sons and their sons all have the same Y chromosome. And…
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One man’s vision or no man’s vision: Bush vs. Putin
I have been really torn about switching from the Windows environment to the Mac environment. While my first personal computer was apple like ( It was actually an ACE 1000 which was an apple II clone made by Franklin Computer where I was president in 1983), I pretty much switched over to the what we called at that time the…
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Thought Experiments and Bubble Baths
When I was a child, my hero was Albert Einstein (as well as Flash Gordon and Superman) as I have mentioned in earlier posts. Albert had four things that I identified with; 1) lots of crazy curly hair, 2) a Jewish mother, 3) could not tie his shoes laces (so my mother said) and 4) he did thought…
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You know you are old when you medical report looks like an inspection report on a “fix it upper”
You know you are old when you medical report looks like an inspection report on a “fix it upper” and you not sure you want to go through with the purchase. My doctor (whom I love), sent me a copy of my medical report. Of course, I was hopping whe would say, “avram is in fantastic shape (she gets to see…
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Thomas Friedman for President
I read a great op-ed by Tom Friedman (a man I have respected since he first quoted me in The Lexus and the Olive Tree J). Tom made me realize (again) that many if not all of the great problems before us actually have solutions except maybe one? How do we get rid of the people that occupy (and I…
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Can I be an honorary woman?
No I don’t mean that I want to cross dress although I have to say my calves looked pretty good the one time I tried on my wife’s red patent leather pumps and I do think I might be the original metro sexual. But this post is about something else. There is a Jewish concept called Tikkum Olom. It means healing…
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