Italian Adventure — Luck With the Travel Gods
Here was the plan. Fly to Italy on Tuesday. Return Friday afternoon and land at Newark Airport at 1:00 pm. Then somehow get to LaGuardia Airport in time for a 4:30 pm flight to Chicago. At my age, that might sound a little ambitious. My wife and I already had tickets to Chicago to spend […]
Trying to Outsmart the Weather
This record-setting blizzard we just had reminded me. Back in the 1950s, when I was working professionally as a meteorologist, we didn’t have computers, satellites, or any of the incredible tools that forecasters rely on today. What we had instead were surface maps, upper-air charts, a good deal of training, and experience. If I’m being […]
The Fear of AI
Back when I worked for IBM in 1959, the mainframe in use was the new IBM 704. To give you some perspective, the 704 was in a gymnasium sized store front on the corner of 59th street and Madison Avenue. The console amused passers-by in the huge picture window with its multi-colored blinking lights. In […]
My Take on Greenland
I try not to exercise my political ideas in these brief articles and I have no intention of starting now. However, having spent time in Greenland in winter and summer, I might just clarify what can only be either false impressions or lack of interest. First, Greenland became important in the early days of the […]
An Accident – Whose Fault?
I offered to give a friend a ride back from the body shop. He was dropping his car off to have the annoying dents (his words) removed. On the way there, I made a left turn onto a street that had a stop sign for the oncoming vehicles. To make a short story shorter, we […]
My History with Golf
The puzzling behavior of our military in the news these days reminded me of my military service in the Air Force. My memories are not what you would imagine. In fact, the things I remember after so many years surprise me too. My commanding officer when I was stationed in the Azores was a golf […]
Website Disasters
Almost my whole business life has been as a computer techie. And one significant thing I have learned that still hasn’t been learned by website (or programs for that matter) designers. The techies that built the website should never be the ones who decide it is ready for the public to use. Never. That failure […]
The Movies
My wife and I were invited by my son and daughter-in -law to go to the movies with them. The movie was REGRETTING YOU based on one of Colleen Hoover’s books. Due to being nailed to my house during Covid, I’ve been all movied out. Now I know that there are some very good movies […]
The Eternal Detour
Bergen County, especially Englewood is in a perennial state of repair. By repair, I mean digging up the streets and closing roads in such a way that to go one mile, you practically need a tank of gas. Forgive the hyperbole but it gets more than tiresome. Even worse, when they finally finish and pave the […]
Me and Hurricanes
Some of you know I have graduate training as a meteorologist and served as a weatherman in the USAF and for a while for TWA at JFK (So long ago it was still called Idlewild) When I was stationed at Dover AFB, we had several hurricanes hit or come close to the base. Forecasting their […]