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A low-guilt potato salad
The other day I attended a tribal pot-luck picnic. The culinary low was the potato salad – a medley of mashed potato and mayonnaise, yuk! My dream potato salad is creamy with thin slices of recognizeable potato that melt on … Continue reading
The Case of the Missing Tombstones
Together with a German friend my wife and I are just completing a book documenting the features and history of an old Jewish cemetery in rural Bavarian Swabia (see the picture above). During our work we becam increasingly aware of … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy
Tagged Bavarian Swabia, Gatermann Films, Hürben, Jewish cemetery, Krumbach
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Digital Disabilities of the Elderly
I am a senior! No, you don’t have to commiserate with me. I am quite happy – and lucky too. After all, aging is the “in-thing”. Aging is chique. It is even a growth industry. There are lurking legions of … Continue reading
Squeezebox Woes
I bought a Squeezebox Radio from Logitech. It replaces my old bedside short wave radio. I still fondly remember the 70′s, before the airwaves had become so anemic. It was then still possible to receive New York and Boston talk shows in … Continue reading
Did Lazarus Morgenthau elope?
“Almost ninety years ago, on November 2, 1843, Lazarus Morgenthau married Babette Guggenheim of Hürben; whom he had known as a child and whom he had watched grow to womanhood.” Thus Louise Heidelberg begins a biographic sketch of her grandfather, Lazarus … Continue reading
Chomsky vs. Turing
Solving a computational problem in advanced statistics, I recently experienced an epiphany that led me from Alan Turing to Noam Chomsky. Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) is considered the father of modern computer science. Around 1936 he proposed a theoretical computing … Continue reading
Posted in Computing
Tagged Chomsky, generalisability theory, software design, syntactic transformation, Turing
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And Maytag Sucks Too
This blog is gradually turning into a serial drama. In the last installment, Sears wanted to sell me a C$ 249 assembly to repair a 5 cent broken part. I reported that I had subsequently found a subassembly for C$ 35 … Continue reading
Sears Sucks
Last Wednesday morning my beloved called in an accusatory voice: “the dishwasher is broken!” I swear by my honor, I didn’t break it. Although, I must admit, my dirty dishes contributed significantly to the collective weight of the basket that ultimately exceeded the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Greed
Tagged dishwasher, just-in-time, Repair Service, ripp-off, Sears
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S.A.D.D.
Blogging as treatment for “Senior Attention Deficit Disorder” or S.A.D.D. Continue reading
Journalist as Interpreter
Can journalists translate Donald P. Irish’s powerful analysis of the causes of modern terrorism for the unwashed masses? Continue reading