A Friend Returned
Last night, a friend returned to visit us .... or more specifically, our house. My wife, my sister and her husband were out for dinner when I noticed our neighbor…
Random Learnings #30
I have read many - too many - books, articles, scholarly papers, etc., about the anti-Semitism faced by Holocaust survivors faced returning home, especially in Eastern Europe. By a large…
Random Learnings #29
The last Shah of Iran, Shah Reza Pahlavi, was a huge Rangers fan: The diplomats pressed for yet more royal visits, ideally with the shah comping to Britain again. The…
Front-Yard Wildlife Lesson
A bald eagle caught a neighborhood squirrel - one of many - and decided the best place to eat was in our front-yard oak tree, totally unperturbed by the fascinated…
Cool Photos #6
January 1993. London, England, interviewing for jobs. Original plan for my wife and I to move together, but by this time we were separated but I still had dreams of…
Cool Photos #5
This is the reading room of the Rijksmuseum Research Library in Amsterdam. From the main museum there's an entrance that leads to a viewing platform from where I took the…
Best. Joke. Ever.
One of Dell's acquisitions was based in Israel, with which my development center was integrating our storage solution. Their technical leaders flew to Minnesota for a week of meetings, typical…
Random Learnings #12 FOLLOWUP
Original post: https://scottsosna.com/2023/09/26/random-learnings-12/ According to this nytimes.com article, (paywall, a different free version here) a bill may be introduced in California's state assembly to give reparations to families of people…
Civilian Casualties
Image: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/picture alliance/dpa/TASS While the Crocus City Hall was still burning, speculations had begun about who was responsible: Russians whom blame Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny; protesters…
Audi Crooks
Friday night, Iowa State's Audi Crooks scored 40 points, leading Iowa State to a comeback 93-86 win over Maryland in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.…