I’ve had a cold for too long. Complication is that my doctor is a thousand miles away. After exchanging a number of texts he suggested we have a “Telehealth visit”, so he could see me “face to face and make a plan of action.” And Telehealth visit we did and after a variety of questions and answers he even asked me to cough. It was an amazing virt …
237 Lafayette Street - an address that I will never forget. It is the address of the building on Lafayette Street between Spring and Prince streets in what is now the upscale neighborhood of SOHO (bordering on NOHO) in New York City. My father’s printing company was on the second floor.I stood across the street a few days ago and glanced up at the …
Last week at the Gotham Happy Hour there was the usual catching up, general silliness and good conversation. We started talking about jobs we had in the past and some mused about professions other than their own that they might have chosen. That got me thinking about jobs that have disappeared over the years .. the TV repairman, typesetters, an …
How do you feel about photos of yourself? Amongst my friends (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone), I do not enjoy looking at pictures of myself and I never have. However, that does not extend backwards to childhood photos. I am actually kind of obsessed with those. Old photos just take me right back. They did morph from black and white to color just ar …
During the Gotham Long Island Women’s group meeting last week (which was phenomenal as always) Corey mentioned that he had just received a fax. Faxing is a concept that I have given a lot of thought to lately. In my office I use Efax. I have a fax “number," but all my faxing goes through my email. Prior to the pandemic, I was very dependent on fa …
I usually discuss song playlists in blogs contemporaneously to an event the group of tunes relate with -- the holidays, new years, sweethearts days, some political events. I recently viewed the playlists I posted to my website and YouTube and counted a dozen. All of mirrored in my Apple Music. What surprised me involved the presence of additiona …
ChatGPT is an advanced language model created by OpenAI. It's a powerful tool that can understand and respond to natural language input. It can be used to generate text, answer questions, and even engage in conversations. One of the most impressive things about ChatGPT is its ability to understand context. This means that if you ask it a follow-u …
Last week my Friday With Fred blog was about the Anubis Horribus year of 1968, eg, 2 assassinations and my friend David Berger suggested I lighten it up by blogging about the wonderful subsequent year. 1969 has been called The Year That Shook the World. Pictured are many of the wonderful highlights of a wonderful bounce-back year! For me, a Spo …
We have shied away from politics in our blogs, but I can’t resist…. and, I prefer to think of this as theatre.First, after the discovery of classified documents at former Vice President Pence’s home, I feel compelled to go down to my basement and see what I may have.Second, I live in the now infamous Third Congressional District of New York and am …
A little introduction is necessary... Musha is our rescue dog. Musha is black and large. Musha is a Staffordshire Terrier (aka pit bull). However, Musha does not let stereotypes rule his world. In the coming weeks you will all be introduced more to Musha's journey with us because I believe Musha has a great story, with wonderful lessons that we co …
I commented on Rona’s blog yesterday about the sanctity of my “to do” lists. I started my process years ago and I have a system complete with timing. Sunday evenings, I make my list for the upcoming week. I literally open One Note and start a new page, having the entire year to look back upon. Across the top of the page I organize the days of t …
What motivates you? We all have our tasks that just have to be done, even though we don’t look forward to them. For me it’s the weekly inputting of my time into my billing program and exercise. This month that list also includes taking continuing education classes. I recently reviewed my continuing education credits and realized I was behind in m …
Last week Shelly and I joined some good friends Rita and Mike for a "Fauda: Screening & Discussion" at The Streicker Center of Temple Emanue-El in Manhattan. Not only a chance to view the first episode of Season 4 before it "dropped" on Netflix this past Friday, but an opportunity to enjoy a Q&A after the viewing with series co-creator Avi …
As far as I can tell, Elon is 7 for 9. A pretty good track record. Here's a list: Zip2 Corporation (an online directory) - sold to Compaq for $22 million PayPal - sold to eBay for $165 million Tesla - didn't start it but took it over and now worth roughly $386 billion (market cap as of 1/23) SolarCity - basically gone and is now Tesla Solar Spac …
Inasmuch as Monday was Martin Luther King day, I harked back to 1968, the year of Dr. King’s assassination. I was a young impressionable man then and I recall it being Anubis horribus! A significant number of horrible events come to mind, as pictured. Is there a lesson to be learned from enduring 1968? Yes and No. Subsequent history teaches us …
