Cleaning Up While Cleaning Up
All of us have been driving along and seen litter blowing out of the back of someones pickup truck.
Pedestrians
Trying to cross the road where there isn’t a traffic signal is perilous. Drivers are focused on getting where they are going and don’t look out for pedestrians. Here is a positive way to make the roads safer for everybody.
The Romans
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting through the book but it lead to an unusually animated discussion about whether the peasantry was better off under the Romans or their successors. One group held that it didn’t matter …
Geopolitical Thinking II
We all know about the recent discovery of vast amounts of natural gas and oils shale in North America and Northern Europe. What we haven’t thought about yet are the tertiary affects of this discovery. It is clear that all these new btu’s will change the economics of fossil fuels for the next hundred …
Bahia de Los Angeles
Like any self respecting port town Bahia de Los Angeles, where Howard and I went diving last week, has: a Museum some public art some hotels a good restaurant a downtown and a dock. The only difference is a matter of scale. For instance the commercial dock is a semi trailer full of ice buying …
Trompe L’Oeil
The building across from our hotel in Santa Margherita The decorations on this building are not real. They are painted on using a technique that make them look real. The technique goes by the French name “Trompe L’Oiel” which means roughly to fool the eye. It is pronounced: “trum ploy”. A close-up illustrates the point …
The Georgia Guidestones
Nurit and I drove from Atlanta to Elberton to visit the Georgia Guidestones. They are included on many lists as a Henge in Georgia. You judge: There would be a picture here but see the previous post. There is a list of advise for the world written in eight languages on the sides of the …
Teaching History and Fundraising
Speaking of the Autry Museum. A very bright young lady we know works at the Autry in the fund raising area. After visiting the museum and Disneyland and talking to her about the difficulties of fund raising all in roughly the same time frame I came up with this idea for the Autry to get …
Georgia Opportunity
My good friend Gene Brogdon is building a new mixed use development in Richmond Hill, Georgia, USA. Coastal Georgia is one of the worlds most beautiful spots. This is the link to the building project: http://www.rhcrossroadscenter.com/ A few years ago when they were thinking about building in downtown Richmond Hill I suggested the four story …