In the beginning, there is Wikipedia. Autonomous car An autonomous car (driverless car,[1] self-driving car,[2] robotic car[3]) is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input.[4] Autonomous cars can detect surroundings using a variety of techniques such as radar, lidar, GPS, odometry, and computer vision. Advanced […]
Archives for December 2016
John Mellencamp, Mozart, Ravi Shankar: My Music, December 20, 2016
Good morning. 5:00. John Mellencamp, Pink Houses Well there’s a young man in a T-shirt Listenin’ to a rock ‘n’ roll station He’s got a greasy hair, greasy smile He says: “Lord, this must be my destination” ‘Cause they told me, when I was younger Sayin’ “Boy, you’re gonna be president” But just like everything […]
Who Will Be Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture? Who cares?
It is 4:50 in the morning. At least twice a day now for weeks I have been checking the web to see whom President-elect Trump will choose to be the least important member of the Cabinet. Yesterday, I had an argument with the opinion editor of a major international newspaper. He said, “Wait, Joel, before […]
Ten Years of Thank You’s
After spending over ten years writing a book [“How’s the book coming, Joel” ringing in my ears], I thanked everyone. The Acknowledgements are the best part of the book. Here are the first two paragraphs. The rest await your pleasure. For a certain kind of help that cannot be expressed, I thank my wife Diana […]
Thursday My Music December 1, 2016
Good morning. 9:02. Mozart. Sonata for basson and cello. ++++ Good afternoon. 1:18. Someone. Ehud Manor. +++ “Someone, someone worries Worries for me up there Came and lit a few stars And they fall one by one.” A song by Hebrew writer Ehud Manor, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel, on Yom HaShoah (יום […]