My father's family came from Lodz, Poland, and went through the Holocaust. Not many of them survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. This perhaps explains my mal de vivre. I love to read Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs de Mal", or the novels of Dostoyevsky and Camus. I also enjoy Van Gogh's paintings (like the one entitled "Iris" portrayed here). Movies in the style of classic American film noir are my favorite. I love listening to 1950s jazz. I should have been a beatnik :-). By the way, I attended a physics conference in Lodz in 1993, and took the following pictures.
My life isn't all existential angst. Besides requiring at least two shots of espresso every day, I also need to play Ultimate Frisbee as much as possible. Here is a picture of the gang I play with on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Francis Park in Washington, DC. This particular day there was a snowstorm, but that didn't stop the gang. What stopped me from playing this particular day was that I had a stress fracture on my leg and pneumonia :-). Otherwise, I would have been out there too. I also play with another bunch of guys near my home in Bethesda, MD almost every morning I can.
Alaska.  A great place to be a guy (even though there aren't enough women there :-)   Arctic skies and beautiful scenery and bears and moose and "aurora borealis". Here's a picture of me a few km from Gakona, AK. I'm on top of my truck after setting up some electromagnetic sensors for a physics experiment. Here are some more details on the ionospheric heating experiment we were conducting. And here are some more pictures I took of Alaska.
Here's a picture of me in New Mexico, one of my favorite areas of the world, with my friend's gun after some target shooting at the range. I used to work and live in Los Alamos (in Northern New Mexico), and still have a lot of good friends there. It was great living near Santa Fe and the Jemez and Sangre de Christo mountain ranges. I really do miss the people, the summers, and the easy-going way of life I had there. I still visit there frequently. Now that I don't need city life anymore, maybe one day I will decide to move back.
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