I visited Dealey Plaza yesterday (again :-)

Powerball lotto reaches $500 million

Hmmmm, lump sum or annuity :-)

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49th Anniversary of the JFK assassination

Happens to fall on Thanksgiving this year.  Before you go off to celebrate, check this interview I did in 1993 with PBS on a documentary, "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?"

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Nudity ban passes in San Francisco - Exemption for Topless Womem

My unusual hometown :-)

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"I do not believe the novel is dying. I said the readership is dying out."

“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration — it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time. I can’t face any more days when I write five pages and throw them away. I can’t do that anymore.”

"I do not believe the novel is dying. I said the readership is dying out. That’s a fact, and I’ve been saying it for 15 years. I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has. The movie screen in the beginning, the television screen and now the coup de grâce, the computer screen.”
Philip Roth

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/books/struggle-over-philip-roth-reflects-on-putting-down-his-pen.html?hpw

Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Linked to Petraeus Scandal – NYTimes

20,000 to 30,000 documents, many of them emails to Jill Kelly.  Why don’t top commanders understand that email is not a secure form of communication?

Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Linked to Petraeus Scandal - 

Petraeus risked it all with explicit sexual emails on a gmail account he created with a false name?

Reckless for a man who had been so careful about creating his career.....Read

Hurricane Sandy Reveals a Life Unplugged

No Wifi
No cells
No TV
And that's just the warm up

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/fashion/hurricane-sandy-reveals-a-life-unplugged.html?pagewanted=all

Election season bluster: Threats to move to Canada, a Trump call for 'revolution!'

Some people on the losing side of a presidential election always threaten to move abroad.  I suggest they do.  They'll be back in time for the next election.  Notwithstanding all our problems, it's a pretty amazing country
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Raves for 787 Dreamliner. Will new plane bring fun back to flying?

Almost makes me want to take a trip :-

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iPad weekend sales hit 3 Million — exceeding expectations

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/05/apple-announces-sales-of-ipad-mini-fourth-gen-ipad-reach-3m

The future of the iPad

Quick overview of where iPad development is going

Eventually iOS and desktop OS will merge and the low end Air notebooks and iPads will overlap....Read