Sadie, as seen through the LEGO Photo iPhone app:

On November 27, 1963 Lyndon Johnson addressed a Joint Session of Congress and the American public only a few days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
It’s a pretty amazing …

Just read a fascinating article in the new Foreign Affairs: “The Broken Contract: Inequality and American Decline“.

Oh UAE, you never cease to amaze me: “Car with a coat of coins to be dedicated to UAE“.

I meant to post this yesterday, but I forgot. Here’s the newest New Yorker cover:

Happy Thanksgiving.

Also, along the lines with my not liking the Astros moving to the American League in 2013, I really, really don’t like the new Miami Marlins name and logo:

The Washington Post had a good article yesterday about the nation’s debt and the “supercommittee” tasked on fixing it: “Debt panel’s failure puts Bush tax cuts in spotlight“.
The key …

Yesterday on the Apple site they added a minute-and-a-half featurette on shooting scenes from the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Check out the featurette.

Currently Major League Baseball has 8 teams of 30 reach the playoffs. New one-game wild card playoffs discussed today for the 2013 season would push that to 10 teams.
At first …

So we’re at the Birthplace at Mercy, working on having this baby. It’s been an uneventful 11 hours so far.
Last night, while Liz was watching Grey’s Anatomy I watched the …

Last winter Liz and I had a wonderful weekend getaway to Boston at the Omni Parker House.
That’s not likely this winter, though. I just saw this Yankee Magazine recipe for …

There’s a new story over at the Greason-Edwards Family blog … Check it out!

I haven’t had the official word from BU yet, but it appear from my student record online that I earned an “A” in my first class in Boston University’s Online …

I hadn’t heard this: “Newsweeklies Plan Special Steve Jobs Coverage In rare move, ‘Time’ stops presses“.
Key quote:
Time’s regular weekly issue, which goes on stands Friday, will devote its whole feature …

Lately I’ve been reading, or re-reading, the short stories of Dashiell Hammett. They’re all reading the I have time for as my BU grad class is taking a good amount …

How did I miss this story over the weekend?!?
“Disney CEO Robert Iger to Step Down as CEO in 2015.”
Huh.

I have too many things to say, so many memories to share, but I’ll start with a simple “Happy birthday” to Walt Disney World in Florida.

Well this Bangor Daily News article got me a little riled up: “UMaine picked to finish fourth in Hockey East coaches poll“.
Boston University is picked to come in second place …

I just read a fun quote on an unofficial Apple blog that I had to share:
From an upstart outsider to the most profitable cellphone manufacturer. From a PC also-ran to …