The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U219P_zs7w

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald

One heck of a Job, Mr. Jobs! Thank you for all the iStuff..

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/opinion/nocera-what-makes-steve-jobs-great.html

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43479628

Lessons of Katrina well learned and applied

Preparations were upto worst case mark, outcome was the best case mark at least for NYC. Parts of south Jersey not so lucky but overall not as terrible as it could have been. Irene lost its mojo after dancing on NC. It will soon be time to get back to life.

Hurricane Irene keeping the date with..

..east coast..North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland..about a million homes without power..weakening as it moves up north but still a hurricane..size almost as big as Europe..in line to become the first hurricane to make landfall in NJ after 1903..about a million evacuate in NJ and half a million in NY city..All public transportation and airports at a standstill in NJ NYC area..towns in NJ declaring curfew to stop private vehicles from driving on the road during night time (Sat)..worst for the area early morning..Sun run will continue onto Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine..

Feels like Florida or Texas here in NJ..

Checkout lines half an hour long on a Thu late evening..Irene barreling its sights right on NJ, NYC after the Carolinas. Thought I had seen it all with the blizzard (or two) of the century..now earthquake of the century and would it be the hurricane of the century (hope not) within the same week?..hoping for the best and preparing for the worst..

Eggful of sunny egotistic humility

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/opinion/sunday/bruni-humble-service-with-a-side-of-swag.html

Modelling the brain in silicon

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/ibm-announces-brainy-computer-chip/