Also, energy links and links from today's WSJ -- the nation's newspaper, based on circulation -- is also posted.
Weather in Boston: overcast now; rain threatening; earlier with short-lived torrential downpour; I had just biked to newly renovated Starbucks; I do not notice much new at the "newly renovated" Starbucks. They have Christmas decorations up (and they are "CHRISTMAS" decorations as opposed to "holiday decorations" though it's probably in the eye of the beholder). It appears all the heavy wood chairs were replaced with lighter wood chairs, much easier to move around. Again, I am impressed with Starbucks folks always looking at their operation from the customers points of view. The chairs were a very, very minor irritation -- they were so heavy -- but to spend the money to bring in new chairs speaks volumes. It appears the tables are still the same. At my table where six (or eight, if everyone squeezed together) can sit, there are four folks. Two have the MacBook Pro; one has the MacBook Air; and one has an Apple iPad. Just saying. There are some non-Apple computers being used.
Random photo of the oil patch in the Bakken, taken by a reader, in October, 2012.
