Meandering Thoughts -- Nothing About The Bakken -- November 2, 2017

Kneeling: Papa Johns to stop all advertising during NFL games, I hear. Have not confirmed.

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And Yet No Special Counsel Looking Into This And 73 Other Scandals During The Obama Administration

From an earlier post, July 11, 2014 --

Humor for the day: a judge tells IRS to explain e-mail loss. Spoiler alert: the IRS already explained it. The hard drive on Ms Lois Lerner's simply crashed, most likely due to global warming -- computers crash when inadequately cooled. Ms Lerner called in her own highly trained IT personnel who said, "yup, the hard drive crashed. Let's trash the hard drive, erase everything, and re-use it. We don't have the funds available to buy a new hard drive." That was back in 2013. Interestingly enough, the e-mails that were sent by Ms Lerner to others -- have never been found either. Sometimes these things just happen. [By the way, the best way to really destroy data on a hard drive -- a) erase all data; and, then, re-write over it. Sort of a two-step process.]

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The Alma Mater Page

From The WSJ:

Mr. Casden developed between 110,000 to 120,000 units of residential housing throughout his four-decade-long career, he said. Ms. Casden is known as a collector of couture fashion. The couple is active in philanthropy: Mr. Casden donated $10.6 million to his alma mater, the University of Southern California, in 2000.

Back story:

A Beverly Hills estate with a mansion, two guesthouses and miniature trains that can squire riders around the property is seeking $58.88 million.

The nearly 1¾-acre property has a 26,800-square-foot house with eight bedrooms and 15 bathrooms. The house includes 12 antique marble fireplaces imported from France, Italy and England, and a two-story wood paneled library with his-and-hers offices. There is also a 5,000-square-foot master wing on the second floor. [This "master wing" is about 10x the size of our apartment.]

The grounds include a large lawn, croquet court, tennis court and pool with a waterslide and waterfalls. Both guesthouses have their own two-car garages. Train tracks meander through the property and accommodate both steam and diesel locomotives, both rideable and both built to 1/8th the scale of the real thing.

The sellers are retired real-estate developer Alan Casden and his wife Susan. Mr. Casden said the trains were inspired in part by his visits to the railroad museum in Griffith Park.