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Today is a great day to sit in the Carolina room messing about on the computer, watching the golfers tee off, and drifting in and out of consciousness. I’m not going shopping because I’d have to lug it back on the airplane.

In the news today is a piece about the passing of Herbert Saffir. In 1969, Saffir created a scale describing the kind of damage that could be expected from an approaching hurricane. In the 70s National Hurricane Center director Robert H. Simpson added storm surge info to the scale and it was renamed the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

Also in the news is an article about Scott McClellan’s new book. It describes how McClellan’s book is unusual in the sense that most Press Secretaries tend to write their books after their President is out of office. The article gets a little silly though when it says:

Others waited even longer. President Kennedy’s press secretary, Pierre Salinger, wrote several books about the administration but only after the president’s death.

Um, when President Kennedy “died” he was in office.

And now it might be time for a nap.