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 == Bernie's brain backup for November 2007 ==
 
-=== Sat 24th ===
+=== Thu 22nd ===
+
+==== Thanksgiving ====
+
+My friend and colleague DjbClark invited me at his parents'
+house for thanksgiving.  It was a new, pleasing experience for me.
+
+My impression is that it is a family reunion very much like
+a second Christmas, but without the inconvenience of presents :-)
+
+http://www.bigoven.com/images/blog/tgiv/tradmenu.jpg
+
+//(stock photo)//
+
+=== Sat 17th ===
 
 ==== Yummy photos ====
 
@@ -18,14 +32,26 @@ DaSnake uploaded some pictures of the places we visited together on Flickr:
 I'm back in Boston with DaSnake.  He's been my guest for just one day.
 Then he had to be back in FNAL for the shifts.
 
-I had to be back to work, so I left my friend alone sightseeing Boston.
+I really had urgent business at work, so I left my friend alone sightseeing Boston for the day.
+
+http://www.radisson.com/rad/images/hotels/MABOSTON/loc3_450.jpg
+
+//(stock photo)//
 
 === Mon 12th to Tue 13th ===
 
 ==== Back to NYC ====
 
 Flought Went to NewYorkCity with DaSnake.  Finally got to visit the
-Natural History Museum.  Pretty impressive.
+AmericanMuseumOfNaturalHistory.  Pretty impressive!
+
+http://www.iesny.org/images/OCEANLIFE.jpg
+
+//(stock photo)//
+
+http://www.rdominis.net/newyork/dinasaur01.jpg
+
+//(stock photo)//
 
 === Fri 9th to Sun 11th ===
 
@@ -48,6 +74,8 @@ animals.  Indeed, a very pretty natural park.
 
 http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/94-0470-09.jpg
 
+//(stock photo)//
+
 On Saturday, I took a bike and rode on the bike path to the main
 laboratory buildings.  I took a guided site tour, starting from the
 museum.  They have lots of real-scale models of the accelerator parts
@@ -57,7 +85,13 @@ Then we visited the Wilson Hall, a 16 floors building shaped like Goldrake's
 and Mazinger's atomic base.
 
 http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/99-0005-04.jpg
-ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli?
+
+//(stock photo)//
+
+ Q: ma cos'è tutta questa neve:è una cartolina? E tutti questi uccelli?
+
+ A: e' una foto presa a caso dagli archivi del FNAL :-)
+
 Then... WAH!  They guided us **inside** the [[http://linac.fnal.gov/ | Linac]]!
 The Linac is the LINear ACcelerator facility, the first stage of acceleration
 that produces protons for the MainInjector.  It was like entering an old
@@ -68,6 +102,8 @@ this long corridor next to me.
 
 http://www-bd.fnal.gov/wao/fermipics/93-0073.jpg
 
+//(stock photo)//
+
 Finally, we visited the MainControlRoom, from which they run the whole thing.
 The room looks like the bridge of an old starship, surrounded by monitors,
 with a bigger chair in the middle for the captain.
@@ -89,6 +125,8 @@ magnificent, but the real thing exceeded all my expectations.
 
 http://allthingsgo.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/images-chicago-2005-chicago-by-night-2-700x700.jpg
 
+//(stock photo)//
+
 We walked around a little, then went up the
 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center | John Hancock Center]],
 the third tallest skyscraper, for a breathtaking view of the whole city by night.