The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”
Go figure.
Wisconsin last week closed a haunting chapter of the Cold War that began when Svetlana Alliluyeva famously defected to the U.S. in 1967.
But to her daughter in Portland, the death of the woman who became known as Lana Peters was the loss of her best friend and confidant.
Huh.
I never knew Stalin's daughter defected to the United States. And I wonder what it's like to grow up with such an infamous grandfather like that …
![[Self-portrait with my new glasses]](https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2025/0925.t.jpg "Glasses. Titanium, not steel.")
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