by alanbcantor August 24, 2019 Number of comments0 LA & Hollywood My Life as a Country Song I loved my office in The Ice House! It was actually the old Beverly Hills Ice House, which had suppliedContinue Reading
by alanbcantor August 22, 2019 Number of comments0 Cornell-Penn-Wharton I Faced the Machine Gunner One of the most challenging classes Freshman year at Cornell was M. Gardner Clark’s Comparative Economic Development class. It comparedContinue Reading
by alanbcantor August 18, 2019 1 Adventure Travel The Vultures Work Here After a great first day in Zinder, Niger, in sub-Saharan Africa, I woke up very sick early the next morning,Continue Reading
by alanbcantor August 16, 2019 Number of comments0 Cornell-Penn-Wharton Facebook Before Technology Freshman year at Cornell I joined Alpha Phi Omega (APO), the National Service Fraternity affiliated with The Boy Scouts. Through,Continue Reading
by alanbcantor August 10, 2019 1 Cornell-Penn-Wharton Opportunity is Sometimes Thrust Upon Us On the Saturday morning when it was time to drive me to my first day at Cornell, my father wasContinue Reading
by alanbcantor August 5, 2019 Number of comments0 Adventure Travel It’s forbidden! This is a military base! LEAVE It was awesome arriving in Agadez! I had started across the Sahara on a whim in Algiers 15 days agoContinue Reading
by alanbcantor August 1, 2019 Number of comments0 Adventure Travel Border Guards: “Please wait until we finish bathing…” Tamanrasset to Agadez My Japanese friend Hiro (whom I met the day before) and I checked into Algerian Border Control and Customs atContinue Reading
by alanbcantor July 28, 2019 2 LA & Hollywood The Noise Police My friend and Cornell fraternity brother Steve and I were having lunch at Le Petit Four sidewalk cafe at SunsetContinue Reading
by alanbcantor June 24, 2019 Number of comments0 A.I. & Data Analytics Hijacked to Cuba, Or Getting the Most of an Unfortunate Situation My flight from freezing Ithaca, NY left early on my Christmas Break to Florida in 1968. We arrived early atContinue Reading
by alanbcantor June 17, 2019 1 Risk Data Analytics And Then the DC-10 Tail Engine Exploded In November of 1989, I was flying on a DC-10 from LAX to Chicago with a short layover in MinneapolisContinue Reading