Trips back home involved enduring endless one-upmanship talk of assets and their 'big plans' for retirement.
"I was so nervous this week - there was a lot of talk in the English media that they had one big game in them and I was dreading it would be against us, " he said.
The big one, though, or at least the one Republicans really wanted to talk about yesterday, was border security.
"I'm very optimistic about Africa, but I say it always with a tinge of hesitation because one of the big risks is that we get carried away and therefore forget to talk about the real challenges that are still ahead of it, " he said.
NPR's staff and friends pretend that NPR isn't such a big deal, that it's just one creature in the great forest of talk radio, which happens to be funded--but only fractionally--by the federal government.
The iCub robot was already doing pretty well for itself in the creepiness department, but a group of researchers from the University of Plymouth are now working to take things one big step further, by teaching the so-called "baby robot" to talk (as opposed to teaching it baby talk).
ENGADGET: Researchers working to teach creepy baby robot to talk
And while anyone can talk of home-growing the next Google or Apple, there's one big reason why it's very hard to make it happen, and that's the absence of venture capital.
With all the talk of the huge impact of the mortgage crisis on homeowners and big banks, one segment of the population is not in the spotlight, and that's renters.
There's been a lot of talk about bringing back one of their more senior players like Younus Khan but that would be a big call.
Wine talk is big right now with collectors and winemakers claiming the 2009 Bordeaux vintage to be an outstanding one.
FORBES: A Tasting of Bordeaux's 2009 Vintage---with some opera on the side.
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