… but they do turn. Ex-Cendant Chairman Gets Over 12 Years:

Former Cendant Corp. Chairman Walter Forbes was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $3.275 billion in restitution for leading the largest accounting fraud of the 1990s.

In October, a jury found Forbes guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of making false statements in a massive fraud scheme that cost the travel and real estate company and its investors more than $3 billion. He was found not guilty of a fourth count, securities fraud.

I was working for Davidson & Associates, which became Knowledge Adventure, which became CUC Software, when CUC merged with HFS to form Cendant and Cendant was promptly rocked with this scandal. I think what’s left of that software group was absorbed into Universal before they were bought by NBC a few years ago.

We’re in row “N” in the Orchestra section at the Flint Center, De Anza College, San Jose. Arrived about 40 minutes early. Until two tall hairy people sat down in front of us, we had a great view of the stage as you can see.

Scorpion Stings Vermont Man on Airplane:

Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home from San Francisco, where he and his wife Helena had been visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange.

‘My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something.’

New TSA regulations: all poisonous arachnids weighing less than three ounces must be carried in separate zip-top bags.