Highlights
December 2008
- Had the Haier HLP21E's water level sensor valve replaced, under a MasterCard Extended Warranty program.
- Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took an "Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" tour.
- Completed NASD continuing education.
- Read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers (2008).
November 2008
- Watched Kung Fu Panda.
- Sold my Blackberry Curve on Craigslist.
- Visited MoMA and saw the "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" exhibition.
- Watched Robert Lepage's technology-for-technology's-sake production of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust at the Met.
- Bought a laptop on HP's shopping website, through a Microsoft Live cash-back promotion.
October 2008
- Watched Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Met.
- Read Fred Brooks (1974, 1995) The Mythical Man-Month.
- Participated in the Adopt-a-Physicist program.
September 2008
- Decided to vote for Obama.
- Read Nicholas Wade (2006) Before the Dawn.
- Attended a pre-season hockey game: Ottawa Senators at NY Rangers.
August 2008
- Visited the Guggenheim Museum with Hiroshi.
- Visited Vancouver and southeastern Alaska.
- Dined with the Wang's.
- Read Craig B. Smith (2006) Extreme Waves.
July 2008
- Visited the Guggenheim Museum and the Louise Bourgeois exhibition.
- Visited Montauk.
- Watched Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World at Quad Cinemas.
- Bought a laptop for Xiaoli at Circuit City.
- Watched 12 Ophelias, presented by the Woodshed Collective at McCarren Park Pool.
June 2008
May 2008
- Bought a Nintendo Wii, and played video games for the first time in years.
- Visited the Morgan Library and Museum.
- Visited the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
- Started playing tennis again.
April 2008
- Attended an audition for America's Got Talent with Jack.
- Watched Oliver Twist (Masterpiece Theater).
- Attended a Red Sox-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium.
- Read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan (2007).
- Attended a lecture by Jonathan Katz.
March 2008
- Finished Rebecca Mead: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007).
- Visited the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Gardens with Xiaoli, Tom, and Janis.
- Saw Patrick Stewart as Macbeth with Xiaoli, Tom, and
Janis.
- Passed the NASD Series 55 exam.
Celebrated with Jonathan at Gyu-Kaku afterwards.
- Visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Happened to see a curator giving a tour of the
How to Read Chinese Paintings
exhibition, in Mandarin, to a guest and entourage
from China's Forbidden City. Also saw the
Gustave Courbet
exhibition.
February 2008
- Read Josh Waitzkin's Art of Learning (2007).
- Voted for McCain in the New York Republican primary.
- Skimmed Edgar E. Peters's Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets (1991).
- Read Roger Lowenstein: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2000).
- Visited Tampa, beaches from Clearwater to St. Petersburg, and the Salvador Dali Museum.
- Reading Rebecca Mead: One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007).
- Reading Richard E. Nisbett: The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, and Why (2003).
- Watched Keira Knightley in Domino (2005) and Bend It Like Beckham (2002).
January 2008
- Read Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow: A Briefer History of Time.
- Read Leonard Mlodinow: Feynman's Rainbow.
- Read Michael Lewis: Liars' Poker.
- Watched the final Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions 2008 squash competition finals in Grand Central Terminal.
- Attended a Knicks-76ers basketball game at Madison Square Garden.
- Attended two seminars: Andrew J. Sterge - "Where have all the stat arb profits gone?" and Andrew W. Lo - "What happened to the quants in August 2007?"
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