October 2007

10/29/07

October 29, 2007

5:35 p.m.Move over, ya big lunk — there’s a new kid in town! China’s Yuan Rises Most Since End of Dollar Link on Bank Signal “China Life Insurance Co. has surpassed AT&T Inc. in market value, giving China more of the world’s 10 largest companies than the U.S. for the first time. Five of the [...]

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10/25/07

October 25, 2007

11:59 a.m.Absolutely beautiful outside — delightfully sunny, nicely breezy and only just slightly chilly with all the excess humidity of the past summer months completely vanished. I had no idea Dallas weather could be so spot-on perfect. After hiding away in the condo throughout July, August and September, I can actually walk around outside and [...]

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10/22/07

October 22, 2007

6:40 p.m.I ran across this story today and was amazed that I’d never heard of this before: Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific “An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii . . . The trash stew is 80 percent plastic [...]

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10/13/07

October 13, 2007

2:32 p.m.I like Doris Lessing — or, technically speaking, I like her writing. I’ve never personally met Ms. Lessing, but after seeing this video clip, I rather wish that I had: What a perfect response. The first book I read of hers was Briefing For a Descent Into Hell. I was in my mid-twenties and [...]

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10/07/07

October 7, 2007

8:25 p.m.Just returned from a week long trip to Chicago, which was nice — it was great to get out of Dallas for a little bit, but the cool, refreshing weather of a normal Chicago October was absent due to a heat wave that even screwed with their annual Chicago Marathon: Scorching Chicago Marathon Leaves [...]

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