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📕 Finished with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
📕 Finished with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Chapter Seven: Adventure at the Seaside
The set up for this was short and sweet and the ending was what we’ve come to love in a Paddington story.
Chapter Eight: A Disappearing Trick
This is just hilariously charming. I do wish the uncivil neighbor had been better set up in a prior story, but the short treatment done here is sufficient for the hilarity that ensues with Paddington attempting a magic show.
Chris Aldrich is reading “The little-known story of how “fracking” entered our vocabulary”
"True story," Matthew Lewis, a communications strategist based in San Francisco, told me recently over Twitter. "I put the 'k' in fracking." As best I can verify, he is correct. I'd always wondered how the term "fracking," which has dominated energy discussions for years, worked its way into our vocabulary. And the backstory turns out to be pretty interesting.
Chris Aldrich is reading “I Had Ten Dollars / Greg Leppert – Reading.am”
Interview with Greg Leppert. Founder of Reading.am. Co-founder of Svpply. Reads a lot.
Chris Aldrich is reading “What’s in a blog? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other n…”
What's in a blog? "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet Late last night I got into a… - Mike Elgan - Google+
Ideas on what really constitutes a blog.
📖 70.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
📖 70.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Chapter 5: Paddington and the “Old Master”
The pledge and the turn are reasonably well executed, but the prestige is lacking a bit.
Chapter 6: A Visit to the Theater
It’s episodes like this that make me wonder why they turned Paddington into a movie instead of a TV sitcom.
📖 47.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
📖 47.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Chapter Four: A Shopping Expedition
“I’ll have one for worst if you like,” he said. “that’s my best one!”
Highlight (yellow) – Location 468
Paddington had a very persistent stare when he cared to use it. It was a very powerful stare. One which his Aunt Lucy had taught him and which he kept for special occasions.
Highlight (yellow) – Location 478
Bears were rather unpredictable. You never quite knew what they were thinking, and this one in particular seemed to have a mind of his own.
Highlight (yellow) – Location 492
“I think,” said Paddington, “if you don’t mind, I’d rather use the stairs.”
Highlight (yellow) – Location 616
📖 On page 86 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
📖 On page 86 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Finished the section on the IPO of China Telecom (Hong Kong) and read through the more difficult IPO of PetroChina. There are some conflicting statements between the two accounts which I find interesting as they relate to doing business in general. I’m sure they stem, in part, from retelling the stories nearly 20 years later along with editorial oversight. In the first account he complains of not having enough time while in the second he complains of a client dragging things out and going too slowly.
The retelling of history from his perspective is perhaps a bit too measured but expected given that he’s still actively working and maintaining an image. There are a few interesting bon mots from time to time, but I’m beginning to think that reading a bit more hard-hitting history would be more enlightening given what I know of China. I’m beginning to read this more for enjoyment and entertainment that the original historical and economic visions I had anticipated.
While a generally interesting read so far, I find it to be a bit too antiseptic as if it’s either been over-edited or the ghost writer watered down all the personality.
📖 33.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
📖 33.0% done with A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
The plot moves somewhat slowly and the action is mostly what one would expect from a 5 or 6 year old–except that it’s a bear–but the charming language and the way in which is told makes all the difference.
Bacon in a suitcase–indeed!
📖 2.0% done with Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
📖 2.0% done with Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Love that he starts out with the goal of demystifying a person who has been more heavily shaped by myth and retold history than by direct fact.
🔖 Want to read: Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage by Donald T. Hawkins
🔖 Want to read: Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage by Donald T. Hawkins
H/T to Sawyer Hollenshead.
This may also be of interest to those who’ve attended Dodging the Digital Memory Hole related events as well as those in the IndieWeb who may be concerned about their data living beyond them.
by Donald T. Hawkins
📖 On Page 49 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
📖 On Page 49 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
📖 On page 24 of 274 of Complex Analysis with Applications by Richard A. Silverman
📖 On page 24 of 274 of Complex Analysis with Applications by Richard A. Silverman
I enjoyed his treatment of inversion, but it seems like there’s a better way of laying the idea out, particularly for applications. Straightforward coverage of nested intervals and rectangles, limit points, convergent sequences, Cauchy convergence criterion. Given the level, I would have preferred some additional review of basic analysis and topology; he seems to do the bare minimum here.
📖 On page 16 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
📖 On page 16 of 448 of Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
A simple preface followed by an anecdote about the beginning of a deal relating to telecom. The style is quick moving and history, details, and philosophy are liberally injected into the story as it moves along. This seems both interesting as well as instructive.
Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia
“There are some who believe that an immutable law of history holds that conflict is inevitable when a rising power begins to bump up against an established one. But no law is immutable. Choices matter. Lessons can be learned.”
—page XIV
“Prescriptions, after all, are easier to make than predictions.”
—page XIV
“Note taking allows Party and government officials to get quick reads on what went on at meetings they didn’t attend. […] Private meetings with senior government officials without recoring devices or note takers are rare and highly sought after.”
—page 10
“…the so-called iron rice bowl, the cradle-to-grave care and support guaranteed by the government through the big companies people worked for.”
—page 11
“The Party had made a simple bargain with the people: economic growth in return for political stability. That in turn meant Party control. Prosperity was the source of Party legitimacy.”
—page 11
“Messages in China are sent in ways that aren’t always direct; you have to read the signs.”
—page 14
“It was the nature of dealing with China: nothing was done until it was done.”
—page 14
📗 Started reading Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
📗 Started reading Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.