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Paris
We got cleaned up, ate a nice continental breakfast, and then got a cab (it took a while to find one) over to Musée de l’Orangerie, next to the Louvre. We got there at about 11A and had to wait until 12:30P to go inside, so we went shopping around the Louvre and had lunch […]
July 18th, 2007 by alephnaught
Arrive in Paris
I was laid off from my job at ABN AMRO Bank on June 29, 2007 – what better way to start a severance package than to take a short vacation, especially since this is what Aviva and I love most; Aviva got me a massage for my birthday, so I’ll do that when I get […]
July 13th, 2007 by alephnaught
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Title: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light Author: Mort Rosenblum Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: North Point Press (October 17, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0865477302 ISBN-13: 978-0865477308 I bought this book a while back because it looked interesting. Little did I know that I’d be going to Paris for a short vacation this summer, […]
July 12th, 2007 by alephnaught
Laid off
It finally happened – I got laid off from LaSalle Bank on June 29, 2007. First time in over 20 years. LaSalle Bank has been trying to reduce costs for years, and they’re finally putting out a bunch of people to do that. Will it work? I don’t know. I probably should have followed events […]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Infidel
Title: Infidel Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Free Press (February 6, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743289684 ISBN-13: 978-074328968 I was in Amsterdam, on business, when Theo van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist angry over the short film, Submission Part 1. The author of this book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, wrote the […]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
Title: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web Author: David Weinberger Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Perseus Books Group; 1st edition (March 2002) ISBN: 0738205435 ISBN-13: 978-0738208503 This was the last book I asked my team (and I) to read at work as part of our little internal MBA program. We never got […]
June 23rd, 2007 by alephnaught
24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified)
Title: 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified) Author: Marc Cerasini Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment; Mti edition (February 27, 2007) ISBN-10: 0060842288 ISBN-13: 978-0060842284 Yes, I also read pulp fiction…. I’ve read a bunch of the ian Fleming James Bond books along with Edgar Rice Borrough’s books. I’m hooked on the “24” television […]
June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Title: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae Author: Steven Pressfield Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (September 27, 2005) ISBN-10: 055338368X ISBN-13: 978-0553383683 I started this one on the way home from Italy, but I was already reading a book on the train (my previous blog entry), so this […]
June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught
Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture
Title: Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture Hardcover: 409 pages Publisher: Ravel Media, LLC (January 15, 2004) ISBN-10: 1932881018 ISBN-13: 978-1932881011 I got this book from inbubblewrap.com ; another really good business book from them. This is the story of Neoforma, a medical equipment and supply company that was part […]
May 26th, 2007 by alephnaught
Tilton’s Reading Challenge
LaSalle Bank partners with Tilton Elementary School. We’ve helped them set up a computer lab, done career days, mentor students, a lot of things to try to help the students. One thing LaSalle does is the annual Reading Challenge. We ask the students to read, and report on, a number of books each year. The […]
July 19th, 2007 by alephnaught