In which it is noted that:
- It is possible to learn 16 new acronyms in one CTM.
- Excel can be both incredible and incredibly unforgiving.
- Dallas has some nice hotels (but Houston still has a better skyline).
- Expense accounts are kind of cool.
- Ironing is cheap therapy.
Pictures from the daily commute:
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| I-10 entrance |
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| 700 Louisiana Street |
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Hines's new pipe wrench-esque MainPlace tower
(featured on the cover of last fall's Business Sphere) |
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| More of MainPlace and the 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower |
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The granite façade "frames daytime and illuminated nighttime views of dancers rehearsing within, so that the building becomes an animated billboard for dance." |
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| Stainless steel skybridge to the Wortham Theater Center |
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The granite façade "frames daytime and illuminated nighttime views of dancers rehearsing within, so that the building becomes an animated billboard for dance." |
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| My favorite sculpture downtown: David Adickes's Cellist |
