My blogs

Blogs I follow

Industry	Banking
Occupation	Formerly semi-retired
Location	Taos, NM, Italy
Introduction	Ch'in Shih T'ang is a pseudonym given to me by my colleagues in Taipei. It means "Golden Stone Palace". I'm not really Chinese, perhaps I'm what's called an "Egg" (white on the outside, yellow inside)
Interests	Baseball, tennis, skiing, basketball, volleyball, credit risk management, movies, music, and the political stuff.
Favorite movies	Dr. Strangelove, Unforgiven, The President's Analyst, Miller's Crossing, Denis Villeneuve Complete list on imdb:, http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=4662915
Favorite music	King Crimson, Gomez, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads, Bright Eyes, Broken Bells, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, of course.
Favorite books	Mason & Dixon, T.C. Boyle and other rambunctious sorts, Dangerous Visions, Gore Vidal (Our Gang, Guns Germs & Steel, Hilary Mantel

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?

The number of times I have stubbed my toe >the number of posts here.