Beijing discourages high-rises, no ShangHai-styled skyscrapers. CBD’s Hyatt Park holds the current record: 64 stories of nearly 250 meters. Others are strangely uniform at about 60 meters, or about 30 stories. Not too high and consistent enough to create an industry for future spider men.

  A single rope is his lifeline. The job requires covering a range just out of reach. Don’t waste the bucket of soapy water; it needs to survive the lowest window. A harness is a meager insurance attached to the same lifeline.

Keep up! Everyone needs another sweep before lunch.

Hey, you missed a spot.

This 2008 election made fools out of pundits. Which of them even considered McCain just a few months ago? Bright-eyed, confident, 72-year-old, he is too pleased to see the attrition war on the other side.

Hilary definitely did not expect a bloody and exhaustive hand-to-hand battle. The party sees a classic prisoners’ dilemma: their fights to win will make the winner lose the big one and hurt the party. Is the sure-win Hilary-Obama ticket — experienced at the head and charismatic as 2nd-in-command – too obvious? The dynasty lives on when she returns to Arkansas to build the 2nd Presidential Library.

At airport, someone zoomed through the security line with a privileged air, leaving us normal people enviously curious. I observed. Impressive machines hide behind the entrance guarded by burly uniformed. “How do I?” “Have 30 minutes?” I did and could get a card like that privileged one. Excited.

“Government is finally making progresses,” I thought as I fed personal information into the machine with an appetite. Then the kiosk asked for $128 for a year’s services. “Yack!” Would company pay for this?

I walked away. Not paying that for a card that probably save me just minutes each time.