mild sense of vindication?

Who feels mildly vindicated for choosing the government scholarship to China over random graduate degree in psuedo-nonsense-mathfinance-of-some-type? This guy. Now I’m free to become an artist without attendant guilt.

Perhaps I could combine finance and art – design complex derivatives with value linked to painting auctions, as a hedge for clients’ counter-counter cyclical asset portfolios? Or maybe be like these guys, designers of Shenzhen’s new stock exchange:

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bird’s nest interior / exterior

I wasn’t terribly happy with my earlier photos of the Bird’s Nest. Behold my vanity.

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bird’s nest, exterior + cube

It was very Escher wandering up and down the stairs. It looks bigger on TV.

And another one of the bubble cube

bubble cube

Mmm coral reef.