Month: April 2009
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Seattle Central Library Photostroll
Today the Seattle area was greeted with good weather. Of course, the local Flickr meetup group had pre-planned a photostroll that, of course, was inside. 🙂 We wandered about the downtown Seattle library for approximately 2 hours, taking pictures of the awesome architecture and colors of the building. My photos are here. Also, got the…
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New Toys at Work!
I won a Call of Duty: World at War tournament yesterday at work that was sponsored by the Microsoft Hardware folks. Yes, we had a CoD tournament at work. They were demoing all their new Sidewinder products and how they actually played, and I took home a large black box. Here’s the unboxing video: Pretty…
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San Francisco for a Day
Had to run to San Francisco for a one-day work trip this week. Luckily, my work wrapped up a bit early and I was able to go act like a tourist for a bit. Took a drive up to the Golden Gate Bridge, drove and hiked around the Marin Headlands, and had dinner with some…
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Sailing on the Sound
Some friends invited Diann & I for a bit of sailing out on the Puget Sound today. The weather cooperated: our first day of the year in the upper 60’s, and beautiful blue skies. Pictures are available in my Flickr gallery and I took the following video using Qik:
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FASB Rules Changes and My Mortgage
So, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today changed the rules on bank accounting practices, specifically related to asset accounting. Banks can now report asset values that are not in line with current market values – essentially, they can say that your $200k house you bought a year ago that now has a market price…