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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…

  • The Last 3 Months

    Here’s what the last 3 months of my air travel looked like: (Seattle – Copenhagen – Oslo – Aalesund; Seattle – London – Munich; Seattle – Houston – San Antonio; Seattle – Amsterdam – Dublin)

  • Amsterdam

    The last three days (including today) I’ve been in Amsterdam on business.  Very cool city – I wasn’t looking forward to this leg of my trip, but I’m glad I got the opportunity to come here.  More pictures from the trip can be found here. While in town, I visited the Van Gogh Museum (neat),…

  • A brief interlude

    I decided to take a count of how many pages the last nearly 9 years of Playboy magazines have been.  Makes for an interesting chart: I think it’s interesting to see it declining over time (the black line is a linear trendline).  If I’d had more time, interest, or data, I’d try to correlate to…

  • Xbox Live Milestone: 30,000 gamerscore

    Just over 2 years ago I crossed the 10,000 mark.  Yesterday, I hit 30,000. The achievement that put me over the top? One Bad Gato from COD: World at War.

  • Wells Fargo corporate trips to Vegas

    In the last few weeks, I’m really surprised to read this article.  Wells Fargo, which has received approximately $25 billion dollars in federal funds, is “planning a series of corporate junkets to Las Vegas casinos this month” for some of the company’s “top mortgage officers”.  The best part of this is the explanation a Wells…

  • Snow day!

    We’ve got snow here in Bellevue.  Probably 3 or 4 inches overnight, and it’s still coming down.  Makes for a pretty view!

  • The first 100 days

    I was going to post my wishlist for the new President-elect, but I think that the ACLU has done a mighty fine job here.  See also the Flickr pool for posting picture messages.

  • Woohoo!

    Where were you at 8pm Pacific Time on November 4, 2008?  That’s something I think I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

  • NASA’s Brilliance in Marketing

    I’ve been following NASA for a long time.  It’s safe to say that I’m a huge fan.  NASA has always had a serious presence on the internet, but one of the things that I’ve noticed in the last few months is their huge push into the new web.  Various projects are all over Twitter, and…