Boulder to London

I woke up this morning to a pleasant surprise…there was not a cloud in the sky!  What I thought was going to be a cold and wet day sitting inside watching football, was suddenly full of possibility.  Since it was still early, I went down to the gym and got a quick work out in.  [...]

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This is an interesting documentary on the current credit card and debt situation in America.  If you saw “Fast Food Nation”, this is a similar sort of view on consumer debt in the US.  I’ve only seen the first half an hour or so, but it looks very informative and educational.
View it here: In Debt We [...]

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I got our for a 5 mile run this morning along the lake in Chicago.  I use the Nike+ system with my iPod nano to track my runs.  It works pretty well for a rough idea of speed and distance, however it’s not very accurate with large elevation changes.  This is a very typical profile for [...]

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I made it to Chicago yesterday afternoon to kick off a project that I’ll be working on over the next month or so.  It should be a good piece of work and I’ve always heard really good things about Chicago.  The flight was uneventful and more kudos to Virgin Atlantic for making the trip easy [...]

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This one is a day old, but a funny store all the same.  This past weekend was pretty great.  On Saturday, Melisse and I went down to the Borough market and Sunday we spent in Richmond.  Both were excellent places to be outside in the beautiful weather.  We also recently got a TV with digital [...]

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It’s been a tough couple of days on the stock market and I’m glad I still have a day job so that I don’t have to live off of my battered retirement account.  I thought the 100 and 200 point daily swings were a wild ride, but it now seems like we need 500, 700 [...]

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Today started out a little rough.  We were woken up around 8:00 by the neighbors’ little girl throwing an absolute tantrum on the floor above us.  This isn’t the first time it has happened and for a while, we thought that they were playing basketball up there.  Our theory now is that the little girl [...]

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I am admittedly a total slacker when it comes to taking care of things like making sure I register for an absentee ballot from abroad. Lucky for me, Barack Obama’s campaign is putting forth an extra effort to make sure I vote. Melisse and I were walking through a very popular tourist area in [...]

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A fun email circulating trading desks, worthwhile as an informal measure of sentiment:

CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO– Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and [...]

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We are very lucky to have brother Hugh in town this weekend. He was in the Netherlands for business and was able to extend his trip so that he could spend a few days with us in London. For clarification, Hugh is not really my brother, but rather the brother of my sister-in-law. Since I [...]

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