jamin on October 14th, 2009

I recently purchased a loft in downtown Kirkwood, MO. Pretty darn excited.

New Loft

jamin on January 12th, 2009

Ring Ring from the rather amusing film which I saw with Kelli and her kids this weekend.

jamin on November 9th, 2008

With the addition of Twitter, the list of social networking sites I’ve got to update has grown to the point where it’s time-consuming. Enter Ping.fm, a free service which allows you to update multiple social networking sites at once using various interfaces including web, instant message, SMS, and email.

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jamin on October 26th, 2008

I think it’s time to announce formally that I have a girlfriend. Her name is Kelli and she has managed to break through the walls I’ve put up over the years. She’s brilliant, beautiful, and clever. And today is her birthday.

Here she is singing karaoke with her friend, Jamie, at our karaoke night.

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Kelli on the left, Jamie on the right

Happy Birthday, Kelli!

I’m a lucky guy.

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Oh yes, I am.

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jamin on October 12th, 2008

The Rise of the Machines is an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times about our financial system’s dependence on sophisticated computer systems.

It was easy enough for us humans to understand a stick or a dollar bill when it was backed by something tangible somewhere, but only computers can understand and derive a correlation structure from observed collateralized debt obligation tranche spreads. Which leads us to the next question: Just how much of the world’s financial stability now lies in the “hands” of computerized trading algorithms?

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jamin on September 21st, 2008

Kelli had VIP tickets to Pointfest so we packed a cooler and enjoyed some bands and people-watching for a few hours.

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Then we cruised to Bone’s French Quarter for a night of karaoke, making some new friends along the way.

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jamin on September 20th, 2008

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Via Blizzard.

  1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
  2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
  3. Post that picture with NO editing.
  4. Post these instructions with your picture.

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jamin on August 12th, 2008

After quite a long blogging hiatus, I’ve finally gotten around to fixing the issues with my WordPress database, upgrading to 2.6, and settling on a theme I like.

Now that the annoying stuff is out of the way, I should be writing posts more frequently. Stay tuned…

On a side note, this is my 500th post on this blog. Perhaps I needed that hiatus after all.

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jamin on December 2nd, 2007

My brother and his wife had their first child and I’m an uncle again. Congratulations!

Simone

Simone Miriam Gray

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jamin on November 23rd, 2007

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