I recently purchased a loft in downtown Kirkwood, MO. Pretty darn excited.
Ring Ring from the rather amusing film which I saw with Kelli and her kids this weekend.
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.
Tags: social networking, Web
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.
Kelli on the left, Jamie on the right
I’m a lucky guy.
Oh yes, I am.
Tags: Karaoke, Music, Photography
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?
Tags: Finance
Kelli had VIP tickets to Pointfest so we packed a cooler and enjoyed some bands and people-watching for a few hours.
Then we cruised to Bone’s French Quarter for a night of karaoke, making some new friends along the way.
Tags: Karaoke, Music, Photography
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.
Tags: Meta
My brother and his wife had their first child and I’m an uncle again. Congratulations!
Simone Miriam Gray
Tags: Personal
Tags: Personal, Photography
