Dear Diary
Driveway Paved
A few days ago the driveway was removed and prepared for a brand new asphalt driveway. I had charged my camera to get a good time-elapsed movie of the asphalt being put in. It’s a pretty cool thing to watch. Okay, the video is a bit long…
Driveway Paving from Jamie Thingelstad on Vimeo.
Driveway Removal
This past Thursday the contractor got started with our driveway removal. I was watching, and realized it was a great time-lapse opportunity! The music for this one may not be to everyone’s taste — but the theme seemed spot on!
Driveway Removal from Jamie Thingelstad on Vimeo.
My Haircut
“#1 on the sides, high, to a #2 finished with a #3 on the top.”
Happy Fathers Day 2008!
This year marks something that will not happen again until 2014, when Mazie turns 9. Father’s Day is the day right after Mazie’s birthday! Father’s Day is always the 3rd Sunday in June. After 2014 it won’t happen again until 2025, on Mazie’s 20th birthday. Now, I know what you are all wondering. When will [...]
Baby Monitor in the Hallway
Tammy and I are hanging out in this extremely cool, funky hotel in Portland called McMenamins Kennedy School. It used to be a school, but they converted it to a hotel, restaurant and bar. It’s very cool.
Anyway, Mazie is asleep and the monitor doesn’t quiet reach to us. We have it sitting in the hallway [...]
40 Under Forty Award
I got the exciting news a couple of weeks ago that I was selected to be one of the recipients of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty awards. The process to be selected involves a nomination process. The editors receive letters from people and then sift through those to figure out who [...]
Farewell Video
Last night was my absolutely amazing farewell party at the Bernard’s house. The gang put together this awesome going away video for me. It’s just great. Thank you so much everyone. Who would have ever thought reading Twitters could be so funny! There is an amazing, completely unexpected and inexplicable cameo at the end. But [...]
Changing Primary Workstations
As I get ready to leave Dow Jones I’ve been working to get my home office setup more streamlined for work. I think I’ve succeeded, and am in store for a big upgrade actually! Here is my current workstation at the office, where I spend most of my computer time.
And this is what I’ll be [...]
Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 Launch
There are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones, and most public, is the inclusion of the BigCharts BigArchitecture (the name we retroactively gave the COM-infrastructure behind MarketWatch and BigCharts) in the scalability demo at the Windows 2000 launch event. [...]
Good Luck to Hector in Ironman Arizona
My brother-in-law Hector is racing in Ironman Arizona this weekend!
On Sunday morning he is going to do the epic 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. It’s a pretty amazing feat, and it’s his 2nd Ironman (he did Ironman Wisconsin last year).
His bib number is 297 and you can follow his progress [...]
