Facebook Stake Purchased By Microsoft

Microsoft got ripped off, investing $240 million dollars in Facebook and only getting a 1.6% stake in return. The deal values Facebook at $15 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 year old owner of a 20% stake, is now worth about three billion dollars. Hot damn, I need to get my own business going at a much faster rate.… read more “Facebook Stake Purchased By Microsoft”

Beautiful day!

Today looks like it’s going to be very pretty!

On my way into work, I was looking out over the water and the big buildings downtown with the Cascade mountains in the distance with the sky behind them a deep red color and decided that life is good. The air was brisk and cool. Everything was crystal clear.… read more “Beautiful day!”

Work Party Tonight

Paaaaaaaaaaaarteeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!!!!!!!

Parties at my company are usually pretty entertaining because senior management does their best to go completely wild. My favorite is when Dean, one of the founders, does his “dancing in the box”. Funny as hell.

I probably won’t stay as late as I have the last couple times, because I am going to go meet up with my woman.… read more “Work Party Tonight”

Hoo- RAH!

We had another motivational company-wide meeting today. Each of our top managers took turns talking about why what we are doing is important and what we should do about it. They had intended to have a quick 20 minute meeting followed by pizza, but they ended up stretching it out for 45 minutes. One unnamed manager, when trying to respond to the question, “What is our company mission?”,… read more “Hoo- RAH!”