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Mac User Since '92, iPhone Junkie, Occasional Audiophile & Photographer, Lover of Good Design, Swing Trader, INTJ.
Who I Follow

Covers the Netscape Extensions to HTML (Taken with instagram)

North Lamar (Taken with Instagram at Austin, TX)

Catching Up on Some Embarrassingly Late Thank You Notes #ommwriter (Taken with instagram)

Save Dublin (Taken with Instagram at Cabo Bob’s)

This Should Do The Trick (Taken with instagram)

Unboxing Cats (Taken with instagram)

Not Nice (cc: @malarkey @maxvoltar) #hardboiledwebdesign (Taken with instagram)

After posting on Twitter wondering how Apple’s cash on hand compared to the US after Apple reported that they ended the latest quarter with just shy of $100B in cash and cash equivalents, I decided to dig around and see what I could find out.

What I found has me concerned. I hope I’m reading it wrong, but kinda doubt that’s the case.

Check out the following excerpt from Page vii of the “CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO THE  2011 FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT” (PDF):

“During FY 2011, the Government’s total assets decreased by $176.5 billion, due mostly to elimination of the cash deposits with the Federal Reserve under the Supplementary Financing Program (SFP).”

If I’m reading that correctly, the US Government now has $0 in cash deposits. Someone please tell me I’m wrong and point me to a reliable source.

Simply. Incredible.

Wilson Miner (@wilsonminer) - “When We Build” (From the 2011 Build Conference)

This talk is largely responsible for my decision to quit playing around with just fixing broken stuff in IT and get back to building stuff where I belong.

I’m not sure what that means for me yet. Stay tuned.

Oh, and thank you, Wilson. Seriously.

-chris

“Art” is Such a Subjective Term (Taken with Instagram at Austin, TX)

Boo (Taken with Instagram at Out Of The Past)

My New Kitty (Taken with Instagram at Momoko)

“The Bark Side” (VW’s 2012 Superbowl Spot)

My favorite is the Wookie dog that looks just like my Wookie dog minus the gun belt. Now I need to find a gun belt for her.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
Ron Paul
One important thing that’s happening today: our government is learning how a united Internet is more powerful than individual lobby.