Look up, look down

Look all around

A Zeplin! Whoopee

Way to go Ricky! Congrats, and all that jazz...oh and congrats to Cory, and to Ben and Hava. This is all a million Congratulations post! Congrats to Jon for something...!

Way to go...

...Ricky!!

I think I'm going to have to side with Jon and come and see you perform sometime. That's awesome!

Good on ya!

Kickin'

Way to go Ricky!!! That's the coolest thing. I hope you guys get to do a great show. I'll have to come see y'all perform sometimes.

an equation for ya'll

Ricky + trip to Chicago = ?

anyone???????

any guesses???????





NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PHANTOM REGIMENT CONTRA LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

laters ya'll's

And no margarine neither

The reverend Adam Starkadder:
"You know how it is -- when you burn your hand on the stove, and you get some butter to ease the pain? Well, THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

Thanks

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Die Internet Explorer! 

Funny, funny, funny

Tell me if this picture doesn't make you laugh

Picture

Now, if you laughed, is it because you've seen it somewhere before? :) I love that movie!

Before everyone takes off

...I'd like to just wish y'all a happy Thanksgiving. Whatever you do, be sure to have lots of the usual Thanksgiving stuff (y'know, peanuts, broccoli, limburger cheese, and penguin.) Er, I mean don't eat that stuff (unless it is your custom to have a nicely stuffed Thanksgiving penguin. But, if you do have penguin, do think of Linus. He has defined pengins for a generation.

Anyhow, I digress...

So yes, a happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good, eh, middle-of-the-day or so.

Cheers!

Funniest list of stuff

Big Johnny Brain Jones Peachpit Bill Boone Crockett

Big Lumpy Brain Hat Flapjack Frank

Big Alfie Gum-shoe Fat-Head Crawdad Vincent

Big Flipping Cheesecake Hornpipe Tuna Boat Steve

Big Chili Corncob Hambone Stiltskin Jeff

Big Brainy Fishface Stovepipe Wiggle-Room Eileen

Big Stinky Milkmaid Sansabelt Babaloo Fly-Swatter Horse-Drawn Twinkletoe Crumbcake Macrame Chicken Potpie

Big Crabby See-Saw Quonset Hut Muttonchop Zeke

Little Pinky Fleapie Waffle-Shoe Clamhead Chris

^
from an episode of Pinky and the Brain


In other news, yes, Andrew, we will have to roll the Battlefront at a time. Aaron and I were doing a practice session yesterday on Kashyyyk. That one is harder from the Imperial side than the Rebels.

I am so very sick today. I'm supposed to go icy sk8ting in about 10 minutes, but I don't know if I'll remain upright the whole time. I was up half the night despite adding an extra blanket and then slept until 10:30 this morning. Hooray for medecines.

Okay bye.

Holy rusted metal, Batman!

What in the world of Carmen SanDiego is going on 'round these parts of the world wide web (that's the 'trip dub' to those in the know)? Sounds like some real drama on our hands. Still, it could be worse. People could be urniating on your door (like what happened to me this weekend. I just love being an RA).

I see a mega batch of congrats are in order for Cory. WTG, man! If'n I can make it, you can count on me attending the reception (I can't turn down free cake and a chance to take hillarious pictures). And another set of gianormous conga-rats to Ben and Hava and the announcement of their forthcoming Mini-Them. Can I be like an official, unofficial Uncle? Y'know? Like the one that does all the cool magic tricks and tells the cool jokes, but sadly lives all alone and doesn't seem to have much luck with the ladies? That would be really cool.

Ummm, oh yeah! Nope...lost the thought...nope, got it back!!!

Jon, sounds like you're becoming a real X-Box junkie. Welcome to the club my friend. Halo 2 and Battlefront LAN parties are THE BEST EVER!! Well, maybe not ever, but pretty darn close. I'll have to face off with you one of these days. I have gotten pretty awesome at Battlefront 2 as of late. And I have an idea for Episode 4 of WHBR. I could "call in" via Skype! That would be the coolest to be on the show and have my annoying voice be downloaded by millions upon millions of crazed fans the world over. Yes? No?

Well, have a great day kiddos and don't claw eachother's eyes out or some such nonsense. Have a totally awesome Thanksgiving break as well! Adios!

Technically speaking...

Hilarious, for those who are aware of the recent fiasco with XCP.

Also, there was an absolutely great seminar by the makers of Linspire today over at the Tech Ed building.

Tomorrow there will be Fraggle Rock going on wherein the Multimedia Department of WSU will be making other people respawn very very frequently. Halo2 and SW Battlefront II. Yay for the fun of office LAN parties.

'Kay bye.

Just a reminder

I don't mean to be negative in any way. I love you all dearly as friends, but I feel I must mention, as admin of this bloggo, that we would all do well to follow the rules of Netiquette. Please understand that I don't mean to limit what can be discussed here on this virtual band hall. I simply mean that, according to netiquette, the proper way to handle another users' violation of netiquette is to send them a private email, rather than to respond in a public forum.

I hope everyone takes this reminder in the spirit in which it was intended - that being to keep this blog what it should be: a place where we can all come and have fun. Thank you all for your consideration.

A hearty congrats...

...to the Cory! Good job on the engagement. As a representative of the marrieds, I offer my endorsement of the institution. Marriage is the best thing ever! You come home and have this really awesome feeling of security and comfort. And then there are the in-laws. If you have cool ones, then it's twice the partying (or in my case 500% of the partying.) Being married is all sorts of awesomeness.

To Ben and Hava: I think that you are very loyal in your friendship to Jessica. Friends help each other out in a pinch. They do everything in their power to make each others' lives less stressful. Had we known about Jessica's plight, I'm sure that Kristin and I could have accommodated seeing as we have a relatively unused room, too. That's what friends do. That's what loyalty is all about. So yeah, Ben and Hava, I support you. Let's be nice to each other. The world moves much more smoothly when people are nice.

Ta ta!

On loyalty

Why did I get dragged into this? Whatever did I do? But, apparently I'm a turn-coat; a disloyal friend. What? Now, I know that I have a bad habit of thinking of people only when they are around, but I'd apologize profusely to anyone making such a claim because I know its validity. However
I'd like for those of you who are patient enough to care to analyze one small incident with me. Maybe then we can decipher where the questions of loyalty lie.
Cast your thoughts back to pre-fall semester summer-time. What a great time it was to be alive. Everybody was finally bored enough with summer freedom that we were all itching to get back to school. Ben and Hava have a new apartment in Washington Terrace and Jessica and Suzanne were all set to go in on an apartment together. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Jessica has nowhere to live. There is definitely no way for her to travel from Lehi to Weber State everyday. Tell me this: was the friend that weaseled their way into Jessica's apartment loyal? Ben and Hava just happen to have an extra room, so they say to Jessica, "Come, live in our extra room free of rent." Tell me this: were Ben and Hava loyal?
By no means is it that I'm put out with Jessica living as literally our next door neighbor. But, I have no office, I have nowhere to write my stories or do my homework. With our kitchen not as of yet finished, we have one less room to store all our stuff. We can't yet decorate the room as the nursery that it'll be used for in the coming months. Not only that, but now I have to share my bathroom with TWO women!
Tell me this: where does this question of loyalty come from? Shouldn't a loyal friend help out and not make things worse? Why should I, who have been nothing but kind and giving, be called names and be accused? Why should I remain as loyal to someone that has put me out so much? What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment? Maybe if they were loyal to me, they might earn my loyalty?
Tell me what you think? I'd like to hear comments . . . that is if anybody else wants to get involved. I wouldn't blame you because I got involved without even being asked to.

On a lighter note, Dragon Sonnet #2 is forthcoming!

Dragon Sonnet #1

The Dragon's breath was hot with burning air.
It flew across the vale, bright scales of red,
The workers in the field took flight instead
Of thought of fight the Dragon's burning glare.

The leaves fell off the golden aspens fair
When through the air brown dragons swiftly sped.
The peasants at the guarded feast were fed
And failed to witness sight of its fierce head.

The third of three ferocious dragons there
Appeared and caused a panic, pure white dread.
Its fetid breath across the land was spread
And none did dare to face the deadly flare.

The Three did flee to see aquamarine,
The Harold of the Heaven Dragon Green.

I hope I start a fire with this one

I'm freaking furious about this. This morning on KSL I read the following:

"November 18th, 2005 @ 7:34am

(KSL News) Marketers of Internet pornography say a law protecting kids against indecency violates the constitution.

They've filed a lawsuit against Utah, protesting the Child Protection Registry Act.

The law allows parents of minors to sign up to keep email accounts off the lists spammers use to send inappropriate messages. Those filing the suit say the law goes overboard."

I can't cry big enough elephant tears for this. I can't believe anyone is giving these pornographers the time of day let alone hearing a lawsuit from them stating that child protection laws are unconstitutional. UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! What's freaking unconstitutional about keeping children out of the hands of sicko predators?! I understand that there are loopholes in the child protection laws stating that photos can be taken if they're not sexual in nature, but Utah plugged those holes! I'm sorry, but if it were my child involved, I'd say screw constitutionality! Those [can't repeat word on the air] are not taking pictures of my children for any reason! I don't care if it's sexual or not because anything can be misconstrued to be sexual. Gol! I can't believe this. I hope this case gets tossed out on it's little snub nose.

Awesome (*spoiler*)... er, I mean (*long post*)

There are several things that are awesome of late.

Accuse me of presentism if you will, but I don't think the US would cover up a meltdown if one happened. On the other hand, there were those nuclear tests back in the day out in the west desert the dangers of which our government was decidedly irresponsible about. Jason, I'm glad you posted that link to Wormwood. Sobering and good to be aware of. I knew of the incident but the extent and awful reality of it is driven home by the gal's drives through the area.

Hmm... what else inspires awe? Well, just about any time there's demandage avec succès. N'est pas, Msr. Ben le Roi?

Also, along similar lines, I'm so totally going to see that Potter guy in that one movie tonight. I'm sorry BrittChap, about not going with y'all's group at 12:01 this morning, but the tickets for the midnight showings were all gone by the time I got over there to make the purchase.

And speaking of purchases and awesome, that Harry Potter ticket purchase is the last purchase I will make at the Newgate Mall until the mall starts regulating the advertising content of its stores (or the stores take responsibility for their own advertising). Yes, friends - that's right. It's boycott time. See, I was given a flier by a young lady who was a part of the boycott the other while and I figgur'd it was a good cause and that I'd join up. It's good to see people not sitting down and taking such stuff without making a peep. What am I off about, you might ask? Well, it all began when Victoria's Secret decided to display (according to the flier I recieved and the MSNBC story that covered the issue nationally) nearly nude mannequins in overtly sexual poses. Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying we should go around taking away peoples' moral agency. Unless of course their use of freedom of choice enfringes on the right of those who want to walk through the public areas of the mall without being presented with that kind of material (or parents who want to take their kids there or let their kids hang out there with their friends). I'm a libertarian in the sense that I think people should be allowed to pretty much do what they want as long as it doesn't enfringe on basic ethical principles or tread on the rights of others. And there's nothing wrong with using boycotting as a way to get your opinion across. That said, if there's anyone else who cares to join me, I'll be delivering notices to the mall's stores' managers letting them know of the movement and encouraging them to work with the mall management to develop a decency policy.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

Today is Friday. Again: awesome.

More later.

I'm getting totally...

...LOST!

Okay, so I agree with InvadeCanada, but I do have a bit of a different strategy for pulling off that feat. I can't help but notice that the author of InvadeCanada gets all hot and bothered about the North Pole and Santa Claus living in Canada, but later in his final scheme of overtaking the precious tundra, you will notice that the North Pole is still outside of the newly-formed state of Canada. Why don't we just go in there and take all of it? In fact, why stop at the North Pole? Why not continue over the top and take over Greenland and continue on to Russia? Of course, we could leave the area surrounding Chernobyl untouched and leave that to biker chicks. Actually, the aforementioned biker chick website is absolutely fascinating if you are interested in ghost towns, namely the highly radioactive ones. And if you have never heard of Chernobyl, shame on you. It's a town in the former U.S.S.R. where a nuclear reactor had a major meltdown and fire in 1986. The resulting radiation leak posioned lands as far away as Switzerland.

Wow, that was a digression. I first went from talking about taking over Canada to a short history of Chernobyl. Gee, what'll come up next?

An update...

So, I finally got some quarters (the machine works now). Yay! But in my last attempt to do my laundry, the machines were all full and had a long wait. Is there a major conspiracy to keep me from doing my laundry? Help!

Takeover

Canada

Oops - jy het dit gebreek

1. New pics are up.
2. An analogy from a 6-yr old here in Alberton:
Missionaries are like firemen. They save people. But the water they spray is the Book of Mormon.

Change is good...

...quarters are even better. So, today I was thwarted in my third attempt to do my laundry. I don't have enough quarters and the change machine is 'temporarily out of service.' (it's been out of service since Tuesday...it's now Saturday) How long does it take to repair a change machine that everyone uses? Grrr..... I'm just grateful that I still have some clean clothes, or else I would be in a major fix. So, there's my gripe for the day. Thanks for listening. ;) Oh...and the movie "Ghost"....it's pretty funny. :) .........Ciao!

t_ping()

For a second there, I thought you were talking about a new function in computer programming to return the network status of a certain machine, but then as I read into your post, it came to me just what you were referring to. Good job! While mostly I do not advocate breaking laws, sometimes it's just fun and you know that no one is going to get [seriously] hurt. Though there might be sort of a casualty in a fountain with the food coloring and dish soap. :) When that's really fun to do is just before it freezes and then you get this really cool ice sculpture. "You didn't see anything"

Ta ta!

TPings...

All I can say is BEWARE the Rox Stars! I went home this weekend, and my little sister her friend jessica and I just wreaked the biggest havok on her ex-boyfriend. Ohhh man that was sooo much fun! I haven't done that since high school, you can't do that in ogden becuase, well there are cops in Ogden.

Just thought I tell everyone about it. We actually looked stuff up on the internet to do! Thank Buddah for Google.

Recipe for Vandalism

1) 5 rolls of toilet paper
2) A Bar of Soap
3)Food Coloring
4) Soap
5) Rotten Bananas
6) a Dozen Eggs
7) a Bra
8) Shredded Paper
9) Instant Potato Flakes
10) A Bag of Dog Poo

Take one well manicured lawn complete with a fountain, 3 cars, and a big porch and apply all ingredients liberally. Tip: DON'T GET CAUGHT!!!!!

Fun for the kids....add lots of dish soap to fountain

737

...posts on this blog, that is. And yes, I do want to hop on an airplane tomorrow and go to D.C. but that ain't gonna happen.

Instead, I'll post a link today to my buddy Randall's vodcast page. You'll need the latest version of iTunes to watch it. I thought it was very well put together.

And speaking ov video editing, the Marching Band DVD for this year will be completed in... the future. Hopefully the near future. But for now I'm behind on my classes and just getting started on a few new projects on top of all that.

Check it out!

I have a new feature on my blog that creates catchy slogan using my (Strongben) name. Its way cool.

Hay

Yo yo what's up?

Just thought I'd drop a quick link to some more amazing junk.

No comment

Howdy everybody, i thought i would just pop in really fast and tell everyone i miss them! I hope everyone is doing great, and as always, i would love to hear from y'all
Have an Awsomeness day

Meet my new friend

It's name is Excalibur. It has 8 legs and has been crawling around my room for the past few days. I'm sure it will die soon, since there are no bugs for it to eat, but who knows. I found Excalibur crawling on my bed while I was cleaning. I have a very profound dislike of squishing bugs. I just won't do it. So, I picked it up with a kleenex and and put it in the garbage can (thinking that somehow it will stay there...I thought I might have crushed it, but apparently I was wrong). Later that day I saw it crawling on my wall. It's been hanging out around my tv, but now it's on my ceiling. It's being suicidal right now though, it is hanging around the light. :( Oh well, as long as it doesn't get into my bed while I'm asleep. Anyways. Yay for new friends.
Spidey out!

2 complaints:

1. Please don't make me have to side scroll because of your enourmous post titles.

2. Please don't post video codes because they totally jack up my computer.

Thank you for your attention in these matters.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit'sSupercalifragilisticexpialidociousEventhougthesoundofitissomethingquiteatrociousIfyousayitloudenoughyou'llalwayssoundprecociousS

...Dang it. I ran out of space in the title field. Blasted computers and their ability to only store a certain amount of characters. :)

So, how's that for a long title? Oh, and yes, Jessica, we do have to one-up each other. That's part of the fun of life. That's what it means to be an American. Hopefully, though, we can one-up each other and do it peaceably.

Okay, now on to the meat and potatoes of this post. Hmmm. Meat and potatoes. Sound good!

I have decided to take it upon myself to gather up all the usable links to cool webpages that have been accumulating in this blog for the last year and a half. There's a boat-load of them, but I think I can gather them up pretty easily. I'm only going to gather links to actual pages that do something and not include all the trivial links to pictures or sayings that may have been posted. We went through a phase back there when it was all we could do to lace the postings with as many links as possible. Most of these links were just photos or something fairly trivial. However, there have been many postings containing real links to actual web sites that many who read this blog could benefit by. So, it is incumbent upon me to make a gathering of links and put them all in one central location where everyone can enjoy them. How's it sound?

ps: Jason's Windows Vista Review
I think that Vista is definitely a step in some direction with the Windows operating system. I can't say right now whether I feel that it's a step forward or maybe just to the side. Windows XP has been a decent operating system for most people, but it does have an achilles heel: Administrator mode. Historically, it has been necessary to run Windows as Administrator or root user just to do most things. Most of us don't think twice about it. That's actually the way Windows was designed to run. This is inherently dangerous about this practice. If you run you computer as Administrator, any programs that infiltrate your computer gain Administrator rights. That means that they can go willy-nilly and install themselves as they will. However, if you run the computer with fewer access rights than Administrator, you protect yourself from those kinds of attacks. This is something that Vista is attempting to cause. Microsoft has finally awoken to the reality of the Unix model as a secure design. Unix has the philosophy that you don't need to be Administrator to run your programs, only to change system settings. So, on that front, Vista appears to be getting it right (we hope.) Where Vista really falls short is for users like myself who grew up in the DOS world and who organize their files very carefully on their hard disks. Vista tries to take that power away from the user with the Virtual Folders concept. As I was running Vista this afternoon, the Virtual Folders were driving me crazy. If I had to give a report right now on whether to upgrade from Windows XP to Vista, I would say that there really is no need to, unless you happen to have about 5 Gigs of disk space you don't mind giving up.

sothereisashortestbloghowaboutthelongesttitlerunonsentencekindofthingIthinkitisaninterestingideakindofdifferentbutwhynotwhatdoyouguysthink????????????

So....anyways. It's been awhile. Yay for the Jeff Corwine show. I love watching that show. Jeff is currently tracking a bobcat in California. The fun thing is, the cat is in Heather Locklear's area. I like hearing my name on tv...even if it isn't the right last name. So, Jon...I liked the marching video (at least, what we saw of it). Good jorb! One question, do you know where that video was of driving through the desert (on the menu screen)? That seriously looked like the road that leads to my home. Ok...that's enough of that. :) Can I tell you all how cool turtles are? They are awesome. So, yeah, I had planned to write some stuff worth reading, but as you can tell...it didn't happen. So here's a few good things of the week...
Best class of the week: my lesson. I got to try some different barrels for my clarinet, and I got to play some Baroque flute duets (on clarinet) with Dr. Feller. Can't beat that.
Best news: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory dvd is out next week-yay!
Best (worst) noise: the one my computer is making right now...copying a cd to the hardrive
Best discovery: It is 3 months to the day until my birthday...my 21st birthday. (I can put my mission papers in!)
Best feeling: taking off my shoes from a long week.
It's Friday! Happy day!
Have a great one!

Hmm...

I think I may have titled a blog like this previously. Oh well. If anyone doensn't like it, please email me at somethingorother@aserver.com. Just so you know, that wasn't my real email.

I noticed a mention of a midnight Harry Potter trip. Word around town is the nearest one is in Layton. Also, a large group from TCH (Transportation Clearing House-A company owned by Flying J, also my employer) has already purchased tickets, so I would suggest getting yours fairly soon.

In other news, today if Friday. Need I say more??

Things to smile about

Today, was an awsome day. Usually I dread working in the pay lot, becuase i get alot of annoying people, people who ask dumb questions, say innapropriate things, or complain about paying me a whole freaking dollar! But today was a bid different.

Things That Made My Day
1)Aimee, one of my regulars, gave me a bag of crispy M&M's
2)Heber, a good friend, brought me a bag of candy
3)Playful banter
4)A random lady walking by at the end of the day and saying "Have a Good night!"

I guess it just means that you should be nice to everyone, becuase imagine what you can do for thier day! You could end up on someone elses blog!

Tell me or Scooze if you want to join us at Harry Potter Midnite Showing!

Feelin' dank

Feelin' woozy and many thanks, Jason. I repaired the typo.

Also, WBHR Episode 1 just topped 600 downloads. Woo who.

Midnight Madness ensues.

Guess where I was at midnight last night? That's right! Wal-Mart™ with a copy of Star Wars Episode III in my hands. Now everyone needs to go out and get one themselves. What a great film!

Are you sure his name was...

...Pedo? Am I hearing you right? You said Pedo, right?

Just making sure because pedo (Spanish) = fart (English). However, Pedro (Spanish) = Peter (English.)

I didn't get any cool treatment for Halloween other than I got to put together this really cool audio mix of the Haunted Mansion and wolf sounds and thunder sounds. It was fun because I put it into a loop and played it on the movie sound system and you could hear it way outside the apartment. :) It was awesome!

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