Jon

Return to GEWar...PLEASE!!!! I NEED HELP!!!

The Open Road

There is very little in this world to rival the feel of the highway whipping by underneath you at 60 miles per hour as you glide over it on a big motorcycle. Seriously. That is an amazing sensation. If you get the chance, do it, but do it as the driver, not a passenger. I'd say it's a rush, but that's not a very good description. The best description of the sensation is intimate. When you're in a car, you're numbed to the sensation of what the road really is. On a bike, you're in the sensation. You become part of it. It's uncut and unadulterated. It's seriously one of those things in life like flying an airplane and going to the seashore that everyone should experience. But, please, experience it safely.

Over, Oveur.

Jason, I like your post title

I haven't seen Ben^2+Hava since the big day. Or lotsa my other friends for long times for that matter. :( A party is in order. Tim'n'Amy have offered their flat as festivities locale.

Free Food Is Good

Cool deal, Heather. I don't remember him, but then if he does remember me, just don't believe a single word of what he says about me. (It's most likely all of it true.)

Invite's away, Elder W. We have so much to catch up on when you return.

I like XSLT. I hate IE.

How to hack a Masterlock.

And the EU GPS system.

rwxrwxrwx

Jarrett, do you mean to say that you don't have write privileges to the Jinglesthula blog? I thought you created that blog. I'm not sure what you mean by inviting you to the blog. ?:)

An Idea

Could someone reinvite me to the Jinglesthula blog? I am starting to get ideas, here and there - number one is, we have to use the "1492 - conquest of paradise" theme by Vangelis somewhere in there.

...and then they made me their Chief.

Yesterday (Saturday), I went with Kristin and her sister to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I'm only here to report that if you want a really fast, action-packed ride with no discernable point, you should go and see this film. I'm not saying that the movie is bad; I'm just saying that it really felt, to me, at least, to be a stopgap between The Curse of the Black Pearl and At World's End. The action was almost nonstop and the monsters and villains under the command of the ultra-baddie, Davy Jones, are a bit scary for younger audiences. This is why the movie is rated PG-13. That's 13, folks, not 1.3. So, please, if you have young brothers, sisters, or cousins, don't take them to see this film. That's a major pet peeve of mine, when folks bring their little babies to see these PG-13-rated films "because it's a Disney movie." There are some things in Dead Man's Chest that, in my opinion, exist solely for the purpose of ramping up the gross-out factor, but they are done tastefully and sometimes, even done humorously. (The effects guys must've had a blast at Mr. Depp's expense in one particular scene. He seems to beg for that kind of treatment in his films - think Sleepy Hollow. Anyhow, it was a pretty enjoyable movie, but I am definitely pumped up to see the third installment of Pirates: At World's End. I just hope they don't add everything you see in this movie to the Disneyland attraction. I know they've done some extensive remodeling since the first film, but I hope they don't use the films as a license to severely revamp a classic ride.

Now, on to the purpose of this blog entry: a movie trailer attached to Dead Man's Chest. The DCI World Championship Quarterfinals are coming to Jordan Landing on August 10. Get your tickets!

Show your true colors

I'm kind of interested on just how accurate this Color Quiz is. I know that things like personality tests and such are often broad and that people change and might score differently on them at different times in their lives, but this one intrigues me.

Everybody (who feels like it) should take the quiz and post here whether they thought the results were accurate - maybe on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being way off and 5 being dead on.

Don't just hurry through it either or be careless. Just click on the colors one at a time until they are all gone in whatever order you want to.

Just curious.

96K ought to be enough for anybody

Big things come in small packages. And the implications are potentially cooler and more impressive than the current example itself.

Holy rusted metal, Batman!!!

An interesting thing I have discovered. There are no rated "R" movies playing at the Tinseltown in the Newgate Mall. Just thought you all should know.

For Jon (since I don't have your email address)

I just wanted to tell you that I met somebody from your mission. He's in my ward here in Dugway. It didn't sound like you two knew each other, but he knew who you were. Anywho. His last name is Gunnell. Thought you might like to hear that. :)
Have a good one!

Web 2.0

Well, kind of. Here's a nice AJAX homepage: NetVibes

Oh, and here's a really funny recording of... well, just listen to it.

Also, check out Box.net

Woa there...

...I didn't think Leopard was supposed to be unveiled until August. Dude! What's up with that? And they have touch-screen iPods? I didn't know that. Well, at least Apple can release their OS on a fairly regular schedule (unlike Windows Longwait, er, I mean, Vista.) Now, Vista Beta 2 isn't too bad, really, but it certainly isn't as slick as Mac OS X.

Geek kool

OSX Leopard Mobile on an iPod? See for yourself.