by the way

Hey, speaking of new arrivals - Aim and Timmy also were delivered this week of a lovely six pound-ish 20inch baby boy (apparently - I haven't seen, so it might be a big hoax to get Tim out of work) - Great news for them!

Goals for the summer

ECHO Echo echo

Wow, it must be like finals or something cuz no one's posting anything new.

If you're coming....

to the DCI Classic Countdown this Thursday from 7:30 to about 9:30, let me know and all us WSU band geeks will sit together and throw stuff at the screen when any other corps other than Phantom Regiment is performing...... Ok, maybe not. Still though, we'll all sit together and have a jolly good time.

This Classic Countdown is going to be sweet cause it isn't like the past 2. It is the best of the best!!! In the past there had to be 2 shows from each decade (70's, 80's, 90's and 00's) and no corps could be repeated, meaning that if the 1975 Blue Devils was the first corps to be shown, no more BD shows could be shown again that night. Now, there can be 3 SCV show's and 5 Cavies! Oh yeah, I can't say it enough, it'll be sweeeeeeEEEEEET!!! Tickets are $12.50 and as far as I know, it isn't sold out.

Hope to see ya'll there!

I thought this was the way to Grandma's house?

a response

to Jon's comment on Bag-o-cool:

I know the feeling. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said:
"In every work of genius we see our own abandoned ideas."


it's difficult in composing to think of anything really new...

Ding

A couple new vids over on Bag-O-Cool. Worth checking out (or I wouldn't've put'em up thar.)

um... does this work?

here

I thought it was funny - don't know about you

Happy Taxday Everybody

A very much congratulations to the Jensens on the new arrival.

For those of you who (like me) haven't yet exactly mailed their taxes, I offer the following suggestion: do.

And for all of us, I offer this quote from wikipedia by the purportedly venerable legal scholar, Judge Learned Hand:

"In my own case the words of such an act as the Income Tax… merely dance before my eyes in a meaningless procession: cross-reference to cross-reference, exception upon exception — couched in abstract terms that offer [me] no handle to seize hold of [and that] leave in my mind only a confused sense of some vitally important, but successfully concealed, purport, which it is my duty to extract, but which is within my power, if at all, only after the most inordinate expenditure of time. I know that these monsters are the result of fabulous industry and ingenuity, plugging up this hole and casting out that net, against all possible evasion; yet at times I cannot help recalling a saying of William James about certain passages of Hegel: that they were no doubt written with a passion of rationality; but that one cannot help wondering whether to the reader they have any significance save that the words are strung together with syntactical correctness."

Best of luck filling out that ol' 1040EZ, folks. We're all in this together.

Prospective band member in the making

Hi Everybody - Cory is now a dad! We had our little girl "Ellie" on Tuesday this week. She came about a month early but her and mom are doing just fine. She was 5 pounds, 9 ounces. Quite a unique feeling being a dad.

Are you feeling low?

Cheer up. Things could be worse. You could need to print something and not feel violated.

Update: Engaged recently covered an impressive use of ferrofluid: making art based on music. It's kind of a step up from your average media player software's on-screen visualization. I have, of course, blogged the vid. Hmm...

Come one, come all!!!

well

I don't fully comprehend the map of WSU, but that is the likely whereabout of Jingles at any given time... better than "[chances are you're not] a pirate" at least!
also, Jon, please invite starwobble v.d. hotmail v.d. com to participate in the blog - Ben Yuill has applied for citizenship. This would be our first emigrant from the string world!

this looks fairly familiar....

HI! Guess what! I'm back...(of sorts). Thanks to Jon, I now have another email to deal with....but at least it's through one of the best websites out there. It's good being back!

two terrible jokes

spontaneously organized "ex nihilis" by jarrett - no less

1.
What do you call the winner of a Rubik's cube competition?
Fidel Castro. (He's a cubin' dictator.)

2.
What do you call a battle between Indian chefs?
The Korean (Curryin') war.

The videos should work now! Let me know if you are still having any problems.

I would if I could...

...but I can't. Andrew, I think you need to open up some permissions on your videos. When I try to play them, they don't load and when I go to YouTube, it says that they are on a private account and cannot be viewed except by the owner. If you could make those public, that would be awesome. :)

Jeff, I can totally understand your hesitation on Vista. It's a compatibility nightmare. They decided to make it not work with anybody. And if you really want the "Linux Experience" you need to install Debian or even FreeBSD. They're the ultra-geeky flavors. :)

So, my wife is awesome! Not only is she just awesome by nature, but she bought me two out-of-print CDs. First to arrive was Dallas Brass II, which has the coolest arrangement of the National Emblem march I've ever heard. Second to arrive was Dallas Brass: Debut. Of course, if you've heard that album before, there's no need to explain why it's so awesome. Of course it does help to mention the William Tell Overture arranged for brass quintet. It's one big tonguing exercise and they pull it off flawlessly. Anyhow, I just thought I'd tell you that. :)

Take it easy, y'all.

Hoi hoi everyone!

I refer to Alexandar Graham Bell's perfered method of answering his famous invention. He opposed the simple "Hello".

Anyhoo, I have a brand new blog that houses all the little projects I have created while in school here for the past three years. I'll be trying to track down a few other projects over the next few weeks, so keep checking back from time to time if ye be interested.

http://fleacircusltd.blogspot.com

That is all.

Thanks.......

for the info Jason. I'll stay away for now, which is what I intended anyway, but I have people asking me for support, and I can't do anything if I don't know it. I'll wait and see if I can get my free Professional copy from base.

As for XP, LOVE IT! I need to trash my old box and get it ready to run Linux as that's my next task to play around with. I think I'm going to go with Fedora or Ubuntu, but am not sure yet.

As for the pirate flag, I don't think my '93 Ford POScrap is worthy.

Thanks.......

for the info Jason. I'll stay away for now, which is what I intended anyway, but I have people asking me for support, and I can't do anything if I don't know it. I'll wait and see if I can get my free Professional copy from base.

As for XP, LOVE IT! I need to trash my old box and get it ready to run Linux as that's my next task to play around with. I think I'm going to go with Fedora or Ubuntu, but am not sure yet.

As for the pirate flag, I don't think my '93 Ford POScrap is worthy.

Jingles the Website

That's a pretty frackin' cool logo, eh. I'd certainly put it on my pirate ship. Hey, wait just one frackin' minute! What a great idea I just had. How's about we make little flags of the Jingles "Jolly Roger" and fly them from our pirate ship masts (meaning car antennas)? Yea/Nay.

So, speaking of sites going live, my own website has now gone live. Schillclan.net is now it's own domain name. :) I registered the domain name with GoDaddy and I'm hosting the site myself. It's on a Red Hat 9 Linux box running on a 1.3GHz AMD Duron with 512 MB of RAM. I love that machine. It's rock solid and never crashes. However, it has four internal fans and therefore is quite loud. It's a good thing that the poor machine is out of my bedroom. :) It was driving Kristin crazy. Hmmm. By the looks of things, I have already announced my website on this forum. Oh well, it never hurts to advertise a little.

So Jeff, you're wondering about Piece of Crap, er, I mean, Vista, eh. Oooh boy, do I have stories to tell! When they said "The Wow starts now" they weren't kidding. It's like "Wow, I can't believe I have to have 2 gigs of video RAM just to use this operating system." And "Wow, that new 160 gig hard drive I just bought doesn't seem so big anymore with Vista." I think it's all Microsoft's big April Fools joke. The only problem is that it keeps on going. Frankly, for $5B and 5 years of R&D, they really should have "Wow"ed us, but they didn't. You can stick with Windows XP and install WindowBlinds with all the fun GUI enhancements that Vista brings you. And you can do it all without that stupid "Allow/Deny" User Account Control security watchdog thingamajig popping up every two seconds. That gets old very fast.

Jeff, if you really want to try out Vista, I have a copy of Vista RC1 (I know, it's not the retail version, but I don't have $400 to spend on Microsoft). I'll give you this copy of Vista. It even has a license code. Keep in mind that it does expire in July, but you ought to get a good feel for it by then. Personal opinion: Windows Vista is a culmination of all the lessons that Microsoft didn't learn from Windows Me. For all the fireworks and ballyhooing, it really sucks. I just think we should all switch over to Linux and run a truly powerful operating system that doesn't crash and doesn't require a hyper gaming rig to run.

So that's my rant for the evening. I do hope to have my house at least presentable in the next few weeks to host a cool band geeks party complete with movies. :) Stay tuned. We've got it all on UHF.

Hasta la pasta!

Food recommendation of the while: Cafe Rio Pork Barbacoa Burrito enchilada style. Complete with mild green sauce and salsa on the side. Mmmm. Good.

what's with that?....

What's with the Jingles the pirate.com, it just sits there. I have been out of the band hall far too long. I don't know anything that's going on anymore. I do miss the random thoughts and actions, and wish that I had made better acquaintances with you all so as to have kept some comradery with y'all before deciding to end my school career.
Oh well, shouldn't cry over spilt milk I suppose.
Tell me, what's the latest with y'all? how are things there in the infamous band hall?
Also, who has worked with Vista? I'm trying to figure out why I can't get IBM Lotus Notes to run on it, and am stumped. I need to get my own copy and start fooling.

Apothrope, Centigraph, Saint Hannes Cross

Ricky, Diego is pointman on the laser tag, so I'm going to have to appeal to him for a start time. I'll definitely find out and add the time to the gCalendar.

For those who are interested (and if you are, you have my pity), jinglesthepirate.com is now up and running.

Hosting is provided by A Small Orange Dot Com.

For any of you who are AS 3.0/Flex/Apollo afficionados, you may be interested in the latest post on my Flex Dev blog.

For any of you who are interested in microblogging, check out twitter. For any of you who may actually care (agan, sympathy) what I am doing RIGHT NOW, you can check out my twitter page. For any of you who are opposed to following links while using the interwebs (yet again, condolences) and don't want to click the twitter link to find out what it is, I will tell you that it is a site that revolves around only one thing: answering the question "What are you doing?" (as in 'at the moment').

I'm sore today from using muscles yesterday that I hadn't used in a long time.

Things you may be interested to know:

• In the last 10 years, the IRS has audited 12 people earning less than $80,000


• The average American sees over 1,000 pieces of paid advertising every day


• Records from Japan's feudal period suggest that the average samurai lived to be 19, while the average ninja lived to be 37


• Ounce for ounce, printer ink is more expensive than gold


• On the whole, Americans spend more money on entertainment than food


• Every year the U.S. throws away as much food as it consumes


• The American Psychiatry Association estimates that 75 percent of people have at least one untreated mental illness


• Over the past 20 years, the world's fastest supercomputers have held that title for an average of 6 weeks

An Interesting Find

You may call me an uber-geek for this, but I was checking my website statistics tonight and I came across a most unusual thing. You see, at the bottom of the statistics page for any month, it tells you the countries of origin of the most hits. Normally, for me, I get hits from my network, US commercial, Italy, Mexico, and occasionally, France. However, this month, I had one I had never even heard of before. I need to go back to 9th grade geography. Can anyone tell me where Seychelles is?

Paz Fuera!

Don't worry, be happy!

If I remember right Ricky, you were at last years DCI show, which was at Jordan Landing. If you were ok with the quality of picture and sound then don't worry about it - it will be the same. It's not terrible - it's just not the best (Larry H. Miller's theaters have the newest technology). And don't go down to American Fork, because it's also a Cinemark theater there. The theaters do have a satellite dish on top of each building and they will download it to their server sometime before they actually show it - these servers are what control the digital projectors for each theater. I'm sure it will be a good show, I was just hoping that the Gateway or Jordan Commons was showing it too. Oh well!

This might be a dumb question?

Because I don't/have never worked at a movie theater and have not a clue what goes on, I'll ask what might be a dumb question. Does it matter that it is being broadcast via satellite?

The only other place in Utah that it's being shown at is in American Fork and I really don't want to drive all the way down there if I don't have too.

Also, Jon, is laser tag still on for Friday? There isn't a time on the calendar so I was just curious.

(edit: if you read my post between yesterday(the 2nd) and today(the 3rd), I accidentally put paintball instead of laser tag)

Another place for DCI?

So that's really cool about DCI being in Ogden at the Cinemark Tinseltown, but I feel like I should warn you: Although I love Cinemark, having worked for them for about 7 years, the digital projector systems they have in place were designed just for the preshow advertisements. Because of that, the resolution and brightness levels are low compared to a digital movie that you might see at say the Gateway or Jordan Commons. Their sound systems of these digital projectors are also only set up for stereo processing (no DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital, or THX). So if there is an option to see it somewhere else - I would recommend it. But keep going to Cinemark for regular movies because they do have a good thing going in that department.