Congratulamationings, and welcome to the globe

To the newest of the Schill clan, may your stay on this bouncing ball be filled with experiences that are worth having. To the founding members of the group, I say well done and very high fives. Yes, Jason, I was looking forward to that elite post number as well after Jarrett mentioned the palindrome posting.

Riddle (for those who haven't walked along the darkened corridors of the Browning Center recently): What do you call a camel with one hump and two heads, one at either end?

Answer: A palindromedary

Oh, and just in case...

May 21st

May 21st was a great day for me! Well, it was great for Kristin and me. We had the distinct privilege of welcoming our son, Jayden, into the world! I don't have a whole lot to say other than I am so happy and so overwhelmed all at the same time. I will continue to post more images as I get a chance to shrink them from 8.3MP to a more manageable, Internet-friendly size.

In other news, with all the relative downtime this weekend, I have been able to get my email server up and running. It's kind of a headache setting up a mail server, but I got it running!

Chao!

ps: I passed the 1337 (LEET) post and made this one the 1338 (LEEB) post. :) I don't know if that's better or not.

your mission

should you be able to write latin fluently...

oh my

there are only a few things that frighten me: Jung, junior high schools, llamas, and people who play scrabble in latin.

Should you choose to accept it...

Your mission is to check out GPS Mission. If you have one of the supported devices, try out the one I created.

For those of you who don't want to jump and read, here's the skinny. You have a GPS enabled phone (or phone with GPS device attached). You download the game software. You select a mission. You go to the various checkpoints, following the clues. There are riddles and gold to collect along the way and photo tasks. It's fun. Probably.

You should try it out. Even create local missions for others to play.

Tra la la.

Narnia 2. Verdict: not bad

My roommate thinks that Obama could beat McCain, but Hillary couldn't. I get the feeling Obama will win the nomination by a bit, but since Hillary scares me, maybe she should win the nomination and lose the election.

Ah.... glorious politicking season. Perhaps I should register to vote.

Thought of the day: Just because your clothing is flammable and fire is, itself, quite nifty, that does not mean you should light yourself on fire.

This, for your entertainment (from _why, who, it seems, has multiple imaginations):

Different Space Shuttles

A couple interesting things I've been meaning to post for a while. Jarrett always proclaims Obama as a rock star. He has been on the cover of Rolling Stone, and other magazines, and now this:

Wow. This is the image that you can get printed on a t shirt from Ebay.


This just makes me cringe:

Quintessential Cad

So I saw Don Giovani last night. Fair enough.

But when I awoke this morning (and my subconscious must have been working on this all the while I slept) my thought was, "Smooth Criminal is a direct steal from the opening scene."


Donna Anna are you okay?
are you okay?
are you okay Donna Anna?


The lyrics even mention a crecendo and include the phrase "Dad Gone"

I rest my case.

I just killed a palindrome

Cory's post was number 1331.


Anyway I didn't make the cabinet but apparently, thanks to Cory, I am a judge... not the branch I was expecting

I NEED TO BE JUDGED!...Er, I need a judge

Next Saturday (May 17th) I am hosting a middle school music festival. I am desperately looking for another judge to help out. This isn't anything official and you don't need a teaching license or anything. I just need somebody who is an instrumentalist (preferably a music major), and can give some middle school band and orchestra groups some tips and pointers. The festival runs from 8:00am - 11:40 am at Ben Lomond High School. Your role would be to listen to the music groups perform a few numbers and then go on stage and give them your feedback of what they are doing good and what they can work on. You would of course be compensated for your time (about $60). Please e-mail me if you are interested at jensenc at ogdensd dot org. Thanks! - Cory Jensen

Cabinet?

I knew you'd figure it out; I guess the most you can hope for is Secretary of State or something.

Oh wait

I'm an idiot. I've known for years that you have to be 35 to be president. Duh.
In case anyone else is wondering, the fee is fairly hefty - from 500 - 1600 dollars - to be a candidate for elected office.

The Best Bass Player

Notes from the clinic:

If music is a language, we teach it differently than we teach the spoken language. We should teach music the same way we teach English.

If music is a language, have something to say.

The instrument is not the point, it's the music, and the music is in us, not the instrument. Otherwise musicians wouldn't be needed.

Here's what I was able to get of it. There was nothing that said the session was copyrighted, so I'm proceeding on the assumption that you can all enjoy this guilt-free. I was using Audacity and typing at the same time, so that's the occasional clickety-clicking you hear.



Oh, yes. To respond to questions, Haloscan is what is giving us the nice little post ratings (out of 5 stars) and the comments and trackbacks and live polls.

dr. henderson would be proud

here


and here
the second one is far superior

Street View

Just in case you haven't explored this yet, Google has a fairly new design in the works called streetview. It contains 360 degree eye-level images of most streets. It is incredible! There is a car that drives all around with a 360 degree camera which is linked to GPS and takes snapshots of all of the streets around. They aren't done yet, but they have a good chunk of them finished. Go explore and see what you can see!

a question

When is the deadline? If Dr. Palumbo won't run, maybe I will

justifying the "Kobus"

With some classic Boertjie humor, brought to you by Leon Schuster
the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEVdalEJ_X4

I heard about this from Sizwe in Bloemfontein and I'm ever so delighted to find it

well . . .

Who am I?  I am a pianist, and apparently I look like Franz Liszt (ask Jarrett).  I play the piano in Wind Ensemble and when there's no piano parts I play percussion.  I'm NOT one of those back-up percussionists who aren't really percussionists.

Do I know you?  Um, I don't think so, Jason.  How sad.

I think I will ignore the third question, as I don't pay for car insurance.

As for Dr. Palumbo for president, it was sort of Jarrett's idea, really.  I said to vote for a write in candidate if you didn't like any of the options, and he all of a sudden really wanted to vote for Dr. Palumbo.  I tried to see if it was possible, and apparently it's not without committing fraud.  It would have been funny to see the look on his face when he found out people voted for him to be president though . . .

Bienvenidos Abordo

Para su seguridad, permanezca sentado y mantenga las manos, brazos, pies y piernas dentro del tren. Y cuide a sus pequenitos.

Welcome, Sharon! Now, I have one question for you: Who are you? Do I... Okay, two questions: Who are you? Do I know you? And... Three! Three questions: Who are you? Do I know you? And how much are you saving on car insurance? Okay, that last question really didn't have anything to do with anything else, but I had to throw it in there because, as everyone knows, lists come in threes.

Also, I'm with Cory. Eh, what do Dr. Palumbo and autoinscribing (don't know if that's a word) for public office have to do with each other?

Oh how rude of me. Sharon, my name is Jason and I was in the WSU band for many years, but have not been actively participating in it since fall of 2004 (something about needing to graduate.) Occasionally, however, I do come back for alumni functions.

Jon, what is Haloscan? Does it have anything to do with Halo/2/3?

Anyhow, I'll chat with y'all later! It's time for dinner!

President Palumbo?

Sharon - welcome to the blog. I'm a little confused about your connection of running for office and Dr. Palumbo. Can you fill me in?

Straw Poll