interesting field of research-

and band name

"Acoustic levitation"

so there

Including SLIP, PPP and a TCP/IP stack

Today is happy birthday #10 for the Mozilla Foundation. In honor of this, Mosaic's site has been put back online for Auld Lang Syne. Some of their pages are a nostalgic trip down memory HTTP request.

Go geeks.

Videro Gamez

Just sitting here in the intermission of Video Games Live - a concert put on by the Utah Symphony (although it looks like it's a production that tours nationally, playing with local orchestras).

It's pretty much the awesome. They picked a guy from the audience, had him put on a t-shirt that had a picture of the ship from Space Invaders on the back of it, gave him a tethered fire button, and had the orchestra play the game music as he played a level of the game by firing with the button and moving across the stage (they tracked him) to move the ship on the big screen left and right. So, yes - the awesome.

There's lasers and fog. And they had the guy that did the viral video of himself playing Mario Bros. music on his piano blindfolded play 10 themes from the Final Fantasy series for one of the numbers. That guy has the maddd keyboard skilsz.

ftw

Jon and I are going to video games live, you should all be jealous! All y'all should feel pwnd!


Smash Brothers for the wii is amazing!

do you ever say something and wonder, "has that precise combination of words ever been spoken in the history of the English language?"

I just said, "actually, I'm not sure that Penguin Souls are subject to the forces of gravity."

and on the left one of the most ridiculous attempts at an automobile

quote

Things which are complicated tend to disappear and get lost. Simplicity is difficult, not easy. Beauty is simple. All unnecessary elements are removed - only essence remains.
- Alan Hovhaness

ohnoes!!!11!!!!!1!!11!!!one!!1!11111

l00k out 4 teh cuddli shakr

Let's see it in 3D

Once in a while an application comes along that breaks the model for similar applications and poses the question of why it was done. Consider for a second, if you will, your common everyday Web browser. Flat, one-tab interface, BORING!

Now try this on for size. You might need a pretty peppy CPU (as in 2.4GHz Pentium 4 or better), but I tried it on my old Pentium III 1GHz and it was functional, but not great.

Of course, there's always the standby classic of the Project Looking Glass which challenges the idea of what a computer desktop is capable of. Try it for yourself and see what I mean. Now, after taking a look at that, can anyone really say that Java is slow? The whole thing is written in Java.

Okay, I've had my geeky moment.

Chao!

drfotografia.blogspot.com/

found poetry

1108 do not include
the penguin and the duck
thus logically we must conclude
that Wagner gets us stuck

Cool Video

Jon, that was definitely a cool video. I loved the animation. I guess if I knew more about cellular biology, I might better appreciate the "micro machines" featured therein.

However, all is not well. At the end of the film, there is a BMW commercial for the Hydrogen 7 (the first hydrogen fuel cell performance luxury car.) People are under the impression that consuming hydrogen in their cars is responsible and good for the environment. Uh, you'd be wrong there. While burning the hydrogen in the engine doesn't produce any emissions (other than water), producing the hydrogen fuel for the car requires a lot of energy which hydrogen can't produce. Therefore, to obtain the hydrogen for the car, the "factory" must burn petroleum or coal to extract it. Hydrogen cars simply shift the focus rather than actually doing something for our environment. Where the real clean energy is to be found is in diesel derivatives. Now, burning petroleum-based diesel (kerosene) is bad, but burning biodiesel is fine. It doesn't pollute any more than burning paper. In fact, why can't we make our cars run on paper?

Anyhow, I digress. The video was fantastic. It's one of the best science-y films I've seen recently.

Thanks for sharing.

Wow

That was phenomenal!

Normally

I would post this only on my video blog, but it was cool enough I'm including it here as well. I've only ever taken one biology class in my life, but I remember that it was fascinating stuff if you can get past the learning curve for the stuff you need to understand to be able to appreciate the intricacy of microbiology. But David explains it much better than I do and makes some excellent points about the nature of education. The images are great, but the video is mind-blowing.

Hmm

Ben, that's awesome.

Waterfowl on wheels? Roll 'em.

Also, these:

Marble rye our reuben

As you probably know when Arby's is promoing a new sandwich they often place a large flyer with coupons for said sandwich in the Signpost. One side of the ad has tiny coupons, and the other has a large picture of the new item with blocks of text explaining all of the great things that will happen when you purchase their product. It is important to note that the coupons are perforated, so when you separate all of the coupons it is possible to arrange the blocks of text to form eloquent poetry.

Marble rye our reuben
Bread? is deli delic
rye wraps o either way
y's, marble rye our reuben.

Reuy's
Bread? marble rye
is delidelicorous reuben

Arben
Bread? marbye rye
is delicour reubenous

Rye wrap o
Either way
y'ben
marbious

arb
Arby's
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is deli delicorous

Sweet

You've heard of Guitar Hero. Perhaps even played it. Now, the real deal.

O FOR TUBA

Well, strictly speaking Euphonium...

Okay: two things coming up, one past.

Starting with the passed: Last Thursday night I conducted the world premiere of my own composition, 'suite in... g?' for band. Dr. Root was kind enough to lend me the band for that number. So I had my conducting and compositional public debut. It was exciting.

AND

on Tuesday, March 4 at 7:30 is a little recital of new music by student composers and also me.

BUT ESPECIALLY

on thursday, march 6th at 7:30 in rm 136 Heather Carlson is giving her senior recital and I, Jarrett, am giving my Junior Recital. It should be pretty cool. You all should come.

Aren't People

Odd?

With knit and/or furrowed brow

Make a checkerboard, and alien, a Jolly Roger, or *gasp* a pinano!

Amazing!

Hey all! I know I haven't posted in a while, but I have awesome news, no I'm not engaged, no I'm not going on a mission, no I'm not graduating or anything cool like that...just that.

The Utah Symphony

will be playing

At WSU

On March 27th

playing

wait for it

wait for it

Symphonic Versions

wait for it

Of Video game music!

Huzzah! I think we should go to this concert as a collective of nerds/geek/dorks/whakado's! I also found a great youtube project that all of us should become obsessed with. Username vlogbrothers. It's these two brothers who for a whole year didn't textually communicate and only spoke to eachother using video blogs. They are both self proclaimed "nerds" and call their followers "nerdfighters" the gang sign of which is crossed live long and prosper signs. Yeah they are freaking amazing! John the older of the two is also a writer. If you ever saw the accio deathy hallows song you have gotten a small taste of the awesomeness that is Brotherhood 2.0!

Batman out kids!