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!

Da da da

Breadtangle

A given amount of force applied over an increasingly smaller area produces increasingly marked results. For example, if you kick a brick wall with your foot, the impact will be spread out roughly equally between your 5 toes. However, if you should happen to kick, with the same amount of force, the corner of that same wall so that the impact is taken solely by your pinky toe, there will be quite a noticeable difference. This I know from experience.

Happy Halo-ween at work today for the WSU Multimedia Services SWAT force.

Today I dressed up as a slacker. In other words I took my sweet time getting to marching band. This didn't really bother me since we played our last game and all we did was watch the drum major candidates audition. I voted for Pedro. Also, as a Halloween treat, our ice skating instructor gave us 1/2 the time for whatever we felt like. So, today, we decided it would be fun to fall down on purpose for once and we had a skate-really-fast-and-see-who-slides-the-farthest contest. Whee.

And yes, Jason, you win for the shortest post contest.

Some totally amazing...

...web sites!

Over the past couple of days, I have been searching for more great images (mostly for wallpaper and stuff like that.) Well, the first site that I disovered is Caedes.net. I'm serious when I say that they have literally thousands of images of all kinds in proper aspect ratios for computer wallpapers. I've never seen anything like it before. So far, my favorite section is the Space section. I don't know, maybe I have some kind of loyalty to NASA seeing as it is probably one of the best man-made institutions ever created. The kind of engineering that comes out of NASA totally blows my mind.

Well, as I was browsing on this gorgeous space gallery, I came across a picture taken from one of the Apollo missions as they were in low earth orbit. The picture is one of the most breathtaking shots I've ever seen. So, I investigated a bit further and found that all the film from all the Apollo missions has been digitized and much of it is available online. So, the second of the kick-butt-amazing websites is the Apollo Image Gallery. Here you will find an astonishing collection of photos from the entire Apollo series, including the mighty Saturn V rockets. Again, this gallery is almost overkill because there are so many images on it. But, it gives me a sense of pride knowing that mankind has done some pretty amazing things. I can't wait until we put a man back on the moon! I feel like I was cheated out of the experience of hearing firsthand the account of the Apollo 11 mission to Tranqility Base.

Anyhow, just thought I'd get all sentimental for a second.

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This is.

Some people like phishing...

...As for me, I hate it.

Okay, all I have to say is that I had the dubious privilege today of being phished. I have an email account that I have used nearly every day for almost three years and I can count the number of spam emails I've received on one hand with some fingers missing. But today, I had my first encounter with phishing. For those of you who don't know what phishing is, it is basically when lowlifes send you email pretending to be from a reputable company (eBay in my case). They will tell you some story about how they have gone through a server migration or some other maintenance and they need you to click on a link and re-enter your account information "just to confirm their records." NEVER FALL FOR THIS! Your bank, or eBay, or whatever other company should keep backup records and will NEVER email you asking for "account confirmation." The only time they ever ask for account confirmation is when you just barely set up the account, and even then, any good company will not ask you to re-enter your account data. Also, a way to detect a phish is when you open the email and mouse over the link, notice the address that it points to. More often than not, it will point to some obscure IP address that has nothing to do with the actual company you do business with.

Due to the insidiousness and ingenuity of the phishers, I can see how this can turn into a very disastrous thing for those not educated to recognize phishes. Fortunately, there are tools out there to help educate people to the dangers of Internet predators. For instance, America First Credit Union has a great page devoted to helping members recognize and avoid phishing scams. Some people might say, "Well, I installed this anti-phish software. I'm safe." I say, "No you're not." The software is fallable and won't always stop threats. We can't just install some technology and then go bounding around the Internet with reckless abandon. We all need to be well educated about things around us. You don't see deer in the meadow just bounding around with "reckless abandon" just because there are trees around the meadow. No, they carefully make their way into the meadow and are constantly on the lookout for potential threats. Hopefully we can be smarter than deer.

I'm sorry for jumping up on my soapbox like that. I know that I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I deal with really stupid people all the time and with the average intelligence level of the Homo Sapiens, it's a wonder anything works in the first place. People are just stupid. They think that it's someone else's job to think for them and to protect them. They think, "Well, I have an IT department at work to take care of my computer for me. I'll be all right here at home, too." Gaaaah! That's so freaking frustrating! It's people's stupidity and ignorance that cause a general slowdown of society, complete with a lack of ingenuity for new stuff at no extra charge. Everyone who would normally be dreaming up the next big thing is stuck here dealing with stupid people's problems.

Anyhow, I'm done ranting. Just be careful of phishing scams. Be educated; know how to recognize them; know what you can do to protect yourself, and the world will be a bit smoother. You don't have to be computer experts, just educated.

ps: Try some Chai tea. It's really good and it's good for you. Word of Wisdom safe, too!
pps: Sorry about the excessively long post. I'll make it up with some short ones. :)

What a daze

link of the day: Startup Sound

Walking up Mt. Ogden on no sleep the night before... wow.

A Question Reasonably Well Answered

I've had a question now for about 10 years that has gone unanswered until today. I have wanted to know what makes adhesives work. Why does tape stick to things and why does it stick to some things better than others?

The answer that I have found for this comes from a fairly unorthodox source: a guy's website about certain types of sexual abuse. But, what he has to say is quite reasonable. It's something I had never thought of before. To my knowledge, the only question it doesn't answer is why some substances like glue are sticky when water (with many of the same physical properties as glue) is not. Hmmm. It could be related to viscosity because it seems that the more viscous a liquid is, the more sticky it is. Of course, then there's super glue which is a totally different animal -- low viscosity, high adhesion.

Check it out: Adhesives (how they work) and Friction.

I just thought I might share my newfound knowledge with everyone. I know it's geeky, but hey, I'm a geek and I am basicall obsessed with knowing how stuff works.

Backwash Boys...

Anyone who's played brass in marching band will know what backwash is. :)

*sings* "Which Backstreet Boy is gay?"

Okay, I'm done now. Well, sort of. Actually, Bye Bye Bye is by(e) that Orlando-based group, IN*STINCT. I should know because my sister was a HUGE fan, and by huge, I mean she traveled to other states (like Idaho) to see them in concert.

M'kay, I don't have a whole lot of rambling to do tonight. Just wanted to drop in and leave the only mark I'm allowed to in this band hall: a digital one. *Psycho shower scene music* Speaking of Psycho, that was the screenplay last week on the Score Station. I listened to it while I was at work.

Okay, I do have to comment on the marching band a little bit. You guys sound really good. I quite enjoyed y'all's homecoming show. It's freakin' pathetic that we don't have uniforms yet. Come on! I mean, what ever happened to the funding that the SLTrib gave us for that gig? But, aside from the uniforms, I really liked the show. Brass, please, I beg you with all the faculties of my being, get your horns up! It's such an impressive visual treat to see bell-front instruments at the proper angle of 10 degrees above level. For the most part, it was okay, but it's such a huge deal to me that I notice it quickly when it doesn't happen. Marching band is awesome. Make it known to everyone!

Fortune for the day: Great Moments in History (#7): November 23, 1915 - Pancake make-up is invented; most people continue to prefer syrup.

Take it easy!

Remember....

You can't spell slaughter without laughter.

Good day.

And another thing...

Everybody be sure to stop by the bell tower tomorrow (any time after 7:00 AM, it doesn't matter) and support the Junction City Hybrid drumline fundraiser.

That's right - any time. They'll be drumming from 7:00 AM Thursday to 7:00 AM Friday at the bell tower. If you want to make a donation, enter a prize drawing, or sponsor them, feel free. Also feel free to just enjoy the music.

And another thing...

Anybody who wants to can come on a hike of Mt. Ogden on Friday. Meet in front of the Browning Center at 8:00 AM (hey, I need my hour of sleep). Bring lunch, water, sunscreen (no, all three are not the same thing unless you want a sunburn and to be really hungry, but not so thirsty). What better way to spend fall "break".

Ok, bye.

Just one more

...and then WBHR episode 1 will have been downloaded as a podcast 250 times.

Now that's crazy.

The bell tower is improving. A while ago it was chiming the hour and there were a grand total of three (3) of the bells working. Which is one more than were working last week when I heard it (sort of) ring. And three more than were working at 12:00 am last saturday morning, according to the Diego.

Last night I saw one of the most amazing solo performances I have ever seen. A young man from not this country played a Monk piece like nobody's business. I'll try to post a video of it; the sound quality might not be that great, but I'll do it anyhow.

Congrats to Tom.com for hiring on at LOL. Lucky!

And now, I'm hungry, so I'm going to go and eat some food.

By
Bei
Buy

(no, that's not the international remix of the Hackstreet Boys song of the same name)

I've finally upgraded.....

...to GOOGLE talk.
I know there are at least three of you on gmail. If you are,
what are your addresses. You can even just send them to me
at ohsosaxy2712-at-comcast-dot-net.
On a different note(Cbb), How many flutists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One, but she'll twist it for hours to get it just right!

Bond-O

Great for car bodies, even better for your viewing pleasure. Oh, wait, that's just Bond, a.k.a. 007, License to [Thr]ill.

Actually, I'm not very familiar with Daniel Craig either, but neither was I familiar with Pierce Brosnan when he came on the scene in '95. I have certainly enjoyed his bond films (though none can match the mastery of Sean Connery.) I'm excited to see Mr. Craig in a Bond film. By the way, was that picture of him actually a scene from Dirty Harry? That handgun in HUGE! Maybe it's a Walter PPK hopped up on some kind of steroids.

As I remember, the reason that actors like David Duchovny were not used as 007 is because the studio wanted to use BRITISH actors to represent the BRITISH MI-6 superspies. They had considered some like Jude Law and Hugh Jackman, though they had declined the part. (Hugh Jackman isn't really British; he's from Australia. But then Sean Connery was actually from Scotland, both, however, part of the British Empire.) I think we ought to give Mr. Craig a reasonable go at the part. I think it'll be fun. Besides, that's all we watch 007 movies for, right? Because they're fun.

What's 007 in Roman numerals?

Probably, 00VII. So, Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. Not so sure what I think of him quite yet. He's not a huge star here, having basically only been in two films (The Road To Perdition and Layer Cake). I'm just not getting a Bond vibe from him, but I'll wait 'til I see him in action before making my final decision. What do you all think?

What's 700 in Roman Numerals?

Has the Simpson's even gone 700 episodes? They are considered a comercial and critical success. They've been on the air since 1989. Oh, wait, this isn't about the Simpsons; at least it wasn't intended to be. It's about the fact that this is the 700th episode of Band Geeks. According to the infallible (and by infallible, I mean it's powered by Google) blog counter, this is the 700th posting on this site. Yay! Good grief! This thing's only been going since February of ot'four and we've already seen the passage of 700 postings. I only wish the Simpsons had that many episodes in a year and a half.

Now, to find the first season of Lost....

Okay, I'll have to agree that Strong Bad was first-basin' it with a piece of looseleaf.

So, can anyone answer me this question: How powerful and engine, measured either in horsepower or kilowatts, does it take to move a 3500 lb vehicle from naut to 60 in 3.8 seconds? This question has been bothering me for the last two weeks. If you have an idea of how to figure that out, please let me know.

700 = DCC (in Roman Numerals)
700 = 0x2BC (in hexadecimal)
700 = 001010111100 (in binary)

Thank you.

But Silly PuTTY would...

...be so much fun.

I mean, who wouldn't think it was fun when they type ls on the Linux terminal if it didn't come back with "ls? What do you mean ls? I think you meant 'nmap -v www.whitehouse.gov' so that's what I'll do. Gol! No one cares to see a listing of their files."

So yeah, if you happen to have a copy of Silly PuTTY, I would love a copy of it. I might even pay actual money for it, which if you know me, is rare when it comes to software. (Viva Open Source!)

Okay, I'm being a geek now. I'll get back to what I was doing...

The latest

Fine, I'll fix it. Then you'll have to find a new one.

^
Random

I found out about a cool new game today. It is a great party game. It is called Defender. I don't know if you have played it. You should play it. It is fun. We should play it at the next party.

*snap*

Whoa! Party? So.... Ricky suggested we all go play laser tag on Saturday at Lazer Zone in Sunset after the fo'ball game (notice the wasatch phonetic spelling of football). 'Twill be fun. I think we should also plan a place to grab some dinner before the shooting match. That way we'll all be re-nouri-freshed and Tim will be off work and can come as well. So, how's about 7pm for tag and right-after-the-wsu-game-ish for eats. I'm thinking University Broiler and Grill or maybe Costa Vida or Grandalfo's. After the laser taggin, we can all play some fun Munchkin. I bought the expansion pack (including the Duck of Many Things, the Big Honking Sword of Character Whupping, and of course, the Big Fat Lyre).

*pans*

Now I am tired. I still have homework to do. They are almost done with the library. The batteries in my camera died. I should go home now. I am getting tired. I might repeat myself might rep...

Oh... wait.

*snap*

In other news, Andrew I have no idea what those numbers mean in your previous post, and I often leave messenger logged in and my computer on even though I may be somewhere else, so when it shows me being away a lot it's because I probably am. I try to respond to everyone who IM's me. You're not on my very short list of people I wouldn't respond to if they did IM me, so no worries. By the by, I don't get your joke about the dehydrated french-types. Is it one where it is not to be gotten or am I missing a subtle double-entendre? Then again, it is late and my thinker isn't working properly.

Ben, Jason mentioned that I see him every other day. I can deliver the sillyputty if you wish. No, Jason. Not Silly PuTTY. That would be silly.

So far WBHR episode 1 has been downloaded as a podcast 34 times. Isn't that just freaky? It's almost like there are other people out there on the Internet. I never see people on the Internet. Just a lot of letters and pictures. Hello? Can you see me typing, people on the Internet?

*pans*

So about that whole "going home now and getting some sleep" bit...

Y'know, I was going to say something...

...but now, I just forgot what I was about to say. I suppose I should really read the Harry Potter books so that I can be more "in the know" about stuff when people talk about it. Currently, I have read 1.96 Harry Potter books. I have seen 3.00 HP films, though, so I do know who the characters are.

Oh yeah, I remembered what I was going to say! I was going to say that I learned a really neat party trick. It's one of the fastest ways to empty an X-liter soda bottle. I'm sure there are faster ways than this, but I assure you that there are none more exciting. Also, if you try this, please do it outside because you will make a mess. Also, be prepared to get yourself messy, too.

The trick is to obtain a box of mentos, a test tube and an X-liter bottle of soda (2 liters work best because of the small opening in the neck.) Place the mentos in the test tube so that you can cover it completely (usually about 13 mentos.) Then, open the soda bottle and release the mentos into the soda and get away. The soda will come shooting straight up out of the bottle about 6 or 7 feet. This happens immediately after inserting the mentos. It lasts for about 3 seconds after which, you will have very little soda left in the bottle. Also of note: diet soda seems to work best. After all, no one cares if you waste that vile diet soda. :)

I saw that on iFilm.com.

I'm happy now...

...that I found my car on Google Earth.

Yeah, just thought I'd let you know. :)

To the tune of "If you're happy and you know it"

If you applied for graduation and you know it stomp your feet.

Actually, Ben, I blogged three days ago. Actually, Jessica, I did read your whole post (I read all the posts on this blog). Actually, Harvey, I need you to quit following me; people are beginning to wonder.

Actually, I have nothing to say, except that if you see me, in the near future, wearing parachute pants and a Vuarnet shirt, well then I don't know what to tell you, man.

Non-violin thoughts

Y'know, TheScooze, one of Mark Maxson's cronies really brassed me off one day.

Once upon a time a couple of years ago, I sat calmly in the sacred Band Hall minding my own business (not meditating.) Suddenly, a small bird in the form of a thought lighted upon my head. I realized that I needed to do some online banking to cover a check that I had written. Pondering the locations of the various computer labs around campus, I drew a conclusion that the Dr. Maxson's Mac lab was the closest. I would only need the computer for a couple of minutes so that I could transfer some funds in my bank account. I quickly bounded up the stairs and walked into the dark lab of moss-covered desks. There, along the center aisle, glowing with the dim glow of an LCD panel was an available computer. I glanced around and took note that the lab was nearly vacant with the exception of the computers that were permanent residents. I didn't figure that I would bother anyone if I quietly used the computer I had previously seen and then left. I needed to do so quietly, indeed, for there was a stillness in that lab that felt like a lead crystal goblet: one false move and it might break.

Quietly, I scurried to the computer and launched a web browser. I proceeded about my business of transferring the funds in my bank account. The process was going very smoothly until the lab aide (cronie) approached me and asked "Have you signed in?" To which I responded, "No, I just needed to use the internet for a minute." "Well, you need to sign in to use THESE computers." Oh, that brassed me off so badly. I can walk into virtually any computer lab on campus and use the computers provided. But such is not the case with Mr. Maxson's precious Mac lab. Oh no, I might write a small shell script to prevent Final Cut Pro from editing someone's NC-17-rated movie project.

So, the moral of this story is: Don't try to use Mark Maxson's Macs unless you are prepared to sign in and also provide a substantial amount of collateral (such as cars, homes, estates, trips to Hawaii, etc.) Hmmm, I wonder if he'd take a slightly mulled-over (as in doesn't work) 80cc Honda four-stroke. :) So no, I'm not having any violent thoughts or feelings right now, but I most certainly have earlier in the week. It's been a bit of a funk for me; dunno why, it just has been.

This entire post was written in 20 seconds using Macro Express - your Windows automation tool! :)

I love the life...

So, I have learned the lesson of never procrastinating study before a paper is due. I was so lost on the subject of our last music history paper (on a piece by Berlioz) that I didn't do so well. I got like 4 hours of bad sleep last night. Sorry if I was a tripping hazard in the hallway today. Naps are wonderful. Getting less sleep than you need is a very intersting experience, at least for me it is. I feel very weird. It's almost an out-of-body experience. I was working on our form assignment with Demya and got so looney that I made an interesting discovery. I think I will share it with you. ....... Apples are my favorite vegetable. Please don't take anything that I say tonight seriously. I'm so out of it, I just thought that I'd see what would come of me writing like this. It's fun! Although I don't recommend it. Conducting at 7am will hit me hard tomorrow. No wonder band directors are always really weird. yay!

Go ahead - ask me what day it is

That's a big 10/4, good buddy.

You only get to make that joke one day a year.

Well, we'll have to have a party soon so we can all play that great game I just bought. I tried it out with a few of my coworkers today. It's hilarious a parody on all RPGs.

In other news, our show is now on iTunes. Just search their podcast directory for Band Geek Radio, umkay?

Jason, the reason you were restless is probably because you were listening to WBHR. Andrew, way to go. The soap is all yours. We'll have to have a party to have you up or us down so's we can award you with your prize. And you're more than welcome to everyone who is enjoying the in-blog player access to the pcast.

Mr. Jones and me - we're gonna be big stars.

I have two...

...essential war cries in my life -- essential things for which I stand.

1) "Horns up!!" Of course, anyone in Marching Band knows what that it makes me crazy to see people marching with their horns lower than 10 degrees above level.

2.) "Try it out!" This one has meaning to me in that if you want to see what something does or how something works, try it out. Of course, this comes with a caveat: read the manual first before pushing buttons. Basically, I think that it behooves us to become expert in as much in life as possible. The best way to gain this expertise is to experiment and research. Google has revolutionized the way we get information. Whenever you have a question about something, go to Google, eHow, HowStuffWorks.com or any other information source and find out. What drives me crazy is when people ask me questions like "What happens if I do ....?" Gee, I don't know; try it out. This is especially vexing in the area of computers where generally you can try something out and the machine is pretty much guaranteed not to blow up or otherwise injure you. Computers are pretty tame that way. So is most everything else with the exception of nuclear reactors and band saws.

Aaah, now I feel like I have gotten that off my chest. It's been bothering me for a few days. ;)

Percussing

Just so you all know, the Jazz and Percussion concert is just around the corner. It is on October 18 at 7:30 PM (what other time do things start at the Browning Center?). I believe that we are in the choir room again, although I am not sure.
The program will consist of quite a number of rousing, joyful tunes. The Jazz Ensemble will give you some standard big band, plus a little funky latin music in there. The Percussion Ensemble will have some good "crash, boom, bang" pieces, and some melodic ones including an original composition by someone. Come treat your ears to a treat and enjoy the hitting, strumming, plucking and blowing at the concert.

Excitement!

Yay! My computer finally lets me listen to the imbedded audio and video features Jon has been putting into the blog!

I just listened to Episode 3! The answer is: only one went to Saint Ives, the old man! Yay! A bar of soap! I'm out of soap as it is. (don't come near me without a clothespin)

Jon - I tried to send you some audio files a while back, but they are just too big no matter what format I save them as. Ah, well. At least I tried. Maybe the show could have a call in segment? I could call in and you could record it? Others could also call in? Hmmmm.....

The only vice I have in life seems to be DVDs. I can't stop buying. There's too many good ones yet to come out this year.

I can't get into my class work as of late. Thank goodness fall break is this week. Maybe I'll get caught up, but probably not.

I have been meaning to update my own blog with reviews of Corpse Bride and Flight Plan. Keep checking it. They will be coming, just not sure when.

Star Wars Minatures is one of the coolest games I have ever played. It's like Epic Duels, but even bigger and more complex.

What did one dehydrated Frenchman say to the other dehydrated Frenchman? "What do we do now, Pierre?"

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New and/or improved

If you want to hear the latest WBHR episode streaming directly instead of downloading the podcast, now you can. I've embedded a player in the template for you. Yay.

Also, here's the first two for those who haven't got them yet.

Episode I


Episode II

I want pizza, Steve

The pizza place that has the cool marquiseses (pl?) is near Ogden High. Its the Pizza Runner... I think.

By the by, Jason, we need to get together so that you can get your silly puddy.

Here I am...

...can't sleep, restless, listening to WBHR.

Yeah it's 2:53 am.

Um, I think that's a fairly expensive way to determine bear type.

Does anyone have a plastic skeleton? Or maybe a spare bone one, spare 'cause I wouldn't want to take your installed /dev/skeleton.

Is that pizzaria on 12th street the one with the random political insights on the marquee?

Don't forget Swing Club Tuesday nights at 7:30 in UB Ballroom.

But, the band hall does pose a great threat to Jingles' recording equipment.

Horsepower? Torque? I have a few qu'ns about these concepts. What is meant by ft-lb? How does RPM factor in to the equ'n? Did you know that a 16-liter engine has to burn 24,000 cylinders-full of fuel per minute to generate a 1000HP output? That translates to 5 liters of gas per minute that it needs to burn along with 45,000 liters of air. Not too fuel efficient. I'll stick to my 124HP 4-popper. I get between 35 and 37mpg loafing along at 2500RPM (60mph in 4th gear). This equals 10,000 cylinders-full of fuel/air per minute. And who freakin' has a 16-liter engine? (Source: HowStuffWorks.com)

Anyhow, I'm trying to understand the physics of horsepower and torque at now 3:17am.

ps: For all of your Unix/Linux integer math: bc is where it's at. For real number Unix/Linux math: xcalc is the ticket. Or you could pull out a real calculator, but that takes away all the fun of it. I know, I'm crazy. A year of the vi editor will do that to you. You start to crave glazed donuts at weird times of the day and the User Friendly comic strip is really funny. You start to laugh at anything political because you think to yourself "If only they had the power to take over the world like I do."

Jon...

I just have to say...you never cease to amaze me. Where do you find all those weird websites? I really enjoyed the Chicken of the Sea bit. :) Oh (this is to everyone), and I haven't figured out how to listen to the band hall radio. Any hints/suggestions/ideas/clues/obvious things that I missed? I downloaded itunes, but I can't figure out how to get the html in it. Please help! I love computers, but they don't like me at all and I can never figure them out. :)

Toodles!

way-o, way-o

Let's all hear it for the Geddup Noise!

Nothing short of classic

I haven't laughed this hard in very very much time. You may want a box of tissues.

Enjoy.

Payload Delivered

I hope everyperson got a cookie and had a happy birthday.

Episode III is now finished and posted.

Here are some fun sites you might enjoy.

Striking Similarities

The good thing about being a film major: little homework, no tests. The bad thing about being a film major: papers, papers, papers all at once...

Secret Haiku

Autumn leaves turn gold Apples have fallen
Embracing twilight's decline Time's fountain run dry of dew
Feeds ground then rebirth Moments, only, hang

Like a Tyger, Tyger, over-pondering the origins of its being, I am tired and worn. The good thing about being an English major: Little homework, no tests. Bad thing about being an English major: Papers, papers, all at once.

My ultimate (double whopper) First Post!

Hey just wanna say thanks for letting me on here... I'll have fun at least.

yup I love you guys.

The Duck of Many Things

Discard any card
Gain a level
Draw two cards
Lose all Big Items you are wielding
Give a card to the player to your right
Pick up your free cookie from the Anderson locker to celebrate Jarrett's birthday
Draw another card (with a pen/pencil this time)
Laugh a little

Mazel tov, Jarrett. I picked up the cookies at 7:15am today. Everyone says thanks.

Yeah, Ben. I like the 23 entry on Wikipedia. When I read this line:

"...23, being a fairly low number, occurs often in the media, current events, and daily life."

in connection with the idea of apophenia I couldn't help but imagine the hilarious thought of some superstitious guy somewhere noticing "strange" recurrence in certain situations of the number 23,469,821,363,245,098,124,389,764,356. I mean, wouldn't that totally freak you out if you kept seeing that number in odd places? :)

Welcome, by the by, to our new bloggers, Rich and Leisel.

A ties drive? Poor poor ded cat. It must have exerciseded too much. I dig the secretive-ness, Ben.

Secret hidden secrets

Dedication excercises are the reason formalities drive.

Phew, that was fun!
Humans have 23 paired chromosomes.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_23_enigma
Scared ya didn't I?

Thanks!

Diego...that was insanely awsome! I've actually heard part of that song, and I've always wanted to know what the whole thing said. Thanks, that so made my day. :) Can I just say how much I love salted cashews?! Have a good one!

Read anything good lately?

So I started reading "The Hobbit" again at work yesterday, and as I was reading it a fellow at work showed me this little video on his computer. I just thought there might be some Bilbo Baggins fans out there, or maybe some Leonard Nimoy fans.

Dopplegangsters

In other words, on the very day upon which the Jarrett would've celebrated his birthday with us by bringing us cookies, a lone bag-piper stood in a small clump of trees by the Browning Center and played Amazing Grace, as if in tribute. I thought to myself that the coincidence was too great not to be inspired.

Two of a kind.

I take it, Jarrett, if you read this, that you have someone in your mission that has Munchkin - a game, I was sad to discover last Saturday, was not currently in stock at Hastings where one of my pals bought it. If it had been there, it would've been mine. Such the funnest game.

Okay, bye.

Engage!

Jason, we need to set up a time so that you can receive your band radio trivia prize. I never see you.

We watched Love's Labor's Lost over the weekend!
Gain two levels.
I love my wife! Gain ten levels!
Weber won again!
Gain one level.

Enough levels for me. Later! Waiter.

DUCK OF DOOM

Everyone knows you shouldn't pick up a duck in a dungeon.
Lose two levels.

Nov. 5 - End of Marching Band? Beginning of Basketball Season?
Highland Games?

Well, I just thought I ought to send some greetings today. I hope it is a wonderful day for all of you.

So, Greetings.
It's good to see you all doing well.

May the Wors be with you.

Okay, that would not...

...be the first time I have heard that conspiracy theory. But, it gets funnier every time I hear (read) it. There is no man-made technology that can affect weather that drastically so as to cause a hurricane and point it at a certain place. We can seed clouds so as to cause a rainstorm, but we can't create a hurricane and we certainly can't REDIRECT IT. Good grief! I'm about laughing my butt off just thinking about it.

As for Lost, Andrew, I really want to see it. I have been wanting to either buy it myself of borrow it and watch all the episodes. The only problem is that I can't afford it now. :( I saw a trailer for it yesterday when Kristin and I went to see Flightplan, which, by the way, was quite an entertaining flick. It has some really interesting twists to it. The ending was a bit hoaky, but the rest of the film kept we wondering. Having not seen other movies like The Lady Vanishes and The Forgotten, I had no basis to judge as many others have done; so I really enjoyed the film.

Also, according to Dr. Bob, the venerable Unix instructor on Weber State campus, the Standard Examiner stands for all that is evil in the world, that which is not extreme right-ism. :) When listening to Dr. Bob, you must always take what he says with the entire tongue in cheek.

Event of the while: Getting to sit in an F-4 Phantom and walk through a C-47 (DC-3) and a C-131.
Other event of the while: Getting to play John Williams' Midway March (albeit at 80% speed because Daryl didn't want to take it at the intended tempo.)

Why not use a knife, it would cut better?

Did you know that hurricane Katrina was caused by Japanese mafia using a russian made weather machine to get revenge for the Atom bomb. Or that's what the front page of the Standard Examiner said on Wednesday. The Standard is, like, turning into a tabloid, for gosh sakes. Sheesh.

Ahem...

To be correct, it should be "band geek" not "band nerd", there is a difference

And by the way, Lost is the coolest show ever made and you should watch it or I'll poke your eyes out with a plastic spoon.

Good News

WBHR Episode 3 is very very close to being done editingnessly.

Glaed dig.

blog of the day: can't really tell for sure

funny lyrics of the day:

Hi, this John of They Might Be Giants
and you're listening to the Frank O'Toole Radio Show on WFMU
If you're driving your car right now
We urge you to sit back, relax, close your eyes, and drive really fast

So....

I am happy to say that I am moving out within the next 24 hours. I am so excited. One of my new roomies is the wonderful Robyn Johnson. I am so beyond excited....I just don't know how much longer I can wait. Life is good...even when life at home isn't. I have a ~wonderful~ (ugh) part of Scottish Dances stuck in my head. That song is interesting. Although the whole piece together is ok, I really don't care for it much. The 3rd movement is actually very nice, though. I wish I was an oboist so I could play that beautiful melody. (just kidding...why would I want to play a dead duck???) So. I heard the wonderful persussion ensemble rehearsing today. They totally rock! GO PERCUSSIONISTS! (I wish I could hit things that well) So, I'm in a very weird mood. I'm happy about the upcoming move, but I'm recovering from a nap I had in the hallway. I fell asleep sitting up. Weird. That's all I can say. Short. Fragment. Sentences. Yay! So...ummm, I think that's about as weird as I want to get for now. I hope that I can survive the night without getting chewed out for something I couldn't control. Have a great one!
Toodles!

Guessing...guessing...

Is Nov. 5th your birthday? Is that why you're excited for that day to come?

Oh, and I wasn't really bored; I just was curious to know what 47 days was on the calendar and so I went to this date calculator web site and plugged it in. Amazing what Google can do for you!

Take two and call me in the morning.

ps: I hate hate hate Microsoft Access. Why can't they build a sensible database engine like everyone else. No! They have to be different. GAAAAAH!

Nov. 5th? Oh, that's easy.

It's just 20 days until Thanksgiving on that day. What a day to celebrate.

If you liked Hapland, you'll probably like Grow Cube.

Peace

sleep

I've noticed that even if I think I get enough sleep the night before, I am still totally wasted by 11 AM in the morning (not to be confused with 11 AM in the evening).
see what I mean??
anywho......what would this world be like if we all saw each other fourth dimensionally?
Think about it.

Unix Notes (aka Words of Dr. Bob)

Today's Unix lesson (CS3730) was about the following:

• Today's operating systems would be vastly different if the liberals were in charge.
• X-Windows is good for displaying naughty pictures to brass off the femenist Nazi liberals. Of course, any woman who sees said images and complains is automatically a femenist Nazi liberal.
  
• The X-Windows logo really means X-rated.
• Terms like client and server (which are already changed from slave and master respectively) would be different if the liberals were in charge
• According to the liberal Commie Pinkos, it's okay to kill() your child processes. That's just abortion. There's nothing wrong with that. :) (You see, in Unix/Linux/MacOS X, we don't just end tasks like in Windows. Instead, we kill processes when they get out of hand with the kill() command.)

Just thought I'd share the totally non-controversial lesson topic for today. We all got a nice laugh out of it.

47 Days??

August 3 or November 5, reckoning 47 days from today plus and minus.

Internal Rhyme

Hello everybody,
Did you see Matt Emadi?
Work is slow, but Jazz band was rather fun.
When it comes to writing, I won't be outdone!
Hava's b-day was recently, what a soiree.
Lost starts again this Wednesday. Horay!
She now sports the years of twenty.
And I give her kisses aplenty.
Ok, I'm done for now.
And give you a nod of my brow.
Laters
traitors

I think you're right

Heather-Marie, I have to agree with Andrew on this one. The important part of dealing with "impossible" roommates is to talk with them. Most problems arise in any sort of relationship because there is not enough communication. Whether it means that you draw up a formal contract or you simply talk about your disagreements, the communication must occurr. When trying to communicate your distaste or non-understanding of something, use what we call "I messages." An I message goes something like this: "I feel that you have a problem with..." You would say that instead of "You aren't doing this right..." It takes the finger pointing of the "You message" away and opens up a much more natural dialog between the two people. As soon as you start in with the "you, you, you" walls go up and no further progress is possible. With the "I message" you don't build up the walls and you simply state your position. This allows the other person to respond with less of a defense and more constructive language. The important part is simply to communicate. When I was on my mission, I had certain companions where this was easy and others where this was hard. It's something everyone has to deal with at some time in their lives.

Anyhow, on to more lively conversation....

In keeping with a newly-formed rule of not creating one of those "uber-long" posts my review of the Alpine Loop drive can be found here.

Ta ta!

Thanks...

for the input/solution/idea...whatever you want to call it. I'll see what I can do. I appreciate it!

Solution:

Heather, since becoming an RA here at the University of Utah, I have had to learn how to help people deal with impossible roommates. One of the first things I would suggest is sit down with the person and explain your concerns. Try writing out a roommate contract. A few sample concerns to have on your contract would be: garbage (who will take it out? What kind of schedule will you create?), bathroom (who cleans what and how often), "most nights I like to go to sleep by _______", guest "procedures", emotional style (do you enjoy being alone? Moods? "How will I know when you're upset?"), etc. If the conract doesn't go over well, you could always find a person to act as a mediator and set up a time when you and your roommate can both meet with the person at the same time. It is wise to not alow the mediator to be a friend (unless they are a friend to both you and your roommate and they show no bias to either party). If that doesn't work, one of you will most likely have to find a new place to live. Not sure if this is helpful, but hey, thought I'd give it a try. Best of luck and if you need anymore help, let me know.

Worms!

So...today I got yelled at for not taking out the garbage (when I was planning to do so later) and decided to go outside and call my friend to vent. While I was talking to her I found a worm. I had quite the time with it. I was brought back to my days of putting them in my pencil box (something that I shouldn't bring up) and bringing them to school. Worms are cool. They wiggle, eat dirt and well...they are physically cool. I picked up the worm and moved it to a patch of dirt. After about a half hour or so, it disappeared into the dirt. Life is full of amazing little things that make me smile... :) So...I have a question... what can someone do when they have a bad roommate and there is no way to compromise on the basic necessitites of living (ei...getting dressed in the light rather then pitch blackness, studying at night after a long day of school is over, etc...)? If anyone reads this and has any suggestions...please let me know. Having never shared a room before, I'm open to any help I can get. Have a great day!
TTFN!

Of course it was excellent.

I'm ten times the actor Cary Grant was!

*the following is supposed to be a secret message*
...at leat that's what my mom tells me.

One of the coolest things to come back!!!

I'm excited to announce that one of the greatest tv scientists is back on the air. BILL NYE!!!! He's on a new show called The Eyes of Nye. His show is on Mondays on Channel 9 (UEN) at 8pm (for all you people who don't have cable or satellite like me) and I'm not sure what channel it is on for people with cable or satellite.

Threpterophilia

That's what the Warner Bros on Animaniacs have. I saw it written on a piece of paper and decided to look it up. Dictionary.com failed, but Google (almost never) does.

Googly-moogly. That's what I get for checking the blog from the dashboard rather than the regular way. I didn't get to get in on the excitement of the secret post hunt.

quote of the day -
stress' (stres) n: the feeling of tension that arises when one's mind overrides the desire to choke the living daylights out of some JERK who desperately needs it

link of the day - firewalking.com

Today I learned more about why normalization is a good thing. Without it, querying a database can be less than a spree.

As for the movie watching itself, Jessica and Scooze should abduct each other. Jessica, I know that band is long past and that it won't benefit you in that way, but just in case your desire to be kidnapped was a general one and not specific to T/Th 12:00-1:50, that would be a good arrangement for the both of you.

As for comedies to watch, here are some of my favorites (keep in mind I like old movies as well):

Uncorked (I was introduced to this film by Jarrett)
The Court Jester
Arsenic and Old Lace (with Carey Grant, not the stage version with Andrew, although that one was probably excellent as well)
Bringing Up Baby
The Muppets' Treasure Island
Disney's Peter Pan
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
How to Steal a Million
The Big Mouth
Wallace and Grommit (any of them)

As for other movies I like besides comedies (these are among my top favorites):

To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon

As for movies that are trippy:
Alice in Wonderland (Disney or the live acting version)
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Last Unicorn
Krull
The Neverending Story

Good luck deciding. It always hurts my brain to try to pick out a movie.

well..

okay scooze maybe not...i don't want you completley confined to your room, although it will be better than being confined to my messy wizard of ozie room, i think that might just kill you, somthing i don't want to happen!!! Oh well, thanks andrew!

Here is a random quote from yours truly that will make at least Scooze laugh, i am not shure about anyone else...."Thank Allah for Budah" Ha Ha Anyway, Don Vito is the greatest fat man in the world and thank Budah for him...

Brace for end of post!!!!

Batman is the greatest! He's hanging from my chandelier in my apartment guarding it! so don't break into it! I love the secret post!

Are you Bracing? Curse You!

Some suggestions:

Not really sure what to tell you. I hate it when I have to recommend something to someone and I can't think of a single thing. Here are the comedys I own and their ratings.

1941 - PG
Austin Powers 2 - PG-13
Austin Powers 3 - PG-13
Back to the Future Trilogy - PG
Blazing Saddles - R
Ed Wood - R
Ghostbusters - PG
Gremlins - PG
Gremlins 2 - PG-13
The Incredibles - PG
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - G
MASH - R
After Hours - R
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - PG
Monty Python's Meaning of Life - R
Animal House - R
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - PG
Dr. Strangelove - PG
The Terminal - PG-13
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - PG
Young Frankenstien - PG

Maybe that will help? Anyone else have a good suggestion?

Good Morning!

So I finally posted on my blog, its nothing wonderful...I go back to Trefoil this weekend!!! Yay for going back to my home away from home!!! I need this thank heavens! It may be exactly what i need to get back on track! I need people to tell me a good movie to rent for a "date" i need something really funny, yet clean, sorta...someone (Andrew) suggest something good! Kent is gonna come over some time this week and i need a good movie to rent so we can watch a movie together...

Hope everything is going fantastic for everone!!!

Jess...its all water under the bridge, lets just forget it all.....

Yeah, get Lost!

Seriously! Get it. It's the best freakin' show of all ever...s. New season starts on the 21st. And nice secret post. What's the html code for me to get white letters?

Now everyone go read my totally awesome blog. It rocks.

Lost

Buy it, watch it, love it, crave it, .....
And how about the return of the secret post?

Dude

Jessica - you should update your website. There are quotes that have occurred that need to be shared with the band-geek world.

Whoa... got my days mixed up! I need to leave now.

I have something to say.

...And it's not a complaint at all.

In fact, it's one of the coolest things of the while. There's a great American tradition that I'm sure all of us have participated in at least once in our lives. The tradition I speak of is drinking root beer. Root beer is good. Root beer is sweet. Root beer is almost sarsaparilla. Actually, it's the other way around. Anyhow, because we as Americans tend to like our root beer, we have a wide variety of root beers to satiate our pallette. Well, this guy named Anthony has taken the time, bless his heart, to review root beer. I knew that there was quite a rainbow of different root beer flavors, but I had no idea that there were quite so many as he has reviewed on his site.

On a personal note: Ebert and Roeper at the Movies gives Howie's Root Beer two thumbs and two big toes way up! Available at Bowman's in Kaysville and various other stores in Utah.

A cape turned backwards is great for protecting your when welding.

really???

so the other day, I was minding my own business, standing on the football field at Roy High, and some guy yelled out "Chicken" or something like that, and I was like, "What's up with that?" and it scared me so much, I ran to somewhere else on the field and stood there for a while.
I hope you all enjoy my run on sentence.
Remember to always wash your ear hairs.

XML r0Xx0r2

a link of the day: G.I. Raffe (sorta like G.I. Joe, but not)

mineral of the day: Iron

tying up the loose ends of the day: The Sun, ladies and gentlemen.

What is up...

with the 400 mile long posts?

Here's a short one to break the curse.

This. Bye.

A perma-grin on my face...

I just can't stop smiling!!!! Peach days this weekend....and a pool party is in the works for the comming week..or two!

Special thanks to Jon for bringing me lunch yester of day!

here is a song for all of my best nerd buds!

"Nerd Alert"
by The Aquabats!

Well yeah, we're the freaks of nature
We're the kids that easily bruise
We're the geeks and the creatures
Outer space hillbillies from the moon

Get stupid on your time
Keep your geriatric biker fight
Diffuse the land mines I
'm alright You're Alright We're Alright

Well we both know that our day will come
The revolution has begun
So raise your fists and take a stand
With your super cool...
Super cool wrist bands!

We broke out
And now we're running crazy D
own the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
You'll never...!

We're fat, young and hungry
But we don't care
We got big old brains
Like Mexican candy
We got some complex flavor
Running up in here

So get stupid on your time
Get the bud bowl off the air
Diffuse the land mines
I'm alright
You're alright
We're alright

You know that your apathy
Became your enemy
And you did yourself in
Find out this phenomenon
Is running on and on
And we'll never give in...

We broke out
Now we're running crazy
Down the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Live...


Have a Great Day!

Squeeze Clutch, Twist Throttle, Release Clutch...

...and HOLD ON!!

Celebrate Wonderful Weirdos Day! Yay! A day made especially for band geeks! So, um, what else did the calendar in the SUB say about Wonderful Weirdos?

Jon, don't feel bad about the laptop DVD players. My laptop doesn't play DVDs at all any more. It's not that it overheats, it just doesn't like DVDs.

Flash mobbing sound fun. I think it'd be a cool thing to try sometime. Y'know if something like that were to happen when I was around, I think I would ponder upon the significance and singularity of the event, but then go about my business of the day. Oh, and I would definitely blog about it.

Quote of the day: "You must choose, but choose wisely. For as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you....He chose poorly."

Okay, so this 1337 I can take, but what really annoys me is AOL-ese. U no sumthing like ths whr the ppl jst typ and u nvr no wot ther sayin of if they evr took a class on how 2 rite of crs theres no puncttion or propr spelling and the thots go on n on w/o break and of crs theres lots of LOL and ROFL LOL and :) :) :) :) and !!!!!!!!!! wots wit dat? u no wot i mean?

Geez! That's almost as bad as nothavinganyspacesbetweenthewords. I'm sorry if I gripe about that a lot, but I get it a lot. I think that AOL and cell phones with that cursed txt feature are well on their way to destroying proper grammar. Of course, this is coming from a person who hasn't yet figured out how to use the phone directory feature on a cell phone. If I need to call someone, I need to know their number, right? Right? That's why there are numbers on the cell phones: so that I can call someone. It's really bad when I ask someone for a phone number and they're like "I don't know; I just use my cell phone to call them." Well, a lot of good that does me, eh? I'm not against technology by any means. If I were, I'd be in the wrong major. I just need some help with cell phone technology. I have such a hard time with it. As for AOL, well, I rate them up there with Microsoft and Apple in doing a bang-up job of convincing the world that there is no reason for you to know how to use a computer.

Wow, I didn't think a 4Runner could go that fast! Of course with gas at ~$300 a gallon, if I had a 4Runner, I wouldn't make it go very fast at all.

Okay, so last night, I played a concert in Huntsville (Utah, not Alabama) with the OCB. It was a decent concert, but owing to the fact that it was in Huntsville, the audience/band ratio was almost 1:1. The real fun of the concert was the drive to and from. If you've never taken 12th street up the canyon to Huntsville, you really need to. But, please, do it in a CAR not a truck. The canyon is a nice, twisty drive which will really make you wish it were longer. The speed limit is 40 which makes the twists in the road somewhat of a thrill to go around. There was one turn which was brutal at 40, but if you have a nice low-slung car with a low C/G and good tires, it's really fun. I say take a car because trucks simply don't have the performance geometry needed to take the turns accurately. There's too much body roll with a truck to make it any fun. You have to slow down too much to take the turns, which takes all the fun out of it. So, if you can use a nice car, preferrably with all-wheel independent suspension, it should be a fun ride. It's really scenic too. Be sure to take it with the windows down. Take in the smell and sound of the canyon. Last night when I went through the canyon, I passed some homes and restaurants and there was this distict smell of hickory. Thoughts of camping and outdoor recreating came to my mind and I kind of just enjoyed the moment. Next drive up for review: The Alpine Loop and Cascade Springs.

Site of the while: HowStuffWorks.com

I'll catch y'all later!

Jason

How is this thing supposed to work?

Is this thing on? *tap tap tap*

Ok, hello blogosphere!

Celebrate Wonderful Weirdos Day. I like the whiteboard in the SUB where they write what day it is. I wouldn't be aware of most days-to-celebrate otherwise.

I was highly entertained to learn about flash mobbing yesterday. I was not highly entertained to learn that the laptops you check out from the SUB will only play DVDs for so long before they heat up and the DVD player app starts freezing.

Not cool.

So today is going to be interesting. First of all, I forgot to wear my purple shirt to work like we're all supposed to on Fridays. Second of all, this week better be better than last week for work or I'll be sadness. Third of all, I still have no music to Come Sail Away which we perform tomorrow. Drat x2.

fun thing of the while: reading licence plates as if they were all intentionally written in 1337. Ah... that was a good year for licence plates. 1337. Columbus sailed the Ocean's Eleven. 0r 50|\/|37h||\|9 1||<3 7h47.

Pardon my ultra-l33t.

Imagine this scene:
You are sitting waiting for a bus downtown in some large city. The bus stop is right in front of some large public building. Suddenly, and without any warning, approximately 200 people converge on the sidewalk and steps of the building. They each produce a Twinkie, hold it aloft and chant in unison, "Long live King Richard!" They then proceed to eat their respective creme-filled sponge cake confections while spinning in a circle, and then disperse without a word.

Well. What would you do? Would you still get on the bus and just go about your business as if nothing had happened? Regardless of how you think you would react, such an occurance is entirely possible. Things like this started happening a few years ago and are only increasing in frequency. Just hope that you're ready if and when a flash flood happens near you.

wikipedia quote of the day: "Gatherings can sometimes shock people. Such activity might seem amusing and surreal, but it also might frighten people who are not aware of what is taking place."

thursday stuff

It is thursday all day long, and I decided whilst I worked in the ever popular Mac lab, that I would post a blog. Something that people should never do is schedule a 7 AM class. I feel that that is just too early.
Well, I think I will nap now......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........alright, I feel refreshed!!
Have a grand day, all.

I was afraid

that the author of one of my texts was going to be a very dry writer when he said

...we have intentionally mixed mathematical notation...and a prose phrase. This results in perfectly understandable communication; we take this liberty throughout.

However, I realized that it was not the author but the subject itself which was dry when I read the following:

Anyone who does not think that the null string is confusing has missed something. It is already a problem, and it gets worse later.

While I realize that the foregoing quotations may appear to many to be equally inane and boring, you must realized that while the subject matter of the second quote is dry, the way he wrote it is.....


Ok, for those of you still awake - on to Actually Interesting Things.

I hate computers. The laptop checkout system was down last week in the UB. Now the system is back up, but I was informed on asking about checking one out a few minutes ago that their printer - the one that makes the nice little contracts that they require you to sign before checking out a laptop - is down.

No love.

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Sometime later that evening...

You do meet the most interesting people at TNT. If any of you haven't come to it yet at least once - shame on you. It's grand fun. And speaking of meeting, I have a meeting scheduled in a few minutes between my brain and a rusty, spiked, two-handed, iron, medieval homework problem involving a logical proof dealing with palindromes. If you said "ugly" you were right on the money.

I will celebrate Fight Procrastination Day today by not waiting until it's Google Commemoration Day tomorrow to wish you happy Google Commemoration Day. I'll do it now.

quote of the day: never put off today what you can put off tomorrow
fun of the day: TNT
more fun of the day: working on FXML v. 0.1 (more on that later)
less fun of the day: homework for my CS 4110 class
leaving Lampros of the day: right about now

Computing Grand Challenge

Okay, I have the question of questions for you. I just installed MySQL (a database management system) on my Red Hat 9.0 Linux machine at home. This is a painfully slow machine (233 MHz, 128 MB RAM) but in terminal (non-GUI) mode, it's not too bad. Anyhow, after I set up MySQL, it told me in no uncertain terms that I needed to create a root user for the system. Now, I already have a root user account on my Linux machine, but I'm guessing that's not the same as root user for the database system. So, if any of you have any knowledge about setting up MySQL on a Linux box, please let me know. It's installed and everything and the daemon runs without a problem; I just need to know how to set up users.

Now on to other news that's going on in the world. On Saturday, I bought a neat movie that I hadn't seen since the mid-90s. It's a little movie called "Explorers." I really like the show because it reminds me of when I was a kid. I never flew into outer space, but would like to have done so. :)

Anyhow, so yeah, I don't have a lot to say so I shall bid you a fond farewell. Take it easy, y'all! I'll check back later!

Tootles!

my very own blog

I've decided to follow the example of those who went before me and create my own blog. It is at www.wsupercussivist.blogspot.com. As I am new at running my own blog, suggestions would be most helpful.
Also, I am very excited that today is friday. I will enjoy not having school on Monday. I still have to work, but only for four hours. Yay for that.
Just so you know, I am sometimes known to spout off odd sayings. I am taking medicine for it. Although school makes it hard to take the medicine. Does anyone know where I can get some bottled sleep?? Prefferably grape flavored.

Visual

And not just for marching band, either.

Andrew, this may interest you. On Sept. 21 for Convocations the speaker will be Camille Cellucci. She has been the Visual Effects Producer for many movies, including 2 of the 3 Matrix films and Titanic. I'm not sure what time convocations is, but if I have a class then I might just skip it to go to this.

In other news, the PCs in the UB lab have no DVD players. The DVD players on the Macs in the UB lab are admin password protected. The laptops available for checkout from the Information desk in the UB have working DVD players, but their laptop checkout system is down this week.

Foiled. Completely.

Fans of percussion and world music may enjoy this vid:

link of the day: Terry Bozzio - this guy likes to play the drums

cool of the day: that classic bouncing lines screensaver across dual 20" monitors

pleasant surprize of the day: Chartwells' biscuit sandwich is better than McD's bacon egg and cheese biscuit

wry irony of the day: Chartwells' new tagline



Hey, Jarrett!

Some good Ideas

Heita, heita magents:
1. Read my blog
2. Write me letters
arthurwheatley at m.w.e
3. Go to the temple
4. love one another
5. Keep watching for Rootisms
6. Enjoy the day.

--Kobus