Well, I guess its time

to post again. It seems like I get two posts to everyone else's one lately. So, maybe somebody will post and ruin the trend...?

As bees in a hive

Busy, that is. Otherwise I would've read/posted sooner. Congrats on your soon to be bouncing baby boy, Ben and Hava. That'll be awesome x 10. I'm both excited and betting that I'm not nearly as excited as you guys are. Happy upcoming birthday. :)

And also speaking of busy and awesome...

Cory and Tristin took the plunge on Saturday last. More pictures to follow when I'm not on dial-up.

In other news, we all need to have a party. Like... seriously. Partying is in dire need of happening. Perhaps on a Friday evening someweek?

How come

I'm the only one that seems to post on here lately? Are we all that busy?

I am very very excited, as a matter of fact

We are calling him Ben. He'll be known as Little Ben and we already call him that endearingly. We're preparing a lot of clothes and blankets and stuff, yes. The ultrasound technician said today that he is perfect. That's what I was thinking from the beginning.

Y'know what surprises...

...me? It's the fact that you go on Sony's website looking for cassette players and with all the technology that we have today, they're still asking a premium for the cassette players. I don't have any cassette player (except for microcassette) but I have lots of tapes with cool stuff on them. So yeah, somehow I need to solve my cassette issue.

Anyhow...On to more important and pressing issues.

So Ben, you're having a boy, eh? Well congratulations!! That's awesome! Have you decided on a name yet? Have you started to put together a room for him? Are you or are you not utterly excited for this new arrival? :)

Anyhow, until I can think of more pressing issues, this has been Chunga and Mister from 101.9, The End.

It's been

almost a week since my last post, sorry guys....er....um....wait....I'm doing better than all of you! What's up with that?

It's a

BOY!!!

And in unimportant (for this country) news...

link of the outrageous: London

link of the coolness: you need speakers for this

Shin Sei

Ogden is full of fun little treasures if you know where to look. While the city isn't that much to look at on the outside, if you dig a little bit, you'll find some quite fascinating tidbits of art and culture buried under the overall lackluster appearance of the town. Gems such as El Matador restaurant on 26th Street, the old UP station at the end of 25th street, and a little place called Shin Sei just up 25th from the old Union Station.

Shin Sei is a quaint little Japanese sushi bar that has a very distict foreign appeal. The exterior of the shop doesn't shout out to the tourist or restaurant connoisseur as being a fancy foreign restaurant. However, once you cross the threshold of the entry, you are greeted by a very unique place, indeed. Kristin and I took a chance on this place Friday night and were not disappointed at all. Almost immediately after entering, we were greeted by a very nice waitress who asked us if we would like to sit at the bar or if we would like our own private room. We opted for the room. The whole time I was thinking that it would be a standard booth-style "room" where the patrons all shared a common cafeteria, just like in most non-upper-crust restaurants. Boy, was I mistaken when about two minutes later, our waitress came and up a small flight of stairs into something that reminded me of a Japanese bath house. She ushered us into a room with cane curtains and a table sitting about 8 inches off the floor. Much to my surprise, this was actually a false floor and the table was sitting in a pit where you could put your weary feet. There were no chairs to sit in. Also, the ceilings are painted with a calming sky pattern of blue with white clouds.

Once seated, we perused the menu and ordered an appetizer called the Sampler, which is in itself self-explanatory. Consisting of egg rolls, crab wonton and shrimp Tempura, this was almost a meal all its own. Next came "I Can't Believe It's Not a Volcano" which is plate of very fine salmon sushi with cream cheese and Tempura bits. Keep in mind that there are no utensils like what we Americans are accustomed to. The only utensils available are chopsticks.

The main course consisted of Tori Sake Mushi (Sake grilled chicken) for Kristin and Salt and Pepper Shrimp for me. Both plates were very tasty and prepared with a great deal of quality. The ambience and the menu selection were highly reminisscent of the restaurants in Taiwan where the Ogden Concert Band had the priviledge of visiting in December 2002. I must say, that the only negative aspect of this experience was the root beer. It tasted quite watered-down. Other than that, it was a delightful evening, perfect for a date. All main courses come with a miso soup or salad and fried rice. This combination makes for a perfect meal; one that is neither too heavy nor too light.

All in all, I will have to give this 4 and a half stars out of five. It is easily the most foreign restaurant I have ever eaten at in the United States (disregarding the little Mexican cocinas along the US/Mexico border.) Shin Sei was a delightful eatery with a flair for the exotic. So, if you're pining for a neat place to take a date (be it your spouse or your boy/girlfriend) don't hesitate to check them out. 154 25th Street in Ogden.

****(1/2) of *****

Technology - aka magic

funny link-o-theDay: Store Wars

EVERY... LAST... BLASTED... GOOD... IDEA!!!!!!!!

Every one!

New York Times tech section was pretty much all about something we'll be seeing more and more of in the future: the GeoWeb/GML/OGC and stuff like Yellow Arrow

Still not encompassing the full ubiquitous computing that is possible, but it's heading in that direction. Well well well. We shall see what we shall see.

OK, bye.

For the First of February

I totally withdrew from a class cuz it was stupid. I'm a junior in college. I've almost got my bachaelor's degree. I don't need some stupid teacher telling me to read the chapter, find three things that interested me and then write down why; do this every day and turn it in for a grade. Can you say busywork? Can you say high school? I'm a way smarter student than that. So, teacher, you just got deleted. And I don't care if you went to all that school AND are head of the department, your style of teaching IS THAT of a high school TEACHER, you are no professor to me.

Wow

Someone totally slammed China for their lack of human rights.

(The actual logo here.)

...and you turned me into a llama!

M'kay, I just noticed something here that might be a matter of confusion. There's now, in the band hall, a person by the name of RMT CTL. This person has been fairly active making posts and generally commenting on life as a band geek and as a geek of another trade. Fear not, this person is not someone new to the band hall nor is it someone hell-bent on damaging this sacred shrine. It's me, Jason. The other day, I went in and made some modifications to my profile and chose the moniker of RMT CTL (which is my dream license plate - and which I notice is still available!) So yeah, when you see RMT CTL, just think of me being controlled by a kid with a 27MHz handheld.

Would you please pass the Grey Poupon?

Aah, the nostalgia

Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we. Think back about, oh, ten years or so when there was this little computer game called Gorilla. Do you remember? Hmmm, some of you look like you've wasted more time on it than others. Well, good. I'm here to say that good ol' Micro$soft has removed the beloved QBasic program from Windows XP users. Actually, they probably did that starting with Windows 2000, but I never tried it. Anyhow, I'm here to tell you that I have the old QBasic program and Gorrilla to go along with it. Go here first to download QBasic. It's a zip archive so you'll need to extract the files to your C:\windows\system32 directory. Next, download Gorilla from here and extract it wherever you would like. I don't advertise these downloads on my Windows page of my web site because technically, QBasic is a proprietary Microsoft technology and I have said that I will not post un-free softwares on my Windows page. So, to download them, you pretty much have to link directly to them.

Once you have QBasic and Gorillas downloaded and extracted, to run Gorilla, go to a command prompt in the directory where your Gorilla.bas file is located and type 'qbasic /run gorilla.bas' without the quotes. This will launch Gorilla and you can proceed to terrorize the city with exploding bananas.

Have a lot of fun!

Hay hay, people!

Grass grass...

So, now I command you to click on the link to my blog over on the left side of this page. It's new and it's got a picture. That's all I have to say. Now do it before I break your arm or some such nonsense.

Did you see this in the news? Didn't think so. 

Vol. 11: Make & Do

If you're sitting around sometime and you're bored, try making fake blood and filming gunfight scenes.

If you really want to be left alone, be seen making fake blood.

There's never a single all-encompasing good idea in the universe. Take breathing for instance. Normally, this activity is considered a good idea. But change the venue to, say, the bottom of a swimming pool, and the good idea starts to look a little suspicious. Likewise, it can be said about an all-encompassing bad idea.

Up-date

For the total fun. I pulled my hamstring doing flips off a rock into a pool at Sherwood Hills Resort last night. And the New American Philharmonic Orchestra had a great concert, complete with flying timpani mallets. Concert tonight at 7:30 @ V.A.B. Center for anyone who wants to come. My favorite piece we're playing is Der Schvan von Tuonela. Very moving piece. And yes, that is the group's real name now, since some "American Symphony" decided they'd threaten litigation if we didn't change it. Flippin' chips, Kip!!!

Homeneo Runner? Cool.

New semester, new semester, hey-hey, new semester.

And.... THIS.

Pevek, Russia. That is the city I'm going to take over on Monday. My troops left about an hour ago and will arive around 2AM tomorrow morning. I guess they'll just chill at the city til I get to school Monday AM and give them the order to attack.

Speaking of dates, nobody better forget February 12. It is a date significant to this blog. Make sure to buy a binary teething ring for it to celebrate (not a token ring - it's database won't be able to handle that til it gets a little older).

Time for lunch.

Just totally cool, that's all. 

It ought to be an...

...Olympic sport. Okay, right about now, several things could be running through your head that might be good candidates for Olympic sports. Things like Olympic lawnmowing, or Olympic Slinky walking, or maybe even Olympic needle-in-carpet avoiding (try that with bare feet at night)... And while those are superb examples of activities to suffer from wholesale discrimination by the IOC, they are not what I have in mind for a new Olympic sport. What I'm thinking is much more far-reaching than those. This sport is truly on Olympic scale. In fact, there are no out-of-bounds because the entire cosmos is included (no, it's not Olympic starship captaining, but good idea.)

The sport I'm suggesting is Olympic 404-error finding. The person who can document the most creative 404 errors in a certain time wins. Of course, there would be a panel of judges to determine the creative content of the found 404 pages. Think about it. We all know what a IIS 404 error looks like and what a standard Apache 404 error looks like. But, sometimes, folks get really creative and put up really cool 404 errors, like this one. It has been my experience that the more creative and less "corporate" the site is, generally the 404 page will follow suit. So, I think we should have contests to see who can come up with the most 404 pages in a certain amount of time given a consistent Internet connection speed.

Just a thought.

So...I found out some cool news...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10855323/ if this link works...that probe is landing practically in my home-town backyard. If it doesn't work...here's an idea of what's happening. A probe, named Stardust, is landing after collecting about 7 years of dust and microscopic particles from comets. It is landing in Dugway Proving Grounds (where I grew up) on Sunday. It's actually not the first one (the last one crash-landed), but it's still really cool! Have a great weekend ya'll!

yay for ben

That is a very nice picture and my hat is off to you. Yes, it is true that I don't know where most of my hats are (perhaps washed away in the flood of '05), but it is still off to you.

One could waste hours...

...on this site.

I think this will have to be the site of the week: Speak 'N Spell.

Hasta luego.

Yay for Family Guy!

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as your local fence-sitter...

I have to agree that the war effort is probably more than what any of us would like to have spent. Indeed, it may be even ludicrous. But, if "experts" are saying that it will cost $2Trillion, where are they getting that figure? Do you realize that 2 trillion is 2 thousand-billion? That's a helluva lot of money. So, in all fairness, I would like to know where the figure of $2T comes from. Also, I would like to point out that while we are experiencing casualties in the war in Iraq, there are many more unseen things, good things, that are happening over there. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a big Bush supporter or pro-Republican nut-job; I just like to look at things from more than just one side of the coin. If you are also interested, I do not believe any of the stuff coming out of Michael Moore. I don't believe that man would defend his country if it were the last cause on Earth. He's just out to get one for himself. But, that's neither here nor there. Like I said before, I like to look at issues carefully before forming a decision and saying it's either all good or all bad. For instance, while the war is costing American lives, it is also bringing a new freedom to millions of Iraqi citizens, both in Iraq and abroad. We are in the process of witnessing the nation of Iraq coming from the dark, oppressive closet of a dictatorial regime into the light of democracy and freedom. Yes, it may be a large up-front cost, but if you think of the other side of the coin, you may see the global impact of a free Iraq.

Anyhow, I do not mean to start a flame war and if one starts, I will do all I can to stop it. I just like to give people the benefit of a non-biased approach. Don't we live in a society that has as one of its tenets "Innocent until proven guilty?"

We have a multi-party system in this country for checks and balances. The differing parties have the opportunity (and do take it liberally) to disagree. This keeps one party from having too much clout. When one party takes over, we have situations like what happened in Iraq, Nazi Germany, North Korea and others where there exists a government that serves itself and oppresses the people.

I did call myself a fence-sitter. This is because I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I think that each party has wonderful ideas and plans to "promote the general welfare." However, I also find that they both have tenets that I find disturbing and oppressive. So, I prefer to make decisions on a case-by-case basis and trust that someone in authority probably has a better view on something than I do. If there is something I disagree with, I try to make my opinion heard.

Anyway, take it easy! Try not to roast me too badly. I am allergic to pain, after all. :)

Everybody wants to rule the world

And I'm not talking about that one Tears For Fears song.

My most profound appologies to my fellow geeks (band, tech, or otherwise). I have been holding out on you. But it wasn't on purpose. More like on laziness. What am I talking about, you wonder? Well, I haven't let you all in on a geekret (geeky + secret). So, now, to try to mend affairs, I present to you...

*drumroll, please*

cooler link of the while: GEwar.net

Just when you thought Google Earth couldn't get any cooler, someone goes and hacks it. You will need the latest version of Earth for this. Hat's off to Luke for rev-engineering the API.

All I will say is this: when you get hooked up, post up here what your username is and I'll invite you to join our alliance (Multimedia SWAT, currently #22 thanks to the Tom).

lyrics of the day:

We're on our way
Here we go
We're gonna take over...
- The Aquabats

P.S. Did I mention I like elipses???

P.P.S. I had a fun date last Friday. And I found another favorite restaurant: Famous Dave's.

I love my schedule this semester!

I love my schedule this semester!

Let the Madness Begin!!

No, this is not a repeat of last season. It's doesn't even come with a 90-day guarantee. The most you'll get is maybe a 5-day guarantee. We're Back! School is officially in session on Monday and that means that all the madness of the world will be cobbled into a couple of days. You may have noticed that in previous semesters, we've featured lots of hard classes with a considerable amount of stress. And, oh the tests! Tests and quizzes to dull your senses. Well, this season, we thought we'd start out with a little bit of, well, just that!

So, without further ado, get your notebooks and pencils ready for a great semester of learning and application. Uh huh. It's cliche, but what else can I say?

Anyhow, I didn't want you all to go into this semester completely devoid of any amusement at all, so if you'll please direct your browser to this link and either select to download or stream the movie presented on that page, I assure you that you will be amazed. Okay, that was a long sentence so let me recap: Click here, download or stream the movie (beware, download is big), enjoy. If you download the movie, it is in mpeg format so you might need to install a software DVD player to view it. If so, go and download PowerDVD from CyberQuest. Be sure to only get the trial version.

Okay, so I just have to mention that if you're interested, I do have a copy of the Lord of the Rings Symphony for band by Johan DeMeij which you can download for your listening pleasure. If you're in Dr. Root's band program and have not yet played the LOTR symphony, stick with it and you will. He loves it and so do most of the students. You can download the symphony here. Keep in mind that this is on my personal web server in my apartment so my bandwidth (and therefore your download speed) is somewhat limited. I probably shouldn't be hosting that on my site, but it's very difficult finding a good recording of the LOTR symphony. If anyone complains about it, I will remove it. By the way, while you're on that site, you may take a listen to the Ditty Bops. I really like their music.

Anyway, the time has come to bid you all adieu. Take care and good luck this semester! I know I'm going to need it. :)

"Ferrari is like a toned down version of God" --Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear

ps: I have been in one of the above-pictured motorcars. I have a permanent place in my heart for them.

Byline

News from Jarrett's neck of the woods

And this from ours.

Getting Civilized

I've been playing Civilization 3 of late. And starting to learn Ruby.

long, geeky quote of the day:

"The Ruby developers use CVS (Concurrent Version System, freely available from http://www.cvshome.com) as their revision control system. You can check files out as an anonymous user from their archive by executing the following CVS commands:

% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.netlab.co.jp:/home/cvs
login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.netlab.co.jp)
CVS password: guest
% cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.netlab.co.jp:/home/cvs
checkout ruby

The complete source code tree, just as the developers last left it, will now be copied to a ``ruby'' subdirectory on your machine, updating your local source tree from a repository on the other side of the world. Isn't it a great time to be alive?"


Actually Jason, the Napster in that picture is on my office machine. Downloading music is okay on campus as long as it's legal. Napster didn't used to be legal, but it is now since they are no longer a p2p filesharing network client thingy. However, one of my co-workers is one of the very people that would drop said burning automobile parts on my person should I use a p2p client to start pulling ""archived"" music or movie torrents off the web. I have only ever downloaded about 2 illegal music-type songfiles in my life, which I later purchased anyway. I may be a pirate, but not that kind! :)

In other news, I hope everyone had a greatwonderful Christmas and is having an Appy New Year so far. I know I am. I am in Ithilien right now, just getting ready to leave. And I am learning all sorts of new things, like how Dreamweaver 8 uses html and xml for a lot of its functionality (hooray for customization/automation).

haha

I just rememered that the Jingles2la tagline was "3 Monkeys 10 Minutes"

Good times, good times.

A funny thing happened on the way to town the other day...

So, I was casually driving up to the Clearfield area to visit a friend and the funniest thing happened...my car somehow ended up facing traffic. Thankfully my car was off to the side of the road, but for a while there I thought that I'd be eternally stuck between the I-215 exits ramps from I-80, facing the wrong direction. Flipping a 180 on I-80 is definately not a good way to start off the new year...but hey, at least everything ended up alright. :) I think I will never drive again....at least, not in weather like that...although I think I have concluded that it was the wind, not the road. So...with that...
Happy New Year!!!!
(Good morning starshine, the earth says hello!)

A real concern

In keeping with this theme of what's wrong with this computer, my question is why do people download music onto the lab computers in the first place? What are they going to do with the music? I guess they can put it on their iPods or something, but if they're just downloading music willy-nilly, and not covering their tracks, what's the point? Even covering their tracks is difficult and somewhat pointless because you have to LOG IN to use the computers. Everything you do can be written to a log file that the sysadmins read and they can come down on you like a ton of burning tires. And, not to get too technical, but even the downloading software itself (Napster, Grokster, Kazaa, etc) generates certain types of traffic on the network that is easily recognizable to a trained network admin. When they see this type of activity, they can stop it before it really gets going. I just don't understand it. It just isn't a good thing to go messing with the University computers. Those machines are paid for by state funds and charitable donations from people and therefore should be treated with respect. Any of you who have been on missions can understand this concept.

Other than that, I think the picture looks really funny with everything named Desktop.

Ta ta!

The Problem

I think the problem is that all types of music downloading in Lampros Hall is forbidden, and yet, right there on that computer is Napster! Gasp! Shame, shame!

It looks like...

...Microsoft forgot how to label directories and so called them all the first word it could think of: Desktop. I guess, since "Desktop" is such a vital place to store everything, why not just call everything "Desktop?" No, we can't be logical and just have a '/home/[username]' directory; we have to be hard and say 'C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Desktop'. Oh, and if you're lucky like I am at work, your username has a freaking space in it! Spaces are for delimiting arguments on the command line, not for use in filenames. Gaaaaa! That's what dashes (-) and underscore characters (_) are for.

Anyhow, I digress...

If you can't tell, I'm not a Microsoft fan and I don't particularly like using Windows. It's not that Windows itself is bad, it's that it engenders bad habits of computer users such as spaces in filenames and such things. And it uses big long words as directory names such as "Documents and Settings." Instead, all user accounts should be held in either the "/usr" directory or the "/home" directory. Settings can be stored in "/etc." That's the way the inspired operating system called Linux works.

So yeah, anyone pipe up if this has happened to you. The other day, I was driving northbound on I-15 through Salt Lake City. I got to about the 4th South offramp (you know, the HOV-only offramp) and was travelling about 72 MPH. I was keeping up with the traffic very nicely, not passing anyone and not being passed. The lanes to either side were occupied as was the space in front of me. I was trying to keep my distance from the person in front of me like any good driver should, when suddenly I looked in my rearview mirror to see a Dodge Ram Gigacab pickemup truck come cruising up behind me at what must've been about 90 MPH. When I saw that, I didn't think he was going to slow down. I thought he was just going to hit me and keep on going. It really scared me. But, since I couldn't safely change lanes, I just stood my ground. He decided that wasn't good enough and so tailgated me at a very close distance, say maybe a foot if I could count myself lucky. He held that position for probably twenty or thirty seconds before quickly changing [multiple] lanes and exiting the freeway. Now, I don't drive a large car, and sometimes I drive a motorcycle, so when something like that happens, it has the potential to really get me going. I was pissed off at that dude. How dare he treat other motorists who have just as much (if not more) right to use the road as he does. Just because I don't have a 360HP V8 engine that cranks out 25tons of CFCs a year doesn't mean that I can be bullied around by people who do. I think I want to side with Rob Hilton in joining or creating a Tailgate Law Enforcement Task Force.

Basically, the idea is this: you get an old car, like a 1972 Chrysler Newport (against the rules to use in Utah demolition derbies) and drive it down the road as you normally would. However, if some jerk decides to tailgate you, you can simply climb all over the brakes and cause a collision. Of course, since it's a rear-end collision, it's the other guy's fault for following too closely. You could probably make a lot of money doing this. Now, do keep in mind that proper safety equipment must be built into or supplied with said Newport. I think it might be a fun thing to do. Anyone want to design a logo?

Anyway, on to better subjects. I had a great Christmas! It was awesome because I got to be with my family and Kristin's family and I got some super cool gifts, too. For instance, Kris got me a really cool watch and a Slinky, Jr. I also got a bunch of movies, like War of the Worlds, Madagascar, and Moulin Rouge. Plus, I got the soundtracks to Memoirs of a Geisha (absolutely beautiful score) and Far and Away (a much better score than the movie itself.) So far, I have not seen Geisha yet, but I will be seeing it soon. Kristin, on the other hand, got a really cool pen tablet for her computer as well as a DVD writer. Both of us got Christmas socks, which are undoubtedly the single most desirable gift one can receive at Christmas.

Finally, my web server received a relatively minor upgrade. Persephone, as it is called in the Schill home, went from being a Pentium/233MHz computer with 128MB of RAM (very old and limited) to an AMD Athlon/1.3GHz machine with 512MB of RAM (very quick and responsive.) This was accomplished at no charge because of the parts I just had laying around.

Tootles!

ps: I appologize for the long post, but it's been a while! :)

"...you'll be able to find out whether the car you're planning on buying is good or French." --Jeremy Clarkson

Is the problem...

all main folders are named 'desktop'? It's just a casual guess, but I found that rather odd. It gave me a good chuckle...whether or not it really is what's wrong. Thanks Jon, I needed that. :)

So...Merry Christmas (sorry it's so late in the saying, but it's better late than never) and Happy New Year to all! My Christmas was nothing spectacular, but I did get a gift that is still giving at this very moment as I'm typing. I got a cold (and a small vaccum cleaner). Yippy! j/k I'm not that crazy about it, but at least I don't have to miss school for it.

Well....umm....have a good one y'all! :)

Happy New Year!!!!

What's wrong with this picture

Honestly, I didn't Photoshop this. It actually happened to me.

Holy Space of Unupdatedness

What a decided lack of Holiday posting.

Party?

Is anyone having a new years party? If someone is having one, please tell me! I have a friend here for the holidays from florida, and we are looking for a party! thanks all!

WSU Band Union, Local 799

Hey, congrats to all the Graduatin' Folks and all the Piano Proficient folks. Where and when is the party? :)

Anyway, Ben, I need to tell you that I still have your Play Station and your games and I want to return them. The only problem is that I have no idea where to find you. What is your address? If you don't feel comfortable posting it here in this forum, please email it to me (jschill [at] wintools [dot] com.) This way, I can finally get it back to you.

Roger, Oveur.

since everyone else was

talking about their passing of the piano proficiency, I shall tell you how I did. If you would like to know, please visit my blog. Ha, ha, ha, I am soooo evvviillll.

Way2Go

Congrats scoozanne on proficienting the pinano.

quote of the day: New members are urgently needed in the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Yourself. Apply within.

event of the day: sweet graduation

song of the day: Veruca Salt from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack

what? of the day: those crazy Russians and their crazy nuclear stuff

discovery of the day: TMBG now has a podcast

hope of the day: I actually pass my classes and get my transfer credit accepted so I can graduate

Umkay, bye everyperson. I'll see you... sometime. Oh, and by the by, we need to have a huge party next week to zelebrate where all the graduatin' folks and all their friends gets together and throws back candy and soda and plays some game or other and/or watches some flick or other. Kay bye now.

Catch as catch can

Pfftshhhyeah! I'll congratulate Hava. Congratulations, Hava. I have seen what piano proficiency does to people. Nice people. It can break them. Way to go for conquering the 88-key monster.

(Not to be confused with Svarnik & Bill's smokey monster, although it is nearly as hazardous to your health.)

So... I'm taking a break. I've heard that you need breaks from intense productivity sessions once in a whiles so that you can come back from your break with renewed productivity capacity, rather than just plugging away with an ever-waning productivity capacity. It's actually productive to waste time once in a while (well, I guess then it's not exactly technically wasted, is it?)

Anyway, the reason I say that is that I'm in the middle of the last few hours of scholastic work in my career as an undergrad college student. After charging up my mp3 player, I started my musically enhanced portion of my productivity session (the actual work part was still happening at the time) with Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, mvt. 1. And yes, I really do think that the band should play the 3rd movement for commencement instead. That'd turn heads.

Last few hours!!!!!!!! (yay)

Thanks, thatBritChap. I believe Amy Koster, and Connie Ward, Jason Schill, and Wade Walton are also graduating this semester, some with Associates', some with Bachelors'.

Duck! Here comes the future! Look out!

New?

Hey y'all!

The annual musings of Brittany has been posted on my blog, if you care to read it go right ahead!
BTW, congrats to Jon, Cory, and Kristin! Graduation rocks! Someday I'll do it!

Rock on All!

Please help

Everybody totally congratulate Hava on passing piano perficiency. She needs some encouragement. Thanks.

In Excelsis

That was the best Institute Christmas show I've seen yet. It always seems to be better when there are people you know in the performing groups. But even aside from that it was still better, I think, than last years show in many ways.

Ben, I think it is a craft taken to the level of an art (as opposed to getting it down to a science). An artistic craft. (Kraft Maccoroni & Art?)

Diego, I know exactly the boat you are in with that whole "taking stuff to remain full-time". Two of my classes qualified for that distinction.

Scooze, I heard that the government is behind the X-Files. Seems they made it to cover up the fact that most of the episodes actually happened. (Just kidding. I enjoy watching the 'Files once in an X-While as well.)

.:Merry Christmas and a Happy New I'm Soooo Almost Graduating to you all:.

My definition, I guess

A craftsman is an artist, but an artist whose medium is also used for practical purposes (ie. a decorative plate, nice finished furniture, etc.).

art or craft?

That is an interesting question. In my art class we had on ongoing online discussion about what the difference is between an artist or a craftsman. There were many opinions about it. Most likely a similar thing will happen here. Already Jon says that it is art and Ben says that it is a craft. What will become of us?
Join us next time for another episode of "Something Diego learned in a class that wasn't necessary, but he took just to stay a full time student."

Correctivenessishingly

Actually Jon, that's craft, not art.

Wow

Now that's artform.

Brrrr....

It is cold outside, just in case anyone hasn't noticed. I really wish that I was a U of A Wildcat. It would be in the fifties today. If anybody wondered, I do not like the cold. It is way to cold for me, speaking of cold (whatever that means).
On another subject, I wish to say that I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas.
Until next time,
Stay warm.

Global Warming?

Actually Jason....
In my dinosaurs and fossil records class we are talking about current extinction and stuff. Evidence points to the fact that we actually haven't yet come out of our last period of glaciation yet and that the world should be colder than it is, that the atmosphere hasn't warmed up as much as it should have for all the stuff we've pumped into the atmosphere. Do you understand that if the polar ice caps melted that that would unhouse 90% of the worlds population? Not to mention the fact that with all of our cutting down of rain forests, added to all the CO2 we're injecting into our atmosphere, is causing the oxygen level of the planet to come close to going below the level of CO2. All signs have pointed to whenever that happens, there is large widespread extinction. In fact, that's probably what ended up killing all the dinosaurs. When the huge dinosaur extinction happened, it wasn't just dinosaurs, it was all animals ALL that were bigger than a certain size. The only reason mammals didn't die off too was because mammals had stayed really really small during the reign of the dinosaurs and all of a sudden the world belonged to them. Did you know that we are at a rate of extinction now that is like hundreds of species going extinct every day? as compared to 1 species going extinct every 4 years in the late 1800's? Don't scoff at global warming. Experts did a study and said that the point where the earth could sustain a certain amount of people and not have irrevocable damage done to it was around 1900. We have billions more people on the earth right now than they did then.
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I just realized something... I went on a rant! Yay for me!
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I'm done now.
Bye.

Vespa?

Princess Vespa? Italian Vespa? Ooh, actually the word vespa is Italian for wasp, which is kind of what those little motorcycle-wannabes sound like. Yep, a wasp in a coffee can. I think it's hilarious to see people all tricked out in cool biker clothes putting around on a scooter. For cryin' in the mud, folks, get a motorcycle. They're much cooler and they're sweet to ride.

But, Vespas do pretty well in the little streets in Europe. That's what they're meant to do, so I guess they accomplish their design goal.

Okay, does anyone besides me think that it is unnatually cold? And who the heck invented windshield washer fluid? Um, product improvement suggestion: make windshield washer fluid have a freezing point of oh, -200F. The washer jets on my car are totally frozen up and therefore it is very difficult to wash my windshield. But yeah, according to Mark Eubank, we had a recorded temperature of -52F in Cache Valley the other night. And those liberal environmentalists say we're having global warming. Ha! Have they stepped outside in the last week?

Anyhow, enough of my ranting. I must rave about something. My raving is about a beautiful creation of man: the de Havilland Comet 4C. This aircraft was the first commercial jetliner. Although not a commercial success (due to stress fractures in the airframe and skin) it was a very cool looking airplane. The last of these old birds were retired in the late 1970s and early 1980s, though the Royal Air Force (RAF) still flies a modified version called Nimrod which is used similarly to our Air Force AWACS planes. More aviation history coming soon.

My Mortal Enemy

I swear, computers are out to get me. I just got a wonderful new laptop a few months ago and everything was going just dandy. (back up) Well, the other day, first of all...the elevator in my appartment breaks down. Thankfully I wasn't in it, but still....I hate stairs. Second, my interent won't work. I am now confined to the computer lab, which I very much detest. I've gotten so used to using the touch pad, I hate computer mouses (mice?). So...I've called thech support and the line is down, or something. So. I feel like quoting a song that is very 'dear to my heart'...in a sarcastic way. "I love technology" Anyways. Sorry to omplain. I just can't seem to win with anything that has to do with technology.In other news, I hope all that can will be coming to the institute Christmas show (evening shows Friday and Saturday, and a Satuday matinee at 2:30pm). It is such an awesome show and the music will totally put you in the mood for Christmas. (and I'm accompanying one of the songs...and so are Alisha and Jaron...good friends they are) So, there's my little schpeeiiilll...(???)Anyways. Come, you'll have a grand time...cuz...."It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!!!!" Wow....I need to stop...I'm starting ramble on and stuff. Have a good one all ya'll (learned that one from Bro. Simon in institute yesterday).

Scripting?... !

thought of the day: Buy the best and cry once.

As for the video, you have to download the Adobe Atmosphere plug-in for Internet Explorer (sorry other-browser users) to view it. And you'll need a fast connexxion/commput'r.

I really hope that I pass my classes and graduate, then.

My apartment is really cold club

Really the only person who can join this club is Suz. But yes my apartment is so cold becuase my dumb landlord is really dumb! I also have fallen on my butt many times, i think the count is now up to 7 times i think, becuase again Kurt is stupid and doesn't know that he can buy ice melt and put it on the ice. STUPID!
Jon-i can't watch your little video, i don't know if my computer is pretty stupid or what but I would like to watch it if i can, e-mail it to me or whatever!
Anyway here's nifty website everyone will love it, at least I did because it made me smile...
http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi
Get your own Slogan, mine was Go on, get your Brittany On! I personally think its pretty cool and I am going to use it when i run for some sort of political office.

Listen to Christmas Music!
Batman Out!

Semigraphs?

If you like Star Wars you should go there.

As for the pants and shirts, I'm all for 'em.

As for homework, I'm all should be doing it right now.

So I will.

The No Service Club

If you are not in The Pants Club and The Shirt Club, forget about even trying to get into this one.

The Shirts Club

I like mine. Especially during the winter.

The Pants Club

On Katella Ave. between Long Beach and Anaheim, California, is a little place called the Pants Club. I saw this place last Thursday and thought to myself, "I need to blog that!" For one, I thought, I should be a member of the Pants Club. I mean, I wear pants. In fact, when I'm not wearing pants of some kind, I'm usually showering and one would hope that people don't wear pants while showering. Also, I found it to be such a random name for a place that it was amusing. So, for all who wear pants, the Pants Club is the cool place to be.

Okay, so with that in mind, what would non-Pants Club members be called? Sans-Pants Clubbers? Um, yeah, I don't think so, though it would be quite a sight. While I think that dresses are a very nice alternative to wearing pants, they do have some drawbacks - namely: they don't do most of the male population much good. (Now, don't even start with those Scottish kilts; I don't even want to hear about it.) Also, pants generally fill in where dresses lack in the pocket department. I mean, seriously, how do you sneak a bag of candy and a soda into a movie theatre without pockets? Eh? Eh?

So yeah, the Pants Club: A must-have for all pants-wearing people.

Well, I must report that the Disneyland 50th Anniversary Celebration is really cool. If you get a chance, go and see it. The fireworks show is absolutely amazing.

Now, to leave you with Winter Weather Tips, courtesy of Mr. Longmire.

Balrog or Trucker? Your call. 

The sweetest thing...

is eating neopolitan ice cream, at 1:30am, with a fork.

Look up, look down

Look all around

A Zeplin! Whoopee

Way to go Ricky! Congrats, and all that jazz...oh and congrats to Cory, and to Ben and Hava. This is all a million Congratulations post! Congrats to Jon for something...!

Way to go...

...Ricky!!

I think I'm going to have to side with Jon and come and see you perform sometime. That's awesome!

Good on ya!

Kickin'

Way to go Ricky!!! That's the coolest thing. I hope you guys get to do a great show. I'll have to come see y'all perform sometimes.

an equation for ya'll

Ricky + trip to Chicago = ?

anyone???????

any guesses???????





NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PHANTOM REGIMENT CONTRA LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

laters ya'll's

And no margarine neither

The reverend Adam Starkadder:
"You know how it is -- when you burn your hand on the stove, and you get some butter to ease the pain? Well, THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

Thanks

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Die Internet Explorer! 

Funny, funny, funny

Tell me if this picture doesn't make you laugh

Picture

Now, if you laughed, is it because you've seen it somewhere before? :) I love that movie!

Before everyone takes off

...I'd like to just wish y'all a happy Thanksgiving. Whatever you do, be sure to have lots of the usual Thanksgiving stuff (y'know, peanuts, broccoli, limburger cheese, and penguin.) Er, I mean don't eat that stuff (unless it is your custom to have a nicely stuffed Thanksgiving penguin. But, if you do have penguin, do think of Linus. He has defined pengins for a generation.

Anyhow, I digress...

So yes, a happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good, eh, middle-of-the-day or so.

Cheers!

Funniest list of stuff

Big Johnny Brain Jones Peachpit Bill Boone Crockett

Big Lumpy Brain Hat Flapjack Frank

Big Alfie Gum-shoe Fat-Head Crawdad Vincent

Big Flipping Cheesecake Hornpipe Tuna Boat Steve

Big Chili Corncob Hambone Stiltskin Jeff

Big Brainy Fishface Stovepipe Wiggle-Room Eileen

Big Stinky Milkmaid Sansabelt Babaloo Fly-Swatter Horse-Drawn Twinkletoe Crumbcake Macrame Chicken Potpie

Big Crabby See-Saw Quonset Hut Muttonchop Zeke

Little Pinky Fleapie Waffle-Shoe Clamhead Chris

^
from an episode of Pinky and the Brain


In other news, yes, Andrew, we will have to roll the Battlefront at a time. Aaron and I were doing a practice session yesterday on Kashyyyk. That one is harder from the Imperial side than the Rebels.

I am so very sick today. I'm supposed to go icy sk8ting in about 10 minutes, but I don't know if I'll remain upright the whole time. I was up half the night despite adding an extra blanket and then slept until 10:30 this morning. Hooray for medecines.

Okay bye.

Holy rusted metal, Batman!

What in the world of Carmen SanDiego is going on 'round these parts of the world wide web (that's the 'trip dub' to those in the know)? Sounds like some real drama on our hands. Still, it could be worse. People could be urniating on your door (like what happened to me this weekend. I just love being an RA).

I see a mega batch of congrats are in order for Cory. WTG, man! If'n I can make it, you can count on me attending the reception (I can't turn down free cake and a chance to take hillarious pictures). And another set of gianormous conga-rats to Ben and Hava and the announcement of their forthcoming Mini-Them. Can I be like an official, unofficial Uncle? Y'know? Like the one that does all the cool magic tricks and tells the cool jokes, but sadly lives all alone and doesn't seem to have much luck with the ladies? That would be really cool.

Ummm, oh yeah! Nope...lost the thought...nope, got it back!!!

Jon, sounds like you're becoming a real X-Box junkie. Welcome to the club my friend. Halo 2 and Battlefront LAN parties are THE BEST EVER!! Well, maybe not ever, but pretty darn close. I'll have to face off with you one of these days. I have gotten pretty awesome at Battlefront 2 as of late. And I have an idea for Episode 4 of WHBR. I could "call in" via Skype! That would be the coolest to be on the show and have my annoying voice be downloaded by millions upon millions of crazed fans the world over. Yes? No?

Well, have a great day kiddos and don't claw eachother's eyes out or some such nonsense. Have a totally awesome Thanksgiving break as well! Adios!

Technically speaking...

Hilarious, for those who are aware of the recent fiasco with XCP.

Also, there was an absolutely great seminar by the makers of Linspire today over at the Tech Ed building.

Tomorrow there will be Fraggle Rock going on wherein the Multimedia Department of WSU will be making other people respawn very very frequently. Halo2 and SW Battlefront II. Yay for the fun of office LAN parties.

'Kay bye.

Just a reminder

I don't mean to be negative in any way. I love you all dearly as friends, but I feel I must mention, as admin of this bloggo, that we would all do well to follow the rules of Netiquette. Please understand that I don't mean to limit what can be discussed here on this virtual band hall. I simply mean that, according to netiquette, the proper way to handle another users' violation of netiquette is to send them a private email, rather than to respond in a public forum.

I hope everyone takes this reminder in the spirit in which it was intended - that being to keep this blog what it should be: a place where we can all come and have fun. Thank you all for your consideration.

A hearty congrats...

...to the Cory! Good job on the engagement. As a representative of the marrieds, I offer my endorsement of the institution. Marriage is the best thing ever! You come home and have this really awesome feeling of security and comfort. And then there are the in-laws. If you have cool ones, then it's twice the partying (or in my case 500% of the partying.) Being married is all sorts of awesomeness.

To Ben and Hava: I think that you are very loyal in your friendship to Jessica. Friends help each other out in a pinch. They do everything in their power to make each others' lives less stressful. Had we known about Jessica's plight, I'm sure that Kristin and I could have accommodated seeing as we have a relatively unused room, too. That's what friends do. That's what loyalty is all about. So yeah, Ben and Hava, I support you. Let's be nice to each other. The world moves much more smoothly when people are nice.

Ta ta!

On loyalty

Why did I get dragged into this? Whatever did I do? But, apparently I'm a turn-coat; a disloyal friend. What? Now, I know that I have a bad habit of thinking of people only when they are around, but I'd apologize profusely to anyone making such a claim because I know its validity. However
I'd like for those of you who are patient enough to care to analyze one small incident with me. Maybe then we can decipher where the questions of loyalty lie.
Cast your thoughts back to pre-fall semester summer-time. What a great time it was to be alive. Everybody was finally bored enough with summer freedom that we were all itching to get back to school. Ben and Hava have a new apartment in Washington Terrace and Jessica and Suzanne were all set to go in on an apartment together. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Jessica has nowhere to live. There is definitely no way for her to travel from Lehi to Weber State everyday. Tell me this: was the friend that weaseled their way into Jessica's apartment loyal? Ben and Hava just happen to have an extra room, so they say to Jessica, "Come, live in our extra room free of rent." Tell me this: were Ben and Hava loyal?
By no means is it that I'm put out with Jessica living as literally our next door neighbor. But, I have no office, I have nowhere to write my stories or do my homework. With our kitchen not as of yet finished, we have one less room to store all our stuff. We can't yet decorate the room as the nursery that it'll be used for in the coming months. Not only that, but now I have to share my bathroom with TWO women!
Tell me this: where does this question of loyalty come from? Shouldn't a loyal friend help out and not make things worse? Why should I, who have been nothing but kind and giving, be called names and be accused? Why should I remain as loyal to someone that has put me out so much? What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment? Maybe if they were loyal to me, they might earn my loyalty?
Tell me what you think? I'd like to hear comments . . . that is if anybody else wants to get involved. I wouldn't blame you because I got involved without even being asked to.

On a lighter note, Dragon Sonnet #2 is forthcoming!

Dragon Sonnet #1

The Dragon's breath was hot with burning air.
It flew across the vale, bright scales of red,
The workers in the field took flight instead
Of thought of fight the Dragon's burning glare.

The leaves fell off the golden aspens fair
When through the air brown dragons swiftly sped.
The peasants at the guarded feast were fed
And failed to witness sight of its fierce head.

The third of three ferocious dragons there
Appeared and caused a panic, pure white dread.
Its fetid breath across the land was spread
And none did dare to face the deadly flare.

The Three did flee to see aquamarine,
The Harold of the Heaven Dragon Green.

I hope I start a fire with this one

I'm freaking furious about this. This morning on KSL I read the following:

"November 18th, 2005 @ 7:34am

(KSL News) Marketers of Internet pornography say a law protecting kids against indecency violates the constitution.

They've filed a lawsuit against Utah, protesting the Child Protection Registry Act.

The law allows parents of minors to sign up to keep email accounts off the lists spammers use to send inappropriate messages. Those filing the suit say the law goes overboard."

I can't cry big enough elephant tears for this. I can't believe anyone is giving these pornographers the time of day let alone hearing a lawsuit from them stating that child protection laws are unconstitutional. UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! What's freaking unconstitutional about keeping children out of the hands of sicko predators?! I understand that there are loopholes in the child protection laws stating that photos can be taken if they're not sexual in nature, but Utah plugged those holes! I'm sorry, but if it were my child involved, I'd say screw constitutionality! Those [can't repeat word on the air] are not taking pictures of my children for any reason! I don't care if it's sexual or not because anything can be misconstrued to be sexual. Gol! I can't believe this. I hope this case gets tossed out on it's little snub nose.

Awesome (*spoiler*)... er, I mean (*long post*)

There are several things that are awesome of late.

Accuse me of presentism if you will, but I don't think the US would cover up a meltdown if one happened. On the other hand, there were those nuclear tests back in the day out in the west desert the dangers of which our government was decidedly irresponsible about. Jason, I'm glad you posted that link to Wormwood. Sobering and good to be aware of. I knew of the incident but the extent and awful reality of it is driven home by the gal's drives through the area.

Hmm... what else inspires awe? Well, just about any time there's demandage avec succès. N'est pas, Msr. Ben le Roi?

Also, along similar lines, I'm so totally going to see that Potter guy in that one movie tonight. I'm sorry BrittChap, about not going with y'all's group at 12:01 this morning, but the tickets for the midnight showings were all gone by the time I got over there to make the purchase.

And speaking of purchases and awesome, that Harry Potter ticket purchase is the last purchase I will make at the Newgate Mall until the mall starts regulating the advertising content of its stores (or the stores take responsibility for their own advertising). Yes, friends - that's right. It's boycott time. See, I was given a flier by a young lady who was a part of the boycott the other while and I figgur'd it was a good cause and that I'd join up. It's good to see people not sitting down and taking such stuff without making a peep. What am I off about, you might ask? Well, it all began when Victoria's Secret decided to display (according to the flier I recieved and the MSNBC story that covered the issue nationally) nearly nude mannequins in overtly sexual poses. Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying we should go around taking away peoples' moral agency. Unless of course their use of freedom of choice enfringes on the right of those who want to walk through the public areas of the mall without being presented with that kind of material (or parents who want to take their kids there or let their kids hang out there with their friends). I'm a libertarian in the sense that I think people should be allowed to pretty much do what they want as long as it doesn't enfringe on basic ethical principles or tread on the rights of others. And there's nothing wrong with using boycotting as a way to get your opinion across. That said, if there's anyone else who cares to join me, I'll be delivering notices to the mall's stores' managers letting them know of the movement and encouraging them to work with the mall management to develop a decency policy.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

Today is Friday. Again: awesome.

More later.

I'm getting totally...

...LOST!

Okay, so I agree with InvadeCanada, but I do have a bit of a different strategy for pulling off that feat. I can't help but notice that the author of InvadeCanada gets all hot and bothered about the North Pole and Santa Claus living in Canada, but later in his final scheme of overtaking the precious tundra, you will notice that the North Pole is still outside of the newly-formed state of Canada. Why don't we just go in there and take all of it? In fact, why stop at the North Pole? Why not continue over the top and take over Greenland and continue on to Russia? Of course, we could leave the area surrounding Chernobyl untouched and leave that to biker chicks. Actually, the aforementioned biker chick website is absolutely fascinating if you are interested in ghost towns, namely the highly radioactive ones. And if you have never heard of Chernobyl, shame on you. It's a town in the former U.S.S.R. where a nuclear reactor had a major meltdown and fire in 1986. The resulting radiation leak posioned lands as far away as Switzerland.

Wow, that was a digression. I first went from talking about taking over Canada to a short history of Chernobyl. Gee, what'll come up next?

An update...

So, I finally got some quarters (the machine works now). Yay! But in my last attempt to do my laundry, the machines were all full and had a long wait. Is there a major conspiracy to keep me from doing my laundry? Help!

Takeover

Canada

Oops - jy het dit gebreek

1. New pics are up.
2. An analogy from a 6-yr old here in Alberton:
Missionaries are like firemen. They save people. But the water they spray is the Book of Mormon.

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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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