from the aptly-named 101zenstories.com
Everything is Best
When Banzan was walking through a market he overheard a conversation between a butcher and his customer.
"Give me the best piece of meat you have," said the customer.
"Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best."
At these words Banzan became enlightened.
I'm always happy when people put out cool toys on the web (or elsewhere).
This one's been out for quite a while, but I can't remember if I blogged it when it did come out. I haven't had much use for it, but I remembered it today as I was poking around the Adobe Labs site and thought I'd throw it up here for all y'all.
kuler
Deft: quick and skillful; adroit.
Daft: mad; crazy; foolish; stupid.
Draft: a current of air in an enclosed area.
Raft: what marooned pirates use to escape their islands.
I wonder if Jeff meant daft?
As for being married, I have been, to Jason, for almost three years now. :) I'm suspecting there may have been some confusion as to which Kristin/Kristen this is. This is Kristin, Jason's wife, not Kristen as in Vesper, who is actually soon to be married with soon being about two weeks at which time she will no longer be Kristen as in Vesper but Kristen as in Cottar ( I think).
Are we confused yet?
Jeff, I think you spelled deft correctly. I'm pretty sure it's not depht, or daeft, or even daephft.
As far as Kristin being married, well, I'll just let her tell that story. :)
(don't know if I spelled deft right or not) but did you get married Kristen? I must have missed something if that's the case.
What is everyone's plans for the summer? I can't wait for Marching band to start this year at Roy. We are going to have a very diverse staff and the band is going to have fun learning our Monty Python show. How exciting!!
Later all!
Hooray for my first blog on the band blog. It's nice not to have to log in as Jason to comment. :)
Jayce and I moved out of the apartments and into a house the beginning of March. We've been planning on doing a band party at our house from the beginning, but the time has not been ripe yet. Soon, though. :)
Sadly, we probably won't make it to the housewarming party due to a wedding the same day, but we are going to try. Hope to see y'all soon!
By the way, anyone planning on coming to the party, feel free to bring a percussion instrument and/or other musical-type instrument. I'm thinking we need a drum circle/jam session somewhere in there.
Hey Kristen, when did you move out of the apt's up here? I just realized that we got a new tenant again, and was just wondering.
Jarrett, Rael Brewer came to me the other day at work and said "Do you know Jarrett Whitley?"
I'm like "No, I know a Jarrett Wheatley." and we laughed. Jarrett, how are things in your neck of the woods, it's been a long time and I'd like to reconcile with you. Let me know. you can email me at ohsosaxy2712 {at} comcast {dot} competition
As for all, later!
So, silly me has lost the linkys to the summer games calendar, and you know, some of us folks who live down south would like to participate too. Jon, is it possible to put the link permanately in the left column, or if not, just re-send me the link and I will bookmark it. s p i e l _ f a n [AT] yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaw [dot] communism (or just yahoo). Anyhoo, thanks! And welcome to the insanity, Kristen.
Please visit jinglesthepirate dot com for official housewarming party details.
Also, a demolition derby has been added to the Summer Games calendar for this Saturday.
Also, welcome, Kristin, as an official contributor to the blog.
count me in for that.
Also news:
This sat. may 19 is the first hike of the BHSHAC triple crown, 7 am at the Browning Center. We should be able to do one of the Mt. Ogden routes by that time. There will also be a hike on Monday, the 21st, and Saturday morning, 2 June, details to follow. Ben Lomond is being considered, as is something involving timpanogos; but that's still debatable. After June 2, there will probably be a couple of others. But if I'm going to do stuff this summer, it's mostly got to be A: before 25 June or B: on Saturday nights becuase I'll be working in the Uintahs (sic) from the end of June to late August - just in time to move out before school starts! So that's the way of things.
P. S. IN case any were wondering, Harmonica Army only reached 1,000 people of the needed 1,800. They'll try again next year, I suppose. It's all good. I got a free harmonica.
That's how long it will be until The Party.
S'right, kids! The Kinneys, Robyn, the Wintertons, Tom, and Jon will be throwing down a combined housewarming party on the 22nd, right around 6pm. There will be much feasting (potluck), merriment (board games, Wii action, movies, ultimate frisbee), and general hubbub. Invite a friend, date, spouse, significant other, parole officer, complete stranger. Do I sound like a broken record? Whether I do or not, at least bring yourself. And a chair. And housewarming gifts, while not strictly prohibited, are in no way required - we'd just like to see your beaming faces and hang out with friends we haven't seen in a whiles.
So put it on your calendar. I've added it to the Summer Games cal. See you there.
As the resident Mac cultist around here, I feel the need to point out that Macs don't get trashed if you don't run windows on them. I think the problem lays in allowing that Gates-ware on the computer in the first place. If there's one thing that sucks, it's all the PC junk that is floating around out there. In using Macs almost exclusivly for the past three to four years, I have never ever experienced a problem. They're still great machines, they just need their native operating system. Anyhoo, I digress.
Happy Mother's Day!
Everybody needs a multiplicity of stuff. :) Jeff, I run a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server every day. It is a quad Itanium box with 4G of RAM and running in a RAID 5 configuration. I was even sort of involved in replacing a couple of the SCSI disk in the RAID array. It was I who first discovered that they had gone bad! :) Yeah, it's a nice server, but really for a personal machine, it's not that impressive, and ungodly loud with the fans it takes to keep it cool. Now, for me, what would be cool would be a nice, high-capacity router and switching system to route traffic on the Internet. Oh yeah, sweetness! Can I just own a telecom company?
So yeah, Jeff, congrats on everything. I think it's great that you're getting sealed. Your life will be richly blessed! I can't tell you how much Kristin and I have seen the blessings of a temple sealing. It's incredible. Good job!
Okay, so for those of you who believe that Macs are impervious to the problems of Windows machines, I refer you to the [quite] new iMac at Kristin's grandma's house. I have seen only a handful of Windows boxes that run as bad as that thing does. Between her and everyone else who uses that machine, it has tons of junk on it, just like badly infected Windows boxes. I ran 'ps -e' and 'top' to try to determine why it was running so poorly, but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. So, it is possible to hose a Mac.
Also, riding a motorcycle is so freakin' awesome! If you get the chance (or if you force the issue in my case) learn to ride. You'll not regret it. It's so awesome to be riding down the road with the rumble of the motor beneath you and the wind whipping around you and to realize that you can get a way more unobstructed view of everything than the poor saps stuck in their cars. :) Even a convertible can't match it. Now, don't get me wrong; I love cars. But motorcycling is like taking driving to a whole new level. Just a little thought. :)
Chao!
This betta be pretty freakin' impat'nt. Is the meadow on fire?
I went onto Alienware the other day to see how much I could spend, and boy, I tell you, if I was rich..........hehe!
I created basically a multi-OS server with about 3 seperate hard disks totaling 10TB of storage with 4GB of RAM each all in RAID-5 configuration. It was sweet!!!!
IF I only had $17,000!!! Anyone wanna donate to the Jeff needs a hobby fund?
I can't contain my excitement, tomorrow afternoon, I will be sealed to my family for time and all eternity!! This feeling is amazing!!!
Congrats Diego!!
Also, I must say how excited I am to have Diego working with Roy High this year and what Diego and Fig are bringing to the table there! Finally! A STABLE and COMPETENT set of Drumline advisors!!!
So, just about forty minutes ago, I picked up the keys to Tiffanie's and my new place. I am very excited to get out of the apartment that has been known to wet itself when it has been nervous. We now live in a duplex just down the street from Jon, Ben, ben, and Hava. The final move will take place on May 26th. Excitement is running through my veins right now.
