The End of the World?

This is interesting. I wonder what physicists instead of reporters think about it. At least we’d know that the world will end in 2012 (4 years from now). Isn’t that the end of the Mayan calendar too? Scary…

Good motivation for the olympians

While Alex was watching the endless march of the opening ceremonies, I was surfing and came across despair.com. All I can say is that I need more of this kind of stuff at work.

If you're interested, you can make your very own here.

The NBA stole their Thunder

I was casually looking through espn and lo and behold, I saw this. It's pretty funny if you ask me.

I know... my title is puntastic.

WTS (what the smell)?

Listen to this link. It's really disturbing sounding. I can't post it here, so I'm going to give you instructions on how to get there. Go to this link to Shannon's Blog. If you look at the verification section on the lower right hand side, you'll see a little handicapped character. Click on it and be afraid like Alex and I were.

PS The Red Sox Empire is crumbling.

Worst 5 character crossovers ever

What I mean by character crossovers is the crossovers that you see like Star Trek characters from one series to the next (e.g. captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager on Star Trek: Nemesis). Get it, got it, good. This is according to me, so take it easy. Here goes:

5. Lee Majors from the Six Million Dollar Man appearing in Jake 2.0
4. Kevin Sorbo from Hercules: the Legendary Journeys appearing in Xena: The Warrior Princess
3. The Hardy Boys meet Nancy Drew
2. The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
1. Sunny from the Host meets Edward Cullen from Breaking Dawn.

Nancy Pelosi should look in the mirror to see a "total failure"

I know, politics = bad blog, but it's an election year and I don't hear about anything else, so I'm chiming in. Nancy Pelosi said, "God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States -- a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject..."

Congress last month celebrated a job approval rating of about 18%, whereas Bush is holding steady around 30%. Who's the bigger failure?

If you haven't seen this, you need to...

nothing ado

I'm still here, just no inspiration. Possibly more to come soon...

Ramsey

So I turned on the radio on Monday and heard this guy talking to a caller about debt. The guy who called said his wife has $80,000 in student loans and the guy said that he wanted to pump $2,500/ month to get it paid off in a few years, but that his wife wanted to put about $1,500/month instead because she had just graduated and wanted some time to relax. The host David Ramsey said, "She just doesn't get it. You'll end up paying that off in 10 years instead of 3. Do you know how that's going to set you back financially?"

That's when I was interested.

So I found out this guy, David Ramsey, has a few books out. I bought Total Money Makeover and I'm almost done. I am hooked. So far, I've gotten through baby step 1 (thank you federal goverment) and I'm starting the "debt snowball" on my next paycheck. I've also canceled Netflix and my newspaper subscription and I'm going to cancel our satellite subscription on June 28th. I've declared war on debt!

I've decided to keep tabs here on my blog, so we'll keep you posted.

Why else would we have "forever" stamps?

Did you ever wonder why the US postal service started doing "forever" stamps. I'll tell you why I think they did. If you read here you'll notice that they raised prices again. It's less of a headline now since we don't have to worry about getting those 1 cent stamps anymore. But you can count on this happening a lot more often in the future since they don't have pricing on the stamps anymore to remind us of what they cost us.

Iron Man? More like Terran Man

This idea looks more like Starcraft than Iron Man to me. Especially since they won't fly.

West Coast Watefronts

For anyone who frequents the link to Engrish.com you are probably aware of the typos that are going on in China. I didn't expect this to happen on foxnews.com:
Nice, eh?

I’m hunting wabbits

So, I went to see Rush this past weekend with my brother. A good concert (not as good as the last time I saw them, but good all the same) and I told my brother that as payment, I would mow his lawn 4 times. Today was the second of 4 mows. Everything was normal. As usual, I edged and weed-whacked first. Then I started up the mower.

Now before I go on, the last few times I went to my brother’s house, I’ve seen rabbits bouncing around. My brother lives in a new development area and as they expand, the rabbits scramble (that’s to be expected). What I didn’t expect was what happened when I came around on my first round. A rabbit hole with about 6 baby rabbits inside squirming around right under where the mower was sitting. I immediately got my brother’s wife and showed her the critters. They were all squirming around and looked like big worms.

So, then I called my brother. He told me to finish mowing and he’d take care of it. So, gingerly, I continued to mow, making sure there was nothing under the blades as I went through the back yard. Then as I got to the other side of the house, I turned a corner and 3 other baby rabbits (a bit older this time) jumped out of yet another hole and started bouncing all over the place. I told my brother’s wife about the new holes and finished. They’re going to have to call a trapper to get them cleared out, so that’s no fun. It made for an interesting morning though.

The Cure for the common Dancing With the Stars

It's called:

The Twilight Series. Um... no, it's not because I like the series, because I have no idea whether I do or not. It's because I don't have to watch dancing with the stars because Alex is now distracted. YAY!!!!!!

Reminiscing

I was just thinking about this picture for some strange reason that's found at BYU. Those of you who went prior to the canning of the Smith Family Living Center knew it to be in the pathway going towards the Benson building (at least, I think that's the local). That whole walkway was destroyed and the statue was moved to another area of the campus on the Southeast side as found in this picture (I don't know if there are any pictures showing it where it used to be). Anyways, this reminds me of a really funny story about the BYU newspaper. There was apparently an editorial about how the woman in the statue doesn't have a ring on her finger *gasp*. This editorial sparked an outrage and soonafter, you would see twisty ties put on the ring finger of the woman to make up for the "missing ring". People are shallow and silly sometimes.

Life in Life out

Clark and Shannon are saying hello to their new baby who was born today. Everything seems to be going really well for them. My wife and I are really happy for them. Congratulations Clark and Shannon!

On a sad note, my cousin, Matthew Tyler, just lost his baby girl today who was just 3 months old. I'm so separated from my family that I don't even know her name. I got my Aunt's telephone number and called and told her that I loved her and let her know that I was sorry. It is a terrible loss to her, my cousin and his wife.

I know, I probably shouldn't complain about this, but...

I was reading this new blog Mormon Matters and saw this:

I’ve long thought the best talks are “front-loaded” into the Saturday session to reward those dedicated souls who are willing to give up both their Saturday as well as their Sunday to participate in eight to ten hour hours of conference over the weekend. emphasis added.

Now. I think that I know what they're trying to say here when they say "dedicated souls," but here's my beef. I have to work on Saturdays and don't have a choice in the matter. Does that make me less of a good person? This is exactly what I have a problem with when people who are presumptuous that they think they know what it's like to live in reality. Okay, it's out and now I can go on living my life.

Time

Time is something I seem to have less and less of. I've taken on two major projects and have to teach a training class on Wednesday next week. The projects will probably take me, if not the rest of the month, the majority of it. I'm also on a new shift right now (12:30 to 9) and I've been trying to get as much done as possible. I do have good news. I've moved up to the rank of level 1 underwriter at my job which is a pretty big deal. I'm also starting a mentorship with a project manager in Connecticut at the home office. He was recommended to me by one of my college buddies who works at the Hartford. I'm looking forward to getting everything done so that I have more time.

"The Field"

I once had a friend that I grew up with in Oklahoma who had since moved to Orem, Utah who said that she missed OK. She then said that she missed “living in the field”. It took me a second to understand what she meant by that. When I did, it was almost insulting, if not presumptuous, to insinuate that there is no missionary work in UT to be done. I guess that’s what was meant by “Carnal Security” in the Book of Mormon.

READY... SET...

HIT YOURSELF!!!!