They don't make them like they used to...thank goodness!

Came across this video today and it shocked me a little. I used to (up until 5 minutes ago) that these older cars were so solid that they'd perform better in a crash.

This is a video of a 2009 Chevy Malibu crashing into a 1959 Bel Air.

Though I think we overdo it on safety laws in this country, this video illustrates that the overcorrection is worth it (to me anyway).

Baby Instructions....

I spent a bit of time with my sisters amazing triplets recently. I wanted to make sure I was doing things right. It's been nearly 10 years since I had a baby in the house, and I wasn't at home much back then. My amazing wife did nearly all of the work.

I looked up some how-to's and came across this: Baby Instructions

I found it to be simple and to the point and was able to make a few adjustments to my baby handling techniques. Everyone have a look. . . especially if you'll be around babies anytime soon. You probably forgot some of these basics.

Click the link to see all of them...but here are a few of my favorites.






Note: These images belong to the site linked above. I've written them asking for permission to post them along with the link. I do not recommend looking at any other parts of that site as I can not vouch for their appropriateness.

My reunion on DCI 's DC-eye

The little reunion I helped organize made it to dci.org's DC-eye fan-submitted photos.

Kinda fun. I'm there on the upper right. Here is the DC-eye entry. Here is our little facebook group. This was an epic and unforgettable reunion and night. One of our own even got engaged at the show!

I'm gonna come for juuuu...I'm gonna kill juuuu...

Oh hi morty, hows it goin'?

Website: ThatWillBuffOut.com

This is another great site.  "Great" meaning "A nice mix of Funny and Sad."  Check it out.

http://thatwillbuffout.com/

xo

A great Rube Goldberg

I've always loved these contraptions. This one is particularly well done.


Best Rube Goldberg Ever - Watch more Funny Videos

xo

Do you winterize?

It's cold now, which I love. However, I have learned by sad experience that when it gets cold, it gets snowy, icy and unforgiving. It's time to Winterize. (btw, that title is a paraphrase from Oceans 11. Say it with a southern accent.) Our houses are probably pretty well winterized without much effort. Maybe cover your spigots and empty the water from your PVC sprinkling system pipes. But what about your car? Is it winterized?

A few years ago we were ill-equipped for where we lived and found ourselves not able to either get home or retrieve our son from school on 3 occasions. On one such adventure, the possibility of spending the night in the car did not seem too far fetched. In most cases, we were rescued by someone with a suitable vehicle. (Remember this?)

Granted, that may have been the best (worst?) winter in years, and this year will probably be nothing like it. But...an ounce of prevention and all that.

So here is a list of stuff that you can tro in your car right now. Do it. Even if you get half of this stuff in there you'll feel better...I promise.

Check your spare. You don't wanted to be stranded in the snow without one, or with a flat one.



Gloves. Might be the most important thing. Ever tried to change a spare during a storm without gloves? The possibilities for misery and profanities are endless.


If you go anywhere during the winter without one of these, you're fired. Sure, you're just driving to the store or church...but when something happens and you are walking 1/4 mile home without a coat, you'll question your sanity.


Don't drive with snow on your car. I don't care how cold it is...brush it off. It not only blinds you, but also the people behind you. I have the scraper pictured and it's the best. If you have your gloves and coat with you, this job is actually fun.


A small collapsible shovel (or any shovel) is a must. You can usually dig your car out from being stuck in 5 or 10 minutes, instead of waiting 2 hours for rescue.


I bought these snow chains for our cars. Now when it shows and looks dangerous I am giddy with anticipation. My little rear-wheel drive is a rad (a nighmare) in the snow. But when I add these chains to the back tires, and use the shovel to fill the bed with snow? Forget it. It handles as surely as our 4wd truck. Night and day. Here they are.

Blankets. Emergency or otherwise. If you're stuck in the car for a few hours, you'll be glad you have this (especially if you don't have your coat/gloves).

Snacks. Toss one of your families 72 hours kits in the trunk. When you're in the we-may-be-in-this-car-for-the-next-8-hours mode, you (and your kids) will be glad you have this.

Don't put a gas pump in your trunk, but do keep your car at least 1/2 full all the time. One bad accident on the winter road can turn your 10 minute errand into a 2 hour standstill. If you're near the E when that happens, you're hosed.

Our Governermn recently announced this website about winterizing stuff. Check it out. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/wxsafety/winterweatherpreparedness.html

To paraphrase Auto-Tune-the-news... driving in winter can turn and LOL...into a great big OMG.

Don't wait..stock up your cars. Someday you'll thank yourself.

Website: There I Fixed It...

This is the best website I've seen in sometime. I think it's has even topped the people of walmart in time-wasting-potential. The photos are great, the solutions are amazing and the titles/cutlines are witty.

Here is the link: There I Fixed It.

An example of the hilarity/awesomeness. My reactions swing evenly between "What in the double H..." and "..(nodding)..Not bad..." (Photo used without permission...I sent an email requesting it...)

For the record, I love any entry that involves zip ties. This one, for example. Or this one.

And I am pretty sure my dad pulled of something very similar to this.

I've been guilty of this, more than once.

Also, when I lived in Indiana I visited several places just like this. (While I may have been exaggerating about most of the links above...this one is true. Here is one such place I've actually been. I've spoken with the guy pictured there. I gave him $2.)

Enjoy that site. Stuff like this makes the craziness all around us bearable.

A tractor tire...forget about it

If you somehow needed another reason to love and be amazed by Les Schwab tire centers, here it is.

Who else can replace a tractor tire? And free popcorn and cable news while you wait.

I wish I was half the man Les Schwab tire center is.

Bitterness ref on TV...

My dude Zack, part of our close-knit UofU 'Team Bitterness' is an up-and-coming football ref in San Diego. Recently he was on TV in one of the High School sports highlights during a news segment. It's easily the most exciting thing I've seen on TV ever. No question.

He's the ref signaling the touch-down during the last two plays on this video. Awesome!



Forgetaboutit.

How to service a bottle jack...

I wrote a sort of how-to on my wiki:

http://themdg.org/wiki/how_to_service_a_bottle_jack

It's about how to repair a hydraulic bottle jack. I bet it works for a hydraulic floor jack too.

Anyway...just throwing that out there.

DCI 2009 post season wrap up...

I had a million posts I never wrote about the 2009 DCI season, but neglected them all. This will have to serve. Here is a screen shot from my favorite dci score checker website, dciscores.com.

It's large, but I think the guys running site do a fantastic job, and their artwork is a bit looked over. So, use it for your desktop for a while, and visit their site a few times.

Here are the top 12 for 2009. A fantastic year for Drum Corps.


Some Highlights and Lowlights:

• Crown! Talk about an up-and-comer. The new kids on the block Carolina Crown continued their upward sprint in the DCI world, landing in an unprecedented 2nd place. Look at their placement from 1992 to 2009: 16, 10, 7, 7, 8, 6, 4, 2. In a word...unstopable. Their past 3 shows have been among my all time favorites.
  
• Troopers (from Casper, WY), one of Americas longest running corps is back in the top 12. (Everyone performs for Quarterfinals, top 18 for Semis and top 12 for Finals.) Troopers haven't been in the Finals for 23 years. Their show was fantastic (West Side Story), and it's nice to see them doing to great this year.
• Vanguard. The Santa Clara Vanguard took 5th place. A bit lower than I'd have liked after seeing their show and warmups several times. Glad to see them in 6th or above though...means they get to keep their director another year. This year also marked the return of J.W. Koester as Tour Director. It's been far too long since J.W.'s been involved with the Vanguard. Welcome back, and please stay!
• Phantom Regiment, what happened? You amazed us last year with your last-second victory over Blue Devils on Finals Night. Give me chills to recall it. Your 2009 show was great, but the scores were not in your favor. Maybe because you lost J.W. Koester this year? Either way...I'm looking forward to what you bring next year. You're one of the most consistently entertaining corps out there. Keep it up.
• Cadets...Thank You! It was so nice to see a normal Holy Name Cadets show this year. After several years of shows being dominated by controversial in-show amplified narration, and NPR like feel-good political correctness, it's nice to have our inside-the-box Cadets back. And what better way to reward your loyal fans than with the old standby, West Side Story.
  
• Blue Devils. I'd really like to know...is it easy for them to win this much? Their 09 show was good. No one could really touch them, as usual. With an impressive lead for Finals (and with their counterpart Blue Devils B corps already winning the Open Class finals), they swept up their 13th Championship with relative ease. Watch out for Crown next year though...they're hungry.

A great year for Drum Corps. Still too much synch and otherwise amplified sound coming from the field. That's a tick if I ever heard one. I didn't cover them here much, but have a look at the open class scores too. So many good corps there. And signup for the DCI Fan Network to view/listen to past shows. (Or come over, and we'll watch them at my place.)

I have a project in the works dealing with past and future DCI scores. It's ambitious, and has some good potential. Stay tuned for that. Or email me if you want to help. Keywords: DCI Scores, Database, Charts/Graphs, PHP, MySQL, Flex. It's a work in progress...it may never be finished.

KNRS on FM...

Good news for talk radio listeners. KNRS (570 am) has made the move to FM. You'll find Lonsberry, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and Ramsey on there, not to mention Noory. You can keep Laura. With a growing number of devices featuring FM-only receivers (like my phone), it's nice to have an FM choice besides the increasingly annoying KSL. I can finally dial my listening time on that one down to zero.

The only downer I see is that KNRS is turning off their AM presence soon. Some AM stations come in stronger in remote areas than FM stations. We are gaining some clarity, but could lose some coverage. With stations moving to FM, will AM become a thing of the past (or has it already?)...a place where only strange local stations and foreign music can be found?

This weekend, as I tooled around the Heber and Wasatch valleys on a photo shoot, I found an AM station that was nothing but a guy with a monotone mechanized robot voice repeating cliches, movie lines, and song lyrics along with an occasional announcement of when his CD would be released. I listened for an hour, memorized. Come on...that's good radio. Lets not take that away.

Anyway, give KNRS a listen. It's a nice alternative to the "hey KSL...the early 90's called...they want their broadcasting style back" station on the FM "dial".

<-- Matt

Found this sticky-note in the office today.

Not sure what message the artist is trying to get across.

Unless the arrow is supposed to be an actual arrow.... (gulp)

[Sarcasm Warning] This dude needs our help...

Received this email today. I've highlighted my favorite parts...some of which I will now be using as part of my every day speech. Enjoy, and don't laugh so hard that it takes off your life.

My name is Mr Larry Eze.

I am 75yrs old of age, I stay in New York city USA. i am a good Merchant, i have several Industrial company and good share in various Banks in the world. I spend all my life on investment and corporate business. All the way i lost my Wife and two beautiful kids in fatal accident that occur in November 5th 2008. i am a very greedy man with all cost i dont know much and care about people, since when i have an experience of my lovely ones i felt weak.i found it difficult to sleep and give rest.

Later in the year 2006 February i was sent a letter of medical check up, as my personal doctor testify that i have a lung cancer, which can easily take off my life soon. i found it uneasy to survive myself, because a lot of investment cannot be run and manage by me again.i quickly call up a pastor/prophet to give me positive thinking on this solution, as my adviser.He minister to me to share my property ,wealth, to Motherless baby/orphanage homes/people that need money for survivor both student that needs money/business woman and man for their investment for future rising.

So therefore i am writing this letter to people who are really need help from me both student in college, to contact me urgently so that i can make available preparation on that.especially women of the day, who are divorced by their husband, why they cannot survive the mist of feeding their self.

Please contact me to stop weeping, probably let me know what you really need the money for, and if you can still help me to distribute money to nearest orphanages homes near your town. Now that i am so much with GOD, am now born again.May the lord bless you, as you reach me.send me a reply to this email [redacted].

Thanks and God Bless.
Mr Larry Eze.

An apology to the 2009 Blue Devils

Dear 2009 Blue Devils drum corps:

I wanted to thank you for allowing me to attend your rehearsal tonight at American Fork High School in American Fork, Utah. I am an avid fan and listen to past BD recordings daily.

I want to express my complete embarrassment and apologize for the behavior of the crowd that amassed as you rehearsed. I've never been included in a more rude group of people. They were loud, critical, and inconsiderate. I believe that many of them were actually using you as babysitters. I saw 10 or 20 small children running around banging on bleachers and screaming as they slid down railings while their parents poked away at their iphones or gabbed loudly with their friends. Send them a bill.

I was mortified when more than once, your staff was unable to communicate with corps members or other staff members due to the ridiculous sound level coming from the stands.

I want to assure you that we're not all like this. Sadly, many people from the particular part of the particular valley in which you were rehearsing believe they "know better" when it comes to all things marching. They don't.

I hope you were able to get some work done, despite the pearl casting.

Good luck tomorrow night. We're looking forward to the performance.

Matt







Shame on you, American Fork. Show some respect, and stay home next time.

Happiness

Thank you, 2009 Vanguard. I heard warmup performed live in Portland on Friday and cried.

This was recorded in Walnut Grove, CA on 6/20/2009. Thank you to r0nej00. Vangaurd has a chance this year. This is why I love summer the most.

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If you have any suggestions to help us reduce the excess suck from this web area, please leave a comment (properly punctuated of course.)

This outage applies to all TheMdg services including: this website-log, mp3 player, drum corps files, photos etc.

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May Challenge 9: "Totally Huge Guy"

May Challenge 9

"Totally Huge Guy"

May Challenge 8: Spontaneous

May Challenge 8

"Spontaneous"

May Challenge 7: "Cold one"

Today's Challenge Entry

"Cold One"

May Challenge 6: "Sick"

Todays challenge Entry:

"Sick"

May Challenge 5: "Passionate about my hobby"

Todays challenge Entry:

"Passionate about my hobby"

May Challenge 4 - "Looking for Help"

Todays challenge Entry:

"Looking for help"

May Challenge 3 - "Why my neighbors do not like renters."

This is in response to a challenge by our dear Niece who is a gifted photographer, I'm taking/posting as many photos as I can in May. Here is Todays:

"Why my neighbors do not like renters."

May Challenge 2 - "Just to see..."

This is in response to a challenge by our dear Niece who is a gifted photographer, I'm taking/posting as many photos as I can in May. Here is Todays:

"Just to see..."

May Challenge 1 - "Treasures of an 8-year-old"

This is in response to a challenge by our dear Niece who is a gifted photographer, I'm taking/posting as many photos as I can in May. Here is Todays:

"Treasures of an 8-year-old"

Thank you Miss California...

Thank you Miss California. I'm sure everyone has read about her statement, but I liked it and agree with her and wanted to give it a bit more exposure. I blocked out the name of her "judge." I think that even talking about these people by name to complain about them helps their cause. I'm sure the media will be relentless in tearing her personal life and associations down over the next few months.


I wanted to comment on one statement from the article that opposes Miss Prejean. We should always leave our politics and religion out of the things we stand for. As we all know, Americans are neither religious nor political. When stating our values and beliefs, we should only recite things that every single person in the US wants to hear. I suggest using the back of a cereal box as study material for this. I think we can all agree that Cheerios do indeed have 12% of your daily fiber. (the crowd goes wild.)

How to Quit classmates.com

I've tried to unsubscribe from their "Someone signed your guestbook, and for $40/month (or whatever it is) you can find out who" emails 10's of times, but it never seems to take.

They don't make finding this link easy, but today I found out how to remove your membership from classmates.com. I doubt the emails will stop, but it's a step in the right direction.

• Log in to your classmates.com account.
• Go to this URl: http://www.classmates.com/cmo/user/remove/;jsessionid=T5LWEOHHKE3MGCQKWZSSRUQ?_requestid=592513
• Click a few confirmations and you're out.
• Then just setup a rule to junk all their email. (I mean, if you don't want their email.)

Who needs classmates.com when facebook is just as dumb, and costs nothing.

Re: A comment about your latest Earth-friendly email ad...

A reply from ING direct:

Matthew,

We appreciate your feedback! Your suggestion will be forwarded to the appropriate area for review. As always, we will continue to keep Customers informed of news through statements, emails, Bright Spots and the ING DIRECT web site. Stay tuned and remember, Save Your Money.

Regards,
Lesly Watts
Ombudsman

---------------------

A reply from ZAGG (invisishield) to a similar letter.

Matt,
Wow, I really appreciate your email and your passion. I can see where you are coming from and frankly didn't see our perspective as anti-God whatsoever. I actually agree with your religious perspective and we're just trying to do our part to make this great planet a cleaner and better place to live...for many generations.

Thanks for the feedback and know we looked at this as an opportunity to let our customers know that we also care. And we do try to do our part.

I'm not extreme and we can't change the whole world, but we can change our circle of influence.

Thanks again for your patronage and I hope we can give you offers of conveneience and innovation that will continue to make you happy you chose
ZAGG!

Best to you Matt.

Robert

A comment about your latest Earth-friendly email ad...

Dear ING Direct:

I'm a happy customer of more than 5 years.  I received your latest
email marketing piece with the subject "Do you part with Electric
Orange."  I wanted to register my dislike for the exploitation and
overuse of the word "Green" in connection with the idea of "Saving the
Earth."

In the past few years, seeing "Green" on anything simply means "We
want your business but now our customers are secondary to our
environmental image" as companies cache in the made-up frenzy about
the environment.  I'm sad that ING Direct has joined in and is now
aiming this propaganda at it's own clients.

It's arrogant for us to believe we can save the Earth or for that
matter, that the Earth needs saving!  Believing such a thing only
denies the power of God and the fact that He created the earth for a
specific purpose (for us!) and is still running things.  He knows what
the Earth needs and He knows what we need.  The ridiculous and
not-as-popular-as-people-think belief that the Earth is ours to save
suggests that we as a human race are as powerful as God, and that we
can make decisions that effect the planet and it's future.  What do
the "top US Scientists" call it now?  Geoengineering.   Laughable.

Don't get me wrong...I don't want trash in my neighborhood and I'm all
for putting litter in it's place.  But I won't be bullied into
thinking that subscribing to the printed newspaper (gasp...the "P"
word), driving my fossil fuel burning car to the store, running my
air-conditioner in the summer, or sending a written letter makes me an
"eco-criminal."

Please reconsider your stance on the false yet politically correct
idea that your company can or needs to do anything to "Save" the
Earth.  I'd be much more interested in the new services you've
advertised if they were offered in the name of convienience.  How
refreshing it would be to be sold a service because it's good for the
customer, instead of less-bad for the Environment.

Sincerely,
Matt Graham

copied to:
marketing@ingdirect.com
mediarelations@ingdirect.com
ombudsman@ingdirect.com
weblog post at themdg.org

Dear Gov. Hunstman: Working4Utah is lame.

Dear Governer Hunstman:

I'm writing you to express my opinion about your Working4Utah initiative. In a word, it's lame. Totally lame complete.

I know you thought you were saving the planet by turning off lights and air conditioners and coffee makers for one day of the week. Turns out that you not only turned off the lights, you turned off the whole State of Utah! Thanks to our complete dependence on our competent state employees (the last three words are the only ones in this letter that aren't laced with bitterness and sarcasm. I think our employees are great!), we can only function for a little more than half the week. Open for 4 days (unless there is a federal holiday of which there are many), and closed for 3. What with our abundance of national parks and out-doorsy things to do in Utah...we should really be a part-time-state anyway. Beehive State...pfft.

I know one of the main reasons to close Utah on Fridays was to save howevermanymillions of dollars and maybe it is. But guess what...it's losing us money. I can chalk up a couple thousand to this "program" by myself this year. I bet if we add it all up, you're in the red for this one.

The problem is...we can't do important things now for half of the week, and sometimes it's impossible to plan ahead. Want to get a city inspection, or get a permit signed, or get your water turned on? Please wait 4 days. Need a drivers license? Need to setup your Corporation. Need to attend traffic school? Please wait 4 days.

I bet it was hard to fit so many buzzwords on your logo without mentioning the people you work for. Yoohoo...remember us? Citizens of Utah? We're your customers, not a nusiance.

In closing...I'm unhappy that you're jumping on the earth-is-more-important-than-the-people-living-on-it bandwagon. Please either open the State again on Fridays, or at least open the office doors so we can come and process our own paperwork, and wait in our own lines while your off recovering from your tough 4-day work week.

Sincerely,
SickOfIt

Blogger says I can post from a text message. I am trying it out. Is there anything Google can't do?

Mad Scientist says that Sun is Enemy...

Global warming...err I mean Global Climate Change (didn't we used to call that "Seasons" in the olden days? Funny how innocent we were back then) feels to me like the new version of the 1938 Orson Wells radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. Only this time, it's slowed waydown and it's less entertaining.

Until today! This article took my speechlessness to a new level. I wouldn't have anything to say to someone like this. Well, I might be able to come up with a few clarification questions...just so I'm getting it right. (Article from the Utah Daily Herald, 4/4/09, section A2)

Below is the article, and a few of my favorite clips, along with my follow up questions/comments.












Me: "Ok so...Um... So you want to... Sorry, I'm usually not like this. It just sounds silly to say but you want to... block...the sun?

Wait... that does make good sense. I mean..it's hot in the sun sometimes! And it's not-as-hot in the shade. Like at a picnic! So if the whole planet was in the shade....yeah...I see where you're going with this. Pass the watermelon"



Holdren followed this statement with "...But think how awesome the launch would be! Dude. "












Me: "No Duh... Everyone knows this no-brainer. Basically, if nothing works, we'll just use geoengineering and create a new earth."

Editors Note: If your spell check doesn't know a word like "geoengineering" it means that either 1) it's not a real thing, or 2) only God can do it.



Me: "Yes... No I just wanted to say... I am not a Noble laureate, and I hate to downplay your fake plastic trees idea because it's awesome...it really is! But don't actual trees already do this?

Oh wait I understand now... these geoengineered trees would be the same as real trees, except they woudln't release Oxygen! Brilliant...Stunningly Brilliant. I'm glad you're our top science guy."

Editors note: "Geoengineered" passes the spell check, but not "geoengineering." So I think you can have BEEN a geoengineer, but you cannot BE one. Again... Only for God.




This scene from the reality show "The Simpsons" proves to us that we humans, an amazement of evolution to being with, are yet capable of rediculously awesome earth-saving measures. THIS is the new red button, and is something that Mr Holdren reportedly refers to as "[his] precious."

I think Mr. Holdren and I would agree on one thing. The time has come to panic.

Cinnamon Rolls

Just thought I'd post this recipe since it seems to be popular. I've probably made these 50 times. (It's really all I can make, so I use them for all parties etc.)

Tips:

Don't overdo the brown sugar: I sometimes have a tendency to overdo it with the brown sugar. Get it on there nice and thin so it sweetens the rolls, but does not overpower them. Think orange rolls, rather than stickybuns.

Use the good cinnamon: The kind that Costco currently sells. Not the cheap kind from Nortons. It makes a huge difference, especially when you don't overpower the cinnamon with the brown sugar.

Let em raise: I sometimes double the raising time, especially in the winter when it's usually colder in the house. Let it double in size the first time (in the bowl). The second time (in the pans), give them an hour to raise, and then proofbox them for another 20. It's the bast.

Roll em thick: Don't over roll. Too thin makes for rolls that don't raise quite right. I like my rolled out dought to be about 1/4" thick.

Don't over flour: Flower is the enemy. I don't know how much I actually use, but it's got to be at least a cup less than they say. Add flour until the dough is baaaarrrely unsticky enough to handle. If it's still pretty sticky when you take it out of the mixing bowl, add a bit on your hands so you can kneed it a bit. The stickier, the better.

Thanks to Emily for all of these accumulated tips. I've probably called her 10 times over the years in the middle of this recipe. Girl knows what she's talkin' about.

Also, my wife once bought me some Springform pans, which are excellent for these. Time after time I forgot to use them when making these rolls. Hence the note on the bottom of the recipe.

Enjoy.

More Police Beatnicks...

Ok, so maybe they publish these reports as a lark. I almost dismissed them because of this. But no... These are real people (or, as real as you can get at BYU.) And yes...that IS how it was when you were there. Don't even try it.

Again, adding my take on them.

Roommate 2: "...no way. You're over thinking it. Irregardless of what you saw, it's none of your business."
Roommate 1: "I swear it! I just know he buried his wife out there. I have not seen her at FHE for weeks. And why else would that little dog be sniffing around like that?!"
Roommate 2: "Yeah...you're like, spending too much time with that huge zoom lens. I can't wait until you're out of that body cast."



These 4 dudes collectively: " But....I thought the honor code protected us against stuff like this."



Lady: "My first time out of Fillmore, and look what happens!!"
(Actually, this is a really sad way to learn that people are just no darn good.)


911-calling student upon reading: "Ahhh man! I said gentiles, not juveniles."


Riiiiiiight. You still have pay the ticket, honey.

Best Firefox Add-on now for Safari and IE...

Finally! My favorite browser plugin is even more useful.

Foxmarks (foxmarks.com, soon to be xmarks) is a free service that keeps your web booksmarks (and site-passwords, if you wish) on their server and synchronizes them between computers. Previously available only as a Firefox plug-in, it's now available for install on IE and Safari Browsers (and I hope on Chrome when they allow plugins later this year). Add a book mark in one browser, and it's instantly available on all your browsers and computer.

It's free, and they don't accept donations. They're working on some paid features for future releases, but even if it never does anything but sync my bookmarks, it will still be #1 on my list.

Get it.

Stop The Presses...

I grabbed a copy of The Daily Universe at BYU last week, and have been chuckling about these newsworthy items from the Police Beat section ever since. I'll try and recreate the conversations that go along with these timeless and horrific crimes.



Roommate 1: "Dude! Where is my scooter?! I flipping parked it right there!"
Roommate 2: "Oh ya...I had to move it over by the bike rack. It was blocking my Civic. Sorry."
Roommate 1: "Word...word."


Kyle: "Yo Cheylyn. Want to walk to the library and/or Wilky with me?"
Cheylyn: "No way Kyle. I told you...stop talking to me. I'm engaged."
Kyle: "Ya? Engaged just means Not-Too-Late-For-Me. I have your pencil, and I'm keeping it. Neener Neener Neener..."
Cheylyn, roling eyes: <911>



I have no response to this.


Lady: "Sure! I love Facebook Magazine. I'll subscribe. Let me write you a check."
Lady, after using google: "Whaaaat? Checks are MONEY!? Ack! <911>"


Bookstore dude: "Hey! What do you think you're doing?"
Student: "I'm checking out this textbook. Did you know they want $420 for this paperback?"
Bookstore dude: "Section 27a stroke f paragraph 7.12 clearly states that students may NOT view books before buying them"
Student: "It's really more of a pamphlet...and I was just..."
Bookstore dude: "INSOLENCE! I'll get to the bottom of this. "
Student: "Yes...well...wow. Later."


Grounds guy: "Are you guys building a tight-rope?"
BYU Kids: "Yes."
Grounds guy: "Will you not?"
BUY Kids: "Sure."



Here is the whole thing, in case you're interested. On a sadder yet redeeming note, the last item actually reports a burglary crime with victims. However, it awesomely contains the words "he started throwing stuff." Rounds things out nicely.