A Ruby Christmas

Homage to Harold McCoo

Simply, my now favorite video clip of all time, bringing me to more laughter than should be possible.

look at the cubes, just look at the cubes

While Shannon prepared the tuna melts, I was at work on something requiring much more concentration:
WATERMELON CUTTING!


I put my finger in the photo to show scale (Chocolate Rain!)


Beautiful melon.

IMAX Harry

I had the pleasure of viewing the newest movie installment of Harry Potter in the IMAX theater in DesMoines. It was very cool, having seen it once in a conventional theater, to experience it in a visually surrounding environment. Another thing worth mentioning which I believe is sometimes overlooked in an IMAX experience (it was my first time, so I'm not sure if that's all true) was the outstandingly precise and powerful sound. It was truly surround sound and I appreciated the audio of the movie just as much as the visual. It definitely enriched the experience.

could be bad

I had settled in to view 4 new trailers (not a particularly large amount, i had 26 qued up recently, taking me roughly an hour to get through) that had popped up on my trailer RSS feed when in growing horror I realized that one of these upcoming movies was depicting Brigham Young speaking in front of the tabernacle and providing visuals of temple practices very sacred to my faith, Mormonism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.

The movie, "September Dawn", will be centering it's "true events" around what has come to be known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.  In my limited searching I haven't found too many existing reviews of the motion picture but I was slightly uplifted by the discovery of this review, as I believe written by a non-member of the the LDS Church: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2925 .  He obviously sees right through the filmograply; how the director and collaborators of such a picture drasticly skew the characters and present them as they wish and not how fact tell us they were (not to mention how little is known and how much is speculated and flat-out fictionized).  Read the review. Watch the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/septemberdawn/trailer/

silky satisfaction from a bean?

A woman at work for as strange a reason as I can imagine recommended that I try the "Very Vanilla" Silk Soymilk. Probably because of my regular consumption of flavored, dairy beverages she thought I would enjoy this. My friends, after my first sip of this foreign liquid, I came very close to immediately posting a very simple, and plain message: Soymilk is horrible. But I continued my large draughts to quickly and immensly enjoy my newly discovered savor, reminiscent of a watered-down (but in this case, 'beaned-down') vanilla milkshake. What furthered my enjoyment and bodily satisfaction was the existence of a certain nutritional fact box hanging out on the side of the carton. This stuff has it all. I don't know if everyone out there thinks the same as me, but when I came to realize how chock-full this stuff is, it filled my appetite with a desire to have more, my body reveling in it's newly found sustenance.

Well..thought you ought to know.

[Disclaimer: I do not endorse and consumption of Soymilk or any other soy products that aren't heavily flavored or closely partnered with additional tasteful food.]

back

First off, I'd like to apologize to the dedicated group who very regularly check my blog. I've recently been trying to get a client to blog with instead of my lacking attempts in trying to upload pictures and such through picasa and/or a http client. I've finally settled on using Yahoo's 'Flickr' for photo uploading...I'll keep you posted on how good Flickr actually turns out to be.


The news at GriffO can be summed up with one word: wii. In all honesty I haven't been playing it too much but it is definitely blog worthy, even though to most it's old news. These pictures were taken at Hansenlabs a while back where in we were playing Casey's wii, before I had procured mine. From the first pic, you can see my skepticism.

  Pimp new game. It's called Frets on Fire, and yes, you guessed it...it's Guitar Hero but you play it on your computer using your keyboard
 
  Rocking. out.

 

After discovering there to be absolutely no wind (and I mean 'no' wind), Thori and Ender broke out the slings and began throwing a few tennis balls around

 

This one is really gonna go far.

 

 

Overall, a really pimp hobby. Thori made me a sling for my birthday and I'm really looking forward to slinging at Backbone and showing the fam my sweet slinging styles.

Kiting Day 3 - Birthday

I had a great turn out for my 'private' birthday gathering out at Ada Haden on Saturday, March 25th. There are plenty of other pictures, but these are the best.
Also worth mentioning: the wind was so insanely strong that we had great difficulty keeping the kites in the air...but it was fun.