Tuesdays with Muerte

Ryan Tripp, Brian Zundel, Mike Zimmerman and I all christened the new Carriage Cove Ultimate Frisbee Golf Course today. It took about an hour to play the course. The good news is that we stayed away from cars. The bad news is that I lodged my frisbee on the clubhouse roof on the 8th hole. It was a reckless move that never should have happened. Rules -Order of Tee is decided by the lowest score on the previous hole. -Throw from behind where your frisbee landed with respect to the course. -Must be thrown from a controlled position; no jumping or leaning against objects. -Out of Bounds (OB) is an automatic 1 stroke penalty and dropped perpendicular to the line of sight the hole on either side of you. Roof, sand and inside the pool fence are all OB. -Any contact with a car or motorcycle is an automatic 2 stroke penalty. Play is where it lies (unless you feel cars are still in danger). -If you throw it on a roof (OB), that is still only a 1 stroke penalty, but you must retrieve your ow...

Biography Dr. Ronald Staheli is the Choral and Conducting Division Coordinator and the Director of Graduate Studies in Choral Music at BYU. He also appears regularly as conductor in performances involving the combined choirs and orchestra of Brigham Young University. He has traveled widely as a clinician and guest conductor, and has become known for what a colleague calls a profound sense of phrasing and articulation, which informs all his work. In July of 2001, Dr. Staheli conducted an all-Mozart concert with choirs of the Zimriya International Choral Festival. Dr. Staheli was a guest lecturer at the Fourth International Choral Symposium in Sydney, Australia, where the BYU Singers also performed concerts in the world-famous Opera House and Town Hall. Travels have also taken him and the choir to the Middle East, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and West Africa. Dr. Staheli is a fine pianist and regularly arranges many selections performed by the BYU Singers, ...

This is a quiz designed to test your ability to judge who you think people are rooting for just by looking at them. Adam , the emo-style dresser with the gorgeous falsetto or Chris , the doll-faced singer with the smooth, light melodies? 1. In this first one you have to guess within the first 15 seconds. The others don't reveal their true colors until the moment the name is announced. If you got 2/3, you won! If you got less than that, you need to work on your demographic perception skills. Analysis You would not believe how difficult it was for me to find a video of people cheering for Chris. I still have no idea how he won. Some Christian Coalition must have been backing him and he managed to get 50,000,001 votes out of the 100,000,000. Seriously, they need to hire multiple independent agencies to count and verify those votes. Whose to say, Simon doesn't secretly pick the winner from the start? This is my first season watching 'Idol'...

Glee is an fresh, new show on Fox, Tuesdays at 9pm starting THIS FALL! (You've got a little time to get excited about it.)  Here is Glee's official website. OK. So, KINGS fizzled out after the premiere. But I have to insist, WE WILL NOT FIND A PILOT EPISODE IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS THAT WILL COMPARE to THE MAJESTIC CINEMATOGRAPHY, COMPELLING CHARACTERS AND RICH SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE FOUND IN  KINGS . For an idea of what the show is like, think "High School Musical" meets "Freaks and Geeks" meets "American Idol". It's got a star-studded, multicultural cast of misfits [including but not limited to "Ned Ryerson" from Groundhog's Day] and involves themes that both teenager and adults associate with. It feels like Glee was written for a Utah audience; it's jam-packed with elements that mid-westerners can especially related to: Songs everybody loves to sing along to, suffering HS arts programs, a lack of physical intimacy b...

National Geographic recently did a feature exposing the bra. Here are some fascinating facts about the history of the bra, its technology, and its future. * In 1991 a woman was killed by lightning which struck the underwire in her bra. * A cancer-detecting bra was recently patented. * The Guinness Book of World Records states that the largest bust is a 48V. The breasts have a combined weight of 56 lbs. * A bra has been designed to detect radiation in case of nuclear attack. * New anti-mugging bras can monitor heart rate and signal police in the event of panic. * Triumph International invented an anti-smoking bra which emits a mysterious fragrance designed to kill the desire to smoke. * The “smart bra” is made of a fabric that tightens when you need it to. * A “bra ball” was created in 2001 that was made up of 14,000 bras. * Silk is made from miles of caterpillar spit. * 8 out of every 10 women are wearing the wrong size bra. * A bad bra can cause headaches, back pain and radiating pai...

My Frog Known as Logan [Named after Wolverine because of his obstinance and constantly deployed claws.] - This daring adventurer managed to leap of two heavily convexed bowls and around the apartment for hours before anyone noticed. The first time was a month ago. He leaped out of the giant fish bowl when the lights went out. Fortunately, I was still awake at 2am when he hopped into my room. I was watching a show about dangerous animals on the History Channel when out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of a creepy thing smashing itself against my dresser. His amphibious body was no longer wet but covered in fuzz like a used sticky-hand one gets out of a toy dispenser. I quickly threw him into a fresh bowl of water and the filth dispersed across the surface. Once he cleaned himself up a bit, I put him in smaller, more curved bowl. Logan made his second successful escape yesterday afternoon. I still don't know how he did it. I first noticed Logan's disappearanc...

* Oh Snap * The Future is in your Hands * Don't Talk to Strangers * Are You Free Saturday Night? * Don't Stop Believin' * Yoga is for Posers * Original Gangsta * Keep the Dream Alive * Most Likely to Secede * Where my Dogs At? * Volunteering Doesn't Pay * BRAINS! * Desmond is My Constant

Some girls in my Carriage Cove ward want me to play BYU intramural water polo with them. I kindly explained to them that I don't enjoy getting egg-beatered in the groin all day.  And this is why I will never play competitive water polo. Anything under the water, goes. ---------------- Listening to: Megan Joy - Turn Your Lights Down Low

“While Mr. T made it known that he didn’t have time for fools, he seemed to have even less for “approval meetings” or “quality control,” because a great many of these products were horrible, or made no sense whatsoever, or both. Here are the most foolish pieces Mr. T merchandising, and man, are they worth pitying — both those who made them and those who unfortunately received them.”

This phone ad is AWESOME! Too bad it's $700. Believe that the Nokia n96 has 16GB of internal memory. It's basically a modern computer. What I want in a phone: ≥5 megapixal camera Samsung, Sony Erickson, or Motorola Simple (No extra buttons/features) Pretty sure this is the phone I want: Samsung G600 - This is exactly what I want. Others Phone I'm looking at: Motorola ZINE ZN5 - This one is awesome expect for the weird keyboard. LG KC550 - This one might only be sold in Europe. Nokia 5310 Xpressmusic - This one is the cheapest [free with discount], but it doesn't have the good camera. The Problem: They are all $180 phones save the last phone.

1. Spend at least 2 weeks training with real ninjas. 2. Save a life from physical death. 3. Learn to converse naturally in Mandarin, Chinese. 4. Have friends on every continent whom I could visit. Except for Antarctica; I hate Antarcticans. 5. Invent something that thousands of people use, physically or virtually. 6. Own a Cadillac. 7. Punch somebody in the face. 8. Win an amateur tennis competition. 9. Find a woman whom I can genuinely label, "woman of my dreams". 10. Create a blog that follows a specific focus and actually makes sense. Dedicated to my Mom Funny pic about stolen dreams ---------------- Listening to: Glenn Miller - In The Mood

You thought these horrendous portrait posts were over! Well, "you thought wrong, dude." I would include a family portrait of mine own, but I don't have any digital copies. But I think the one where we tried to imitate the Bill Cosby Show intro—the one where all the kids do jazz hands —would definitely have made this list. HONORABLE MENTION:   The Spooning-in-a-Tree Family Portrait The Non-Photogenic Family Portrait 3RD PLACE: SECOND PLACE: The I'll-Wear-What-I-Wanna-Wear Family Portrait 1ST PLACE: The Stuffed-Animal Family Portrait. Paging Dr. Leo Marvin! GRAND PRIZE: YES, THIS IS AN HONEST-TO-GOODNESS REAL FAMILY PORTRAIT TAKEN FROM A CHRISTMAS CARD! *Congratulations if you caught that movie reference --  Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen ,  Back to the Future III .

You may remember from Dumpster Diving Week 2009 that I acquired an original NES with tons of extra NES games and gadgets. Well, it's been about three weeks now and I have only played it once. I know it's just taking up space, but it's hard for me to just donate it. All things Nintendo hold a dear place in my heart, especially the games I spent time with as a child. But perhaps the past is where it should stay. You know what I mean; this happens to everyone. Everybody has something that they feel is a part of them, that if they gave it up, they would be giving up a piece of their soul. Something that would be better to keep and never use than ever let go of. That's why my NES is still safely packed up in my parent's house. (Right, Mom? Safe!) The only way I would feel good about letting go of my original-original NES would be if someone from the Make a Wish Foundation (or the like) specifically asked ME for it. http://rebellya.deviantart.com/art/Goo...