Champs

Relive the passion of '94. Players listed were not only champs in '94 but continue to be very successful in all their life endeavors. I present to you the graduating class of '94.

anger

Uhh, I don't know how else to put this but apparently Clinton's mad.
Watch the whole thing, its worth it.

Kobe or Satan, as the background suggests, teaches a local how to drive the lane as he toured Asia this past summer. 

Musings of munchkins

Conversation with Elizabeth.

She has recently been learning words in Kindergarten that rhyme, such as ran, tan, fan, etc.

Somehow the conversation came around to baby names and other names.

Of course, Ned, Ted and Led were mentioned.

And the sneaky question by Elizabeth, "What's your wife's name gonna be?"

"Well I don't know I haven't met her yet," I replied.

"Well your gonna have to know her name so you know when you meet her!"

"Oh of course. Well her name is going to be Jasmine. 'Cause she's gonna taste good."

"Your gonna eat her?" Elizabeth asked, a little confused.

This is mostly to inform all that no, I am not a cannibal.

sorry ladies really i am

i thought this was funny. cause it is. i read some where that if you want to make someone really mad you should type lowercase. OR IF YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE REALLY MAD YOU SHOULD TYPE IN ALL CAPS. or if you want to make someone really really mad you just type and type and type and dont worry about whether its all caps or lowercase and basically are just ignorant of every single punctuation rule i hear that makes people really upset sometimes i wonder if there is really any rhyme or reason to this blog of mine and you may begin to realize that there is basically nothing of note in my blog about my life but that maybe that is because i dont feel like anything i have anything to say that anyone cares about or that is really entertaining and i really think thats what it comes down to i just dont care and really that is what it comes down to i just dont care but i will in the future because i will no longer be stressing about school but about updating my blog more frequently and being more concerned about you the daily weekly monthly annual bi annual or what not reader so yeah there you have it in a nut shell

Got 420 lines. I was hoping for 500 lines but I made a couple bad moves. Next tetris post will be over 500 lines I promise. I'm not quite sure how I got 420 but I am pretty sure that I should be studying for my cell bio final. 

Uncommon common sense

The following letters are taken from an actual incident between a London
hotel and one of its guests. The Hotel ended up submitting the letters
to the London Sunday Times!


Dear Maid,

Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in my bathroom
since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please remove the six
unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine chest and another
three in the shower soap dish. They are in my way.

Thank you,
S. Berman

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Dear Room 635,

I am not your regular maid. She will be back tomorrow, Thursday, from
her day off. I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the shower soap dish as you
requested. The 6 bars on your shelf I took out of your way and put on
top of your Kleenex dispenser in case you should change your mind. This
leaves only the 3 bars I left today which my instructions from the
management is to leave 3 soaps daily. I hope this is satisfactory.

Kathy, Relief Maid

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Dear Maid - I hope you are my regular maid.

Apparently Kathy did not tell you about my note to her concerning the
little bars of soap. When I got back to my room this evening I found you
had added 3 little Camays to the shelf under my medicine cabinet. I am
going to be here in the hotel for two weeks and have brought my own
bath-size Dial so I won't need those 6 little Camays which are on the
shelf. They are in my way when shaving, brushing teeth, etc. Please
remove them.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

My day off was last Wed. so the relief maid left 3 hotel soaps which we
are instructed by the management. I took the 6 soaps which were in your
way on the shelf and put them in the soap dish where your Dial was. I
put the Dial in the medicine cabinet for your convenience. I didn't
remove the 3 complimentary soaps which are always placed inside the
medicine cabinet for all new check-ins and which you did not object to
when you checked in last Monday. Please let me know if I can of further
assistance.

Your regular maid,
Dotty

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Dear Mr. Berman,

The assistant manager, Mr. Kensedder, informed me this morning that you
called him last evening and said you were unhappy with your maid
service. I have assigned a new girl to your room. I hope you will accept
my apologies for any past inconvenience. If you have any future
complaints please contact me so I can give it my personal attention.
Call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM. Thank you.

Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper

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Dear Miss Carmen,

It is impossible to contact you by phone since I leave the hotel for
business at 7:45 AM and don't get back before 5:30 or 6PM. That's the
reason I called Mr. Kensedder last night. You were already off duty. I
only asked Mr. Kensedder if he could do anything about those little bars
of soap. The new maid you assigned me must have thought I was a new
check-in today, since she left another 3 bars of hotel soap in my
medicine cabinet along with her regular delivery of 3 bars on the
bath-room shelf. In just 5 days here I have accumulated 24 little bars
of soap. Why are you doing this to me?

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

Your maid, Kathy, has been instructed to stop delivering soap to your
room and remove the extra soaps. If I can be of further assistance,
please call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM.Thank you,

Elaine Carmen,
Housekeeper

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Dear Mr. Kensedder,

My bath-size Dial is missing. Every bar of soap was taken from my room
including my own bath-size Dial. I came in late last night and had to
call the bellhop to bring me 4 little Cashmere Bouquets.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

I have informed our housekeeper, Elaine Carmen, of your soap problem. I
cannot understand why there was no soap in your room since our maids are
instructed to leave 3 bars of soap each time they service a room. The
situation will be rectified immediately. Please accept my apologies for
the inconvenience.

Martin L. Kensedder
Assistant Manager

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,

Who the hell left 54 little bars of Camay in my room? I came in last
night and found 54 little bars of soap. I don't want 54 little bars of
Camay. I want my one damn bar of bath-size Dial. Do you realize I have
54 bars of soap in here. All I want is my bath size Dial. Please give me
back my bath-size Dial.

S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,

You complained of too much soap in your room so I had them removed. Then
you complained to Mr. Kensedder that all your soap was missing so I
personally returned them. The 24 Camays which had been taken and the 3
Camays you are supposed to receive daily. I don't know anything about
the 4 Cashmere Bouquets. Obviously your maid, Kathy, did not know I had
returned your soaps so she also brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily
Camays. I don't know where you got the idea this hotel issues bath-size
Dial. I was able to locate some bath-size Ivory which I left in your
room.

Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,

Just a short note to bring you up-to-date on my latest soap inventory.
As of today I possess:

- On the shelf under medicine cabinet - 18 Camay in 4 stacks of 4 and 1
  stack of 2.

- On the Kleenex dispenser - 11 Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 3.

- On the bedroom dresser - 1 stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet,

- 1 stack of 4 hotel-size Ivory, and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4.

- Inside the medicine cabinet - 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1 stack
  of 2.

- In the shower soap dish - 6 Camay, very moist.

- On the northeast corner of tub - 1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly used.

- On the northwest corner of tub - 6 Camays in 2 stacks of 3.

Please ask Kathy when she services my room to make sure the stacks are
neatly piled and dusted. Also, please advise her that stacks of more
than 4  have a tendency to tip. May I suggest that my bedroom window
sill is not in use and will make an excellent spot for future soap
deliveries. One more item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized
Dial which I am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid further
misunderstandings.

S. Berman

burn baby

Just got done watching X Men 3. I wasn't really expecting much considering I didn't really even like the previous movies, but I was really impressed. I think I went just because the potential of the story line to be an amazing movie to watch in a theater is there. Sorry that sentence structure was so horrible but I just don't care. Anyway it was awesome because essentially it was special effects that kind of did whatever they wanted, up was down down was up and sometimes they even forgot which way was which. Fun to watch, also a good plot, which the 2 predecessors lacked.
I've also recently become addicted to baseball. This is mostly because now I can get ESPN mobile through the wifi on my phone. No I wouldn't pay for this service but since its free for me, I just can't get enough. And how 'bout those mariners? Only 3.5 games out of first with the next 3 games against the division leaders. This could make or break us, but I'm not worried. We've really come into our own here of late. I'm excited to see them go into the playoffs. I believe. I think that was even their slogan one year. Any I'm going to get to bed. Tomorrow maybe I'll work on getting my tan back, the burn turned into a tan a couple of days ago but now its not sunny, so I wait.....

phone

Got a new phone with Tmobile and it was free. Here's the specs:

Technical Specifications
Network:	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Form Factor:	Block / Windows Mobile 5.0
Dimensions:	115 x 46 x 18 mm
Weight:	106 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	5-Way Keypad
Battery Type:	Li-Ion
Talk Time:	5.00
Standby Time:	192
Memory:	64 MB
Expandable Memory:	miniSD
Imaging
Main Screen:	65000 colors (TFT) 240 x 320 px
External Screen:
Camera:	1.3 MP / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	Windows Media Player
FM Radio:
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	240 x 320 px
Screen Savers:	240 x 320 px
Ring Tones:	MP3
Themes:
Games:	J2ME
Streaming Multimedia:	Windows Media Player
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	Pocket Outlook
Chat:	AOL / MSN / Yahoo!
Predictive Text:	T9
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:
Calendar:	Pocket Outlook
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 / Pocket Internet Explorer
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	GPRS (Class 10) / EDGE
Wi-Fi:
GPS:
PC Sync:	Microsoft ActiveSync
Discussion:	T-Mobile Forum

Pre-loaded with the Windows Mobile 5.0, the T-Mobile SDA provides users with the familiar appearance of Microsoft applications. Including both EDGE and GPRS high-speed connectivity, as well as integrated Wi-Fi, the SDA lets consumers stay connected. Having consistent access to email, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Outlook Mobile, the SDA also includes MP3 capabilities, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a miniSD memory card slot to save those important memories.

• Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 software for Smartphone for compatibility with Windows Mobile applications and designed to match and transpose the Outlook desktop experience
• Built-in 1.3-megapixel with video recording and playback capabilities
• Integrated MP3 audio player via Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 and MP3 ringtone support
• Conference calling with integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Enhanced T9 predictive text for messaging via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), chat clients (AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger), and email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP)
• Personal Information Management (PIM) features including Microsoft Outlook, Contacts, and To-Do List
• Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free connectivity, Wi-Fi connectivity for hotspot access, and infrared port for synchronization
• WAP 2.0 compliant Pocket Internet Explorer browser with EDGE technology for high-speed data transmission
• 64 MB of internal memory and miniSD memory expansion slot for additional storage with optional card
• PC synchronization via ActiveSync

Also I bought a 1 gb minisd from buy.com for 20 dollars after rebate. Although they are sending me a free one after I remain with tmobile for 3 months. So total cost of the phone was only activation: 35 dollars. not bad for a decent camera, music player, video player and wi-fi deal. It works really well with the mobile espn pages. I'm pretty impressed. In the 4 or 5 days I've had it it has locked up 2 or 3 times but i think it was more due to the extreme heat than anything else. also it starts to run slow due to opening up different programs (they keep running in the background just like regular windows) but luckily there is a task manager included so you just you need to close windows everyonce in awhile. Biggest perk: wifi and music player and cheap memory expansion. Biggest blow: small buttons. Although I got used to the button size after a couple of days its not really a big deal unless your a text nazi, which I'm not. Call quality is pretty good and I really like the speakerphone. there are better phones out there for sure but this has such good extras its hard to pass up, especially when its free. And i just had to ditch verizon has they make you pay for thinking about putting music on your phone. I've already made several file transfers and they went fairly smooth. I was able to access most web sites and all my email although several sites which require sequre logins I was not able to access: my college and my banking info. Anyway all in all its got flare and it will surely knock your socks off.

thus i wrestle with sanity

Troy woke up this morning at 7 am and took 3 quizzes. Then Troy went to class at 10 am. Class ended at noon and Troy worked until 2.15 pm. Troy went to his mentoring session with his cell bio professor from 2.15 till 3 pm. He then worked until 5.30 pm.

I'm trying to make more frequent posts. I'm also trying to make them as boring as possible. Troy is good. Troy is fun. Watch Troy run. Watch Troy bask in the sun. Time for bed said Troy to himself as he typed his last words of the day and thought about all the complicated intricacies of life and all that saying something like that implies and says about who said it who masks himself behind his true persona behind words and mumbled phrases because he is afraid of letting out his emotions and becoming a vunerable man child. Yes, man child go to sleep. Sleep little padowin.

my 4th

I went to bed at 9.30 pm. And I took a 2 hour nap today. I'm addicted to sleeping. Time for bed.

no more chem

turns out I more than passed my classes due to the application of some intense curves. blessings of going spring/summer i suppose. anyway at this juncture it appears that I may graduate. Interesting. back to the lab again yo.

tippy tip tapps

to update everyone on my wakeboarding adventure, their board was weird and i was fishtailing bandit coming back down off the wake. dirty little board. i look forward to my return to the homeland to conquer the white caps of tapps.

Who am I??????

so turns out i'm going wakeboarding tomorrow, finally. after months of searching and earning its finally happening. I'm just sacrificing hours of studying for my biochem final to do it. Is it worth it? y yes. Also, for anyone on the edge of their seat concerning my progress with the original tetris on windows 3.1, I've broken the 300 line barrier, I scored 302. I challenge all to beat me. I know your all very impressed, I'm going to put it on my resume. Also, acknowledging that all college grads have to go on some outrageous adventure to find out who they are, I am going to meditate in Hawaii for awhile and try and figure out who I really am. I think I may be onto something.

Benefits of lab work

Got slapped in the face with formaldehyde just a couple of hours ago. It was kind of like eating something really hot and getting a rush to the nasal cavity. Although I'm sure I killed a few brain cells as well. Whats a couple more? It makes me wonder why people do stuff like this on purpose. The last thing I need is less brain cells. I'm not very smart as it is. I'd like to thank the DARE program for helping me say NO to all the illicit drugs that have been offered to me in the last year.

little toys

I'm graduating. Who cares? I don't. Alot of wasted time. Although it did keep me busy, and people thought I was accomplishing something. But really I'll I was doing was putting words on paper. I have no idea what I'm doing, no real learning took place. Where am I? Who am I? I remember looking up at the Y, an interesting symbol up on the nearby huge mountain, and asking myself just that: Y? And now I realize I should have just done what I thought was best, leave and never come back. But if I did that I would look back and think, what was I thinking, I should have stayed in school and gotten a degree and done something with my life. You see little one life is filled with regrets, you just have to choose the one thats not as bad. I can easily make up for lost time and accomplish nothing. But I am graduating soon, and it appears that I accomplished something, and thats whats important. I'll probably move to the mountains and try and figure out who I really am. Really get to know myself. It's August 18 if anyone wants to come.

This is the complex I just moved into. It has treated me well thus far and I encouraged all who are interested in seeing the splendor of utah to come down for a visit, I'd love to have you. I guess. 

I'm the aparment on the second floor with the all the brick. Just thought I'd acquaint everyone with my surroundings. 

Its also important that cars have a nice rear end. I think its fairly attractive. The decision to buy this car was 100% lust. 

I just got done washing and waxing the vehicle; thats why It looks so stellar right now. I also put in a cd player with the swimming dolphin display. 

dont be a fool

Pictures of the accord will slowly be released to the public. Unfortunately this is all that can be produced for the moment. Please be patient. Also I would like feedback about word web. Is anyone using it? It's just that I think it is amazing is all. If you don't know what I'm talking about I refer you to my post on April 9th. 

One last picture. This is me with my mission president a week or so ago at my mission reunion. I just felt like I should post some evidence that I did actually serve a mission. But I guess you'd have to talk to him for it to be evidence, anyway I present to you: President Craigh Booth. 

I don't know I just really enjoyed this guy's style. This was at a concert that was just off the hook as you can tell and this guy was just really enjoying who he was. 

These are real angels from the Easter Pageant. I don't know I think we all look happy. Maybe. 

I visited the Flaker's while I was in Arizona; As you can see they really know what they're doing in life. 

Word

Earlier in the year I made a post about the 46 best freeware/shareware programs by some guy who I don't really know but whom I know fully trust. One of the programs on the extended list is called word web and is an amazing program. Let me explain. The program loads in your start up tray.....Now I'm usually very hesitant about programs that do this because they can seriously bog down the performance of the system, however this the first program that hasn't made any noticeable affect on performance. So anyway the program boots on start up in the system tray and is defined as a dictionary/thesaurus. The cool thing about it is that it is always running in the background, and so can be initiated at anytime using hotkeys, which on my computer is control alt w. So if you come across a word in any document, simply highlight and press the hotkey. Definitions come up as well as words nearby in the dictionary. Anyway it is way faster than going to different sites on the internet and its always neat to impress friends with hotkeys. Speaking of hotkeys I use the windows button and d about every 10 seconds to get to the desktop and also windows and e for my computer. It saves a little time but its mostly just about knocking the socks off of whoever is nearby watching. Because lets be honest, someone is always watching. And also one more thing about words, using the protocol: "define: xxxxx" in google works wonders for any word not found in word web. I use it all the time for science terms. Anyway let me know how word web works out for everyone, I'm real excited.

Life changes....

So this talk pretty much changed my life. He used to be my stake president and he is now a judge for the US Court of Appeals. Watch the video or whatever of Thomas Griffith.

Have you tapped the Rockies? 

Just topped 300 lines. Next post will be zero or higher, whatever that means. I actually met someone who is just as obsessed with tetris from windows 3.1 as I am. A guy in my lab said he actually got -5000 once and without piece preview. That will have to be my next step. I really don't think I'm that big of nerd, I mean this is the only game I play. It's not like I'm online all day playing games and talking to people I only know from cyberspace and refer to as bluejay26alphamega. Gimme a break people I'm an honest to goodness innocent american boy. Rush. 

Brokeback

Never seen the movie but I know enough about it to know this is funny. Ride the wave.

2 in a series

Just thought I would inform everyone on my daily progress. Amazing how quickly one improves when there is a goal in mind. Next post will be when I clear 300 lines, and then the final goal: a score of zero? I'm not sure this even possible but sometimes phenoma is beyond simple logic. I think I just blew my own mind.

Tetris

I think I may have to find a new hobby for wasting time, I've gone well beyond the threshold for high scores for the old windows 3.1 tetris. Due to some programming inconsistencies between windows 3.1 and XP, im guessing, is the reason why after reaching a certain score the score begins to score negatively and then decrease or get closer to zero.

For those interviewing for jobs/link party

So you've got a big interview coming up and you need to have all the right answers. Huh. So yeah, I think this may soon compete with google news. Navigate the universe.

Attention freeware geeks! I'm not speaking to anyone in particular but this is exciting: The 46 greatest downloads of all time rated by the number 1 geek of all time* Just for your info I downloaded #38(1) #37(2) #26(2); all good things. And a related site in a more organized fashion: hippo

Oh and maybe just one more thing I enjoy. I just downloaded the theme ifox for firefox and its rocking my world right now. Though it makes it seem like I have an apple, I don't. That's what makes it so amazingly ridicously funny sounding and crazy. But it is ridicously good looking, and let's be honest there really isn't anything more important than that. Please forgive me, I digress...

Also, enjoy the rose bowl
5 pm Pacific Wed.

PS. Also, remember to watch lost at 9 pm next Wednesday as they are returning to new episodes. If you havent even seen lost, dont worry you can catch up there are only about 34 episodes to watch. Hey, I've managed to watch all of them in 2 weeks, I'm sure you can do it in 1. Good luck to all.

This isn't a joke, jk, lol, ttyl. But this is.

*Surprisingly it's not me.

drugs;,#)><)_-

I didn't want to say too much too soon, but it would appear that my initial intuition has proven correct. Drugs are the key to success. Let me explain. Having caught the local bug for some cold throat headache bodyache thing, I was near bed ridden for 3 days prior to finals. Finding myself in quite the predicament and lacking the necessary time to study for finals I turned to my loyal friend: drugs. Having never failed me in the passed we entered into a quick partnership. Staying awake for 31 hours straight, the drugs allowed me to stay up and take the test as if I had studied for 3 days straight. Now I'm not advocating the use of drugs, but I'll tell ya what it really worked out for me, and I've got the passing grades to prove. I guess you could say my standards continue to slip steady away from me. Now I know what you must be thinking, this kid got into some hard core drugs. No, not really. Although I do hear some kids take cocaine prior to finals and study for like 3 days straight and retain everything. If my morals were different and I had loads of cash just sitting around I just might do that. But, given my circumstances and morals, I simply lurched into gray area rather than straight up black area. I took some caffiene fat burning pills or something recommended by a dear friend. So to sum up, miracles sometimes come in the form of a small pill.

Happy Holidays Peeps!

Amusing . . .

I was recently asked via email if i was dead or married. . . . . .I hope this answers their question at least in part.

I think I may have been offended. Possibly amused.