I am a villain and a very bad man! My oldest, Scott, was so excited to have found a female canary for only $25 dollars on-line the other day. He had called the guy and arranged for me to stop by and buy the bird. I thought I was all prepared by taking an older, [...]
Just when you thought nothing else could happen in Eagle Mountain, along comes the plague of foot and mouth! Well – that is my foot and Kristy’s mouth! What a week of fun it’s been! Sunday night I landed on my ankle while navigating over a gymnastics mat in the basement! and Kristy had to [...]
As a young child, Peter Mayle opened up a whole new dimension to my impressionable little mind. A fictional character called Chilly Billy was brought to life in my own fridge! I couldn’t wait to go home to try and catch him in the act of turning the fridge light on and off. Something had [...]
So it is Christmas, yet again, and what better way to greet this season than to listen to the radio station that plays the same old Christmas songs over and over again! I decided to start listening to them early to help me ‘get in the mood’ of this special time of year. Prior years [...]
Driving home with all the kids in the car, I didn’t fully come to a stop at a stop sign and caught sight of a police car in wait. WalMart was the next turn in, which I quickly took. Looking back I saw the police car was moving to intercept, so I pulled into an [...]
The Arduino Duemilanove board is such a fun little thing to play with. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Both Scott and Toby helped out in creating a visual and audible light detector. We used: 8 Light Emitting Diodes 9 resistors 1 photo resistor 1 piezo speaker [...]
Today, Scott and myself went GeoCaching around the east side of Utah lake. We were in search of “travel bugs” and “GeoCoins” but came up empty handed! We raced to the last cache in the hopes of finding something grand, but couldn’t even find the cache! But the good news is that Scott was able [...]
I worked on a video sequence for a presentation to other Bankruptcy staff nationwide. Part of that video included some BlackBerry destruction! Take a look at what we came up with:
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has just entered retirement. Someone who has suffered a considerable cut in their retirement money (if they have any left at all) and faced with another 20 – 30 years of longevity. Faced with a lack of substantial income, increasing health costs, living expenses & with a [...]
Was asked to setup a different camera angle to capture the building as it reaches it’s final destination. There is a road in between where the building is now and this view. I wish I could capture the road, but this is the best I can get. Have installed a Logitech USB QuickPro 9000 USB [...]
