Author: Jesse

Website Update: E-mail Notification Actually Works Now 1

Website Update: E-mail Notification Actually Works Now

Due to some odd server glitch on our side, e-mail notifications of updates were not going out like they were supposed to. Those of you who are subscribed have probably already figured out that it's fixed now. Kudos to the...

Luau! 4

Luau!

We went to a ward luau last night (yes, with a whole roasted pig), and this was the only thing I could think of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiAk9IDkER4 By the way, it took about 20 minutes to figure out how to make the...

Office Pranks 6

Office Pranks

There's a few rules about pranks. One, don't give the prankee plenty of unfettered access to your cubicle by leaving early on a slow Friday. Two, make sure the prankee can't think of pranks to play. And third, make sure...

Arrowed! (Ow, my nuclear waste dump!) 2

Arrowed! (Ow, my nuclear waste dump!)

Looks like the Goshute nuclear dump isn't gonna happen. In the famous words of Nelson Muntz, "HA ha!" This is a big win for Utah specifically and the West in general. Having lived in Nevada for 14 years under the...

Steven Jones Placed on Leave 1

Steven Jones Placed on Leave

You know he had it coming. BYU cites concern about "the increasingly speculative and accusatory nature of these statements by Dr. Jones." Well yeah. If I were BYU, I'd be very concerned about a publicity hound like that bringing all...

UTOPIA: Righting the Wrongs of the Telcos 1

UTOPIA: Righting the Wrongs of the Telcos

If you're an American, your telephone and cable companies stole about $2,000 dollars from you in the last decade. They even did it without anyone so much as filing a lawsuit or getting the FCC or any state's PUC to...

Can anyone take Steven Jones seriously? 3

Can anyone take Steven Jones seriously?

If it talks like a duck, looks like a duck, and walks like a duck… it might be a duck. Similarly, if it talks like a crazy person, writes like a crazy person, and gets debunked like a crazy person,...

No More Mister Nice Guy, No More Mister Clean 3

No More Mister Nice Guy, No More Mister Clean

I'm on a tear now. The swamp cooler lost power again and we still haven't gotten Roofing Guy to come out the install the vents on the roof or haul away the leftover construction materials. I'm reaching the end of...

The new recipes never end! 9

The new recipes never end!

Tonight, we decided to do some more Asian cuisine. The central ingredient was asparagus being that we had some in the fridge that needed to be used. I've been wanting to try an asparagus stir-fry for a long time now,...

Pete Ashdown, you've earned my vote. 1

Pete Ashdown, you've earned my vote.

Being in the IT sector, Orrin Hatch is a name that comes up an awful lot. From his insistence on blowing up fire sharers' computers to attempting to throw first-time offenders in jail for five years for sharing a single...