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Woo hoo! "Oct. 7 vs. L.A.L. at Anaheim 8 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 9 PHOENIX 7 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 12 at Portland 4 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 15 at Denver 7 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 17 vs. Chicago at Champaign 6:30 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 18 at Chicago 6:30 p.m. KJZZ Oct. 23 PORTLAND 7 p.m. KJZZ" ( Utah Jazz: The last hurrah? - Salt Lake Tribune ) Let's see: my pre-season prediction last year was correct. I think the Jazz will take it to the finals this year. Now that's pretty bold of me, isn't it?

The night Originally uploaded by Theorris Moths in the night sweep Across the shadow swiftly Time is their's to waste

Wilhelm Disc Golf Invitational 2008: Ready to Throw Originally uploaded by Theorris Well another Wilhelm Disc Golf Invitational has come and gone. We actually had a non-regular join us this time (Molly). She threw quite well. I had an enjoyable time, until my rhythm was rudely interrupted by an obnoxious family who had no sense of disc golf etiquette. Barbarians! See Disc-a-rama for a few more details.

If you really want to buy me a gift, Please make it this.

Possible the best home-made video ever. I mean, my hell. How can you not love this video? Tell me. Damn you, tell me.

When his smiled his eyes would twinkle in the sun. And I can feel a new tomorrow coming on. La la la la la yeah!

Think about it. 1970. Too bad Ozzy lost it in the crime of profiteering--well that and half his band died of drug overdoses. Still, put this in context. Think of 1970, if you were alive then (I barely was.) If you weren't, look it up.

British (and erstwhile American) author Will Self sums up the current economic fiasco quite nicely: "If only we'd borrowed a few other important concepts from the Germans we might be better placed to weather the storm; concepts such as “social market” and a conservative belief that far from house-price inflation being a good thing, it's a bad one. But we didn't. We preferred to borrow from those so-called Masters of the Universe on Wall Street, so all we're left with is schadenfreude, anger — or in the case of the poor, outright misery." ( I can only feel anger at the bankers going bust | News ) Imagine that: a world where flipping property is a trait that is to be derided and seen as economically bad instead of lauded by at least 8 cable television shows. Imagine!

Can you live off the food that one dollar a day can provide: One Dollar Diet Project ? My frugal Scots heritage makes me want to try such a project. Something tells me I could actually eat rather well, as long as you don't count the cost of energy it takes to prepare food. Fresh produces, of course, is the enemy in such a project, given that fresh fruit and vegetables are out-of-site expensive. A single apple, for example, is well over a dollar now. Eating frozen vegetables seems like cheating, given that you have to expend the energy to keep them frozen. Rather than taking on the challenge of eating on less than a dollar a day, I think I might calculate how much I spend in food, and then attempt to maximize my food dollar. I know for damn sure that I can eat much more cheaply than I would by paying others to prepare food that I can easily make myself. A dollar a day, however, would appear to be egregiously tight and near starvation level, of course. Then again, I presume t...

Dog in boots Originally uploaded by Theorris Hey, I just figured the whole "Lipstick on a pig" thing had grown a little stale, so Obama might want to try a fresh analogy.

Did you know that Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Canada all have state liquor stores much like Utah? Despite their rather "liberal" associations with foaming-at-the-mouth conservatives in the United States, Scandinavian countries such as Sweden are rather unabashed in their moral certitude about controlling liquor: The retail monopoly exists for one reason only: alcohol related problems are reduced if alcohol is sold in the absence of a profit motive. Our mandate obliges us to help limit the medical and social damage caused by alcohol and there by improve public health. ( Systembolaget , 4) Many foaming-at-the-mouth and ill-informed liberals in Utah, however, would probably argue that a 19th Century Utilitarian/Socialist motive is not behind Utah's liquor control. In all fairness to the Tom Barberi crowd, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control makes no mention of public health on its web site, but only states that The Department of Alcoholic Beverage ...

As you may be aware there is a lot of yammering on the anti-preservationist, burn-your-candle-at both-ends front that compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs contain deadly amounts of mercury that will kill you dead if you just drop one on the floor. (Funny how smashing fluorescent tubes, which contain vastly more amounts of mercury and argon gas, was normal activity in disposing them from the giant corporate boxes that said anti-preservationists seem to favor. I know this because that's what I was told to do while working many years ago in one of those buildings as a general dog's body.) In any case, I was drowsily watching How Its Made on the Discovery Chanel last night, and perked up when they stated, point blank while showing how incandescent bulbs were made, that the filaments were coated with mercury, and (I can't verify this) mercury and argon gas were pumped into the bulbs. Now, I'm only conjecturing here, but it seems that incandescent bulbs need some sort of gas...

This could get interesting: Utah Free Media :: Grassroots, Volunteer Broadcasting - Pinpoint SLC. (Thanks to The Salt Blog for the tip.)

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According to the Internet's tubes , Pando, a quaking aspen colony (or clone), lives right here in good old Utah near Fish Lake . Pando is estimated to be anywhere from 80,000 to 1,000,000 years old, depending on which scientist (q.v. citation 18 & 19) you believe (or in this case, which Wikipedia article you believe .) Pando is also probably the world's heaviest plant/organism, with a estimated weight of 6,615 tons. Pando was, therefore, commemorated by the US postal service (scroll down). I need to go back down to Fish Lake to photograph the great Pando, I think.

I was playing this original of the "cat talking" video which I posted some time ago (remember? It was dubbed with funny) and the cat became very interested. He sat staring at the screen as I looped it over and over again, and at one point, hopped on the computer desk and looked behind the screen to see where the cats were. I'm sure it was quite baffling for him.

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Wow, I'd nearly forgotten that I made this: At the time I made it, I was amused by the frustration that people exhibit over simple things. I guess I saw the wailing woman as a quaint expression of an inability to reconcile the complexity of the world with her own existence. That pretty much summarizes how I feel now about certain aspects of my work life, that I refrain (on purpose) from connecting to here. Still, the fun an games are sometimes forced to the economic reality of one's working life. I've purposefully refused to reconcile those myself, despite the fact that most of my readers are fellow workmates. Can one have a work life and a life life? Tell me Internet's tube. Tell me. Anyway, this piece pretty much sums up how I'm feeling about things these days, in an ironic way. It is not about general bitchiness, but how arbitrary decisions come about. Flood. Change. Shift. What the hell is the matter with people nowadays? Get ready for a shitstorm, my c...

Broken Social Scene Originally uploaded by Theorris I neglected to note that Broken Social Scene last week at the Gallivan Center in downtown SLC was by far the best concert of the year. I am still very impressed with the Canadian music scene.

My Year Book Photo Contest--Is it Austin Powers Theorris? Originally uploaded by Theorris Hip, irreverent and so damn edgy! By the way--I have that jacket. I'll be happy to don it any time you want.