Chase's Favorite Comic Strips

Calvin and Hobbes'
This is probably the most classic comic of all time. Calvin's imagination is matched by none.


Far Side
Gary Larsen was a genius at taking one panel of comic and making it timeless.
(sorry, no image for this one :) )

Dilbert
Dilbert is just entertaining.

Get Fuzzy
Ok, this one you really have to get into. And its a hit or miss. It takes the right humor to appreciate it. But the reason Im putting this in here is because sometimes its really really funny.

Foxtrot
The writer of Foxtrot stopped writing a new one every day, and it currently only comes out on Sunday. But I still really enjoy it :)

Pearls Before Swine
This is a comic strip that I started reading a little more recently. And I think its hilarious and has become one of my favorites. Here's one of them from a few days ago. If you click on the comic strip, it will take you to the Pearls Before Swine website.

New office:

Last week I get a message that at my work we were moving offices, so I ran down and helped moved our office things over.
Anyway, here's our new building:



And his is my new office/desk:



In conclusion, I really like the new building. :)

Weird things that go "bump" in the night....

So last night Im sleeping in my bed, and sometime around 430 or 5 I get woken up by a loud noise.
As it turns out, the dresser I have in my room fell over.
Just tipped right over.
All the stuff I had on the top fell off, the drawers fell out, and Im sitting on my bed thinking, "are you kidding me?"
I still have no idea what caused it to fall....
( I put the drawers back in for the pic)

Pet Peeve- Get out da way!

From the constant pestering of Taylor and Chase I feel compelled to offer at least a smattering of an entry.  Let's face it, I'm just not much of a writer, but I appreciate the title of special guest so I'll try to live up to the mantle.

Cruising in my car this morning I start to accelerate at the final light before entering Provo Canyon.  I notice a Honda Pilot (for some reason I like to study makes and models of cars; from a distance can pretty much tell what it is- just a little talent of mine) in the other lane pulling out about the same speed as me.  Well, I knew the lane merged into one so I started to increase my speed a bit to make a clean pass.  Well, wouldn't you know it, the race is on and the chica revs her engine just enough to cut me off- which I would have been totally cool with except, then she slowed down once she passed me.  

As we travel up the canyon, I am blocked off from passing this woman (on a cell as I noticed later) because the car in the right lane is going the exact same speed as her.  Well, I get to follow the Honda half-way up the mountain going under the speed limit just because she can't be courteous enough to move over.  Finally, the car in the right lane speeds up just enough to make a gap and I take it.

Sadly, since the woman was on a cell phone she didn't see my traditional thumbs-up good driver sign.  Chase told me it was actually illegal for left lane slowpokes to hold up traffic even if they are going OVER the speed limit.  So I did a little research and he was 100% on.  Here's the link: www.driverightpassleft.com/laws/index.asp.

So, be a good citizen and follow the law!!   

Dancing Fingers (MOST AMAZING POST EVER)

My first CD

A little educational moment on Chase’s life:

So growing up as a kid I had the opportunity to see a lot of changes in technology.

I remember when we had our first computer, and we upgraded our hard drive from half a gig to 6 gigs, and I thought that would last forever (these days we have more ram than those first computers had in hard drive space…)

I also remember when cassette tapes were big time. And when you heard your favorite song on the radio, it was a lucky day if you had a cassette tape ready to record it in the tape player (after a while, you would end up with a pretty killer mix =) ).

They had two types of floppy drives. The a:\ drive and the b:\ drive (the bigger floppy disks that were flimsy).

Yes, these were the days of the Oregon trail, the original Sim City, and Nintendo/Super Nintendo.

I remember spending hours playing with Ninja Turtles Action figures and night games like capture the flag, kick the can, and ghost in the graveyard.

But back on topic:

CD’s

First, let me explain that I grew up listening to oldies, and I loved it. The classics like the Beatles and beach boys were some of the favs. But I of course started to listen to other music and appreciate the other amazing tunes out there.

Well, when CDs got huge (for obvious reasons) and the first CD I ever bought was this one:

That’s right =) They Might Be Giants. Where did that come from you ask?
If you’re asking that, then you probably never had the joy of appreciate They Might Be Giants.

Its one of those bands that enjoyed being unique and when I bought this CD, I thought it was great.

I realize this kind of music is far from main stream, and many of you probably don’t like them, but it happens to be the first CD I bought, and I stand by it :)

As an added bonus, here are a couple of the music videos they put together on one of the cartoons I watched as a kid (you may need to pause the music playing on the side to hear the music in the video) :

Follow Your Nose!

Bless you blog readers for your comments and your great support of this blog. I want to update you on my last post and on the recent happenings in life.

As you remember I talked about the byu cleaning check and all of it's glory. Well I had no idea if the witch failed me or not. After trying to contact her, leaving her messages and so forth, I was still confused if I had failed or

not. I came home one day to find the shower curtain up and Chase said that the oven looked like it had been cleaned as

well. So I felt a little annoyed, especially since the bathtub looked the same. When the rent came I checked to see if I had additional charges. Guess what? Go on, you can guess. I'll wait.

I didn't get charged!!!!!

Incredible I know. I beat the system. My problem melted away, like the witch does when she gets touched by water. Which

makes me confused on how a witch could clean a tub.

So onto bigger and better things. I wish to talk about something that happened to me recently. It'll help you understand the title of the blog.

Have you ever noticed how I have an attractive nose? I mean, it's perfectly symmetrical. If you could put a sunrise into nose form, that would be my nose. Beautiful. Judge for yourself. Isn't it attractive. I KNOW!!!

So something tragic happened to my nose recently and it really ticks me off. My nose is a central part of my....face. So I need it to have my, what's the word, hotness. Good word choice! Well, it all started last Saturday. I remember it vividly. I had come home from helping my dad and decided to shower. It's important to note that I, like Chase, shower regularly. Anywho, I was invited by my friends, Karen and Jenny

Redford(name drop), to go play ultimate frisbee at the intramural fields. Since we live by it, I felt that I would be lame if I did not go. Also, Karen and Jenny are fun.

Anywho, I went in flip flops not really intending on playing. I have never really been into ultimate frisbee. It seems like the BYU sport of choice, which gives me a lot of opportunities to say no when people ask me to play. Oh, and I'm not that good. Back on track, I invited Levi who also did not intend on playing. It would make it easier to say no. When we got there we found that the grass was wet. So I thought that we would definitely not be playing. Jenny and her sister Catherine arrive, and Karen arrived shortly. I thought we were in the clear, but they were determined. To my horror I was counted off to play in the game. Levi was stuck too, so I found joy in that. I didn't really run a lot, and just stayed clear from the frisbee. I felt ok with that but something starting bothering me. What bothered me was that Levi was on the other team, and he enjoys the occasional trash talk. I was suddenly annoyed and felt like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future when someone calls him chicken. I decided to start playing with some heart. Bad choice on my part.

Let's look at the problems with the night so far: 1. I'm in flip flops. 2. Wet field. 3. It's dark, which means 4. people can't see each other really well and 5. I'm more determined to catch the frisbee and help win. So add these into a cooky equation and see what comes out. Well the answer is this:

I went for the frisbee and ran my nose into the shoulder of a 120 lb. girl. I started to bleed everywhere. I didn't think that I broke it until I saw it in the mirror. Levi drove me to the ER where I waited for three hours to meet a doctor. The doctor entered the room asking me if I had broken my nose before. Keep in mind that I still didn't think I had broken my nose. So I said yes, and asked if I had broken it. He laughed and said that it was shattered. Noses were not meant to be broken! They were meant to smell and give eskimo kisses(most brilliant thing you have done for us eskimos)!

The point is, I suck at ultimate frisbee. I play it to the extreme though! We still lost though. I lost by a nose.

Backpacking up Rock Canyon

Ok, so last weekend I went on a backpacking trip up Rock Canyon here close by, and it was a pretty decent hike, but the view was pretty amazing when we got to the top (I went with my good friend Jordan).

IMPORTANT WARNING!!!!

This is a warning about something I’m sure that not many pay much attention to. AND THIS IS A BIG DEAL.

BE VERY CAREFULL WITH PURE EVIL!!

What is pure evil you ask?
(the great thing about writing your own blog is that I get to pretend you ask questions that you really didn’t ask :) )

Well, pure evil usually looks like a charred black rock.

Remember that scene from Ghostbusters right at the end when the dogs turn back into statues and Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis have to break out of the statues? Well guess what those statues were made of. Pure Evil.

You see pure evil a lot actually, they just don’t refer to it as pure evil. But whenever an evil person dies in a movie and they turned into charred black ash, that’s the pure evil left over.

So that’s not such a big deal right? You couldn’t be more wrong!
As it turns out, pure evil is very volatile. Very.
I included this little clip beneath to let you see for yourself. Just remember, if you come across pure evil, DON’T TOUCH IT. It may not come up very often, but if it does, you’ll thank me.

The big winner!!!!

I’d like to thank all of you who participated in the survey we had for a while. For those of you who don’t know, it was a survey about which of the Indiana Jones movie was the best. The big winner?
Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of the Lost Ark (as an interesting side note, the only movie to get no votes was the new one, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
So the big question is: what caused the Raiders Of the Lost Ark to win by so much?
The Indiana Jones series brought Archeology to life through the life of Indiana Jones (whose first name Indiana, was actually the name of his dog. His true given name was Henry Jones Jr.). Indiana Jones showed that even a college professor (who teaches archeology none-the-less) can have an adventurous alter ego. Indiana Jones doesn’t need super powers to get things done. All he needs are his quick reactions and his knowledge of archeology.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of the Lost Ark when it came out was easily the highest grossing film of the year, and at the time, one of the highest-grossing films ever. It went on to win 4 Academy Awards (it was nominated for 8).
The film actually used 7,000 snakes during the Well of Souls scene, and for the opening scene used live tarantula’s which were placed on one of the actors.
From live snakes and tarantulas to a 22 ft boulder that came rolling down after Indiana (remember the ride at Disneyland?) the movie showed that you can do pretty good special effects without CGI (which I could argue that CGI usually ends up ruining a lot of movies, but that’s another story…).

Interesting Fact: the pg-13 rating was introduced in 1984. There were many films released prior to this that were given a PG rating only because they weren’t quite considered bad enough for an R rating. It was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins, for their violent scenes, that are considered to be the reason that the PG-13 rating was finally introduced (the straw on the camels back). Red Dawn was the first widely-distributed movie with a PG-13 rating.