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I have dedicated a page to Dethklok Lyrics. You are asking yourself what took you so long, because after all Dethklok is the most powerful entertainment force on the planet, being the world’s 4th largest economy.

Nathan Explosion’s vocals are super brutal (and unintelligible), so I thought it would be convenient to have the lyrics in front of you while you are home locked in your room banging your head against your door frame to the Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle.

Your long search is over, you can find liquid nitrogen at New York Burrito where they serve "Sub Zero" ice cream. Its up on State St. in Orem close to 800 N.  Realize that sub zero ice cream is only for extreme people. It was designed by astronauts who quit the space program to devote their lives to designing ice cream.

Basically all they do is mix cream and sugar and flavoring and pour it into liquid nitrogen making ice cream similar to "dipping dots."

Anyway today Sam and I went and got some.  Sam of course is the mastermind behind finding the liquid nitrogen, and don’t ask me why or how he knew it was there.  They will sell it to you for $2 a liter.

Among the things we did with it were: dip and eat marshmallows (they become like giant lucky charms marshmallows), make a ping pong ball spin around really fast by poking a tiny hole in it and filling it up with liquid nitrogen (on one occasion the hole was positioned correctly for the ball to fly straight up and hover while spinning in the air for a couple seconds, I nearly pissed myself), dip inflated balloons, dip a water balloon (which made a nice ice egg full of water), dip a trophy (the trophy we’ve had for over a year that we used to award people that say something stupid), Sam braved putting some in his mouth and blowing vapor, and Sam threw some at us. 

A little photo gallery:

Marshmallow Fondue

Spinning Ping Pong Ball

Peeling the ice egg from the balloon

Emptied Ice Egg

Jill Johnson’s 6th grade basketball trophy from DI (the remains)

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You should really consider Cyprus Holidays when planning your next vacation. The Republic of Cyprus was originally a British Colony but ended up gaining independence in 1960. It is now a developed country and part of the European Union and a beautiful vacation destination.

Besides the outstanding weather conditions of the Mediterranean, Cypress has thousands and thousands of years of ancient history to visit, much of which has been recently discovered in the last twenty years.

Today I finally am a Page Rank 4.

I was a page rank 4 last year too, but when Wikipedia started using no-follow tags, I dropped to a 3.

So congratulations. To me.

This leads me to talk about a couple of handy SEO sites (these are old news to some of you), like the Rusty Brick Page Rank Prediction Tool. A couple weeks ago I found it and it predicted I would be a 4 in the next Google update. So I guess so far they are batting 1000. Another good place to see Page Rank is oy-oy.eu, which lists a ton of google data centers (or maybe all of them?). Two days ago I was a 4 on a third of the listed data centers and this morning I was a 4 on all of them.

So I was browsing one of my new favorite blogs, Sock Pr0n (which I wish she updated more often, but knitting takes time obviously) and I was thinking about how I wish my own blog were a little less shallow than just making fun of crap that I hate.

So in an effort to supply the world with slightly more valuable content, I’ve decided to start a column on faking like you’re really awesome at playing guitar.

To kick off this long and strange trip, here is a little PSA that Slam Garfield filmed on his phone. I of course was joking, I’m only the third greatest guitarist in the world. Apparently, John Mayer actually said and did something like this in a concert in all seriousness:

Anyway, here’s the tip and trick of the day:

The jazzy/muddy sounding moveable 7th chord

Moveable chords are great, especially this one. This one got me through a lot of hard pieces in jazz band when I was in high school. Whenever I had to sight read something, which was like almost always, I often forgot which tones to add for certain chords, so I’d always just find the root tone and strum a moveable 7th.

This voicing of a moveable 7th is muddier sounding than the more common one because it puts the major 3rd as the second lowest tone in the chord. Usually the lower the 3rd is in any musical format, the muddier the sound and the more artsy and edgy you will appear. Putting the 3rd on the very bottom is hard to pull off unless you’re doing arpeggios (which is essentially what you call when notes of a chord are played in succession). Also notice that the fifth is missing, which definitely adds another element of ambiguity.

jazzy/muddy moveable seventh:

G7

—x— Dick Cheney’s clout as of late

—x— your brain on drugs

—4— major 3rd

—3— seventh

—2— major 3rd

—3— root

The more common moveable seventh:

G7

—3— root

—3— fifth

—4— major 3rd

—3— seventh

—5— fifth

—3— root

Now these are moveable chords which means you can play any 7th chord by putting the root on that note. so, if you want to play a:

Bb7 (muddy)

—x—

—x—

—7— D (major 3rd)

—6— G# (Seventh)

—5— D (major 3rd)

—6— Bb (root)

We’ve just started to carry Audio Technica products at Sewell Direct. I always love to see us get into the high-end audio equipment that I can buy for myself. Here are a couple items that I am eyeing:

The ATH-M30 Monitor Headphones are probably the best value for high-end Monitor Headphones. When recording, you need monitors that will send the sound into your brain without any additives, and these will do the trick, helping you to adjust levels accurately. They are closed back and operate on up to 65 ohms.

The AE5100, although a little up there in price, seems like a great all-around microphone to have. It is dynamic enough to accurately pick up percussion (even cymbals) like a champion, and still capture the delacate and subtle nuances of an acoustic guitar. It features a large diaphragm which will preserve and resonate with the full spectrum of sounds. It is also rugged enough to travel extensively with without any worries.

For a really good value, I was also thinking about picking up the AT2041SP studio set. It is the 20 series, so not the highest end, but probably good enough for me. It includes both the AT2021 instrument mic and the AT2020 vocal microphone which I’m sure will get the job done.

Did you know "pugilism" is Latin for "boxing"?  You should use it in a sentence today and impress someone.

Also, the latest Bond flick "Casino Royale" is coming out on DVD March 13th.  Everyone’s been talking about how it was so good.  I think people are saying that because Bond movies are usually so banal and formulaic, and also because the character of James Bond is usually such a self-absorbed womanizing 2-dimensional douche, and this movie was a slight improvement.  So instead of a totally empty predictable Bond movie, we got a mediocre action movie.

So I’ve been trying out Qumana for the last couple of posts, and this is what I think.

I started using BlogDesk which I am pretty happy with so far, but they don’t offer a Mac client.  Sam mentioned qumana in a comment for my post about Blogdesk, so I thought I’d try it out.  Qumana offers both a mac and a windows client, so I guess they have one up on Blogdesk for that.

Qumana and Blogdesk are equally easy when adding a new blog.  The layout is also pretty identical.  Qumana’s client has a lot more dazzling eye candy, which is fine but of which I could care less about.  A strange bug with Qumana is that every time I add a link to a post, it defaults to the first link I left using this client which was last post’s Origin of Species Audiobook location.  So every time I leave a link I have to delete that url and then write the new url.

Another annoying thing about Qumana is this…

Powered by Qumana

…So unless you want to leave a link for Qumana every time you post and dilute your outbound link juice, you have to delete the little footer every post.

I am also having trouble with uploading images with Qumana.  Blogdesk’s image uploader is a lot more intuitive, offering several sizes to fit your blog perfectly (it even warns you when the image won’t fit).  Qumana only allows you to either manually configure the pixels, or to upload the image as is.  That would be great if when changing the pixel size for the width or height it auto adjusted the ratio for the other value, but it doesn’t.  And, they appear as broken images in the preview, so I have to upload the post to my blog before I even see if it came out all right.

One cool thing about Qumana is that when you post to your blog, it pings technorati for you.  That doesn’t save me a trip to pingoat though since there are other places to ping.

So I’m looking for a good free blog editor for mac.  Until then, its slightly less annoying to just use my PC with Blogdesk.

I’ve enjoyed the simple pleasures of multi-media editing with my powerbook G4 since 2003, but it came time to upgrade to a Mac Book Pro. I got a pretty sweet deal on a refurb 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo MBPro because the new Core 2 Duos just came out. I was sold with the included one-year (same as new) warranty.

Here are my two babies, hybernating together, dreaming of pure 1s and 0s, neither of their flowers plucked by the depraved viruses and worms that plague the PC world.

I personally am a PC vs. Mac pacifist, although if I am ever faced with a computer buying decision I will almost invariably choose mac. One example of how macs facilitate our lives is the old-mac-to-new-mac settings/data carry-over when you get a new mac… which leads me to the beef of the post which is a simple “How to turn your mac into a firewire drive” or more simply “How to transfer files from one mac to another.”

You see, as soon as you start your new mac for the first time, it asks you if you’d like to transfer all your files and settings (even firefox, garageband, and all other apps settings) to your new mac. With one 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, you’re in business.

It took these two guys about an hour and 45 minutes to make my new mac have all my old mac’s settings and files, which was roughly 30 gigs of data.

Anyway, a couple years ago I remember it was almost impossible to find a simple online guide to transfer files from a mac to another mac (even on mac’s support site), so here’s a simple how-to:

1. Connect both computers with a firewire cable.
2. Restart the host mac (the mac with the files you are about to transfer) and hold down the “T” button until a gigantic firewire symbol appears on the screen.
3. Your host mac is now functioning as a firewire external drive. You can now browse it using your other mac’s finder.

So… if you have a mac, then bring it on over and mac-off with us.

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) has already been around for years, but is barely coming into the mid-to-high range for consumer entertainment centers.

HDMI is based on the video signal used in DVI (Digital Video Interface). DVI has also been used in industrial and office situations for years and is finally coming into the main stream. It is an upgrade from the analog VGA signal that has been used in household computer systems for decades.

DVI, unlike its VGA predecessor, uses binary data to determine the brightness and color of each pixel of a DVI display. HDMI uses the same digital signal classified as a discreet time signal, but includes 8 channel digital audio all in one interface that is a small fraction of the size and encumbering nature of the DVI interface. See the two interfaces below:

DVI may some day go the way of the dodo if HDMI video cards, displays, HDMI cables, and HDMI switches find their way economically into consumer systems.

So this week gave the gift of the first decent snowfall of the year, and being a proprietor of the Preseason Solitude Ticket Package, I found myself on the slopes yesterday. Solitude by the way isn’t the greatest snow of Utah. It is above decent, though, and all the punk kids go to Brighton and the snobs go to Canyons, Alta, and Deer Valley. Snowbird is always crowded and I think the tram is over-rated. Yesterday I only saw another human being about once every 10 minutes on average, and I stuck to the groomed areas for the most part, and that includes the area at the lift gates.

This happened a little off the groomed area. I hit granite where the snow got thin and the next thing I remember was face down about 20 feet away from my skis. The above picture is pretty much the first thing I saw, and I thought it was funny, like out of a cartoon or one of those yearly holiday movies that always have flying sleds and neighbors competing to have the best decorated house for some reason.

Anyway, I highly recommend the Solitude Ticket Package. They already stopped selling it (sales are only pre-season and stop Nov. 1) but you buy at least 11 passes for $33 each pass. You can get as many over 11 as you want. If you don’t use them all this year, you can redeem them next year by going to the ticket office before March 31st I think. They put all the passes on one card that you put in your left breast pocket and the sensors at all the lift gates automatically read them which is a much better system than most resorts around here.

I cruised by in my sweet Jeep Commander (which I have for a couple days while they repair the door on my car) at around 5:20 this evening through Playstation 3 Camp and took these two photos (so sorry so blurry. I am part Asian too you know, so I was driving while Asian, and using a camera phone).

Anyway, Nothing much different at Best Buy, Orem, Utah. Same people. Not any more really. The weather is just colder. Much colder.

Here’s a photo of what appeared to be a brewing dispute. Two big guys getting in each other’s faces. So much for world peace rallies….

This editing is quite amazing, please click on: Amateur.

Oh yeah, and have you heard Beck’s new album “The Information”? Well, ok its not that new, but its excellent.