Just finished up one bookbinding project and part way through another. My first project was a Coptic binding. It’s an ornate, exposed spine binding that has detailed chain stitching on displayed on the spine of the book. A very flexible and utilitarian binding which lies flat allowing for easy reading of the material, the Coptic binding was developed in the 4th century A.D. in Egypt. The chain stitch used to attach signatures to each other had it’s roots in carpet weaving.
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Another video of Steve. Below is a video of a great interview that Steve Irwin did on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Very funny.
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So, one of my favorite conservationists and genuine people has died. Steve Irwin, known to most people around the world as the Crocodile Hunter passed away today in an accident while filming a documentary about the sea’s most dangerous creatures off the coast of Australia. A stingray barb pierced his chest and heart.
I remember watching his shows on television many times and having to look away because what he was doing or the danger he was in was too hard to watch. He lived his life like that, on the edge but he enjoyed what he was doing and died doing just that. Below is a video tribute of Steve Irwin’s live originally broadcast on Australian television on September 4, 2006, the day of Steve’s death.
Amazing, cool rhymes, awesome video. Nice commentary on the worlds view of beauty and what it imposes on beliefs and affects behaviours. (if you are viewing this from a site that aggregates my blog, there is an embedded video below that you won’t be able to see so click through to see the actual story on my blog).
So, it was late last night and not really wanting to sleep, against my better judgement I began browsing some of the cool links I have collected over the past few weeks. One of my favorites has been a collection of free or otherwise freely available movies and documentaries at http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/
OK, so I have an equity line of credit at US Bank on my home which equates to an interest only loan/second mortgage. My goal has been to pay it off as soon as possible and so when I have a significant amount saved, I pay some of it down. Last month I went to my local US Bank office and deposited two checks, one for $8,000.00 and the other for $200.00. I explained that the $8000.00 check was to be paid on the principle of the loan while the $200.00 was for the next automatic withdraw and should be deposited in my checking account.
The clerk deposited the checks and claimed to have made the application of the $8000.00 to the principle, thereby reducing the amount of my total mortgage. She even gave me a new balance that seemed to reflect the applied money.
Today I went in to deposit some money for my next payment and learned that there was nothing due. Asking why, the clerk responded that “oh, you have paid an $8000.00 payment towards future payments so you have paid ahead of schedule”.
- What the crap!!!!!!!!!
I know this is old stuff but the reloaded trailer is too funny….
Star Wars Kid: Reloaded… continue reading…
Went with some friends: Melody, Jason and Natalie on a walking tour of downtown Salt Lake City on June 19, 2006. Very cool. Spent some time looking at old buildings but didn’t have nearly enough time to do the whole tour. We only were able to do the first third or so. Took some pictures of the buildings we visited.
A friend of mine, Melody and I went to Garden Park Ward last Tuesday. It’s a fascinating place in the neighborhood where I grew up. I used to float boats in the duck pond and walked through there on my way to and from my high school (East High).
So, I have been using Verizon for years as my cell phone provider and have thought it funny that they claim such good coverage yet it seems that I have terrible coverage. In fact, in my lab at Novell, the indicator says “roaming” which I have always thought was weird and I get hardly any signal and have to step out of the lab or go to my office to make cell phone calls. Last night, the service was so bad that every single call was dropped in a matter of seconds or would not connect at all. After calling technical support, I found that I had not updated my Preferred Roaming List (PRL) in over a year. Hey, how was I supposed to know that I should do that? I didn’t see any notice about it anywhere. However, I did find this FAQ on the subject:
(especially note item #4)
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Despite the wonder of the winter Olympics, I wish spring were here. I’m itching to get outside and put on some road miles. I did see the amazing half-pipe competition last evening and thought that Shaun White did a great job and deserved the gold. I was upset that Apolo Ohno slipped up because he tried to pass Hyun-Soo Ahn on the right and get a first place finish when he had a respectable 2nd place finish in the bag. Had he been satisfied with his position, he would have made it on to the next round. It’s as though he didn’t have the larger picture in mind and could only see the current race rather than building for future competition.
The Olympic games have been pretty good so far though. I’m looking forward to the upcoming competitions.
This pic is just too funny. I don’t know who the original photographer was but I think they caught some squirrels that need to be watched very carefully…
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Nikon has officially announced it’s new Digial SLR camera: the D200. While a bit tardy the text of the official press release follows:
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Ok, this was first displayed in this thread on Digital Photography Review. It is a screenshot of the nikon.com web page before it was taken down.
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Well, it seems that the cat is out of the bag now. These picures along with a list of specifications of the Nikon D200 were leaked yesterday on the net and posted to several photography sites around the net. Note that the specs are not official. In fact, none of this is official since Nikon has not announced anything as of yet.
continue reading…On Tuesday this week, I went to my sister’s place for dinner with my family up in Park City, UT. It was my birthday and we had a great time being together and eating dinner. My sister fixed a low-carb pumpkin cheesecake. I asked her for the recipe and she pointed me to this blog entry where she got it.
I’ve been eating a low carb diet for a couple years now and I am constantly on the lookout for good food that is low in high-impact carbs. I decided that I wanted to make some muffins and looking around, I saw that I had some Bob’s Red Mill 10-grain Cereal mix with a recipe on the side for muffins. I replaced some of the ingredience and this is what I came up with. Since the 10-grain cereal is not entirely low-carb, these are “lower-carb” muffins.
Ran accross a story on EL’s blog about technical interest of males vs. females. EL’s post on the subject is quite humorous. From her blog:
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UPDATE Oct. 28, 2005: Check out the new leaked D200 picures!
This past monday, Yahoo! News reported that Nikon made a quarterly profit of ¥13.94 bn ($124.8 m) or about 4 times that of the same period last year. Articles are here and here.
I’ve been riding for hours every day for the last two and a half weeks. Tonight I rode around the west side of Geneva Steel, over to the South end of American Fork, up through North Orem to the mouth of Provo Canyon up to Vivian Park, then back home. This is too hard…its not working.
