Saturday, October 30, 2010
a cappella in airport (T Mobile commercial)
Pure awesomeness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Cosmetic facial surgery
I learned on Tuesday that I should get cosmetic facial surgery as an investment in my own financial future, because it's been proven that men with above-average looks make more money. I heard it on the radio so it must be true!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Pres. Obama's Mormon ancestor
I thought this was interesting:
http://www.suite101.com/content/president-barack-obamas-mormon-ancestry-a295278
(there are some more details at the link, if you're curious)
http://www.suite101.com/content/president-barack-obamas-mormon-ancestry-a295278
President Obama is a great-great-grandson of Nancy Ann Childress Osburn Armour Turner, who was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS).
Genealogical research reveals that the much-married Nancy Ann Childress (1848-1924) is President Barack Obama’s Mormon ancestor. She married 1) James Osburn in 1868, 2) George W. Armour (ca. 1849-1889) in 1871, and 3) James T. Turner who had previously married Nancy’s sister, Sarah Catharine. Nancy and James were wed in 1897.
Nancy was born in Clark County, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton and Nancy (Conyers) Childress. (In some records the surname is spelled Childers.) She died in St. Mary’s Township, Hancock Co., Illinois. Both of her parents had been born in Kentucky. Her three marriages all took place in Lewis, County, Missouri and there is no indication that any of them were bigamous.
Nancy joined the RLDS Church after the death of her second husband. In February of 1877, James and Sarah Turner – Nancy’s third husband and her sister – had became members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and both of them remained true to their conviction of the gospel restored by Joseph Smith to the end of their lives.
(there are some more details at the link, if you're curious)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
a weird wave
I'm oddly pleased by this. It's an animation I created for my Physics 123 class, of a traveling wave whose peak (envelope) travels to the right, but whose individual frequency components travel to the left. Mesmerizing!
http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/colton/courses/phy123-fall10/weirdwave.gif
Monday, October 04, 2010
You snooze, you lose
Apparently the Physics computer people pulled the Robot Unicorn Attack game off the website the same day I posted about it last week. It was going viral... someone not even connected to BYU even posted about it on jazzfanz.com on Friday.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Club For Five
This song is on the album that was my 2nd or 3rd pick for A Cappella Pop/Rock album of the year last year. (I was a judge for that category for the CARAs.) Gotta love this Finnish group.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Physics Dept Website Easter Egg
This is hilarious. A student showed it to me yesterday. Go to the BYU Physics Dept homepage: http://www.physics.byu.edu/
The press up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a, and all your dreams will come true!
(It's the Robot Unicorn Attack game!!)
The press up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a, and all your dreams will come true!
(It's the Robot Unicorn Attack game!!)
