Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Welcome to the Prado

Last month, the Prado became the first museum to open its collection to Google’s mapping technology, allowing you to take a virtual trip to Madrid and see super-mega-resolution views of 14 masterpieces.

The paintings include Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, Rubens’s Three Graces, Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, and El Greco’s Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest, and you can zoom in so closely, it’s like putting your nose right up to the canvas (without angering security guards). Other museums, take note: It’s time to Google yourselves.

Check it out here

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

American Idol Recap

Hey there Danny Gokey - 'nuff said. (I don't think anyone else sang did they?)

Music starts at the 59 second mark.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Just for fun 2 - Wordle is cool

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

Here's 3rd Nephi Chapter 11:

 


Or perhaps the Declaration of Independence:

 

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Just for Fun

Modern English may have stopped the world to melt with you, but in their new video, “Catching Up,” Sweden’s They Live by Night stop time itself.

Directed by Senay/Kolacz, and captured on a high-speed Phantom HD camera at 1,000 frames per second, the video shows us an idyllic picnic that’s suddenly disrupted by a fight. Women scream, bottles fly, a clown tries to break up the fisticuffs — a few seconds’ worth of action that takes three full minutes to unfold. (The snail-paced visuals cut nicely against the uptempo song.) Favorite moment? At the two-minute mark, you’ll see a banana floating through the frame — as if it were in outer space.

Friday, February 06, 2009

Refiners Fire

I received this from my Dad last night – I was impressed enough by it to pass it along.

“I heard a cool story from one of my colleagues at the temple today (Dad is an ordinance worker in the Manti Temple). As background, you need to read Malachi 3:2-3

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
and Moroni 7:48
48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.
A group of sisters were in a study group when they ran across Malachi 3:3. They wondered what the process is to refine silver. One of them was delegated to go to a silversmith to find out. He went over the refining process detailing how the silver was separated from the ore and all of the impurities were removed from the molten silver.

She had one question: How can you tell when the silver has had all of the impurities removed? The answer: I can see my image in the silver.

Think about it. - Love, Dad”

I’ve thought about whose image I see, and whose it is that I want to see...

Your turn if you so choose

-jake

Thursday, February 05, 2009

PHS - Undefeated

So far the Provo High Basketball team has gone undefeated this year, are ranked number 1 in the state, number 17 in the country, and are looking for the third straight state title in as many years.

But for us - the excitement is elevated when Baby Girl gets to cheer at half time as part of the cheer clinic!

Here are some pics from tonight's game:
















Can you see CK?
















QK just hangin' with the Dixon crew
















The game got a little boring at times
















Waiting to Cheer
















Future Cheerleaders























Oh yes - some actual game snaps
















Cheering at half time
















Splits at the finale - too bad she was facing away.
















A moment of counsel - um Josh? Josh? Are you paying attention?

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Baby Girl - All Dolled Up

Baby Girl had some surgery last Wednesday.

Doesn't she look sweet?

All went very well!

"pain quotidien"

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."

-Oscar Wilde