Da new year

THIS BE THE LOW DOWN-
We are sending out an open call to all yalls! For the new year we will have good eats, beats, and treats... We can rally at our place around 9:30- 10 and later we'll head out to first night after some eatz. (advance tickets are 8 bones and 10 at the door. Check www.firstnightslc.org) After the ball drop we can hit I-hop for some late night breakfast. And then....the possibilities are endless! We will have a load of finger food to grind and if you feel the need, bring some goods of your own to add.
If your down- meet us in BIG CITY SLC
328 W 200S
#405
@ Westgate Lofts.

trailor blog - up and runneeng

Blogs, check it out (kruuukeychu) blogs check it out.. Read about Hel and Tay....Pics, treats, and da goods. We're at tayandhelfarland.blogspot.com

Marco-me-Lopez!

Merry Christmas

and a happy new year!

BFA and BFF

You are all invited to the show. This Wednesday, December 5th from 7-9 in the HFAC. There will be carbon fiber bowls, topographical tables, dipped chandeliers, laser-cut mirrors and refreshments. Plus the work of Rebecca Knudsen.

Ryan, Taylor, Kenny, Ammon

I think the five of us should plan a time to go take a stroll through Grandview and snap some pictures before it gets torn down at the end of this school year. You guys interested?

Its a...

GIRL, and she's beautiful!

Holiday Hang out

Hey biyatches, when is everybody going to be in town for the holdiays? I'll be in Utah Dec 17th - 24th so I hope some of you will still be around to play indoor and make reindeer lawn decorations do naughty things.

I hear my stock rising!

Google is for sure going to bid on the 700MHz Spectrum. They still haven't said which sections they will bid on but this is huge. I hope they win.

Link

Dan in Real Life

If I had to recommend a romantic comedy (which I don't), I would suggest this one. T'was good.

I can't wait to see this movie...anyone in?

Linkedin

No I'm not talking the missing link. I have already sent some of you an e-vite(sweet word) to join my business network if you didn't get the e-vite it's because I don't have your email. the more people the more power in the network or the more use. This might be a good way for some of the crew to meet contacts/people who work in their fields. My first thought of linkedin was uhh but now I'm seeing why it could be good even if not now some time soon. I like the thought of being able to help any of you meet someone who could help you find a job, make a business deal, or just some good advice. For example my brother-in-law works for SWlaw in SLC maybe Ben has a question about getting a job at his firm or maybe Ryan wants to ask Don about IHC because he is on the board. Post your email if you want. Let me know what you think.

Build it before you need it.

There is no "I" in empire.

A couple more scanned gems.

Edit: I don't know these people, just thought it's a funny pic. The shorts have since been mended and I still use them often, after a thorough scrubbing.




Repeat anyone? Mountain croquet?

Office pretty cheap

I was talking to Harmon about this and it's a good deal if you need Office so I thought I'd let people know.
Microsoft is just making it cheaper (by a lot) for students. It's $59 and it's the ultimate version with all that crap.

Click Me


Post Script: I'm a big fan of tyranny and all that but the blog is dead with the password. So, maybe we should go back to that whole democracy idea and follow the poll numbers.

I thought we had this copyrighted!

Seriously. Who is this guy? Harmon, take him out.

http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/triple-threat.php

Don't ask how I came across this....

Speaking of Mormons Exposed . . .

. . . and since we're now password protected.

Who voted "no password"

No worries if your wife or your parents need to give you the O.K. before you read the blog i can give them the password or you could because you will have it too. I'm not saying that your loved ones can not or should not read the blog they are welcome. My concern is for people like Sam Ray, Kelli Lobendawn(spelling?), or Irish Mike. Maybe that is me being a D but after all you guys voted me in the top five D's (underground word). The only reason i made the top five is because Lance voted. Witch pushed me up to number 5 not number 6 where i belong.

I'm surrounded by idiot (maybe savants?)!

I'm sitting across from chump #1 blatantly fondling his zits while some dude walks by with his cargo shorts hiked up to his man tits! (that's for you ryan) If I get hit with mashed potatoes I'm gonna remove chump #1's screen from his laptop.

/end of rant

Grandview Picture Spam

I understand that only Kenny, Taylor, Ryan, Ammon and I went to Grandview, and I already posted the 5th grade wilcox pic, but there are quite a few nostalgic gems in the rest of these pictures. I've got higher quality scans of these and much more if anyone's interested.

My only regret at the Grandview was that I didn't fight the 3rd grade color change. It was 1990 and the bulls were right at the beginning of their dynasty, Michael Jordan was the shee and for some reason our school let us take a vote on what our new school colors should be. We then said goodbye to some pretty rad orange-with-brown-grizzlies tshirts and traded them for all sorts of junk. Now Provo school district is planning on closing Grandview Elementary (with some opposition); so fellow Grizzlies go live the memories while you can, maybe Ammon can get us in again for some carpeted basketball or indoor?


-?'s: who are the two guys next to Daniel Cook?








-?'s: Boy in blue and white next to Miss Nielsen, girl far left third row, girl next to Josh Boulter.







-?'s: Top right-behind me, cocktail shirt in the middle, blue sweater







-?'s: Far left top, both ends on 3rd row, black girl, redshirt








Scott Rasmussen had pumps, Brett Barrus sportin' xj9000's
'?'s: none, know em all in this one.

One Year of the Blog

September 17th marks one year of the "Motto? I thought you said Vato!" Blog, and Google ran some analytics for me (since June 1st).

International representation. Had I done this earlier we would have had some dots in AAASHIA.

Who's scopin' us in (the) Singapore? (Rich with or without "the"?) and Miami?

"Big" city is representing better than little city.

This blog is so much more "north" than "south" (contrary to Duane's prediction in the second comment ever)

The first comment ever was "Help me LOGAN" by trailor park.

Buns, hands down, had the most video spam posted on the blog.

Graham and Hershey were the first mugs up on the screen.

"Snow Biz" was the post with the most comments, 24, but only 3 actually went on the camping trip.

WTF?

2nd Annual....?

Wanted to find out if yall are interested in planning another Halloween party? Let me know if you are down. Twill be good.
P.s if you dig the photo google banksy
p.p.s Graham the new D shades are a perfect costume!

Flea Market Montgomery's

I was on the SA forums checking out a thread on best commercials ever:

Then I saw this reply to that commercial that someone had ingeniously mixed with a clip from shawshank, I was on the floor!

If you get through those and still think I'm funny you can check out a little background at wikipeds

Now some D's wearin' 'em!!!

WTH?

As I arrived in the Houston airport after my mission I remember walking past these sunglasses and thinking "Que isso, Chorizo?" or translated (vouch for me Rick) "What the frick?"Well, Oakley has done it again. Now I can listen to Megadeath while fishing AND be a hard A all at the same time (and ONLY at the same time).

Wilcox's 5th 91-92

I'll post 'em all soon. There are four people I can't name in this pic:

1. Blue shirt, pissed face on the third row, right next to Wilcox.
2. Blonde kid on my left and Chris Hill's Right.
3. White "United States Olympics TShirt, right behind me.
4. The girl in the front, not Michelle or Heidi.

For archival only.

For All You LOVERS...

Yo dogs, Tiz been awhile since I posted. So I feel this is quite appropriate.

2 Home shopping vids.

Leprechauns (not grahams poloroids)

My favorite part - this is my leprechaun flute (scaffolding). The worst part is it is really hard to tell if some of these people are joking.

Peter Middleton Harmon

Born yesterday, 8.21.07, 7 lbs 12 oz, 20.5 inches.

This Reminds Me of Ryan Harmon

not interesteing

We finally left Provo for our new home in Boulder, CO. Our place is sufficiently comfortable, except none of our neigbors offered to help us move in. No joke-they just stood around watching Grace and me struggle to lift these huge couches and dressers into the apartment next to theirs. They must have assumed we were a splinter-cell of Chinese Al Qaeda setting up operations in Colorado and didn't want to get involved. So, in retrospect, despite the incessant, uninformed, and pervasive Republicanism of Utah, we at least could've counted on our nextdoor neighbors to give a meager helping hand. I guess Mormondom has its perks after all. Wishing good luck to everyone this coming school year-not you Rich.

Question: Will there be a barbeque?

Answer: Yes, tomorrow night.

I guess we'll just do some low-key q-ing.

at my house.

at 7:00 or frick it, whatever (yes Lance should be there, and the Hulk).

I'll provide some hamburgers, and hot dogs.

You all can bring drinks or chips something...

Somebody bring a lady friend for Ammon.

SOUTH

It had to be posted though.

Okay, that was long enough.

wee

I didn't like him much either, but come on . . .

So, as I've been sooo busy at work lately, I ended up looking at the Wikipedia entry on Provo High School. It's pretty vague and doesn't really have many details, but the one it does have is a mention of Cesar Cardoso. I urge you all to look at his name closely. Is that really his middle name? I don't think so.

simpsonizeme.com

Burger King has this great little tool. Just upload a portrait that fits their guidelines and within seconds, POW! you're a simpson. I did mine this morning. Let's see some of yours.




The faux-hawk is acutally post-buzz scooter hair after waking up way too early to scoot into work this morning.

P.S. anyone want to buy a scooter?

This one is for you Ryan

This is a picture I took tonight. The sign says "Bank NRB". I noticed this sign back in 2004 and always wanted to take a picture of it. If you don't know what NRB means you can ask Ryan.

Utah's choicest artists.

I first saw this video at the paulos' home a year or two ago on comcast's ondemand local artist section. The ending suprise is the best, but two of my favorites are the fresh and bloody 801 tatoo on his arm; and the fact that he begins the film with him burying a body in the west desert.

Oh Dorothy!

I've been back from Hawaii for a week, and the pain in the back of the thighs is just going away from this foible...so glad it is on camera.

Glad this never made it past scenario!

Just read this sombering story about a couple of kids in Colorado who attempted one of our best scenarios. I'm not quite sure, but I think the whole crew had to have been involved in a discussion or two about attempting the same thing. We're lucky that we made it through so many stunts without any casualties (although Kenny did lose a shoulder a couple of times.) Am I alone in wondering if we still could have pulled this one off?

Los Netherlands

I'm headed to Holland aka the Netherlands on Wednesday for an internship with designer Joris Laarman, until the end of September. Check some of his stuff below. If you are out that way, you should stop by! (Rich, meet me in the middle? Poland?)




Cool looking radiator. One of my favorites.

tid bits

- Finally watched Casablanca. It really was fantastic.

- Tried Dippin' Dots. Meh, I'd rather just have smooth ice cream, it was annoying.

- Drove 14hrs straight from Seattle yesterday/last night. Impressive for me cause I usually get tired after just a few hours. It took 5 Diet Cokes, and 1 1/2 Redbulls.

videos?

Pretty good quality movies streamed or downloadable, also documentaries and TV shows. I question their statement of legality, but the movies look great streamed even directly to the TV, a lot like tv-links only better quality:
videostored.com

A Word or Two on Syntax and Semantics

Dearest friends,

It struck me while reading our latest online musings that it might behoove me to rectify and clarify, as has become my habit, some issues of English grammar. The matter at hand is one rather dear to my heart, it involves the improper usage of "the" in front of "Ukraine." As you all may or may not know, Ukraine is an independent country to the South-West of Russia. Thus, it is inappropriate to mention the Ukraine. You would not, for instance, say the Brazil, or the China. I confess, however, that this error is a folly committed by many, for Ukraine was for many years the Ukraine because it was considered a region of Russia or the Russian Empire. Much like we mention the South or the Mid-West, we have, for many years said the Ukraine. In the post-Soviet context, however, it is incorrect and politically insensitive to speak this way.

In Russian the matter is complicated further by grammatical issues that have persisted until now. For instance, in Russian you are grammatically obliged to say na Ukraine (in Ukraine) much like you would say na Iuge (in the South) using the preposition na which would indicate that you are in a region, instead of v, which would indicate that you are in a different country. Also you are supposed to use c instead of iz when saying that you are from a place. Once more the idea is the same. Most Ukrainians flout this rule and choose to speak using the v and the iz. It is my sincere belief that we should do the same.

Address your questions to Rich in the Ukraine Here!

El Q es caliente

As soon as Rance gets home we need to crew it up near a grill.

How about July 7th?

Let me know if you can't make it or if another day would work better.

When is Ammon in town? Rich, Duane, you in?

...

click on ... if you dare.

(100th Conch post, triplestack)

My Wife is Half Japaness

Japanese Treadmill Challenge - Watch more free videos

LANCE...Yes.m

I heard from Lyman C and he claims Lance will be home in a week or so.

BLOG PORTFOLIO

Check out my new blog HERE

A Bear!

Some of us were talking about this the other day. Cruel, demeaning and pretty dang funny.

Bringin' the rope! Graham, bring the boombox

Last year:
Dudes 2006 - 9
Gainers - 1
People camping in our hugs - numerous
Matt P.'s Outfits - 3
Dudes who dipped in jelly bag - 2+
Toms seconds of fame on whistle - 20+
Dead mice - ?

Let's get a more final list of who's going so we can setup a planning session. I'll try and keep this list updated, post any changes.

Ben A. yes
Gra D. yes
Rya L. yes
Jak K. yes
Tay F. yes
Ken S. yes
Pet P. yes
Tom A. yes
Bra F. yes
Ben K. yes
Jar M. yes
Eth K. yes, but maybe
Cam L. yes

Amm P. No, but maybe
Mat P. No
Mat W. No
Ben H. No

Chels found this one

wow... just, wow.

Who did it?

Who is in for Escalante 07 June 7th-9th lets get a count so we can start making plans. If Matt goes im out.

Triple Stack '07

trip...trip...triple stack of crew babies born in '07 now to be complete.

Kristen and I are expecting a baby on December 4th.

Four anyone?

(b.t.w. it's too late if you haven't already started)

That was awesome...

Kind of an ugly game 5 but I'll take it. We are so close!

smith's blog is a go

Chelsea and my blog is up and running.

Check it.

Ryan, could you change the link and title down on the right?

EDIT: changed the link to new address.

I can finally post on this blog!!!

26.2 Big City Style

I didn't get under 4 hours like I wanted to but it was good and I'm glad I did it. Right now I'm glad it's over. That was a long time to be running.
I'll be bringing the Sport Shield to Escalante '07, it's amazing.

Help me....Logan

He yalls. I tried to start a family blog site awhile ago and had some troubles setting the page up correctly. I wanted to know if yall could give me some direction. The site is BakerFarland.blogspot.com. I messed around with the page layout but it was givin me some barny rubs.

Random Crap

I just wanted to say that I got shot in the throat last night by a paint ball gun. Right on the Adam's Apple. It really wasn't too bad so it lessens any regret of jacking people in high school. It would be tight to get together with the crew for some paintball capture the flag or something.

...That's all.

For Webb Fans Only

I received this email from my brother:

Dear Former Student of Mr. Webb,

A few of Mr. Webb's past students are gathering student memories and stories about Mr. Webb. All of us who had classes from Mr. Webb or went on birding, camping, or science adventures were influenced by him in one way or another and enjoyed his enthusiasm. Who else could get countless teenagers as excited about spotting a Hooded Merganser or naming every bone in the human body? We thought it would be a nice gesture to compile these memories and present them to Mr. Webb. So if you'd like to share some memories please take the following three steps:
1. Write up your memories and email them to
Rob Holmes rob.a.holmes@gmail.com
or
Mat Duerden duerden@tamu.edu
2. If you have any good pictures email them to Mat or Rob
3. Forward this email to other former students for whom you have contact information.

Thanks for your help and email us if you have any questions.



Rob H. and Mat D.

One more crew member!

Yes it is true Devri is pregnant. We will be adding to the crew.
The baby should be born Oct. 23rd or sometime near there.
We better plan some sweet camping from now til then.

There's no elephant in here!!

So, is it ok for me to acknowledge the love and care between Ben and Rich? Can I count on a huge fight in my backyard at some future BBQ? Maybe you can live in the same town and become a cool Capulet/Montague thing? Then maybe Graham and I can start hating each other too since I didn't go camping. That'll just be the start but we can escalate things.

Good times, very healthy.

Seriously though, was I still on the mish when something went down?

P.S. Graham, jk about us having beef. We could start a fake fight like the weed thing but we'd have to take a break from the feud when I license that patent 'cause I'll owe you 10% but then we could start fighting again. ;)

Where has Graham been anyway?

Somebody get some butter, I'm on a roll

Apparently I had a little free time today, which led to the discovery of this photo. For those interested this is Vinnie Jones (you may recognize him from such films as Gone in 60 Seconds, Snatch, and She's the Man (seriously)) goosing/milking/honking/squirrel-tapping Paul Gascoigne three seconds into a match, which earned him the quickest red card in Premiership history. The real question we should be asking, however, is why is Gascoigne smiling? You do the math.

Oops! I Crapped My Pants

Hey guys, I was going back through the blog and I almost crapped my pants from laughing so hard, which made me think of this. Enjoy.

Plans tonight???

Dogs-

So Ammon is now in posession of a frekin sweet RV or is it a scamper? His padre left him this mobile home. So seeing that spring break is approaching I feel some good plans aught to be in order. What'iya say?