Well, Today is my brother Jay’s Birthday. For those of you who don’t know he passed away a few years ago, and in honor of my brother I am going to go eat Indian food today with Tiffany, heh… We really should not be eating out and be good about our money and just eat at home..but I am sure we will do it anyway, heh… But it got me thinking…. are we going to celebrate birthday’s in Heaven? I know someone asked Jesus if there was marriage in heaven…and the answer was “no” (fine by me I guess. I love my wife, but I love my God more…and she loves me even more because of that fact, heh)…. but what about Birthdays? They do seem a little selfish…being alabout us…..but it in reality should be able our praise for God allowing us to have this life….well, I guess I will just find out when I get there, heh…. what do yall think? Oh and Happy birthday Jay….if yall celebrate it there, heh heh…..
It also sure is a good excuse to go get some good food, heh….
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Well, here are the ton of videos from our Christmas that I promised…. They are all on YouTube so you can find them there too….but in no particular order here they are…..(and yes i realize that this is mainly for my family…but they are probably my most active readers so I get to sho them some love too!…..
Here is the Cutter Cam @ Rudy’s in Austin TX. Rudy’s is a very good BBQ place all over TX and a few in NM, and this is how serious TX is about it’s BBQ….they have a live camera showing them cut the BBQ while you wait in line…love it!
Stop Spitting Here Is Caleb my nephew telling his grandfather (who is pestering him) to stop spitting! Then tiffany tries to pester him by saying the (not allowed words, “shut up”) It is funny because he knows “shut up” is not supposed to be said, but instead of telling Tiffany to not say those words…he tells Tiffany that pop (his Granddad) should not say that word, heh.
We Don’t Say That Word…Because That Is Naughty Finally Tiffany got him to tell her not to say that word…and we heard this all the time when we were down there…Tiffany loved it…so so se would purposefully say the “naughty” words to hear him say it, heh.
My Nephew the future rocker…he has great stage presence!
So here is my mother-in-law opening up the gift Tiffany and I (mostly Tiffany) gave her…and then Caleb my nephew gets a little confused as to how he should play with it…it just made me miss my dog Halo. ha ha ha…..
So here is my Father-In-Law opening up a present from my wife. It is a huge home-made bobble head of Tiffany. It was @ her church’s bazaar and Tiffany bought it so that no one could get it….so she gave it to her father….and man…every time he looks at it…man those eyes crack me up…I would be doing the same thing….
Now here is my side of the family, and here is my nephew and his Dad attacking me and then fighting each other…kind of scary. But very cute.
And lastly I had to put up one Wii video and this time was my Nephew boxing..and doing a very fine job at it, heh…
================== Well, yall have a wonderful MLK Jr. Day…and watch a historic video or two to remember a wonderful man!
Well, I must say ever since I got a MacBook Pro laptop…I have been amazed and blown away with the Apple brand. Apple was actually one of my first computers…well it was my brother’s computer…but I got to play games on it too, heh…. but then Microsoft came into play and it became THE machine for games and if any of yall know me you know I like video games……so it was an easy choice…to go with Microsoft and the PC…. but ever since I have gotten a taste of Mac OS X and seen some of the simplest, yet amazing things they do with their products (like the two finger scroll on the mouse pad on the power Macs…very easy and cool) I am blown away…and also since my design classes in Undergrad I have had a flavor for good design and there is no one in the consumer market that can beat apple with the class and design of their products. Well, the rumor sites have been hinting at it al along and with Kevin Rose on Diggnaton leaking a few f the specs it seems that the big day @ the Mac World Expo has come and the iPhone is a reality…. And why am I freaking out (along with the rest of the geek nation)????
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Well that is why! It is a phone (only through Cingular Wireless as of right now) 4G and 8G iPod with widescreen, TOUCHSCREEN, video capabilities (i.e. download TV shows, music videos, and movies from iTunes and watch them on it), Wi-Fi internet browser, can hold your contacts, calendar, a 2Meg digital camera, widgets, clock, calculator, email, runs Mac OS X, bluetooth 2.0,has 2 batteries one for the iPod part and another for the phone so that you will not kill the other one if using the other…..(you get the point….it is an end-all-be-all in your pocket device! I am actually surprised that they did not make a deal with Starbucks and it could make your mocha in the morning and your frap in the evening…(but during Steve’s Keynote speech he did order 4,000 cups from Starbucks to go fro the iPhone by using Google Maps on the web browser, heh) So how much for this little fella??????
4 Gig = $499 5 Gig = $599
Yep, for the price of this device that fits in your pocket….you could buy a PS3, or a small HDTV, or a decent computer, etc…. So I am sure that Cingular will give their usual more or less $100 discount when you sign up for a 12 year agreement with them for the phone…and not sure about anything when it comes to warranty, heh…. but pending the FCC allowing it to come to market… Apple has single handedly revolutionized the cell phone and MP3 player market forever! Amazing just amazing….
Steve also just mentioned the (click the image again for info) {apple}TV
for your home that costs $299 that will hook up wirelessly to your computer and iTunes and will allow you to watch your downloaded movies, TV shows, Music, etc…from iTunes on your widescreen TV in your living room! This product and others like it may very well kill both the next gen HD-DVD and Blu-ray-DVD High Definition DVDs out of the water! While they are fighting in another format war just like VHS and Beta Max….the download able services found on the Xbox 360 live Market Place and Apple’s iTunes may lay them both to rest and the thought of walking around with a hard copy of a movie with be a thing of the past…because it will just reside in your phone…that someday you will just put next to your TV that will play the High Definition movie wirelessly! And seriously I do not think that kind of dreaming is not too far off.
Anyway…. this is the week that a part of me was in the consumer electronics business. The Mac World Expo is going on and so Apple is telling the world what is new in their corner of the world…and the the CES show (Consumer Electronics show is also going on too! CES…is the place that all the consumer electronics manufactures gather to gather to show off their latest technology, from gadgets, to cell phones, to TVs, to surround sound, etc… And man I know that I would just loose bowel control if I had the opportunity to attend one of these events… but until that happens some day and I make friends with Steve Jobs or good old Bill gates…I will just have to get my news from the people I can almost trust (news websites, the companies themselves, bloggers, etc…)
Well, needless to say I am very excited about all the electronic stuff going on especially the HDTVs that are being shown there… (especially since mine is being worked on and I am without my TV for 7-10 days…..aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, just kidding it is not too bad…especially since I have borrowed the church’s projector (thanks Gary)…but it is still not in HD…and with someone who just bought for Christmas the HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360
(clickable again) it is all mine…my precious….my love…..(oh wait that would be Jesus and my wife…wel, it sure is fun to enjoy and play around with, heh heh heh….)
…it does kind of suck a little bit, heh…. But, some very cool technologies are out there and coming to TVs….like Sony’s new OLED technology that claims to have 100,000:1 contrast ratio…(it means very good ability to show the difference between the darks and lights in a picture which gives it much better clarity and definition no matter how much light is in the room that the viewer is in) this is something that plasma and LCD have been having a hard time with as far as a technology is concerned…but then Mitsubishi has a new technology that uses lasers to give the picture on their TV…and that has the potential of producing “perfect” colors instead of having to use red, blue, and green to produce the other colors, they will use CMYK and Red, Blue, Green…this will allow the yellows, Magentas, etc…to be really vibrant…and I am sure that technology will be amazing…even though I have not heard anything as of yet about it at this years CES, but the show still has a few days to go yet…. And all the news is towards the High Definition Format war…with LG even producing a player that plays both formats…so that it will not matter what movie studio goes with which technology that the consumer will be able to play them both, heh heh… and others (Warner) have gone the route that will allow the movie distributors to put both a HD-DVD movie on one side of the DVD and a Blu-ray HD movie on the other side! Very cool that someone out there cares about the consumers instead of being greedy and having a format war…. these selfish battles killed Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio….but then again downloaded movies might just kill them both off anyway…oh well………….
Well, let me see….. ah yes, Christmas and New Years….Tiffany and I had a great trip to TX (i.e. the promise land) and got back safe and sound with lovely gifts and the best gift of all getting to see family! So, I guess until I can get a few of the videos into youtube I will just have to put up a few pictures for yall to enjoy…so here you go…..
Here is one of my favorite gifts I got from Kevin…who i always have a “gag” gift for…it was just my way a long time ago of welcoming him into the family…and this year my plans were shot…so he got to have all the glory…and yes, that is a jewel encrusted toilet bowl plunger…and why you may ask did he do this…well, for a few of you long time blog reader you might remember this little gem of a post/story that involves Tiffany, poop, a plunger, and a phone call.
my parent’s dog Teddy
Teddy sleeping
My Dad and Brady (Kevin’s (the Holy Plunger guy) youngest boy)
The Stones and my aunt
Here is Caleb Nephew on tiffany’s side that did not want to hold anyone’s hand when he crossed the parking lot to the movies, heh… he was a wonderful delightful…handful, heh… But boy do we love him!
Here is Halley our Niece on Tiffany’s side…I loved the tongue she gave me for the picture.
Tiffany’s Dad with Noelle’s dog Sunshine
Me with little Haley
Caleb face
Caleb face 2
Central TX clouds….I just loved this shot
And to top it off a shot of that wonderful state of TX….God bless her!
Yall have a good night and go check out the tech stuff. It really is very cool stuff! KUTPs…and be looking forward to videos of our Christmas soon!
i took this video of halo popping a balloon from my birthday (sorry Alicia)…and man it cracked me up….he had so much for for the VERY short time that he had it….and before i took it away from him, heh…. but anyway here it is…and you can tell he loved it….
oh and the shift key is not working right now on my computer and that is the reason the only time you see capital letter is when i turn on the caps lock and then off again…and it is killing me so i will just go one for now…
——————- speaking of halo…we had his teeth cleaned and while he was under they took off his dewclaws i guess that is what they are called….well everything went fine until we got home and he ripped out the bandages…and then this morning i looked down and his right foot was swollen to 4 times its normal size and noticed that they put the bandage on his foot too tight…and then when we called the vet they said to just take off the bandage and continue to keep giving him his antibiotics and pain medicine…and guess what they never gave us pain medicine….so poor halo went without pin meds and a swollen foot all night last night…and that was after we went back to the vet three times to get a collar that would still fit him and be long enough for him to not reach back and rip out his own stitches…anyway he is doing much better now…even though he has that plastic collar around his neck that he hates…but the bandages are off, the swelling is gone, and he seems to be a much better puppy dog now…but he has to wear that collar for 7-14 days and then we take him back t get the stitches out…and still not sure how that is going to go with us leaving next Monday to go home for Christmas…anyway… he is much better and i must now go to bed for church tomorrow….. kutps….God bless yall…
here is a picture of halo looking at me through the book case before the bandages came off almost asking me to please let him rip them off….please daddy please….. —————-
oh and on our way out the door to go to the Friday night OG Tiffany’s new purse broke and so she had to give what was supposed to be a surprise Christmas gift early…i got her with my parents a seatbelt bag purse…and very cool…and yes momma and daddy he loved it…sorry that she broke her other one and i had to give it to her early….and then i turned on my tv and it looks like the blue cannon that makes the picture look so amazing ly clear and hd…is really messed up and i have no idea how it got to be that way…..aaarrrggggg….and there is no way that we have enough money to replace the t.v. so between my dog and t.v. and wife’s purse all breaking in one evening life is still going well, and we had a great time tonight going to the nursing home with the Friday night og and then everyone came over and had Texas chili and played the wii…well the guys played the wii while the women went out to shop, heh…. and then we now have 3 wonderful people staying at our house from their ski trip…and i am very tired…..so it is off to bed and work tomorrow…..so yall have a great week and i hope to post something before Christmas…oh and did i mention that my laptop latch is broke so it will not open properly…it works ok but is not where it should be…so i will have to take that in to get fixed and they have to ship it out and then ship my laptop to my parents house for me to be able to use while i am there….oh well merry Christmas everyone and God bless ya….kutps
so the last Monday night OG I took over my Wii to Matt’s house and my Wii went over well….so well that I wanted to show yall some videos of the games played….
as you can tell Alicia’s form in boxing is amazing…
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Christian’s form and athletic abilities are out of this world….. ———————————————–
here Alicia was told by me that I wanted to see some trash talking, but in the end she took it out on me, heh heh heh….. —————————————————-
here Matt and Christian have a Wii tennis volley challenge…tons of fun…..
yall have a wonderful night take care and God bless ya KUTPs….
Court and I went out together and bought Christmas Trees…here they are:
Oh yes that is one sexy tree hugger!
What tall tress you have!
Now on to Tiffany’s birthday party:
Tiffany blowing out her fire cake, heh…
Everyone that was not playing the Wii or the board game down stairs.
Court and others bowling with my Wii
And here is the video I took of Tiffany’s Birthday party…the footage is horrible…but man you would really be surprised what 32 candles can do to a fire alarm!! ha ha Ha… oh man there are so many jokes here..but oh well, love you girl and I hope your party was great!
Lastly, here is a shot of the decor outside of our house when you are coming into the front door…well the angle is that of what a dog might see…but it still shows you what the front door looks like at least…
Well, life is going good, I will try to post on something that is going on in my life right now..but for now I must get back to work…take care and God bless yall! KUTPs!!!
Well, since we had the Organic Gathering last night on my actually Birthday we decided to invite as many as would come to eat sushi and hang out…it was tons of fun and man I wish everyone could have been there… here are a few pictures from the night (just follow the link to my flickr page:
And here are a few videos from the night also: (BTW the best Video is of Courtney and I promised him I would not put it here on my blog…so just go to my Youtube videos (link over there on the right side of my blog)and watch it there, heh it is funny for you sick crazy types…man he is funny):
The intro to the Sushi night:
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Here is me eating VERY good Toro (fatty) Tuna:
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The Sushi Birthday Cake! I tell you what the ice cream looked good, but I sure love what was on the other side better! (Thank you girl for a wonderful Birthday!)
Thank you all for such a great birthday, the cards, phone calls, emails, etc… I love you all and God bless yall! KUTPs!!!
And there is another movie coming out soon that has an official teaser trailer out and for you Harry Potter fans this might make you a little more happy:
OK so a friend of mine Sean was a little down and out yesterday and so we kind of hung out together yesterday and while we were in Kroger we got a short movie of a very funny Christmas lawn decoration.
And right before Santa…we hit the EB Games store for Sean to return some games and we got to play the Nintendo Wii….now yes I know that it is a stupid name…but seriously, this was soooo much fun! Truly amazing…and watch how Sean controls the car in the racing game….you literally move the controller not a button on it…but you move the controller…Nintendo really has something here…I had so much fun playing it….anyway here is the video of that fun time too:
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Well, I know that some of you migt be interested in the Seattle trip I took, and so hopefully I can be able to put some of that one here soon…until then take care and KUTPs!!!! Love yall!
I worshiped this morning and I did it through a video.
I have a great father here on earth…and man I love you Daddy, but our Father in heaven is calling out for a reminder that together is the way he desires to move, work, and play!
“…… Here are some ABSOLUTELY TRUE statements of factiness. Gentlemen, start your websites…….4) I will absolutely, posatively never ever do any kind of Serenity sequel or spinoff unless a studio asks me. Politely. Or meanly, that’s cool too…………….Here’s a thing: when “Firefly” was cancelled, my heart got broke. Sounds a bit much, but it changed me. Not even “Serenity” could patch that wound. I’m wearier, warier — after all those years as a movie writer, you’d think I’d be prepared for another lesson on my unimportance in the scheme of things, but I wasn’t. There are two very separate worlds: the marketplace, and the bustling bazaar that is my brain. The brain place is crowded with goods, ideas, sequels, spinoffs, animated versions, miniseries, radio dramas — this is just the used goods. All the new wares are in there as well and it’s deafening. Once I create a verse I never let go of it. And figuring out how much of my energy should be devoted to reawakening the projects you all love with the actors and characters I all love, and how much should be forging ahead and creating entirely new works (which you are contractually obligated to love) is exhausting. More than you know. You know the horse caught bwtween two pools of water? Add seven pools, and make the horse wicked A.D.D. The other world, the marketplace, I don’t even begin to understand or predict. All these rumor of projects or the death of projects… When the two worlds align and something actually happens, whatever it is, you guys know I’ll be on this site as soon as I’m allowed to be. And I’ll be very very clear. There is no news. Not never, just now………..
There are two movie/TV projects I would ever REALLY want to come and see the light…and that is The Hobbit….and of course the Firefly T.V. series or a sequel to Serenity. Both of these shows are awesome! And I would love to see them all…but to be honest…I would prefer another TV series over another movie. You just get more story, and you don’t have to spend the big bucks and dummy down the movie just so those who have never seen the TV shows can understand what is going on…any way…the great thing about this quote is that he said he would never do a sequel/spin-off to Serenity (unless a studio asks him)…I am fine with that…but come on….the Sci-Fi channel could resurrect the T.V. Series in a heart beat…and I think it would do VERY well there, but here to hope…… I would just love to go and purchase a browncoat to support the next TV series….and I would love to go watch The Hobbit (over 2-3 movies, ha ha) But alas….I will wait and hope….and who knows maybe God will give Joss the green light in heaven and we can all enjoy the show some day……(that is if Joss will be there, ha ha….OK new hope…Lord please grow or create a relationship with all those who were a part of the Firefly series…Thanks…and you ROCK! …..yall have a great night!!!!!
“By the way, speaking of Lord of the Rings, the film industry tradeVariety recently reportedthat MGM (which owns the theatrical release rights) and New Line (which owns the production rights) are tentatively planning to team up on a big-screen version of The Hobbit and they’re hoping Peter Jackson will direct. VERY interesting and fantastic news if true. However, our sources tell us that the studios had better hurry up and ASK Jackson to do it, because the director’s production schedule is getting pretty full. If they’re going to do The Hobbit, it would also be great if they’d do it soon enough so that Ian Holm, Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee can participate somehow.”
Oh man oh man….This would be a dream come true!!! Especially if they did a trilogy (at the very least 2 films) just to do The Hobbit right!
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