Mind, consider yourself blown

I just finished watchiing a documentary originally aired on PBS but I got to watch thanks to Netflix instant streaming (ah, what an age we live in) called Between the Folds. In it, one of the people interviewed makes a statement somewhere along the lines of paper having a memory and that once a fold is made in a piece of paper, that piece of paper can no longer go back to its pre-folded state. You can try to lay it flat but it wants to go back to its folded state. From this, it is possible to make the analogy that a piece of flat paper is like the human mind. Prior to any folds or changes it is blank and is, for the most part, useless. However, once even a single fold or, for the human mind analogy, a single thought is placed into that mind, that thought can not be un-thunk (is that a word?). That thought then goes on to influence other thoughts which then in turn effects who we are as human beings. Just a little origami meets Inception mind-blowing thinking for you :)

Smile!

Andrea and I went geocaching again today. On one of our caches, we passed by this. It's a smiley face carved into the stump of a tree! Smile!

The Fabric of Our Lives

Why does cotton have commercials? What next? Rayon, the synthetic of our lives?

Not what it appears...

No ladies and gents, that's no ordinary bolt you're looking at there. It's actually a geocache that Andrea and I found today!

13 Funniest help wanted signs.

This one is my favorite...






You can see the others here

Things I found out today

1. I've become more effective at organizing and running meetings
2. A man can survive at least one day on lack of sleep and food as long as he has at least three cans of Mountain Dew (numbers may vary for women :)

Eagerly awaiting the release...

More Final Fantasy XIII News & Previews

My new commute home

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it was full of throwback goodness.

Random thought...

What do you think the people at food network do for lunch?

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Changes

Well, things have been a little hectic the past month. First off, I have a new job! Well, sort of. It's a promotion to another center. I will be working at the brand new, state-of-the-art Center of the Future in KC starting Jan 25th. Because of that, I had to get a replacement trained for my current center and on top of that, I had my annuals due for all three of the production areas as well as making sure everyone else got their annuals done, ran my weekly reports and helped enter historical data for other centers. So needless to say, it's been hectic. Did I also mention I tested for my third degree black belt? Three one-hour tests and one two-hour test later, I walk (well, more like crawled out) with my black belt. I also got a brand new phone! Very happy. I've been playing with it for the past month and just a couple of minutes ago, posted my first mobile post! It'll be really nice for geocaching...later...not now...now too cold...

Guess what I just got in the mail today?

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Thanks, Nicole!!! :)

Why you should move to Olathe

Guess what we just got on Wednesday? No, not the three-headed koala I've always wanted. Not absolute power. I'll just go ahead and tell you. It's our free, blue, 65-gallon recycling cart! What makes it even better is that instead of charging us extra, which most metropolitan areas would've done, they made the recylcing service part of the regular trash pick-up service. No extra charge. You go, Olathe!

Whedon offers to buy Terminator franchise!

That's right! Joss (of Firefly fame) has offered to take the Terminator franchise off of its owners hands for a pretty hefty sum. I got this off the of the /film website (www.slashfilm.com). You can read more about it here. Oh, the possibilities are endless...

Say goodbye to Saturday mail?

Here's an article that I just read on CNN about the possibility of the post office doing away with the Saturday mail. Unthinkable, you say? Well, not really. In this age of email and with the decline of mail usage, I say it is not only thinkable but also likely. Check out the aritcle here.

Mario Bros. meets Inglorious Basterds

Exactly like the title sounds. Here's a trailor of "Inglorious Basterds" if it had been filmed in the Mushroom Kingdom. Enjoy! I got it off of a site called slashfilm. If you haven't heard about it before, you should check them out. They have updates everyday and their site covers upcoming movies. You can check them out here.

Andrea and I started something called geocaching today. Basically, it's a high-tech scavenger hunt. You go to a site ( http://www.geocaching.com) and find a list of coordinates for "caches" which can contain anything from CDs to pennies or nothing at all. You then enter the coordinates into a GPS device and locate the cache. In any case, there's a piece of paper for you to leave your name and the date you found the cache on. Very fun.


We found it in the trunk of a tree and the log was a little wet so we put it in a ziplock bag to help protect it in the future.

What's in a name?

Tony's the kind of guy that everyone seems to like. He's agreeable, laid back, and just enjoys hanging out. He's comfortable eating out with others or alone by himself. He's quiet, contemplative, and has eyes that gleam with a mischief that makes you wonder what lurks behind that serene countenance. Who is this Tony, you may ask. He seems like a swell guy, maybe someone you'd like to know. Well, you're in luck. If you're reading this, you probably already know Tony. Tony is my alter ego. Now let me explain. I frequent a lot of restaraunts during lunch that requires the person taking the order to ask the name of the customer. These places range from McDonald's to, as in today's case, Panera's. Due to my soft-spoken nature and the uniqueness of my name, when the person who calls out the customer's name (usually not the same person that took the order) calls my order out, it comes out as either Juan or, in those rare instances when I actually take the time to spell out my name, Tone. So rather than going through all that trouble, I tell them my name is Tony. It's easy for the restaraunt employees to spell and I have yet to have anybody butcher it so it's really a win-win situation for all involved. What's funny is that I usually pay with my debit card which has my name spelled correctly on it. No one has yet to catch that little inconsistency. This is usually the point where that mischievous gleam in Tony's eyes are most prominent. There's just something exhilirating about getting away with a little white lie. So the next time you visit a restaraunt that inquires whether they can get a name for that order, give them one. No one ever said it had to be yours ;)

Home again, home again...

We made it back to the states safely without too much trouble. All the flights came in on time. Currently working on posting all the pics on my flickr account. They should be up soon.

Exodus

Yes,for those of you wondering, we made it to Vietnam alright. We spent the fist two days in Ho Chi Ming city visiting my mom's family. On night number two (I number nights now because I have no idea what day it actually is), we visited my grandma on my mom's side's grave and had dinner (not at my granma on my mom's side's grave). The dinner was good. Kind of an all-you-can-eat buffet style held out in the open. Then we spent night three out in the country. Highlights from that night include me climbing a coconut tree (harder to do than you think, especially after it's just rained), "driving" a moped (I drove it around the parking lot), and getting bitten by what I can only assume was, and hoping was, a bunch of mosquitos. Highlights from night four including heading out to the ocean to a riverwalk sort of place. The moped ride there was thirty minutes so that was fun. After that, we had dinner at a seafood restaurant. Really reasonable prices for how much we ate and drank. I think it wound up being about eight US dollars per person. Then we went to a karaoke bar (mostly because my cousins wanted to). No, I didn't sing. Today we're in the city and so, I have spent about twenty-four hours flying only to sit in front of a computer screen and type all of this out :) I think we're going to do a little shopping today and hang out a little bit. Plans for tomorrow? The BEACH!!! I'll try to post pics when I get back on the 16th.