Yo... I has a beard now... Aight?

So last time I was home my Dad goes... Son... I think you should grow a beard. And then I go... O, For real? And then he's all... Ya. So I'm all... Okai. Just kidding. But really. I have a beard. There had been two reasons that I had never grown a beard. A. I was at BYU where oddly, mustaches are A-OK but they put the kibosh on beards in the 70's. I never really complained while I was there about it. I don't really mind. Although the irony of allowing mustaches - until very very recently considered very uncool and even creepy - and not beards always struck me as odd. Reason B. was that as soon as I graduated, I started working for a healthcare company founded by the church and still espouses its conservative stances on many things. I didn't want to rock the boat. I'd rather advance my career than my appearance after all (for further evidence of this see also my waistline). But in October my boss came back from a trip with a full beard. He had always struck me as very very Mormon so this surprised me. It made me feel like I could let loose around the guy a little more though and as if he wouldn't mind if I also grew a beard of my very own. Anyway. With my two main obstacles gone, I decided over Christmas to try the whole beard thing out. I really only wanted to see what it looked like at first. By the time I returned to work after the new year, I was beyond scruff but not to full beard status yet. I started getting random compliments from coworkers who never seemed to me like the I would compliment you on your new beard if I liked it type of guys. But the compliments came flowing in. Then Beckah - a total dime - turned bright red when Cajun told me (right in front of her) that she thought I looked handsome with a beard. So despite the fact that this was meant to be a 3 /4 week experiment, I still have my beard. I also have the very first pictures of said beard ready to post. So... I give you.... MY BEARD. ENJOY.

























This is my beard and I doing Tai Chi at a small get together.

















This picture is of Dustin Bolt and my beard at the same party.


















This is me allowing you to get up close and personal with the beard.


I'm thinking I'll chop it off in two weeks. But I've been saying that for a month now - So who knows?

This are SOOO lulz

So I "stumbled upon" the "Funniest" blog I've seen in a while. While its no "Fail Blog" or "Icanhascheeseburger". The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks is absolutely hilarious. The highlighted link is the real name of the blog. I expected it to be funny and it exceeded those expectations quite easily.

Untitled (How to say I love you this February)

We have all experienced that feeling of anxiety as Valentines day approaches (and by Valentines day I mean my birthday which is five days later). What do we get for our significant other? Well, I would like to put forward what I think is a very viable alternative to the more cliche gifts that are given during this time of year. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... GUCCI. Ice Cube. Trays. Yes that's plural.



















You get not one but two designer Ice cube trays for the nominal price of $70.00 (US). Some naysayers may point out that the G shaped ice cubes would be next to impossible to get out of the tray in one peace. I would say to these people that the sheer awesomeness of just one Gucci Ice Cube outweighs all of the heartbreak resulting from all of the broken ones. This is why you prefreeze all of your ice leading up to important get togethers - My mom always does anyway. While you formerly could get the trays from high end retailers like Neiman Marcus, they are now only found on eBay - Like most things truely worth buying. So as February rolls around. Do the right thing and get me your significant other GUCCI Ice Cube Trays.

The New Insight PWNS Toyota Prius!

As I'm sure you have all heard, The new Honda Insight is being billed as a Prius killer. OK, maybe none of you have heard that, but in the automotive press these have been the rumors. Well, Motortrend just posted their first videos testing the new Honda Insight. The result? 65+ MPG!!! (I know right). The driver is kind of Hypermiling a bit to obtain that mileage, but even when he drives as aggressively as he can (notice the drift at 5:25 ish), he still obtains 29MPG or so. Pretty impressive. I'm guessing real world driving will yield in the 50+ range. Check out the video:



Pretty interesting stuff.

Untitled (Extreme Sports)

If one were to cross down hill mountain biking, hockey, and motocross - what would one get? Crashed Ice. What is crashed Ice exactly? Its one of redbull's crazy competitions. They have their airplane racing, their soapbox derby race and this. It blows my mind. Watch and see for yourself.



Looks like fun right? Too bad I was raised in CA and didn't put on a pair of ice skates until I was 16. I'd totally try out for it.

Daddyyyyy. Turn on a Vimeoooooo

It's becoming clear that Vimeo is going to be the video web site of 2009 - either that or Hulu. I keep seeing videos hosted on Vimeo that really blow my mind. The content is much more artistic than Hulu (which is more professional content.... TV shows, Movies, Etc.) or youtube. I've seen a couple which I really liked but weren't really novel enough to blog about. I felt this one was though. Watch and learn. Make sure to put this into full screen mode.


wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.


Vimeo has a lot of time lapse videos which are great and a lot of HD content. I think that a lot of good artistic material is being created but falls through the cracks on youtube. It doesn't fit the audience there. But click the links at the top of the post. Both of these sites have a lot to offer.