• Amazing Vegan Chemistry
• Why can't the Nuggets ever beat the Spurs?
• Day 1 of Carnavale
• Rio De Janiero and the Underage Tour Guides
• Antarctica desde 1879
• Daniella - "girls girls girls"
• Happy Birthday: Ski Condo, Basketball and Breakups
• Wine 'em Dine 'em 69 'em Wednesdays at Dallas
• Countless Cain & Abel's $1 beers
• A Tale of Two Thompsons at Bonnaroo
• The International FSE Drinking and Skydiving Club
• Yellig - "Gilly, What the Hell?"
• Pink Leather Batman at Katz's
• Sushi Birthday Dinner X 10 anyone?
• The King and I and the search for new bars on 6th street
• West West West we must go West
• Rock Bottom: Bike Money and Lake Charles
• Hitching in Mexico after Dark
• Learning to Surf, loading the van with surfboards, and Lulu's Song
• Never date with Yahoo Personals
• Pudding Wrestling on the Second Date
• Shotgunning Beers on the Guadalupe, and the Search for the Keys
• Liz on the River, Need I say more :)
• Strip Clubs with the Tennessee Twosome
• Before & After: Marsha and the V Marathon
• Brett Goes Bananas
• The ark, the topless girl, and the Speedboat
• San Marin: My two neighbors and a pitcher of margaritas
• Toilets flush two ways in Japan
• Kareoke Nights in and around Chofu
• Chuck, Balki and the Big Trip
• Hot Tub, Pool, Living Room, Patio, Brett's Bathroom, ...
• Pimp Parties and Rodeos
• Before & After: The Don Juan in a Million
• Courthouse Pickup
• Indian Fever
• Ex-girlfriends and Deer Collisions
• Waking up in Boulder with Lesbian Big-Boobed Nurses

http://xboxfor100.ytmnd.com

For full effect, be sure you can hear the audio that plays when you open that page... Merry Christmas everybody, and may each of your stockings actually contain an XBox 360.

Check out some great YTMND pages!

• Jean Luc Picard
• What is Love! (SNL skit)
• Chewbacca Sings Christmas

Read more about the YTMND movement from this wikipedia definition here.

ps - there are some racy ads on the right side of that page, so if you are at work you might want to make the webpage long & skinny unless you want to get some weird looks from coworkers

Source: Leah

• We will hit 'em. We will wreck 'em.
• Our rival is every team we have to play
• 1st and 10, 2nd and 10, 3rd and 10, the raiders made you punt again

Source: Kevin J

Here's a couple of my favorites:

• Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"
• One of the greatest cover-ups of the last century was the fact that Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker, but was in fact tea-bagged to death by Chuck Norris.
• Humans and Dinosaurs once existed together peacefully. Then one day Chuk Norris roundhouse kicked a T-Rex so hard that it created an ice age that only humans could survive through.

You want more? How about top-30 facts about Vin Diesel and top-30 facts about Mr. T Source: Ramiro ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Journal/solarEclipseGoogleEarthOverlay.html /Journal Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-11-04T12:57-06:00 The only thing not awesome about Google Earth is that it doesn't work on the Mac. What is Google Earth? It's a 3D virtual globe of the planet, that you can zoom in, rotate, and mark points on. You can zoom in on the planet anywhere and you will be looking at satelite photographs. It is awesome and a lot of fun. Oh yeah, and it's free. If you have a windows computer, do this right now:

• Click here and install 'Google Earth' on your windows machine.
• Click here to download the African Eclipse map overlay

This will give you a great idea of where our Egypt trip will need to go to be in the path of the eclipse. And messing with Google Earth is just plain fun!

Jumphook Wiki

• emailing pages to friends
• you do not need to know HTML, you just type and the wiki formats it
• email noftifications of changes
• easy creation of new pages
• math equations LaTeX generation if needed

The Jumphook Travel pages

Check it out! http://www.jumphook.com/wiki/Travel

Thank you HEXAR For taking the time to correct the faulty logic in the countdown! Now it works regardless of the year of the event! Way to go man, I appreciate the help :) ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Journal/HalloweenPumpkin.html /Journal Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-10-26T09:03-06:00

BOO! ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Travel/EclipsesAndPyramids.html /Travel Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-10-24T14:47-06:00

The solar eclipse hunt for the ages is on! March 25th 2005, I am leaving from Austin on a journey to see a total solar eclipse, visit the egyptian pyramids, and then knock off for a night in Madrid, Spain before heading home. The ticket has entered the booking process - contact me for more details. There's a lot of think about for this trip; but here is the jist of it.

The Eclipse will take place at 10:40am Wednesday March 29, 2006 (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html) The pyramids and all the good stuff is in the 'Nile Valley' which is quite accessible from Cairo. Looks like travel from Cairo to Saloum would be via car or bus -- no other airports that are closer. There are some oases nearby that would be really neat. Some of the pictures seemed like they were out of Star Wars desert scenes or something... sadly, the best online info I could fine was on this cheesy tour: http://www.farhorizon.com/Africa/oases-of-egypt-eclipse.htm. I also here there are some amazing beaches both on the mediterranean coast and red sea (though it might be a bit chilly).

Then on the way back from Cairo, I'm catching a red-eye flight to Madrid; where I'll try to find a market, some churros and hot chocolate, or maybe a disco. (advice here) Then experience a fantastic saturday night in the legendary Madrid nightlife. Ah, this is gonna be good.

"Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road."
- Walt Whitman

UPDATE (10/28/05) Now there's a live wiki page to hold all the info on this egypt trip! Check it out: http://www.jumphook.com/wiki/Travel/Egypt ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Journal/SchlongDaddy.html /Journal Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-10-21T08:26-06:00 'Schlong Daddy' playing at the Red Eyed Fly. These guys were hilarious, though I'm not too sure about the quality of the music persay--they were funny as hell. I'm not sure if it was the song entitled 'Horse Rapist' or the one entitled 'Blue Balls', but I signed the email list (which was empty) and they gave me a free CD. So here's to you Schlong Daddy! Listen to 'em at this link. ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Updates/NowICanWriteMathEquations.html /Updates Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-10-18T14:59-06:00
where all I typed was:

<img src=".../mimetex.cgi? x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}">

• Mr. Peanut
• Captain of the Love Boat
• Luigi - of Mario and Luigi

Right now I'm leaning towards Luigi pretty strongly. I think Martin would make a good Mario to boot... Well if you have any ideas, post a comment. Here's a great site of some guy who has constructed INCREDIBLE COSTUMES maybe that could jumpstart some imaginations. Tom this guy has given you a run for your money with Jenga Costume, Paprazzi Costume, Doc Oc. But of course it's no 'working slot machine...'. ]]> http://www.jumphook.com/scgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Movies/EasyWayToRipMoviesForMac.html /Movies Darin Wayne Gillis 2005-10-13T14:36-06:00 Here's a quick and easy how-to instructions for folks that know nothing about backing up their DVD's on computers. This is NOT instructions on copying DVDs, but this could be used to rip a movie to your mac and then watch it later. It also enables you to sync that video up onto your iPod from iTunes. Why sync to your iPod? Here's why. Get a newer iPod.

You know Craigslist -- the secret engine that drives the SF Bay Area economy, the place you likely found your last job, apartment, car, couch, bandmate, dance lesson, bankruptcy attorney or Friday-night date ... filmmaker Michael Ferris Gibson came up with an ingenious idea to find a few of them: He set out to document one random day on Craigslist ... Looking for a support group for your diabetic cat? Need to rent a husband, find a horny poodle, a gay sperm donor or a pre-op transsexual escort?

Planning on seeing this movie with Scott and whoever next Tuesday night (10/18/05) at 9:45pm. If you're interested in coming along; drop me a note or a call.

Ah good times; a weekend back in Colorado. Here are a few pictures from my camera phone. First, there's Onda - a salsa band playing at house party on 4th and Arapahoe in Boulder last saturday. An amazing place to have a party -- the house was pimp and the margaritas were delicious. Then there was the cooking at home for the Broncos game; nothing like a Sunday gameday platter w/ my folks! And there's also a picture of the gathering at the barrel house (now named 'Harpos' ?) to watch a little Saturday college football.

Amazing! In getting this to work right; uncovered some nasty IE redraw bug. I don't want to look at another CSS stylesheet again for awhile. Oh yeah and check out the google ads and search engine now on the page ;) I think i make half a penny every time someone clicks on an ad here -- so click away!

So its 230 Thursday night and my girlfriend tells me she is sleeping with a friend of mine! Not the thing you want to hear, especially from someone you are going to spend all day with Saturday.

So I sit around for a few minutes wondering how this could have happened, feeling dejected and hurt when it occurs to me, I shouldnt let this girl get to me. She's the one that screwed up. Why am I sitting around feeling bad when I should be seeking revenge sex. Now, I know when your girlfriend sleeps with one of your buddies, the imediate course of action is to have sex with her best friend. Well, this is just out of the question. So, considering the circumstances I think the next best thing is to sleep with the girl I am giving her ACL ticket to!

So here is what I propose. You come by, we'll chat a little, loosen up, have sex, and I will give you a free ACL ticket for Saturday. No obligations, no strings, just help me get back at the ex.

Update: As the time of the event draws near, the price I am requesting for the ticket is dropping... Also know that projects of Rita show that it will miss Austin and head straight for Galveston/Houston, so the show WILL go on!

Well, I'm posting this not to gross people out, or deter them from traveling; but as a helpful resource to fellow travellers coming back from Japan. Two different US doctors have 'never seen anything like it before' -- but apparently it is quite common to 'gaijin' (foreigners) travelling to Tokyo for an extended period of time. So this strange rash started to develop after 8 days in Tokyo on my arm -- small slightly red bumps that are quite itchy. Anyway, I got back state-side 2 days later, and the rash began to spread down my arm, to my side, and eventually all over my limbs and torso. Now it is 5,6 days since I have first seen it; and I'm a big ithcy mess. I was worried it was some kind of bedbug or scabies (eeeew), but my doctor diagnosed it as an unknown 'topical' allergy to something Japanese. My best guess right now is the laundry detergent used to wash my clothes or perhaps the pollution in the air. The only thing that has quenched the itch is some doctor-prescribed zyrtec. They also set me up with a round of steroids that will supposedly stop the rash from spreading and should have it clearing up in a couple of days. I'll contine to post comments on this entry and comment on how the steroids are working out, hope this helps someone!

Scott you blew it not buying the 500 thread count sheets. - Me

Damn, if you guys think Gilly is shy, what do you think I am? - Ryan

damn can't remember any more right now

So Tuesday this week I learned how to change the front brakes on my Isuzu rodeo. Thanks to my buddy Ramiro for the extra tools and pointers (and the manual complete w/ pictures instructing me how to do it). Also to Brett for watching me and reminding me to loosen the lugnuts before you jack the car up. And to my neighbors for leaving a note impersonating the apt complex management telling me I couldn't work on my car in front of my garage. Very funny. But hey, the brakes work great and my pulsating break problem seemed to go away when I replaced the brake pads.

3 cheers for grease that won't come out from underneath your fingernails by the way. Beats a day of office work thats for the hell sure!

Game is fun and surprisingly challenging at first haha. Which girl went where? Where is a valid hiding place? Great questions...

I feel compelled to tell a story of one of the stranger and more vivid dreams I ever had. I entitled it: "Bob Barker's Greatest Day". I dreamed that I was in the audience of the very first Price Is Right Show taking place while Bob was going to college at UCLA. Of course, the modern day technological innovations of the show were not present, but the UCLA auditorium was a packed house and people were happy to write down their bids on poster board with marker. Anyway, the show was going great, when the power went out and the auditorium got dark. Bob told everyone to stay calm and got some candles. Having no light, he tried to think of an idea to keep everyone in the auditorium. He suggested, why don't we have a political forum and discuss the world's issues? Well they did, and one after another people stood up from the audience and made amazingly clear arguments for all sorts of political ideals. One of those to stand up was Bob Dole. Another, Bill Clinton. In actuality, every political fiend of the 21st century happened to be present at that first Price Is Right show. And thanks to Bob Barker, they all discovered their passions in politics which would have otherwise gone undetected. That was the dream... Happened 4 years ago or so, but this picture caused me to think that maybe people don't realize what a great person Bob Barker is (at least in my dream).

These pictures were taken deep in the Amazon Rainforests of Brazil. This guy apparently fell asleep at his job in this truck. This giant freaking snake apparently bit him in the head and swallowed him whole... Believe it? or not? Someone wanna look this up on snopes.com or something?

Today I spent my day designing this contraption. It looks cool I think. However, it is strikingly unimpressive in function -- all it does is calculate digits of π and flash the latest calculated digit out to the 7-segment numeric display (The digital display used in alarm clocks and microwaves). The cool part: Thanks to using NI hardware and software this took me 2 days to make. And most of that was trying to relearn what a resistor was and surveying the bunches of different ways to calculate digits of π.

Hardware: cRIO-9002 Real-Time Controller. This is the processor tirelessly crunching away on π. It can crank the whole first 1000 digits or so out really quickly, so I make it go sloooower. Then there's the cRIO-9102 FPGA backplane, which is doing the calculations of turning a '5' into digital outputs that are displayed on the 7-segment display. And then the user interface, which runs on any ordinary windows box capable of running LabVIEW.

Qutoing the vet: Chances are you haven’t seen anything like this before. For all you dog owners, Show these pictures to your dog !!! Somewhere out there is a naked Porcupine. This dog apparently did not know when to quit These are the pictures the vet sent before the long (and expensive) procedure to remove the quills. She had hundreds of quills, and her tongue was so covered, she could not close her mouth

In case you wanted another world issue to worry about, here ya go: The monoculture in Uzbekistan – the production of cotton – is the source of the huge environmental problem in Central Asia. The production of cotton requires a lot of water. This was taken from the two rivers – the Syrdar'ya and the Amudar'ya – that used to fill the Aral Sea. However in recent years and decades, the Aral Sea is drying up. Check out this crazy photo!

Moral of this story: Buy polyester striped shirts instead of cotton striped shirts?

At the party they had this watermelon that had been spiked with vodka. I ate several pieces and didn’t think anything of it. ... The girl may have been good looking, but it’s doubtful, given the extent of my impairment. ... Finally the girl got sick of my shit and went upstairs to bed: it was clear I wasn’t going to perform, but was just going to continue to curse until I puked or passed out. ... “Hey you guys, got any reefer?” ... The wrestling match had straightened me out somewhat. And the presence of cops always put me on my best behavior. ... That’s what I associate most with jail: the monotony, the boredom, the depression.

Yuppies beware, click here and read about the TRUTH about guys that go out wearing striped shirts and shined shoes.

Look at my button down striped shirt! Fucking look at it! This shirt means one thing! I’m coming home with some pussy tonight! That’s right! It’s been a long week at the office and it’s time to blow off a little steam! I am a Junior Vice President! I have business cards that say “Junior Vice President” on them! They’re glossy and magnificent! Here! Have one! Take it!

Wendy drives us to hollywood, we catch a greyhound to the border, then bus to ensenada, get drunk in ensanada, get bus south, get dumped off at Kilometer marker 78 in the middle of nowhere (11pm). walk along road in dark w/out flashlight for ~1,2 miles, end up hitching a ride on random pickup the other 12 miles. walk more, get picked up by policemen and taken to hostile thankfully.

Surfing, drinking, ping pong, board games

Surfing, drinking, cooking bean soup and cornbread, hacky sack, talking to Lulu and Hexar until bedtime

Surfing, drinking, getting ride back to ensenada, bus back to Tijuana, trolley to san diego. stay in hostel in san diego, go out drinking. drunk again today.

Wake up, catch amtrak train to los angeles, 2 city buses, then the airport, back in Austin by 10pm.

Many, many sketchy but funny people were met along the way to boot :) Pictures to follow soon keep your eyes peeled!

Si quieres un poco de mi / Me deberias esperar
Y caminar a paso lento / Muy lento

Y poco a poco olvidar / El tiempo y su velocidad
Frenar el ritmo, ir muy lento / Mas lento

I don't know what everybody experienced during grade school and middle school, but one thing I experienced was the music of the great Coolio, pronounced Cool-e-o or if you are Will Ferrell, Cool-e-oo-le-oo-le-o. Such hits as Fantasic Voyage and Gansta's Paradise were cornerstones in my life during those years. With lyrics like:

• "I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger; and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool,"
• "slide slide slippity-slide; with switches on the block in a '65,"
• and finally,
• "I'm tryin' to find a place where I can live my life and; maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice, a."

I learned to love steak, beans, slides, and set trippin' bangers (whatever those are). Weird thing though, never liked rice.... hmmm.. So why now do I profess my love for Coolio? Because he has just released a new music video and frankly, he is taking rap to new levels.... even if they are levels down. His new song, entitled "I don't want to die" seems to be a little late since he is pretty much dead to me. However, after doubting him, I came across his newly revamped website. And in case you thought that Coolio was broke, no way man... this website is done in FLASH, no static html for this OG. Highlights include:

1. The Bio link that ends on page 2, mid sentence
2. Constant background music of Gangsta's paradise acoustics
3. Coolio's Choice link that shamelessly promotes Madden 2004, and claims that when Coolio plays as the Raiders, he is unbeatable... I don't doubt it since he hasn't put out a decent song in 10 years
4. Coolio's awards link that simply says "Coming Soon" which is just a way of saying, "I don't have any....... but I saw this link on other websites and thought it would be cool." Maybe he is looking for a sympathy award?
5. A chance to join Coolio's Fan Club so you can get spammed with tour dates in Europe.
6. Finally, the most sophisticated part of his website, the "store" link. Which is simply a link to Amazon.com......... I never knew he owned Amazon.com, but it explains his disappearance over the past decade. Instead of developin tight rhymes and bomb beats, he was busy learning html tags and marketing yo... cuz that is how you get the scrilla in the new economy.

So check it out, you already know the address: www.coolio.com

Magic Cone is a means through which females can urinate in standing position.
Magic Cone helps you to be less undressed, while urinating, comparing to the ordinary ways.
Magic Cone is very practical while you are flying, traveling, hiking, boating and camping.

Apparently, LSU has lost another basketball player to the NBA draft. First Brandon Bass, and now Curtis Heroman. Actually, Heroman declared first, back on April 15.

Only Heroman never played basketball at LSU. Well, actually he has. But he never played basketball for LSU, where he is a student. He played intramural ball.