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Family Picitures

Monday, August 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

So My Mom decided it was time for a new family picture. Probably a good idea considering our last one was taken before Mark’s mission (about 6 years ago). Since our last picture there have been a few minor changes to our family, the first being Debbie, the second, Merrill, and the Third, Zoey. Oh I’m almost forgetting the fourth, my missing eye.
Alright I admit that fourth one was a lie.

Anyway, there is our family picture.

Us Nott kids (deb included) as many of you know, are very creative/exciting (except Mark. Mark is not exciting) and we can’t stand the typical family pictures without a bit of a twist. and here you have it.

by the way, this picture was Mark’s idea, so I guess he’s a little exciting.

mingling with millionairs

Friday, August 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Last night work gave me a the great oportunity to attend, the Utah Fast Pass gala dinner. we arrived about an hour and a half early for the gala, but that gave us ample time to view the “beyond expensive” cars.
The table we sat at there were two couples who casually talked about the over 100,000 dollar cars they bought and traded because they wanted something else.
It was a lot of fun.
After the gala My boss gave me and my date and me a ride in the ferrari 360 spider.
The seats aren’t the most comfortable, but man, it’s a sweet ride!
they offered to let me drive it, or rather while my date was in the car i was offed to drive it, I asked the price of the car, and with a smile said, no thanks. I in no way wanted to be buying one of those any time soon.

Me encanta las exspolciones!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

In the amazing new Batman Movie there were a lot of special effects that just made me smile. The explosions, the fire, the guns . . . in short I loved the movie.
however, there was a part that bothered me. It kind of bothered me a lot.
The Joker, being the evil guy that he is, burned a guy alive on a stake of money, everyone of course being confused asked him why? he could have kept it.
His response is what worried me, I’m sure my neighbors are a little concerened too.
He said he Liked the simple things in life. Gasoline, and Dynamite, and that they they don’t cost much.
well gasoline is getting up there, but that’s not what concerened me, what worried me was the fact that I too share that same love for explosions and fire.
Am I going to wind up like the joker?

Rory’s Bachelor Party

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Well, first I’d like to give a shout out to Ryan Russon for making this thing possible.  he did all the planning.  

yeah it was cool and all, but look at this!!!

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

So to start off this blog, by brothers and I saw the movie, Dark Knight.  frankly, the movie, was freakn’ awesome!  go see it.  but I don’t want to talk too long about the movie because every one and their dogs will be blogging about The new batman film, so me, I’m going to talk about our trip home.  

ifried!

Friday, July 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

So for the good news, the new Iphone is out. now onto the bad.
So my new supervisor’s wife dropped her Iphone in a pool. now electronics, believe it or not can handle water better than we give them credit for. However, there are some steps you must take for them to continue working.
According to Time magazine, these steps are called, “Water damage electronic recovery.”
Step one;
Turn off the device and remove battery. the quicker the better.
Step two;
place said electronic device in a zip lock bag with either packets of desecate or rice. both are designed either by scientists or god to absorb water.
step three;
wait.
I’d recommend a week or so.
so back to the Iphone. Well it fell in the pool Nate (my supervisor) wasn’t there to tell her what to do, so she decided to turn it off and back on again. realizing that the screen flickering and turning off was a bad sign she decided to charge it.

What you can see here is the communications board. It’s function is to communicate power to and from the battery along with the device. This also the device that communicates with the antenna.

This is the Logic board. it has the micro processor on it, and as you can see has the Sim card bay on it aswell.
basically what happens when electronics get wet, the water (which conducts electricity) re-routs the traces and by passes resistors, once the resistors are bypassed, excess electricity is forced into components such as caps, trasnsistors, and because it’s a phone, the transducers. caps, when over charged, explode, that’s the white stuff.
bassically, this phone is dead.

outta shape

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

So a little while back (probably like 7-9 months) I visited a doctor who informed me I was under weight. Also he informed me I needed to stop running (at that time i was running almost every morning). So the anti-diet started. I ate worse, I snack more frequently, and i sleep more.
My job doesn’t require me to stand so I don’t do that much anymore. well recently I’ve noticed a weight gain. I might be the only one who has noticed this because lets face it, I’m a little kid.
So I started working out again. But it’s funny how some work outs just don’t seem to do it for me. before I loved sit ups, and now push ups seems to be my favorite, however I’m having a hard time getting up in time to go running, which in my opinion, is what I really need to start doing.
Now being me, the nerdy, slightly odd, sometimes dramatic, Nott that I am, I found my solution online and I’d like to share my new work out with everyone.

should searching really be this hard?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

So as many of you know, I recently purchased a Nikon D80. a mid range pro-sumer camera. From day one I was impressed by the quality of pictures, the ease, the user-friendliness, and the comfort.
I purchased some extras for it as well. I have a vertical grip, extra batteries, more lenses, remote, bag, etc. and now I’m looking at a few other extras.
I”m torn between two flashes, the SB600 and the SB 800. Obviously the 800 is better but it’s in some cases double the price. Now do I really need all that flash for my camera? After all I didn’t buy the D300 because it was too much camera for me.
But the real kicker lies in the bag.

there is one questions you must alway ask yourself before you buy any camera equipment. I mean anything at all, the question is, what do you want to take pictures of? Obviously if I want to take pictures of sunsets, a zoom lense would probably be more fluff than needed. If I wan to take pictures of sporting events from the furthest part of the stadium, a flash would be useless.
And than there’s me. I want to take pictures of everything and anything.
But right now I’m focused more on how to take my camera to new places.
This past week I’ve been searching for a Camera bag that is both a backpack and has a place for a hydration blatter. and you know what I’ve found? not a whole lot. I found one that was somewhere in the 500 dollar range, and another that some lady made on her sewing machine that looked more like gay kid pants than a real camera bag.

So the search is on.

girls suck, fire good

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

basically the title is all I have to say about girls, but the fire portion. oh do I have some stories for you. So last time I got some friends together I wound up singing all the hair on my face and head. so this time I took some pre-cautions.

Some how the worries of every day life vanish when you’re surrounded by fire and a little scared. now you might have thought someone should stop after such an ordeal, however, we kept going. it was a grand night with lots of flames and such.

reasons to buy a mac

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 8 Comments

I know, I know I’m probably just obsessed about my machine, but I thought i would remind people of the advantages of mac vs. PC cause we’ve all waited way too long for Garit’s post. So here’s some of my opinions.
1. this is vain, but let’s face it, mac’s are just better looking than any PC I’ve ever seen.
2. it takes an idiot way less time to be able to work a mac than a PC (trust me I’m now in I.T. at work and we’ve tested it, on many individuals)
3. the simple fact that when you turn it on, it works, and if for some odd reason you have an issue, simply restart and the problem is typically solved (unless you loaded something wrong, in that case it’s pilot error and you would get the same results as a PC)
4. less viruses!
5. no spyware needed
6. smart programs. I need to expound on that, It seems that mac designs programs so well and so beautifully that everyone is trying to copy them, Windows, linux, and yet as we all no, a copy is never better than the real thing.
7. no longer do I need to think like the computer for it to work for me, now it thinks like me.
8. Drag and drop baby, drag and drop
9. less crashes. I work on both a PC and a mac, both have almost the same specs. Actually my mac is only a 2.2 ghz processor and 2 gigs of ram, my PC here at work is a 2.3 ghz and has 4 gigs of ram, all I really do on it is write HTML code, which is one of many thing I do on my Mac, my mac has yet to crash. on my PC (which is a little over 4 months old, the mac 8 months old) has given me the blue screen of death more times than I can count.
10. more green. This one if for all of you hippy’s out there. we have pulled apart a little older imac to clean it out just as I do with the PC’s here. I was curious so I pulled out my multi-meter. The mac uses almost 3/4th of the energy the PC uses. smile, cause mac is killing less trees and penguins.
11. Mac’s want to play. I can remember using a PC to try to edit video, and frankly I wound up having to use 3 programs for what I can do in just one on the Mac. I used adobe premire on the PC and now I use final cut. Final cut seems to like people and wants to help a friend in need. Premire seems to be a little snooty and self centered.
12. simple, they’re simple machines. my mom can barely turn on a computer and yet on my mac she has successfully edited her own slide shows and movies.
13. Prestige, no one will be impressed by a PC lap top, but that friendly little apple icon makes everyone ooh and awe and even ask, “Is that a mac?”
14. Cnet.com loves macs and so should you!

Ok time to give some down sides.
1. they don’t have as many programs or games as PC. but this could be a good thing. see PC programs come from, well anywhere, Mac’s all come from apple. The nice thing is apple can make sure it works right.
2. less customizable. It’s true, you can customize your PC to no end it seems, mac limits that.
3. Price, ouch mac’s cost a lot. But remember you get what you pay for.
4. some times dumb people buy macs when they only want to use the internet and some word based program than they complain that they wasted money and could have paid less for a PC that does the same thing. that’s true, any computer made in the past 10 years can do that. if that’s all you want to do, I’d recomend a few locations to find a computer for your needs, D.I, ebay, salvation army, dumpsters, dark ally ways, your neighbors basement, etc

In closing, my opinion, as a person who works with both, using a mac after attempting a PC is like taking a breath of fresh air. so Garit, I’m sure we’d all like to hear what you have to say about this.