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Tip Jars

It seems that you can’t go anywhere without seeing a tip jar these days. My favorite is the local hot dog stand where they grab a bun, throw your hot dog on it, and then you’re supposed to go put your own condiments on. Now that guy deserves a tip!

Or the credit card slips that always have a line on it for a tip, regardless of whether or not the business provides any tip-worthy-service.

Anyway, I got to thinking, I too deserve to be tipped for whatever I’m doing — including writing this blog. So in the spirit of giving, please tip me by clicking the donate button below. If you don’t, I hope you have that awkward feeling you get when the cashier at the fast food joint watches as you strike out the “tip” line on the credit card slip.

Zions Canyon

I never thought I’d stay in Utah after coming to go to school. I thought for sure I’d end up back in California or coastal state. Nonetheless, it’s really grown on me.

A big reason for that is the natural beauty, which is why Utah is the capital of National Parks (with a record five). I’ve been to Bryce, Arches, Capital Reef and Canyonlands, but in my mind, Zions tops the list.

On of my favorite hikes is still the main Zions Narrows and then up Orderville Canyon. It’s a great up and back that can be done in half a day (I don’t recommend the top to bottom as it’s a HUGE waste of time with car shuttling). Sure there are more remote hikes, but this one is easily accessible and I love taking people who have never been.

Video of Zion Narrows

If I were creating the world . . .

“If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers. Eight o’clock. Day One.” ~ Time Bandits, 1981

Is there anything cooler than a hand-held laser beam that:

• has a range of >100 miles;
• can melt rubber;
• will ignite things;
• and can cauterize wounds?

I submit that there is not!

I find it very strange when girls struggle with finding gifts for guys. Honestly, you walk into any hardware or technology store and grab anything that the guy doesn’t have and he’s going to like it. If it is run by electricity or gas . . . bonus.

If your man doesn’t have a chainsaw, get him one. If he doesn’t own a portable microwave, buy one. And if he has yet to carry around a pocket laser pointer, you’ll really make him happy with an Elite 150 plus 200mW 532nm green laser from Wicked Lasers — that’s what I want for Christmas this year (either that or the 405nm violet Sonar II Burner).

Wicked-smart Mathematicians

My cousin Brad sent me one of those funny math answers that floated around the web a couple years ago and got me laughing again so I thought I’d post a few. I myself am wicked-smart at math, like these students.

Why I like water

First, I don’t know. Honestly. I’ve thought about this a lot and I’ve got to believe there is more to it than just the standard descriptive terms (wet, refreshing, cool, etc.). I mean, we all have fun in water, but I’m literally drawn to water.

I love oceans and lakes and rivers and pools and waterfalls and puddles. I love getting in them, I like being next to them, I like looking at them. They calm me, they give me energy, they make me smile.

Luckily, I married a girl that also likes them about as much as I do. We take just about every opportunity we can to pack up the car and head to water.

The embedded video is just one example of the stuff I like to do. It’s a flume carrying irrigation water across a road in Southern Idaho. I thought I’d take my family to it, and jump in.

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Help me regain the top spot for “Bevan”

As my sister (crazyamy — yeah it’s one word) pointed out, my name “bevan” is listed in Google 3 million times (that means I’m awesome). What annoys me, however, is how bevan.net lost the top spot in Google since I rolled out this stupid lemming blog after having one of the sweetest websites of all time.

Now I, Bevan, am left having to post meaningless text about bevan in order to get this site back up to the top.

To help me get back to the top (where I deserve to be), please link back to this site with a simple link like this:
bevan

You may also append “is awesome”, “used to be hot 10 years ago”, and “will always be awesome though” to the linked text. Just so long as it has “bevan” in there.

Pesticide Kills Millions in California

Don’t you hate it when you get an moth in your caramel apple. I know I do. Thankfully there are pesticides that can take care of it — and you too.

Why I Don’t Live In California

pwn pwns pwned pwnage pwning pwnt

Some time in each of our lives we are going to have the opportunity to be on the giving or receiving end of the letters p-w-n. For me, the first experience was back in grade school when I got slapped by a younger kid in front of about 10 other kids. But back then, the letter combination didn’t exist, and so for years I considered the experience simply “humiliating”. Today I look back and realize that I wasn’t just “humiliated”, I was “pwned”.

Until now, there has never been a word in the English language that best describes these types of experiences. But thanks to gamers that frequently dominate or are “owned” by others (and have no qualms about bragging openly), the term “pwn” was born. You pwn, you get pwned, he pwns others, we were pwning, and that’s some serious pwnage.

Let me illustrate the definition of this word with a few visual examples:

Top 10 Demotivational Posters

I don’t remember the first motivational poster I had to look at on the job. Needless to say, I’ve been forced to look at a lot of them.

With the exception of “Make it Happen” which always makes me laugh because of the history behind that phrase (more on that later), most “motivational posters” do nothing to motivate. I’d venture to state that in most cases, they probably demotivate — which is probably why the company Despair has been so successful selling their pessimistic posters.

These are probably my top 10 favorite demotivational posters:

Don’t agree? Think you’ve seen something funnier or more clever?