Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Inflation Information
I heard an inflation expert talk, and this is basically what he said: They changed how inflation is counted today, but if you used 1970's standards, our inflation rate in 2007 was 11%, which is as high as it ever was in the 70's under Carter. Also, the majority of our financial issues today are caused by inflation (at which time he railed on the Federal Reserve for lowering rates and causing this inflation). The main example that he used was this: in 2001 oil was approx. $29/barrel, today it is $120. This is over a 300% increase. The price of oil/barrel in Europe has increased 107% in that same time, meaning that if our dollar was as stable as the Euro (which has also inflated some), oil would be around $65/barrel, and we would have under $2/gallon gasoline. He also stated that if we would stabalize the dollar, oil prices would remain fairly constant, and that OPEC and Middle Easter Crisis have had FAR less influence on the price of oil/gas than the Federal Reserve has had. I am not trying to add info to the conspirists out there, but this was one experts opinion I found interesting.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Beans & Costco
So I went to Costco this weekend and bought two of the last four bags of pinto beans. Looks like people are stocking up on basics.
The good news is there was a lot of honey and peanut butter, and they had sugar and flour too.
The good news is there was a lot of honey and peanut butter, and they had sugar and flour too.
Kehl to the Giants
I guess I have to stop hating the NY Giants...they now took Bryan Kehl in the draft. I looked on some message boards and it looks like the fans there are really excited about this pick. Kelly Poppinga signed a free-agent contract with the Dolphins, so he'll join John Beck and John Denny there as BYU alum.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
A is for Atwood!
weston got his first straight A at byu today! WooHoo! feel free to congratulate me.
P.S. it was psychology
P.S. it was psychology
Friday, April 25, 2008
Rice @ Costco
Kati and I went to get a little extra food storage yesterday, and got some things, but they were all out of rice. It is an obsession with me now, because I want to get more (not that we don't have a bunch already) and I can't. I just called Costco to ask if they received a shipment last night, and the girl said yes, but it was only two pallets and they have already sold one pallet. In fact, they only opened that pallet about three minutes ago. ... ! ...
sorry it is long, but I hope poeple are taking this serious, katie I have you mac and cheese
Wall Street Warns Americans to Begin Stockpiling Food
Darryl Mason
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The New York Times recently told its more wealthy readers to consider buying a rural cottage, or even log cabin, to ride out the water and food riots that militarized police forces are preparing and training for, and now Wall Street recommends its readers to begin stockpiling rice and cereals, not only to fend off hunger but as an investment opportunity :
Food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund. And there are very good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising a lot faster.
"Load up the pantry," says Manu Daftary, one of Wall Street's top investors and the manager of the Quaker Strategic Growth mutual fund. "I think prices are going higher. People are too complacent. They think it isn't going to happen here. But I don't know how the food companies can absorb higher costs."
The latest data show cereal prices rising by more than 8% a year. Both flour and rice are up more than 13%. Milk, cheese, bananas and even peanut butter: They're all up by more than 10%. Eggs have rocketed up 30% in a year. Ground beef prices are up 4.8% and chicken by 5.4%.
You can't easily stock up on perishables like eggs or milk. But other products will keep. Among them: Dried pasta, rice, cereals, and cans of everything from tuna fish to fruit and vegetables. The kicker: You should also save money by buying them in bulk.
If this seems a stretch, ponder this: The emerging bull market in agricultural products is following in the footsteps of oil. A few years ago, many Americans hoped $2 gas was a temporary spike. Now it's the rosy memory of a bygone age.
The readers of the Wall Street Journal now know it's time to get busy stockpiling. For good reasons. Shortages of rice and other essentials are now being reported in American cities:
Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.
"Where's the rice?" an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. "You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous."
"There have been so many stories about worldwide shortages that it encourages people to stock up. What most people don't realize is that supply chains have changed, so inventories are very short," Mr.Rawles , a former Army intelligence officer, said. "Even if people increased their purchasing by 20%, all the store shelves would be wiped out."
An anonymous high-tech professional writing on an investment Web site, Seeking Alpha, said he recently bought 10 50-pound bags of rice..."I am concerned that when the news of rice shortage spreads, there will be panic buying and the shelves will be empty in no time. I do not intend to cause a panic, and I am not speculating on rice to make profit. I am just hoarding some for my own consumption," he wrote.
The presidential Bush family's favorite newspaper, the Washington Times, notes the rapidly growing chaos and panic in American food industries, and the demented greed of Wall Street:
Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher. Meanwhile, some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high prices and shortages spreading from overseas.
Community Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....regulators said high prices are mostly the result of soaring world demand for grains combined with high fuel prices and drought-induced shortages in many countries.
Costco and other grocery stores in California reported a run on rice, which has forced them to set limits on how many sacks of rice each customer can buy. Filipinos in Canada are scooping up all the rice they can find and shipping it to relatives in the Philippines, which is suffering a severe shortage that is leaving many people hungry.
While farmers here and abroad generally are benefiting from the high prices, even they have been burned by a tidal wave of investors and speculators pouring into the futures markets for corn, wheat, rice and other commodities and who are driving up prices in a way that makes it difficult for farmers to run their businesses.
U.S. wheat stocks are at the lowest levels in 60 years because worldwide consumption of wheat has exceeded production in six of the past eight years, said U.S. Agriculture Department chief economist GeraldBange . Adding to tight supplies was the back-to-back failure of two years of wheat crops caused by drought in Australia, a major wheat exporter, he said.
In addition, the diversion of one-third of the U.S. corn crop into making ethanol for vehicles has increased prices for corn and other staples such as soybeans and cotton as more acreage is set aside for ethanol production.
The upswing in prices has been exaggerated by the massive influx of investors and speculators seeking to profit from rising prices for corn, wheat, oil, gold and other commodities. Big Wall Street firms and hedge funds have taken huge positions in futures markets that once were dominated by relatively small operators such as farmers and grain-elevator owners.
Oil speculation helped drive the price of a barrel beyond $100, and now 'food speculators' are going to do the same for the food you need to buy to feed your family. And the government doesn't want to stop it happening.
Maybe they're hoping Monsanto with save the day, and bellies, of Americans with GM crops, but the 'miracle' of GM crops is turning out to be little more than clever marketing. Monsanto now admits their genetically modified crops do not actually produce higher yields of rice and grains. More food from less acreage is something they aspire to achieve, not something they can actually do yet.
Food prices will stay high simply because oil prices will never drop below $100 again. It will only ever increase, drop back a few dollars, and then increase again. We're already being softened up by oil cartels and governments to expect $200 a barrel prices within the next few years.
When oil hits $150 a barrel, trucking and freight companies will start projecting big losses, and will reconsider whether it pays to service longer, less profitable routes to smaller urban population pockets. The sorts of places that need nearly everything trucked in, but produce little to truck back out again. When the delivery trucks slow, or cease altogether, most supermarkets will be emptied of food within a few days.
Soaring food prices, and food shortages, are impacting across the world.
In Japan, people are trying to cope with the savage shock of shortages of staple foods, stunning rises in the price of rice and emptying supermarket shelves:
"I went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter at those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run out of butter. I couldn't believe it...”
Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.
A sharp increase in the cost of imported cattle feed and a decline in milk imports, both of which are typically provided in large part by Australia, have prevented dairy farmers from keeping pace with demand.
While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term — perhaps permanent — reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.
The wealthy can only afford to buy the food that the poor cannot while that food is still available. When supplies run out, they too must either go without, grow their own or pay absurd prices for what was, only last year, so cheap.
How bad could global food shortages ultimately get? The lives of many hundreds of millions who have never known hunger before are threatened.
Will we be reduced to the pitiful state of Haitians, who have been driven by food shortages and extreme hunger to start eating the earth beneath their feet?
...the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar...
“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”
The age of cheap and plentiful food, at least from supermarkets, is clearly over.
All governments need to encourage backyard, and balcony, food gardens. Houses that will never sell and are decaying can be bulldozed to make way for community farms. There are at least two or three dozen villages in England returning to thispre-20th century method of feeding the people and bringing the community together.
For city dwellers, however, even those with balcony gardens crowded with carrots, tomatoes, herbs, salad greens and citrus trees, the food staples like milk, cooking oil, butter and wheat, however, will continue to grow only more expensive.
The psychological impact for most Americans of seeing food riots in their towns and cities will be immense, and destructive
Darryl Mason
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The New York Times recently told its more wealthy readers to consider buying a rural cottage, or even log cabin, to ride out the water and food riots that militarized police forces are preparing and training for, and now Wall Street recommends its readers to begin stockpiling rice and cereals, not only to fend off hunger but as an investment opportunity :
Food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund. And there are very good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising a lot faster.
"Load up the pantry," says Manu Daftary, one of Wall Street's top investors and the manager of the Quaker Strategic Growth mutual fund. "I think prices are going higher. People are too complacent. They think it isn't going to happen here. But I don't know how the food companies can absorb higher costs."
The latest data show cereal prices rising by more than 8% a year. Both flour and rice are up more than 13%. Milk, cheese, bananas and even peanut butter: They're all up by more than 10%. Eggs have rocketed up 30% in a year. Ground beef prices are up 4.8% and chicken by 5.4%.
You can't easily stock up on perishables like eggs or milk. But other products will keep. Among them: Dried pasta, rice, cereals, and cans of everything from tuna fish to fruit and vegetables. The kicker: You should also save money by buying them in bulk.
If this seems a stretch, ponder this: The emerging bull market in agricultural products is following in the footsteps of oil. A few years ago, many Americans hoped $2 gas was a temporary spike. Now it's the rosy memory of a bygone age.
The readers of the Wall Street Journal now know it's time to get busy stockpiling. For good reasons. Shortages of rice and other essentials are now being reported in American cities:
Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.
"Where's the rice?" an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. "You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous."
"There have been so many stories about worldwide shortages that it encourages people to stock up. What most people don't realize is that supply chains have changed, so inventories are very short," Mr.Rawles , a former Army intelligence officer, said. "Even if people increased their purchasing by 20%, all the store shelves would be wiped out."
An anonymous high-tech professional writing on an investment Web site, Seeking Alpha, said he recently bought 10 50-pound bags of rice..."I am concerned that when the news of rice shortage spreads, there will be panic buying and the shelves will be empty in no time. I do not intend to cause a panic, and I am not speculating on rice to make profit. I am just hoarding some for my own consumption," he wrote.
The presidential Bush family's favorite newspaper, the Washington Times, notes the rapidly growing chaos and panic in American food industries, and the demented greed of Wall Street:
Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher. Meanwhile, some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high prices and shortages spreading from overseas.
Community Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....regulators said high prices are mostly the result of soaring world demand for grains combined with high fuel prices and drought-induced shortages in many countries.
Costco and other grocery stores in California reported a run on rice, which has forced them to set limits on how many sacks of rice each customer can buy. Filipinos in Canada are scooping up all the rice they can find and shipping it to relatives in the Philippines, which is suffering a severe shortage that is leaving many people hungry.
While farmers here and abroad generally are benefiting from the high prices, even they have been burned by a tidal wave of investors and speculators pouring into the futures markets for corn, wheat, rice and other commodities and who are driving up prices in a way that makes it difficult for farmers to run their businesses.
U.S. wheat stocks are at the lowest levels in 60 years because worldwide consumption of wheat has exceeded production in six of the past eight years, said U.S. Agriculture Department chief economist GeraldBange . Adding to tight supplies was the back-to-back failure of two years of wheat crops caused by drought in Australia, a major wheat exporter, he said.
In addition, the diversion of one-third of the U.S. corn crop into making ethanol for vehicles has increased prices for corn and other staples such as soybeans and cotton as more acreage is set aside for ethanol production.
The upswing in prices has been exaggerated by the massive influx of investors and speculators seeking to profit from rising prices for corn, wheat, oil, gold and other commodities. Big Wall Street firms and hedge funds have taken huge positions in futures markets that once were dominated by relatively small operators such as farmers and grain-elevator owners.
Oil speculation helped drive the price of a barrel beyond $100, and now 'food speculators' are going to do the same for the food you need to buy to feed your family. And the government doesn't want to stop it happening.
Maybe they're hoping Monsanto with save the day, and bellies, of Americans with GM crops, but the 'miracle' of GM crops is turning out to be little more than clever marketing. Monsanto now admits their genetically modified crops do not actually produce higher yields of rice and grains. More food from less acreage is something they aspire to achieve, not something they can actually do yet.
Food prices will stay high simply because oil prices will never drop below $100 again. It will only ever increase, drop back a few dollars, and then increase again. We're already being softened up by oil cartels and governments to expect $200 a barrel prices within the next few years.
When oil hits $150 a barrel, trucking and freight companies will start projecting big losses, and will reconsider whether it pays to service longer, less profitable routes to smaller urban population pockets. The sorts of places that need nearly everything trucked in, but produce little to truck back out again. When the delivery trucks slow, or cease altogether, most supermarkets will be emptied of food within a few days.
Soaring food prices, and food shortages, are impacting across the world.
In Japan, people are trying to cope with the savage shock of shortages of staple foods, stunning rises in the price of rice and emptying supermarket shelves:
"I went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter at those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run out of butter. I couldn't believe it...”
Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.
A sharp increase in the cost of imported cattle feed and a decline in milk imports, both of which are typically provided in large part by Australia, have prevented dairy farmers from keeping pace with demand.
While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term — perhaps permanent — reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.
The wealthy can only afford to buy the food that the poor cannot while that food is still available. When supplies run out, they too must either go without, grow their own or pay absurd prices for what was, only last year, so cheap.
How bad could global food shortages ultimately get? The lives of many hundreds of millions who have never known hunger before are threatened.
Will we be reduced to the pitiful state of Haitians, who have been driven by food shortages and extreme hunger to start eating the earth beneath their feet?
...the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar...
“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”
The age of cheap and plentiful food, at least from supermarkets, is clearly over.
All governments need to encourage backyard, and balcony, food gardens. Houses that will never sell and are decaying can be bulldozed to make way for community farms. There are at least two or three dozen villages in England returning to thispre-20th century method of feeding the people and bringing the community together.
For city dwellers, however, even those with balcony gardens crowded with carrots, tomatoes, herbs, salad greens and citrus trees, the food staples like milk, cooking oil, butter and wheat, however, will continue to grow only more expensive.
The psychological impact for most Americans of seeing food riots in their towns and cities will be immense, and destructive
Thursday, April 24, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTY!!
Joe Buck and I wanted to wish Christy a very Happy Birthday!! Have fun in California you guys!! Just for the record: It snowed here. Snowed. I'm not too excited about that. Hey, did it snow in Cali? I just want to know. Because I'm already feeling so good about how Spring is playing out here in the valley. You know? More salt please. (To the wound, get it? right? Yeah.) I'm so funny late at night.
Food Storage - The Wall St. Journal
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about food prices.
Click Here.
Click Here.
Gems
Oh the diamonds you can find in the rough of the useless internet space. Here's to all the HOFF fans out there!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Food Storage Thoughts
I was thinking yesterday about food storage. Apparantly, some stores are beginning to ration wheat, flour, sugar, and some other items here in the US. How funny it is that that is happening in the bread basket of the world. I was also thinking how last year in about August, several of us suddenly thought seriously about getting their year's supply. I know several of us did, and I was one of them. Well, I felt that prompting, and for once I actually acted on it. Now I have my year's supply before this shortage and huge price increase hit. Just one more example of how the Lord takes care of us. None of us could see this coming, and yet He inspires us to act before the crisis comes. If we just listen, we can avoid future problems as well... Anyway, I just thought that was a pretty cool and recent example of how actively involved in our lives He actually is.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Protecting rights
in accordance with our family discussion the other night, just something to think about.
they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then, they came for me, And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then, they came for me, And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Battleship!
how on earth was the greatest piece left out of the poll? now my conquering attitude is forced to choose between a finger protectant and a piece of leather! (neither of which will i choose, by the way)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Blessing Our Baby Boy
We are going to be blessing out new baby boy on the first Sunday in May (the 4th), then jumping in our car the next week and moving to Alabama on May 12th. It's nervous times, with so much change going on, but once the dust settles I'm sure we'll be happier in Alabama. Especially now that there won't be the constant threat of a deployment over our heads. Life is good with the new addition and he is fitting in just fine. We love having the new little one and he has brought a lot of love and warmth to our home. Thanks for all your love and support.
Friday, April 11, 2008
more manly
This is my new one with a different picture, my favorites being konrad adanauer and Jamie spears, once again i'm graced by looking like the trash of female hollywood
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Home Sweet Home
For those of you who haven't heard yet, Kirk got a job offer at AF Jr. High and said yes. This means that we will be heading back to AF area sometime. We don't have any plans yet. We might stay here for a year and then sell or sell this summer. This summer is quick though so we might need more time than that. We are excited and look forward to fixing up a place...not really.
Love to all.
Love to all.
Celebrity Look a Likes!
This is SO much fun!! I want EVERYONE to post their Celebrity look alike!
JoeBuck - Joe Montana
JoeBuck - Joe Montana
MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebs
Me - Song Hye-Kyo
MyHeritage: Celebrity Morph - Family history - Old photos
Ian - Dennis Quaid
MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celeb
I've had people ask me if I was asian. Well, it is official. I look asian. (I'm okay with that!)
For Mom
Hey Mom, you were wondering about the exact location of the buildings when we visited Ground Zero in NYC. I found this picture that gives a great layout. The towers were buildings 1 & 2. When you and dad were there we saw the demolition site from the South East corner and walked along the East side of the site.
Atwood Reproduction
Congratulations Joe and Kim on the recent arrival of your bundle of joy.
Now each of the married Atwoods have produced a male offspring.
Joe & Kati need a girl, and then we can say that they have eached produced a female.
Now each of the married Atwoods have produced a male offspring.
Joe & Kati need a girl, and then we can say that they have eached produced a female.
The Final Scores
Okay, thank you all for playing. Kim won option one and Marshall won option two. Kristen was going to win option two, but Memphis could not hit a free throw (missed 4 of their last 5, and one would have one it), and lost to Kansas. I am the only one to pick Kansas, but alas, it was not enough to overcome my other mistakes. Congrats to you all, and the winners. Overall it was rather fun I thought.
Option 1 (64 possible)
46-Favorites, Kim
44-Marshall
43-Kristen
41-Jeff
40-Weston, Christy, Mom
39-Dad, Rem
38-Kirk
35-Kati
30-Joe Buck
29-Joe
28-Shane
Option 2 (195 possible)
129-Favorites
124-Marshall
123-Kim
120-Kristen
115-Jeff
106-Weston, Remington, Christy
103-Mom
102-Kirk, Dad
96-Kati
74-Joe Buck
73-Joe
59-Shane
TTFN
Option 1 (64 possible)
46-Favorites, Kim
44-Marshall
43-Kristen
41-Jeff
40-Weston, Christy, Mom
39-Dad, Rem
38-Kirk
35-Kati
30-Joe Buck
29-Joe
28-Shane
Option 2 (195 possible)
129-Favorites
124-Marshall
123-Kim
120-Kristen
115-Jeff
106-Weston, Remington, Christy
103-Mom
102-Kirk, Dad
96-Kati
74-Joe Buck
73-Joe
59-Shane
TTFN
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Top of the gene pool
as most of our family got Einstein's riddle right, and those who didn't, probably only didn't as a result of a time space continuum lapse that obscured their vision of the facts, i will boldly and with sinful pride, declare our family the upper crust of the world! at least it's not lonely on our high horses, as we have each other to talk to.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Notice
In light of the few comments we have gotten that don't have anything to do with our blog - I have enforced a spam deflector. Now, whenever you comment on a post - it will ask you to retype a few letters for verification. This is an extra step-I'm sorry, but it should keep the spam comments at bay. Thank you.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Answer to the Riddle
Hey Everyone, I put the answer to the riddle on my blog, so if you want to verify your answer (I hope I'm right ).
But don't go there until you try to solve it yourself.
Awesome post Kirk!
But don't go there until you try to solve it yourself.
Awesome post Kirk!
In memory of Charlton Heston
FYI - I think it's pretty telling that he got married at the age of 20 and stayed with the same woman for 64 years. She was at his bedside when he died. This says a lot considering the short life-span of most Hollywood marriages.
This is a fabulous talk . . .
This talk was emailed to me - and it is just fabulous. President Monson's daughter Ann Dibb gave this talk in February of this year at BYU-Idaho. She was just sustained this conference as the 2nd counselor in the YW General Presidency. It is titled "My Father is a Prophet". President Monson has always been a favorite of mine - and since he is quite different from President Hinckley it was a little hard to imagine how it would be with him as our prophet. I remember the regional conference we attended a couple of years ago that he spoke. Instead of the usual written conference address that I was used to hearing - it was light and spontaneous almost. I really felt like he was a man of God, and I had a different idea of who he was. It was fun to see a little of that during his last address at the close of General Conference. I am excited to learn more about our new prophet. This would be a FABULOUS family home evening.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Einstein's Riddle
Hey,
I got this riddle from school, and just so all of you know, my Christy is in the 2%. Post your answers and we'll reveal the correct answer in the near future.
Kirk
Albert Einstein wrote this riddle during the early 19th century. He said that 98% of the world population would not be able to solve it.
Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world?
Solve the riddle and find out.
There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don’t give up.
1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar, and keep a different pet.
The Question: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
Clues
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
I got this riddle from school, and just so all of you know, my Christy is in the 2%. Post your answers and we'll reveal the correct answer in the near future.
Kirk
Albert Einstein wrote this riddle during the early 19th century. He said that 98% of the world population would not be able to solve it.
Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world?
Solve the riddle and find out.
There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don’t give up.
1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar, and keep a different pet.
The Question: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
Clues
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
And Then There Were Two
Down to two: Memphis vs Kansas. Kristen, Rem, and Weston picked Memphis, while I picked Kansas, everyone else is done. Kristen and Rem picked Memphis to win, and I picked Kansas to win, so final scores can be tallied based on that info, if I can't post final scores Tuesday morning. As the scores are as of now:
Option 1 (63 possible)
46-Favorites, Kim
44-Marshall
43-Kristen
40-Weston, Christy, Mom, Jeff
39-Dad, Rem
38-Kirk
35-Kati
30-Joe Buck
29-Joe
28-Shane
Option 2 (188 possible)
129-Favorites
124-Marshall
123-Kim
120-Kristen
108-Jeff
106-Weston, Remington, Christy
103-Mom
102-Kirk, Dad
96-Kati
74-Joe Buck
73-Joe
59-Shane
Good luck Monday night!
Option 1 (63 possible)
46-Favorites, Kim
44-Marshall
43-Kristen
40-Weston, Christy, Mom, Jeff
39-Dad, Rem
38-Kirk
35-Kati
30-Joe Buck
29-Joe
28-Shane
Option 2 (188 possible)
129-Favorites
124-Marshall
123-Kim
120-Kristen
108-Jeff
106-Weston, Remington, Christy
103-Mom
102-Kirk, Dad
96-Kati
74-Joe Buck
73-Joe
59-Shane
Good luck Monday night!
Friday, April 4, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Mission scripture
I am going to start taking suggestions for good scriptures to place on my missionary picture plack thing, as i tend to forget where scriptures i think worthy for such a position are located. any help would be appreciated.
Mom was right - who knew?
So - some of us were gathered at Mom & Dad's on Monday night (by the way I never said Happy Birthday Kati, so Happy Birthday!!), and we were discussing addiction and self esteem.
Anyway, I was too forceful in my sudden opinion when I told Mom that I didn't agree with her assertion that addictions come from low self esteem. After thinking about it I totally agree with her.
I would also say that if "self esteem" is a person's perception of their eternal worth and identity, then all sin must come from a person's lack of self esteem. If we could sense our eternal worth, I don't think we would ever sin.
So I hereby publicly apologize for my disagreement and acknowlege Mom's wisdom.
Anyway, I was too forceful in my sudden opinion when I told Mom that I didn't agree with her assertion that addictions come from low self esteem. After thinking about it I totally agree with her.
I would also say that if "self esteem" is a person's perception of their eternal worth and identity, then all sin must come from a person's lack of self esteem. If we could sense our eternal worth, I don't think we would ever sin.
So I hereby publicly apologize for my disagreement and acknowlege Mom's wisdom.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Marshall's Scores
Marshall just sent me his bracket and he has all 4 #1 seeds in his final four. Because of this, his scores would be: Option one-44 and Option two-124.
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