tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246142312012-01-29T14:52:14.993-08:00<center> George: <i>What about a blog about nothing?</i><br> Jerry: <i>I think you may have something here...</i> </center>Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-23268395596221107302012-01-15T21:26:00.000-08:002012-01-15T21:26:15.030-08:00

Things don't always go as planned. Don't dwell on the past. Learn from the past, plan for the future, but live in the present. Don't dwell on the past. Be here now. I can only move forward. What is the best way forward from this exact point in my life? What are my assets? What are my liabilities? How can I best leverage my assets and overcome my liabilities? How can I do the most good? What good

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The people that know me in the real estate business know that I never lift a hammer on my remodels. I just write the checks. So they would be shocked, SHOCKED, to hear that this morning I actually did some roof repairs on my own house ALL BY MYSELF!! I had a few shingles blow off the roof in one of the recent haboobs, and I thought it might be fun to try fixing them myself. I know, that doesn't

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When I was home teaching last month I did a magic trick for the kids, who are 2, 5, 7, and 15.  It was the standard magic trick from the mission days where you make a coin disappear by rubbing it into your arm. They loved it. And it sort of even tied in to the lesson about tithing. Then for this month I figured I had to follow it up with something, so I hopped on youtube and found this one:

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VERSUS I have been an In-N-Out Burger aficionado for many years, and I've recently heard vague rumblings about different competitors such as Shake Shack and Five Guys Burgers and Fries popping up. I just tried out Five Guys for the first time, at Reagan National Airport in DC. Here is my head to head review: Burger: Five Guys was actually a little better than In-N-Out! I liked the thicker

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Matthew and I went to the Holocaust Museum at the Smithsonian, mainly because we'd been to the other museums before. We ended up spending quite a bit of time there on the tour. I most enjoyed the stories of the heroic individuals who risked their lives to save others, such as the White Rose group. However, the thing that struck me the most, and that I still have trouble grasping, is how most of

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Tired of paying high property taxes? I just appealed my property tax valuation, so I thought I would share the steps for how to do it. This will only be helpful if you live in Maricopa County, AZ. (And actually our property taxes aren't that high compared to some states, but it's still a good idea to appeal if your valuation is inaccurate.) There are two ways to appeal, administrative and

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It's been a while since I've posted. Here are a few random thoughts. Sad end to Jimmer Mania I thought they were going to pull out that last game against Florida. Jimmer only shot 3 for 15 from 3 (with an apparent calf injury) and they still got to overtime. But... it was quite a ride. Good luck in the NBA Jimmer! I thought these 2 Jimmer related links were pretty hilarious: Jimmer Love Song |

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My friend Stephanie, who declined to be interviewed or photographed for this post, offered to get me a pedicure for my birthday a year ago. I thought it sounded like fun, but we never got around to actually doing it. This year she offered again, so today I had my first ever pedicure. My tech Stephanie's tech My nail tech, Twee, said my feet were "actually pretty good" compared to other

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I noticed that VOTS has a league history page, so naturally I wasted a bunch of time on it, documenting all the teams I've been on. I'm sure no one besides me will care but it was fun to go back and remember each of the teams. I started playing in the VOTS league in 2007 and I've played on 6 "regular" teams (standard Fall or Spring leagues), and 3 other teams, for a total of 9! Season Team

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When I showed up for ultimate frisbee tonight around 8 PM it was already raining steadily, but it was warm out so it felt pretty good. I joined the game, and after about 10 or 15 minutes it started raining pretty hard. I wasn't sure whether we would keep playing but we did. Then after another 10 minutes or so the real monsoon showed up and we got a torrential downpour. I literally couldn't see

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"Rosebud..."I finally saw Citizen Cane, the so-called "greatest movie ever made". I thought it was interesting. But I think by "greatest movie" what they mean is "movie with the camera work and effects most ahead of it's time", or "movie involved in the most intriguing hollywood subplot in the 1940s", or "movie that we most like to discuss in cinematography 101". They definitely don't mean "most

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On May 18 we in Arizona will vote on Proposition 100. If passed, it will add a one cent sales tax, supposedly for only three years, that will generate about a billion dollars a year to help shore up Arizona's massive budget deficit.On the one hand, I'm usually against any raising of taxes. And "temporary" taxes have a tendency to become permanent. On the other hand, Arizona really needs the money

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My brother asked my 5 year old niece to make a list of fun things to do, and this is what she came up with, as spelled by her. I love it! I was able to translate each one, can you? It's kind of like that Mad Gab game...go swimeeggo to a reschotwoch a movyhav funplay the spanish gameol uv us get a pennybe niseplay with eech uthergo bulleeggo to the porkplay gamseet canndygo to chuckee cheese'sbee

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I love a lot of things about Firefox, including the extensions and the general slickness and innovativeness (is that a word?). But I have 2 problems with it:It takes forever to load.It's a huge memory hog.I hadn't tried Google Chrome since it first came out a couple years ago, but after seeing Google actually running commercials to promote it, I thought I would give it another try.Chrome is a

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I had the book To Kill A Mockingbird on my shelf at home during all my growing up years, and I never read it. I finally picked it up yesterday, and didn't put it down until I finished it late last night. It is definitely a classic, deserving of all the accolades... but I felt like I knew the plot already. I think I've seen at least 3 or 4 movies with suspiciously similar plots, as well as

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When I was in high school one of my favorite foods was Pizza Hut Meat Lovers Pizza, on the "Pan" style crust. In recent years, however, I haven't had any Pizza Hut pizza, because I've become somewhat OCD about overly greasy foods. I don't eat Big Macs and various other greasy foods anymore either.Today in my junk mail I got a pizza hut flyer, and they were offering that deal for any pizza, any

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I watched several episodes of these 2 shows, Chuck and Psych, while I was at home over Christmas. And I recently caught up with a few more recent episodes on hulu. Here's my take.First Chuck: I really really hated the first episode of the new season. At the end of the previous season, they had a lot of interesting plot lines going, with Chuck and Sarah hooking up, and Morgan pursuing his lifelong

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This is a photo response to Benj's post about sandwiches.

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I did some research on backup solutions recently, so I thought I would share some of what I learned.I already had some processes in place for backing up my files locally. Of those, I think Norton Ghost is the best, and PC Backup is lousy. Of the free solutions, GBridge is interesting.But with all my backup data in the same house as my primary data, I was worried about losing everything in case of

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I was about to get a little bit miffed, but I finally figured out why firefox wouldn't remember (auto-complete) my username on a couple of sites that I use constantly. Turns out that if you have more than one username saved for a given site, then firefox doesn't know which one to fill in, so it doesn't fill in anything. That doesn't explain why it wouldn't do the normal auto-complete (after I

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When I recently wrote about BCS-Gate, I was really just venting my anger at the ridiculous monopolist weasels that run the BCS, rather than providing solutions. But Dan Wetzel over at Yahoo Sports has done a little better, not only presenting a plan for a college football playoff system (which has been done before), but also providing great answers to many of the bogus BCS arguments against a

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Before I get my man card revoked by admitting that I like a girly song from Twilight, I should make a couple of disclaimers. First of all, I haven't read any of the Twilight books, although I have read this awesome Twilight parody screenplay, and this one of New Moon, both by Eric D. Snider.Second, I haven't seen either of the Twilight movies. In fact, I was fairly irritated when they invaded my

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I've been irritated at myself for 5 years, for not buying NateTanner.com and/or NathanielTanner.com. For years no one had them, but I didn't buy them because I didn't have a plan for them, and I didn't want to spend the whopping $10/year on each. Then when they were purchased by other people around 2004, I realized that I wanted them. It's been bugging me ever since.Tonight I was reading an

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The emails and documents leaked this week from some of the world's leading football schools offer a rich trove of evidence that BCS and NCAA officials were massaging the data and corrupting the equitable process to support their own preconceptions of which teams should play in the so called "championship" bowl game. The leaked emails also demonstrated convincingly that the Bowl Championship

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I took Harvard's Project Implicit test, which is supposed to measure your religious biases, and the results are below. Interestingly, the results are what I might have guessed beforehand, but after taking the test I would have been pretty sure that I did not betray any bias towards anything. So I guess that means the test was able to burrow into my subconscious and get at my true feelings. Or

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I've been meaning to buy some Under Armour for a while, and I finally got around to it last week. I checked it out at the mall first, and thought "Ouch, $65 for an under shirt!" Then I looked online, and really didn't find anything too much cheaper. I ended up getting this long sleeve shirt on ebay for $49 including shipping.What's so great about Under Armour? It's supposed to be "sweat-shedding

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I spent a few days in Chicago last week. Even though I'm from Missouri, it was only my second time being in Chicago. It's about a seven hour drive from where I'm from in Missouri.My first visit was at Christmas a few years ago, when my family went to see Les Mis. The main thing I remembered from that visit was that Chicago parking is really expensive.I was with my friend Jeff, and he pointed out

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I noticed what looked like water damage on the ceiling in one of my rental houses. There was a strip about 4 feet long, in the seam between 2 sheets of drywall.There is a bathroom on the floor above, but I couldn't see anything that might be leaking upstairs, so I had my handyman Nick cut open the ceiling. He called me up, and said "Uhhh... it's not water." It was some sort of waxy substance, and

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On my recent trip to Zion National Park, one of the hikes I went on was Angel's Landing. This was actually the 3rd or 4th time I've done that hike. I love it because it has great views all the way up, and the best view at the end. Also because it is somewhat strenuous and mildly dangerous, so you feel like you've accomplished something when you make it to the top. Check out the footage below to

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When I posted a while back about 10 annoyances, number 3 on the list was:When I'm trying to leave a voice mail and I have to sit through a long obnoxious automated message, such as "The caller you are attempting to reach is not available. At the tone I will take your message, or press 5 to page this person. Press 6 to leave a call back number. When you are finished with your message, if you are

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I've tried out GoToMyPC a few times over the years, and I always thought it was very cool, but I never needed it enough to pay $20 per month.I recently came across a provider of a similar technology called LogMeIn, and this one has a free version! It seems to work just as well as GoToMyPC. Check it out!

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Semiannual, last I heard, mean's every 6 months. There's nothing in the definition that would make it acceptable to mean "once a year, but 6 months after the other one that we refer to as annual". But yet that's exactly what the church uses it to mean in reference to general conference! Can someone explain how they can get away with this? Do they think their tax exempt status makes them

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If you are considering buying a new home, you should be aware of this $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers.

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I've been carrying the same wallet for about 10 or 15 years that my brother Matthew bought me for Christmas many moons ago. It's gotten so ragged that I have tenants who don't even pay their rent who have offered to buy me a new one. I've put it off for a long time, but tonight I finally broke down and bought a new one.The little one in the middle came as an added bonus, I guess for when I want

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I ended up pulling an "all nighter" accidentally last night. It really was an accident -- I went to bed at a normal time, but because I had slept in till noon on Monday I couldn't go to sleep. The reason I slept so late on Monday was that I had been sick on Sunday, and apparently a combination of a generic Day-quil knock off during the day and Nyquil at night make me sleep for 15+ hours.So anyway

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I don't usually get around to eating all the fruits and vegetables I buy before they go bad. So about a month ago, I started making smoothies to try to use them up. I've been on a smoothie kick ever since. I didn't think it would last very long, because my usual philosophy on food is: "If it takes more than 30 seconds to make, that's too much effort." But for now I'm still going at it.It's not a

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I recently ran across these guys, another so called Internet meme, i.e. phenomenon. I have to admit I find them much funnier than most of the Internet "sensations". I had seen the Mother's Day video on facebook a while ago without knowing who made it or that they had other videos. Then I saw a link to another one recently and realized that I could waste over an hour of my life watching these

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I got a call on Wednesday from a tenant who lives in a rental house that I own in Glendale. She had come home from work early to find a burglar in the house! The burglar had broken in by breaking a bedroom window. She said she tried the door but it wouldn't open. When she called I thought she was talking about the front door but thinking about it later, she might have been referring to the door

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So much for the BCS conferences dominating the mid majors! The Mountain West is 5-0 against the PAC-10, capped off by BYU's complete destruction of UCLA, 59-0!2008 Results So Far:BYU 59 UCLA 0UNLV 23ASU 20TCU 31Stanford 14New Mexico 36Arizona 28BYU 28Washington 27Since when was your conference so pathetic?Yet another example of why the monopolistic nazi "good ol' boy" BCS system is lame and there

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In the movie 21, Kevin Spacey brings up a math/logic/probability problem called the Game Show Host Problem. In the movie the problem was described something like this: You are a contestant on a game show and you have to choose between three doors, one of which has a new car behind it. The other two doors have goats behind them. The game show host tells you to pick a door. You do so, at which

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I'm sitting on hold, waiting for someone to take my call. Some lady keeps interrupting my musical experience... "Thank you for your patience! Your call is very important! Please remain on the line... blah blah blah". How annoying! Just play the music and let me work on something else until a real person picks up!Not a very positive mindset, I know, but this led me to start thinking about other

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I saw a movie recently called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's about a French guy named Jean-Dominique Bauby who had a stroke at age 43 and became completely paralyzed, after which he was only able to communicate by blinking his left eye.His speech therapist developed a system for communication which consisted of her repeating over and over a modified alphabet, which was ordered by the

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My Italian grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away on Tuesday, June 17. I went up to Utah for the funeral. Helen DeSantis TannerHelen DeSantis Tanner, age 91 of Springville, passed away Tuesday, June 17, 2008. She was born February 19, 1917 in Frontier, Wyoming to Henry DeSantis and Elvira Vennarucci. She married John Tanner on May 16, 1941 in Salt Lake City, Utah.Helen was raised and attended

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Just in case you wanted to be able to name your fear this coming Friday...par·a·ska·ve·dek·a·tri·a·pho·bi·a     -noun    the fear of Friday the 13th

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-15202867912008469512008-05-25T15:45:00.000-07:002008-05-26T22:10:44.838-07:00

At my sister's wedding, my brothers and I failed to give a toast or say anything at the dinner, so we came up with a little song at the brunch the following morning.Here's the direct link. And here's a link to the original in case you've never heard it. We'll be making millions on iTunes in no time. (And then we'll be sued by John Denver's estate...)Lyrics to the last verse:You fill up Thomas's

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The desert winter seemed to last much longer than usual this year. We were into mid-May and the nights were still cool. But this past Saturday the heat arrived all of a sudden and we jumped into the triple digits. This is the fun time of year when the electric bills double and people try to remember why they moved to the desert in the first place.

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I sent out an email to a bunch of realtors about an open house this weekend. In the footer, instead of putting, "Click here to unsubscribe" or something like that, I put "You are in my list of realtor contacts. If you prefer to not receive any additional emails from me, just reply with the words 'Go Away' in the subject line."For some reason I found that funny. But I found it even more funny when

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Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-67269676136577382472008-05-04T00:59:00.000-07:002008-05-04T01:00:52.995-07:00

Which of the following was most closely associated with the presidency of James K. Polk?A) Manifest DestinyB) The Abolitionist MovementC) Economic DevelopmentD) The Whig Party

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Amy pointed out that Dale Murphy, one of my childhood heroes, has a foundation called I Won't Cheat, that helps kids develop some ethics in sports and life.I thought their video was classic:

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Some people call us mutants, or X-men, but apparently I have a condition called heterochromia. I always knew I had the condition, but I never considered the fact that it might have a name, until a nurse friend of mine filled me in recently. Heterochromia is where you have different colored eyes, or a different color in part of one eye. In my case it's called partial heterochromia or sectoral

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I need a stereo with built in iTunes. I've gotta have it.I'm sick of having to use an FM transmitter to use my iPod in the car. I don't want a cassette adapter. What I want is to be able to sync all the music from my iPod onto my car stereo, and then leave the iPod AT HOME!Here's an article from more than 2 years ago promoting the same thing. Is it out there yet? Surely someone has come up with

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Here are some before and after pics from a house that I fixed up and sold recently in the hood.BEFORESee more BEFORE pics...See more BEFORE pics...AFTERSee more AFTER pics...See more AFTER pics...

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My favorite improv troupe was at it again, this time staging a musical in a food court at a Los Angeles mall, seemingly out of nowhere. The video is great, I thought the expressions of the onlookers were amazingly hilarious. The guy at the very end of the musical who says "Here's a napkin" is "Agent" Todd, the creator of Improv Everywhere.

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I play ultimate in a local rec league. My team for the spring league was the undisputed, undefeated heavyweight league champion of the world! Maybe it was a shortened season with only 6 games, but we still won! Our team name was SNOT... and we were hot!

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I thought this video was pretty awesome.

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I was at a fireside about the Dead Sea Scrolls when a friend whispered to me that President Hinckley had passed away. I went to cnn.com on my phone but they didn't have anything about it. I checked wikipedia and it showed his life as June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008, which confirmed it. I tried to get onto deseretnews.com and ksl.com, but they were slammed. I eventually was able to get a page to

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I have always been a huge fan of Google and their services. Until now.I had an account on google's picasaweb where I posted the pictures of my real estate projects. All of a sudden I went there today and it says "This content has been removed because it violates our Terms of Service". All the pictures are gone. Hundreds of them. Many hours of work that I'll have to redo.I combed through the terms

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BYU was kind enough to send me an email called "My BYU News", letting me know (among other things), what the Chemistry Department is up to. Apparently they are "dedicated to the investigation of the supersonic expansion into the first vacuum stage of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer..."Isn't that what the scarecrow said when he got his brain?

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Caetano Veloso has amazingly poetic and beautiful lyrics... in Portuguese. I tried translating some to English but it didn't quite have the same feel.Sonhos (Dreams)Tudo era apenas uma brincadeiraEverything used to be just a jokeE foi crescendo, crescendo, me absorvendoBut it started growing, growing, absorbing meE de repente eu me vi assim completamente seuAnd all of a sudden I realized that I

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I currently have a Palm Treo 600 Pterodactyl that I've had for 3 years or so. I've been trying to figure out what new phone to get, since my contract with T-mobile just ran out. T-mobile doesn't support the later versions of the Palm phones, and I prefer to stick with Palm OS since I'm used to it. I'm tempted to try a Blackberry, but I'm happy with Palm and I'm not sure how to migrate the 5 years

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No matter how much better BYU is than Utah every year, we always make sure to play poorly enough to keep the game close. Last year's last second "answered prayer" was the epitome of this strategy, but this year's rivalry game was equally excruciating to watch.BYU dominated the majority of the game, but due to extremely poor execution in the red zone, we were only leading 9-3 toward the end of the

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I've had some funny Halloween costumes over the years, but I've never had one with as much shock value as the one this year. I guess it's just a tiny bit different than the image I normally portray...

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-21316324392330634962007-10-28T01:43:00.000-07:002007-10-28T02:00:53.249-07:00

Check out this play. If you listen closely, you'll hear the announcer predict the play before it happens. Shades of when I called the Statue of Liberty play right before Boise State ran it to beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl last year. Benj is my witness.

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This past weekend I went on a little road trip to Las Vegas with my brother Benj and another friend Jake, to watch the BYU UNLV football game. Las Vegas is about a 5 hour drive from Phoenix.BYU pretty much dominated the entire game, only punting once, but they had so many turnovers that they were only up 7-6 at the half. During halftime the coaches must have made a conscious decision to run the

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-11189713672924980272007-09-26T22:31:00.000-07:002007-09-26T23:08:44.123-07:00

I've been playing baseball or softball here and there most of my life. But I can't remember ever hitting a home run, over the fence, in a real game, in a legitimate sized ballpark... until tonight. Today, September 26, 2007, will go down in the annals of my life as the night I finally jacked one out.Afterwards I went home and celebrated with Freschetta and Extreme Moose Tracks.

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Interesting conspiracy theory about how money works. But I don't have any better explanation... I'd be interested to talk to an economist about whether the video has any legitimacy.This is the first in a 5 part series.

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If you've seen "The Secret" then you know about vision boards, which are posters where you place visual images of your goals, so you can focus on accountability to yourself each day as you see the results that you're working towards. I was creating a vision board today, and I pulled a classic Zig Zigler move by sticking my head on someone else's body to visualize what I'll look like when I get in

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I signed up for Amazon Prime's free trial, and then I forgot to cancel it, so now I'm stuck with a year membership. Even though I wasn't planning on keeping it, it really is a great deal -- for $79 a year I get free 2-day shipping on all Amazon products. (Only products that come directly from Amazon are included, so used items or items from 3rd party vendors are not included).I can also share the

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-23120975782605488972007-08-26T22:37:00.000-07:002007-09-27T14:43:41.300-07:00

Now I have not one but TWO brothers with albums available on iTunes. Naturally I highly recommend them. Benj actually has 3 songs that show significant popularity on iTunes! (Each song shows a popularity rating in the iTunes store.) Mark just released his but I'm sure his songs will catch up soon.Benj's group is called Cows Never Die, so you can search for "Cows Never Die" on iTunes, or the album

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My first job out of college was with Motorola, in 1999. I was working on software for a satellite system called Iridium, which was created for global satellite phones and pagers. After I'd been there a year Iridium went into bankruptcy, and Motorola offered me the options of taking a job in another department, or taking 10 weeks of severance pay. I took the severance.Over the years since, I'd

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I decided to go see a movie on my birthday. I couldn't go see Harry Potter 5 without seeing 3 and 4 first, and 6 plus hours of movies sounded like a lot, so I went with Transformers. [Spoiler alert. And by the way, Voldemort kills Hermione in book 7.]I thought Caveman did a pretty good job in the lead role. Some of the saved-by-the-bell-esque juvenile drama was a little annoying, but overall not

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Eric D. Snider contemplates how Seinfeld would spin the latest technology if it was still on the air.

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I went to a concert Wednesday night. It was my friend Dave's party. He's getting married on Saturday, so this was his last vestige of freedom. He chose to go see a band called Clutch. I didn't really know what I was getting into, but I figured it out quickly at the gate, where everyone I saw had extreme tattoos, body piercings, and hair styles out of the 80s punk scene.There were four bands that

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I've been doing a lot of research recently about the best company to use for a Self Directed IRA, so I thought I'd better share my knowledge. What is a Self Directed IRA?A Self Directed IRA is an IRA that allows you to choose your own investments. Your current IRA provider will probably tell you that you can choose your own investments -- "Oh sure, you can choose between the Janus Fund and the

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I discovered a Peruvian restaurant near my house, only a year after it opened, and went there for dinner, con una muchacha bonita es claro. I had a fish dish and something purple to drink called Chicha Morada.The food was good, the people were nice, the server's name was Lali (as in Lali-pop), and they even had musical entertainment. Pan flute and guitar as you might expect. You might also expect

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I've been reading some good books lately. Here's a list of 5 of my all time success related favorites. Naturally I just wish I'd read them all 10 years earlier.Secrets of the Millionaire MindT. Harv EkerThis is a great book about how rich people think, and how to de-program your poor person mentalities.The Magic of Thinking BigDavid SchwartzWritten in the 1950s but still very relevant today.

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I love my Treo 600. I've had it for over two years, and I've resisted the urge to shell out $500 for the latest and greatest. However, there are a few things that bug me about it. One is that you can't forward individual text messages (it saves all the messages from the same person as a chat thread, and you have to copy the one you want out of the thread.) Another annoyance is that the camera

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After a 6 year hiatus, I finally went snowboarding again, at Snowbowl, near Flagstaff, AZ. The conditions weren't quite up to Utah standards, but it was still fun to get back out there!

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In February 2000, I started a company called LunchClub.net LLC, with William Carey. We had actually been working on getting things set up for the business since mid-1999 (the domain lunchclub.net was registered June 1, 1999) but we didn't create the company till February 2000. The premise of LunchClub was simple: Anyone could come to our website and sign up to receive lunch coupons from

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Flying back from Detroit on Saturday night on US Airways, the flight wasn't very full, and I managed to sweet talk the ticket agent into upgrading me to first class. It was my first time in first class, so I thought I'd better share my impressions.The seats were quite a bit more comfortable, with more leg room. This was my favorite perk.We got a decent dinner, as well as dessert, all

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Editor's Note: Due to a glitch in Blogger, my previous "favorite movies" post from November 4th has disappeared! And since Blogger's customer support person is not an actual person, there's no way to get any help fixing the problem. So I am re-posting. But you don't have to re-read it. Although I did make one change to the list...I often get asked what my favorite movie is. Why? Because I'm often

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For as long as I've gone by Nate, which is about 15 years now, certain people have called me "Nate Dog." They always say "Nate Dogggggggggg!" like you might say "Dooooooooooood!" or "Wazzzzzzzzzup?!"Well, I was never aware of it, but it turns out that the source of this greeting is that there is an actual rapper named Nate Dogg! He's Snoop Dogg's cousin. I don't know how I could have not known

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For Thanksgiving Benj and I went up to Salt Lake and stayed with Hyrum's family. I was responsible for olives and jello, but I didn't remember to bring any along, so Kim picked em up for me. This might have been the first time I ever made jello. I'm not sure. But I made a fun multi-colored version, with mandarin oranges and pears included. Too bad I forgot my camera, or I could show off some pics

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I was in Dallas this last week from Thursday till Saturday for a real estate seminar, about how to wholesale property. To "wholesale" property means to buy and then sell quickly for a small profit, as opposed to keeping and fixing up and then selling for a bigger profit, or keeping and renting out.I didn't get to experience much of Dallas, since I was in the hotel 95% of the time I was there. I

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I ran across this fun little site, where you can view the history of your name popularity across the last 100 years.And then there's this one, where you can find out where you rank in salary.

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I spent most of last week in San Diego, California, for a real estate seminar. The seminar was at the Marriot in Del Mar, which runs about $300 per night. So I didn't want to stay there. I checked the other hotels close by, and they were all in the $150-300 range. I figured it would be no problem to find someone through friends or social networking sites that would let me sleep on their couch for

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To commemorate Kim's masterpiece, Benj has contributed the first annual replica of The Sponge Bob:The Sponge Bob II

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Here's a very professional video I made of my house in Maricopa. I hope watching it doesn't make you sick like the Blair Witch Project.

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At this season filled with predictable ghosts and goblins, it's time to commemorate the unique and memorable masterpiece, "The Sponge Bob," by Kim Tanner! Click Bob for more photos of Halloween 2005.Halloween 2005

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As the two avid readers of my blog will recall, I lost my digital camera back in May, and I just now got around to buying a new one. I got a Canon Powershot SD600.Testing out the video capability on my new camera, I made a video of the LunchClub Office. But what good is a video if you can't show it to the world? So I posted it to Google Video, my very first video post. Google Video is cool in

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I just got back from a trip to Missouri for my brother Mark's wedding. He got married in the Nauvoo temple (Illinois), then we had a reception in Kirksville (Missouri) and another one in Cedar Falls (Iowa). So I put plenty of miles on the rental car.I had my camera only at the Iowa reception. But they had a photographer at the wedding and I'm sure Mom took plenty of pictures at the other

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-1159595916315347422006-09-29T22:56:00.000-07:002006-09-29T22:58:36.326-07:00

I'm not as bitter as this guy, but I can definitely relate.

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-1158128433986541062006-09-12T23:13:00.000-07:002006-09-12T23:23:10.723-07:00

Yes, it's true, I did it... sort of.In my first 2 games of church softball, I've batted twice in each game, and I'm 4 for 4 with a single, double, triple, and home run!I'd probably better retire now before I get translated, or enshrined in the church softball hall of fame in Cooperstownville, Utah.

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Back in "the day" (college) I used to read a column called Snide Remarks, which was published in the BYU paper, and written by Eric D. Snider (Get it? Snider? Snide Remarks??). Funny stuff. Then I graduated and forgot all about it.I hadn't heard or thought about good ol' Eric D. in a few years, till I ran across his book, also called Snide Remarks, at Hyrum's house a couple months back. I read

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-1155538133279670992006-08-13T23:00:00.000-07:002006-08-14T00:23:48.756-07:00

If you haven't been to Havasupai (in the Grand Canyon), you need to repent and go immediately. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth.We set out on a Wednesday night, the fearsome foursome -- Nate, Cami, Sharice, and Patricia. It is about a 5 hour drive from Mesa, so we were planning to leave around 6:30 or 7 PM, but it ended up being more like 10 PM. We arrived at 2 or 3 in the morning,

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I look at my niece and I believe.Well, sweetie, I enjoyed sharing in your first two years of life.I know that the memory of this time in your life will probably fade quickly, but I won't forget. I won't forget how fun it was to see you get excited whenever I came by for a visit. To see you come running, swinging your miniature arms, as you jumped into mine. I won't forget your smile. I won't

Nate Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10581099679193605370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24614231.post-1154411985495021802006-07-31T22:43:00.000-07:002006-08-08T20:28:01.506-07:00

A couple weeks ago my roommate Marcus had a bike show in LA. He has a company called Sculpture Cycles that builds custom Harleys. I figured it would be a good way to celebrate my birthday on the beach, so I went along. My buddy Dave also came along, and a friend of Marcus's named Mandy came to help with the show.We left at 6:30 AM on a Friday morning. We were in a big Ford F-250, hauling a big

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For many years, I have had an infinite number of email addresses. For the domain names that I manage, I have generally used a "catch-all" email address, meaning that any email that wasn't assigned to someone else would go to me. Certain people have had fun with this and used email addresses such as NateIsTheCoolestManAlive@lc.com or NateMustDie@lc.com.However, those happy times are behind us now

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