Another reason to Follow the Prophet
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/26/20100426drinking-linked-to-r-rated-movies.html
I love the quote at the end: “I would argue a lot of PG-13 movies should be rated R.”
Conference Gem
power in the priesthood comes through faithful and obedient living in honoring covenants. It is increased by exercising and using the priesthood in righteousness. – Boyd K. Packer
Earthquake
I hate this, when 9/11 hit I was in Chile and couldn’t do anything, at least there was news. The earthquake last night hit Chile and I’m here and can’t do anything.
Christmas
Besides the AWESOME gifts I got this year, I had a great time making a few gifts. Two of them were wooden logic puzzles. The first one, a ‘Soma Cube’, was discovered by Piet Hein in the mid 1930’s. There are exactly 240 unique arrangements of the seven pieces to form a cube. I made this puzzle out of aromatic cedar.
The second puzzle is the ‘Half-hour Puzzle’, created by puzzle-master Stewart Coffin. This puzzle is slightly harder than the Soma Cube with only 1 solution for the 6 pieces. I made this puzzle out of cocobolo.
I got the plans and instructions on how to make these from this book that Laurie gave me a few years ago for Christmas.
These turned out well, and I learned a few tricks to speed up the process. The best part is that the recipient of the first puzzle wasn’t able to put it down all day.
Alaskan Way Earthquake Simulation, Seattle WA
Video produced by WSDOT showing earthquake damage to the Alaskan Way viaduct and seawall. Pretty scary to think about, pretty cool to watch.
