tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99947372011-08-20T00:29:57.114-06:00The world according to Colin LewisColin Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14257215723555613741noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9994737.post-45027132703141208432011-07-20T12:08:00.002-06:002011-07-20T12:37:55.572-06:00

Something about economics just fascinates me lately. After reading books like Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, andFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.),I find the concepts extremely interesting now even though I went on record to say that economics was my least favorite subject in school. Here are a couple of fun videos about two schools of

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Audio clips from one of my favorite General Conference talks last week, with scenes from the final days of the life of Jesus Christ. Great little video clip!

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We have created a video Christmas card this year, since we're not sending one out. Merry Christmas everyone!http://firstlewisbaby.blogspot.com/2008/12/our-christmas-video-card.html

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Despite what I read in this WikiHow article about reasons to not blog, it's time to break out the virtual pen and start blogging again.To refute a couple of the points in that article, I think that blogging does a body good, whether people read it or not. The article says that no one will ever find your blog and it's just like writing a journal that is not online but then goes on to say that

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We finally made it out east to visit my brother and his family in Pennsylvania. They have spent the past year living in the small rural town of Summerville which is about 2 hours out of Pittsburgh. I'm not kidding about the rural thing... or the small part of that last sentence. Summerville is a town of about 300, there are farms all around, and we have even passed some Amish people in their

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Time to get back into blogging...I'll start with a brief report of our trip to Disneyland and Southern Calironia.We were in much need of a Spring Break trip while Trish was off track from school, so we headed south. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on how you look at it), it didn't turn out to be so sunny. So on the down side, it wasn't that warm, we got rained on a bit, didn't swim at

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http://www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/burger.htmWarning, not for the faint of heart! This looks delicious and is wonderfully presented. Bugers are some of the best tasting works of art, and here's proof.

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Great news from the Lewis' house and the first real success of the new year: Trish found my car keys that had been lost for about a month in the cracks of the couch cusions. Things like this only happen in the movies. I never lose my keys. I have always put them on the key holder in our kitchen, I keep good track of them, but for some reason lost them about a month ago. Luckily, I had a spare

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The next book in our continuing series of our World War II history study is Band of Brothers. The author, Stephen E. Ambrose, is the same guy who wrote our first book Pegasus Bridge. I'm not kidding you, I will probably read everything he has written. He's that good.Although we haven't finished reading Omaha Beach, we are taking a small detour for this one. A co-worker recommended the HBO

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ColinCam is back! I found a better site to host the ftp action of the image. It works much better now. I'll tweak the html and javascript to see if I can make the refresh cleaner or something. I'll see if I can run it at work tomorrow too.Check it out: http://colinkun.fasthost4all.com/colincam.html

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Friday night was our Elder's Quorum Pinewood Derby. I was in charge of organizing and promoting the event. I think we ended up with about 8 cars in the stock class, and 5 for the modified. Most of the modified car makers also made stock class cars, so we had about 12 participants overall.We saw all kinds of shapes and colors, and almost everyone was using a different lubricant for their wheels. I

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Another fun link:http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_196/Tricky_treats.htmlHmm, only 4 out of 10. Not very good. See how you do! Myth or no myth, candy is delicious.

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If blogs aren't for anything else, they're at least good for a place to post links for interesting web sites. Here's another one: http://emailblender.com/Fun stuff, yet again.

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This month's book club selection is another from the World War II genre. Currently, our course of study is focusing on the European theater, primarily the D-Day invasion.Beginning today, Tuesday, with the Preface and first couple of chapters, we will investigate and discuss the book periodically but without a set schedule.Of course, comments are always welcome.

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I posted recently about my history kick, and part of that kick has involved browsing the history section at Borders and a run to the West Jordan library. Here's one that I found and highly recommend:Title: Pegasus Bride: June 6, 1944Author: Stephen E. AmbroseThis book is about a lesser known event that occured as the first victory on D-Day. Major John Howard lead an attack and seizure of two

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I can't quite place the exact beginning, but somewhere in the past couple weeks I have started up on this history kick. I think it started as a result of three different triggers: browsing a war book at Borders, finding a page from my grandpa's own war journal, and coming to the realization that I know very little about some of the most important things that have happened in this world.Every time

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Well, my short time in a corner office with a beautiful view out the window has come to an abrubt hault. Apparently, we are rearranging offices a bit and that means I'm out of my spacious corner cube. I'll need to snap a few pictures out the window to remember this view. It's always sad when the best view I'll probably ever have from my work place comes and goes at such a young age.I'm moving

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I am amazed at all the cool tools and toys that continue to show up on the net. Here's another one that deserves some attention. http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/I created a lil' link for all you readers out there: http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/colinscolumnreaders

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Colincam has launched. Unfortunately, it's not streaming video, and only updates about once every minute or two... but it's up and running!I waited a LONG 5 months for Comcast to make good on the promised promotional item, but it finally arrived on Monday. What was said to be 4-6 weeks turned into almost that many months! Rediculous.The page will update while I'm at work, maybe a little at home

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I love games like this. Logic puzzles, challenging yet still possible. Let me introduce you to my new friend Sudoku.Sudoku (Japanese for 'single number'), as explained on Wikipedia.org, is much like a cross-word puzzle only using numbers. While there is no actual math involve, the puzzles involve logic and a process of fitting the appropriate numbers into only acceptable location of the

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A friend found this on Engrish.com. Hilarious!

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There's a logical fallacy here somewhere, but I'm not sure what it's called. We all make this mistake, getting upset at the actions of one, but feeling justified when we do the same thing because we know our reason.ExampleWhen I drive, I go nuts when people don't use their blinkers. My wife is always telling me to "calm the road-rage" and to "pipe down, they can't hear you anyway." Changing

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There are many different aspects of a movie to be considered when concluding if a movie was actually good or not. Most people will ask if a movie was any good, not simply if you liked it or not. But good is such a relative term!! Let's break it down.For a movie to be classified as good, it needs to have certain characteristics. Rewatchability- First and foremost, a good movie needs to have

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I decided to mix it up a little. This blog has changed in name and format. It has become my general blog allowing me to add thoughts about any and every thing. I have also created a new blog specifically for sports, sportsfanalysis.blogspot.com.

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