We spent last week in Utah. Traci and I relived our dating days by rollerblading in liberty park and getting food from Betos and Training Table. I got to see almost everyone in my family, that was a treat.

We spent a few days at Bear Lake. Here are some pictures of the Cabin that Traci's mom was able to score for us. This place was a second home. Awesome.

The Lake
The Beach
View from the front yard
The front of the house

Links for today - Cats that look like hitler at www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com

Traci has been doing some work on the house lately. I thought I would take a picture to compare to the original taken almost a year ago. Here it is now,



She removed the stumps from the front and planted grass. She planted some plants and flowers around the front and around the trees. She added wood chips in these places and removed the border around the small pine tree on the left. It looks a lot better, that may or may not come out in the pictures. Our vine is going crazy, there are whole colonies of insects thriving there on our front porch. Heres what it used to look like.

Two-faced kitten!

This just in, a kitten born with two faces. Poor little guy, probably won't make it. Check out the video. That kid rules!

Mosquito Ringtone

I came across the story of the mosquito ring tone a few weeks ago. It turns out that as one ages, he loses his ability to hear high pitched tones. As such, kids and teenagers can hear tone that are above 17,000hz while folks over 25 or 30 can't hear these same tones.

This was originally exploited by a British company to deter loitering teenagers. The ring was played via loudspeaker outside of shops. The adults couldn't hear anything, but teenagers found it annoying.

So, kids decided to turn the tables and are using this high pitched tone as a cell phone ringtone. Pretty clever, eh. I have put a little website together in order to test yourself in order to see how high you can hear. www.fattjake.com

I thought I might add some more links to my list of favs.

The first one is an online cartoon site made by a guy named James Farr. It's called Xombie The Animated Series, and it's about a Xombie with a soul. He's now done 7 episodes and about 1 million people see each one. Check it out.Xombie






The second is perhaps my favorite website. It hasn't been as clever during the last few months. Still, it's about the funniest online cartoon website. It takes a while to warm up to, but once you appreciate the context and relationships between the characters, it's really enjoyable. Look for the "sb emails" link at the bottom of the page, this is the best stuff.HomeStarRunner

In the spirit of keeping up better on the blog and due to numerous requests from the public, I have decided to post some of what I'll call, "Jake's Best of the 'Net." I come across some real winners from time to time, and it's just not fair to keep all the joy to myself.

First up, the Barbarian Brothers. I remember a long time ago, back when I was a child and lived at home, Justin, Dad, and I were watching TV. We witnessed greatness that day, and today, totally by chance, I was able to relive that greatness. I stumbled onto a website that mentioned David and Peter Paul. Twins and movie stars, known to millions as, "The Barbarian Twins." These two hulks have a string of brilliant big screen hits behind them, "Twin Sitters" (1994), "Double Trouble" (1992), "Think Big" (1990), "The Barbarians" (1987), and "DC Cab" (1984) - a film that also starred Mr. T. After an 11 year hiatus, they appeared recently in a movie called "Souled Out" (2005). I haven't been able to find this feature through rottentomatoes.com or blockbuster.com, but it must be good.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Barbarian Brothers



So, if that's not enough to turn your stomach, take a look at this depravity.

Animals dressed as people! They're so much like us!

Finally, check out askaninja.com, it's one of the top video podcasts on itunes. If you like ninjas (and who doesn't) you'll see why.

Traci and I spent some time in Columbus with highschool friends Ben and Laura Williams this weekend. This is a photo of us in front of their house. We went to Columbus in order to meet Mike for Safecon, a flight school contest of sorts. Ben and Laura have a new addition to their family, James. He's a good one.

We drove home tonight after watching the latest episode of "The Office" with the Williams. I've got to get up tomorrow early to head up to Indy for the second week of my internship at INCAPS. I should have gone to bed because it's about midnight, but instead, I am watching "The Core" and putting something on the blog for the first time in almost a year. Go figure. I find this movie incredibly mediocre. Wait, scratch that, mediocre at best.

I am working at Indiana Center for Applied Protein Sciences this summer. We are a contract research organizaton. We do protein analysis and proteomics. Drug companies and other protein based researchers send us tissue samples and we can tell them the protein composition. The science of it is way over my head, but I get the gist of it. I work for the company in a marketing capacity.

The company is located in Indiana's incubator. It's a part of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation. The IURTC owns all of the intellectual property that is created at the University. It has the right to license the intellectual property to private companies. Some of those companies can qualify to spend time in the incubator where they enjoy reduced rent and other services aimed at helping start up companies. INCAPS is one of these companies. I'll spend my time this summer on a marketing project for this company.

I've only got about 5 minutes left on this movie. I sure hope our hero makes it out alive!!!