It Has Been Fun

I wanted to say goodbye to all my friends at CirclePix. I have taken a new job with a company in Provo and will be starting with them on Monday the 25th. I have had learned so much working with you all, and I will miss seeing you guys everyday. Not to mention missing out on the foosball and table tennis. I hope that I have everyone's contact information, but if not shoot me a email with it.
For my associates in the Account Management department, I thought that you might enjoy this clip.

ESPN & The Crocodile Hunter

Anyone that is a sports fan has probably seen the ESPN commercials. They are very funny and almost always have a pro athlete or some one famous in them. I saw this one the other day. I used to watch "The Crocodile Hunter" and this is a great commercial with the crazy Steve Irwin.

Breakdancing Kids-- "priceless"

I love the mastercard commercials with the "Priceless" slogan attached to them. These 3 kids busting a move is most likely my favorite. Watch i the kid in the middle, he has some serious moves.

New Pictures Will Do

New posts to Stewy's World have been almost non existent. I hate looking at blogs only to see they are not being updated. I have rededicated myself to keep the blog updated.
Meg has been taking a lot of new photos for MyTinyPrincess.com. The models seen below are Abi, Taylor, Morgan and Kayla. Thanks Davis family for lending us your children.

Needle In the Toe

I learned a lesson over the last weekend, my wife is tough as nails. Let me run down this quick little story for you.
Last Friday she was walking upstairs in our house and happened to step on something sharp that pricked her toe. She let out a little ouch, but that was it. As time went on she said that it hurt more and more but nothing to be to worried about. After 2 days or so, she had me look at it to see if there was anything that I could see in her toe that would still be causing her pain. I saw nothing and said it is just sour. Well, 4 days later, her toe was swollen and she was in a lot of pain. The next day she was off to the doctor to get it checked out. I told her to call me after her appointment to let me know how it went. When she called, she told me that they removed half of a sewing needle from her foot! I was thinking it would be a small little piece of the tip of the needle, boy was I wrong. Have a look at the pictures below to see what they pulled out of my wife's big toe. WARNING, they are a little graphic. Meg, love you and you are amazing to have this in your toe for 5 days and not complain.

My Brothers on a Yacht

My brothers and I went out on a 1.5 million dollar yacht while we were in Maryland. It was real nice living the high life for a day.

Left to right (Russ, Zach, Me, Adam, Lucas. Dan is missing from the picture)

Football

College football kicks off this week and I could not be more excited. Nothing like 10 or 12 straight hours of football on the TV come Saturday. I am a BYU Cougar fan and in honor of them getting started this week, I though that I would post my favorite highlight. THis is from 2 years ago. BYU vs Utah. This is great, just watch!

Baltimore and some Crab

I recently traveled to Baltimore with my family to visit my brother. Maryland is famous for their Crab, so one evening my brother took us down to a restaurant called, The Crab Deck, that was right on the water. It was a really fun and messy evening.

Eating some sweet Crab

Me and little Ben!!

Russ and Zach, my bros eating their Crab feast

Abi and Meg having a laugh

Hotdog's for Lunch

Some of my work buddies went and met up at J Dogs in Provo. It is a little Hotdog stand right next to BYU. They so happen to sell the greatest dogs in the world. I highly recommend that you try it out when you are in the area.

Walking

I love that almost all cell phones have a camera. I snapped a pic of my little one, yes she is walking now.

9.6 Billion Miles

Due to the high price of gasoline, Americans are driving less. I know that I am!
I found this article on CNN, and I found it very interesting.

Drivers shave off nearly 10 billion miles...

I just hope that we see the prices at the pump start to come down.

I want this!!!

I have been waiting for any type of release date for the new BlackBerry Bold, but there is still nothing out. But I was directed to this video of this sweet phone. So nice.

Some Ping Pong Skills

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Recently we got a Ping Pong table at work (even started our own association, see image above) and it has been a source of much enjoyment. I thought that I would share some of the skills of myself and the people that I work with. You can also check out the blog.

I started filming and within 10 seconds this happened.

Me and Tim with our mad Table Tennis skills

Leave a Comment

As I look through my blog and others that I frequent, I think that it is interesting to see some blogs that have tons of comments left on them and others that have none at all. I guess that I am the type to only comment once in a while on posts that I think that are really interesting. I am wondering if people that are blogging really like comments left on their blog or not, so COMMENT ON THIS POST AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU LIKE COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOG OR IF YOU DON'T REALLY CARE AT ALL. I am curious to see what everyone has to say.

eBay

Do you buy on buy or sale stuff on eBay?
Well, I was doing some reading and found these interesting facts.

• There are more the 212 million registered buyers and sellers
• Millions of items posted and purchased every single day
• eBay grossed more then $7 billion last year

5 most expensive things ever sold on eBay

1. Gulfstream II jet: $4.9 million (the eBay fee would be over $70,000)
2. 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card: $1.65 million
3. Diamond Lake Resort, western Kentucky: $1.2 million
4. Shoeless Joe Jackson's "Black Betsy" baseball bat: $577,610
5. Round of golf with Tiger Woods: $425,000

My Tiny Princess.com

My beautiful wife has been dressing up our daughter in the cutest clothes and accessories since the day that she was born. She has had so many compliments and has so much fun making and putting together these cute little girl Tutu's, Bracelets, Headbands, Boa's, Jewelry, Fairy Wings and many other items that she decided to start selling them to others and online.
Check out what she already has for sale!!

My Tiny Princess.com

Geico is brilliant

Who ever is in charge of Geico's advertising is brilliant. I feel they constantly have commercials that are funny but also are very memorable. Here is one of my favorites.

I love TV

I watched the last episode of Friends the other night and was wondering how many people tuned into to watch the series finale. As I was looking for the number of viewers I found some other very interesting information that I found online and in a USA Today report in 2006. (click here to read the entire article)

Top 10 most viewed TV show series finales
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I was surprised to see MASH topping the list and blowing all others out of the water!

• 2006 marked the first time that there were more television sets in a home then people, TV sets per home 2.75, people per household
• The average person watches 4 hours and 35 minutes of television a day, that adds up to more then 1500 hours per year
• By the age of 20 the average viewer will have seen over 600,000 commercials
• The Super Bowl is the most popular broadcast of the year
• In 2008, a 30 second advertising slot during the Super Bowl cost $2.7 million
• In 2008 the Advertising Age Annual reported the following revenue from the top cable companies. Figures are in billions

1. Time Warner ($6.97)
2. Walt Disney Co. ($6.75)
3. Viacom ($5.51)
4. News Corp. ($3.84)
5. NBC Universal ($2.91)

Needless to say that we watch a lot of TV. After reading the articles that I found, I came to the realization that I need to watch less TV.

Guess who is retiring??

Today, June 27th, 2008, marks the last official day that Bill Gates will be working at his company Microsoft. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft is currently the 3rd richest person in the World. Although he is not going to keep his day to day duties he will remain Chairman of Microsoft. His reason for moving away are to spend more time with his charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I have always been intrigued by what Bill Gates has accomplished. Wouldn't it be nice to be the head of this company and also have the bank roll that he does.

Some interesting facts about Bill Gates and Microsoft

• Bill Gates Net Worth- $58 Billion
• Microsoft makes a lot of money

• His home is worth an estimated $136,617,000, the property taxes alone exceed 1 million per year Click Here for an interactive tour
• Microsoft's office building is over 8 million square feet and has over 30,000 employees

• Microsoft are the owners of over 10 million square feet of real estate
  
• In 2004 over 90% of computers were running Windows
• Bill Gates was named one of the top 100 people that most influenced the 20th Century

I think that it is amazing that Bill Gates brought a product to consumers that has almost become a necessity. So all you or I need to do is create a great product that everyone in the world needs and we can have a monster house, company and bank account.

Top websites in the United States

Have you ever been surfing the web and though to yourself, "what are the most visited sites online?", if not, I did and I looked it up because I wanted to know. Alexa.com is a website traffic reporting site. They have a list of the top websites in the country and the world. You can even compare sites side by side.
Here are the top 10 websites in the United States as of 6/26/2008. Google and Wikipedia are my favorites.

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Myspace
4. YouTube
5. Facebook
6. Windows Live
7. MSN
8. Wikipedia
9. eBay
10. AOL

Click HERE to see the rest of the list

Trying to do what I intended to do

I started this blog to post about one of my favorite things to do while online, look up useless information. You know, stupid facts like, how much did they make doing this or that, when was the last time this happened and lots of other information and facts about people places and anything that I find remotely interesting.
My blog did start off that way but quickly became a journal about my family, friends and work. So, I decided that I am taking Stewy's World back to what it was meant to be, what goes through my head and what I find interesting. So I really hope you like what this blog is supposed to be.
You might be reading this question a lot.

Started a new Blog -- GIMP PIMPS

I have seen lots of blogs out there that are all about things like, image of the day, logo designs, photoshop, cool pictures and videos and lots of other visual items. I find these very interesting and I enjoy reading them. (I mean looking at them)
I decided to do something a little similar, in an very pathetic attempt to be cool. My buddy Doug and I both use a photo editing program called GIMP. We use it all the time for our personal images and some times for work. We decided it would be cool to have a blog that we could display all of the cool stuff that we use GIMP for. So if you are reading this you need to check out the new blog.

GIMP PIMPS

Meeting the Simpon's

Recently while in California I met the biggest celebrities that I have ever met in real life. I met Homer, Lisa and Bart Simpson. I found myself in a so called Springfield. I got to check out Moe's Tavern, the Kwik-E-Mart and the Comic Book shop.



We happen to visit Universal Studios in Hollywood. They have a new Simpson's ride. This new ride is one of the best rides that I have ever been on. It is a 3D ride that makes you feel like you are in Springfield. I highly recommend it to anyone that visits Universal Studios.

BlackBerry BOLD vs. Iphone

For any electronics lovers out there, you probably heard that Apple announced a new, faster Iphone.
You can read CNN's report of it HERE.
I think that the announcement is misleading due to the fact that even though Apple lowered the price of the Iphone, they bumped the price of the monthly service that comes along with the phone, meaning that the price of the phone is cheaper but over the 2 year period that your contract runs, you end up paying the same price. Nice move.
I must say that I am BlackBerry user and I feel that they have the best phones on the market for business and personal use. BlackBerry last month announced last month that they have a newer faster phone as well, the BlackBerry BOLD. I came across a very interesting comparison of the 2 phones. I thought that I would share this with you all, to help show you why I think that BlackBerry's kick the Iphone's butt.
I also must note that having your emails sent directly to your phone is free with BlackBerry. With the Iphone you must pay an additional monthly fee.

Check out the comparison
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The Need to Post Something!

I have been on vacation the last week and I almost went crazy with very limited access to the internet. I was amazed at how much I miss Blogger! My intention was to get back today and post my pics from our trip, but I left the camera at home, so I logged on anyway because I just needed to post something. I am sorry for the short and almost pointless post that this is, but I feel so much better that I have put something new on here. I will try to get some pictures of our trip up soon for the 2 of you that read this.
One Interesting tidbit that I found recently is this cool feature on Blogger.
Blogger Play
This is a massive slide show of all the images that were uploaded today from Bloggers out there.

Great prank on Charles Barkley

50 GB of FREE online storage

I can remember the first memory card that I bought was $69.99 for a 512MB SD card. It amazes me to see how much the price for memory storage cards and devices has come down. Just the other day I was shopping at Wal-Mart and they had 2, 2 GB cards on sale for $24.99. I love that these prices continue to drop.
I was looking online the other day for a new memory card and I came across one of the coolest sites that I know of. www.adrive.com gives you 50 GB of online storage for free! No strings attached. Just visit their site and create and account, which only takes a minute or so, then you are ready to upload what ever your heart desires. I have found it very useful to transfer movie and music files off my work computer to my home computer. The site is easy to use and best of all its free.

1st version of the Jig

Doug caught me on his phones video camera acting like a idiot, wearing a girls jacket and dancing like a Leprechaun. I am in the process of extending this video and adding some sweet music, but I thought that I should share what I have.

Man vs. Wild

While watching TV the other day, I was browsing around through some programs and I noticed that one of my favorite shows was back on the tube. Man vs. Wild, it is on the Discovery channel every Friday night. The show follows survival expert Bear Grylls. The show is all about Bear doing and eating crazy things that will help you survive in what ever wilderness that he happens to be in.
I love the show because he also knows little tips and tricks that I really find useful, even though I go camping once a year and there is no danger at all. Check out the clips below to see what Bear gets himself into.

A lot of money at the Box Office

I was messing around the other day on IMDB, (Internet Movie Data Base) a really cool website that has the all the info that you would ever need or want about any movie that you can think of, and I came across the All Time Worldwide Box Office list. This list has more then 300 movies on it and it lists them from the highest grossing down. I found it very interesting to see how much money these movies generate and how many of them bring in this kind of money. No wonder there is a new movie out every week. Here is 1-100. Check out the site for the complete list.

All-Time Worldwide Box office

Rank	Title	Worldwide Box Office
1.	Titanic (1997)	$1,835,300,000
2.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	$1,129,219,252
3.	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	$1,060,332,628
4.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)	$968,657,891
5.	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	$958,404,152
6.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	$937,000,866
7.	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)	$922,379,000
8.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	$921,600,000
9.	Jurassic Park (1993)	$919,700,000
10.	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)	$892,194,397
11.	Spider-Man 3 (2007)	$885,430,303
12.	Shrek 2 (2004)	$880,871,036
13.	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)	$866,300,000
14.	Finding Nemo (2003)	$865,000,000
15.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	$860,700,000
16.	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)	$848,462,555
17.	Independence Day (1996)	$811,200,000
18.	Spider-Man (2002)	$806,700,000
19.	Star Wars (1977)	$797,900,000
20.	Shrek the Third (2007)	$791,106,665
21.	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	$789,458,727
22.	Spider-Man 2 (2004)	$783,577,893
23.	The Lion King (1994)	$783,400,000
24.	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	$757,236,138
25.	E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)	$756,700,000
26.	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)	$738,809,845
27.	The Matrix Reloaded (2003)	$735,600,000
28.	Transformers (2007)	$700,759,914
29.	Forrest Gump (1994)	$679,400,000
30.	The Sixth Sense (1999)	$661,500,000
31.	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	$653,200,000
32.	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)	$648,200,000
33.	The Incredibles (2004)	$624,037,578
34.	Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)	$623,829,763
35.	Ratatouille (2007)	$615,935,493
36.	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)	$614,300,000
37.	The Passion of the Christ (2004)	$604,370,943
38.	War of the Worlds (2005)	$591,377,056
39.	Casino Royale (2006)	$587,607,184
40.	Men in Black (1997)	$587,200,000
41.	I Am Legend (2007)	$583,986,216
42.	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	$572,700,000
43.	Night at the Museum (2006)	$571,063,268
44.	Armageddon (1998/I)	$554,600,000
45.	King Kong (2005)	$547,051,260
46.	Mission: Impossible II (2000)	$545,300,000
47.	Home Alone (1990)	$533,800,000
48.	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	$533,800,000
49.	Monsters, Inc. (2001)	$528,900,000
50.	The Day After Tomorrow (2004)	$527,939,919
51.	The Simpsons Movie (2007)	$525,532,370
52.	Ghost (1990)	$517,600,000
53.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	$516,800,000
54.	Aladdin (1992)	$501,900,000
55.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	$494,800,000
56.	Twister (1996)	$494,700,000
57.	Toy Story 2 (1999)	$485,700,000
58.	Troy (2004)	$481,228,348
59.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	$479,300,000
60.	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	$471,856,431
61.	Jaws (1975)	$470,600,000
62.	Pretty Woman (1990)	$463,400,000
63.	Bruce Almighty (2003)	$458,900,000
64.	300 (2006)	$456,592,590
65.	The Matrix (1999)	$456,300,000
66.	Gladiator (2000)	$456,200,000
67.	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)	$455,260,014
68.	Shrek (2001)	$455,100,000
69.	Cars (2006)	$454,752,771
70.	National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)	$453,342,259
71.	Mission: Impossible (1996)	$452,500,000
72.	Pearl Harbor (2001)	$450,400,000
73.	Ocean's Eleven (2001)	$444,200,000
74.	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	$440,725,045
75.	The Last Samurai (2003)	$435,400,000
76.	Tarzan (1999)	$435,200,000
77.	Meet the Fockers (2004)	$432,667,575
78.	Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)	$427,936,103
79.	Men in Black II (2002)	$425,600,000
80.	Die Another Day (2002)	$424,700,000
81.	Dances with Wolves (1990)	$424,200,000
82.	The Matrix Revolutions (2003)	$424,000,000
83.	Cast Away (2000)	$424,000,000
84.	Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)	$423,200,000
85.	The Mummy Returns (2001)	$418,700,000
86.	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)	$418,200,000
87.	The Mummy (1999)	$413,300,000
88.	Batman (1989)	$413,200,000
89.	Rain Man (1988)	$412,800,000
90.	The Bodyguard (1992)	$410,900,000
91.	Signs (2002)	$407,900,000
92.	Madagascar (2005)	$406,800,000
93.	X2 (2003)	$406,400,000
94.	Mission: Impossible III (2006)	$395,382,309
95.	Gone with the Wind (1939)	$390,500,000
96.	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)	$390,500,000
97.	Superman Returns (2006)	$389,569,408
98.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	$383,900,000
99.	Grease (1978)	$379,800,000
100.	Happy Feet (2006)	$378,992,827

The Jazz and my Wife

My Problem-
I love the Utah Jazz and I am a huge fan. I am actually a huge fan of basketball in general. I watch every game that I can, and my poor wife has to put up with me wanting to watch all these basketball games. She does not mind that I watch TV, it is the fact that while the Jazz game is on, I zone out and she can not even get the smallest response out of me. She is not a fan of sports, so it is a little bit rude of me to torture her with all the basketball I watch.
My Solution-
I have a friend that is a scalper, or a ticket broker as he likes to be called. I asked him for some tickets to the next playoff game and like the good friend that he is he hooked me up. I wanted to take Megan to a game so she could get the feel of the intensity and atmosphere during a playoff game. We went to the game with some friends and had a blast. At the game they were giving out free t-shirts so that everyone in the arena was wearing white, it was pretty cool. (see photos below) While she is still not a Jazz or basketball fan, I like to think that she has a little bit more of a understanding of why I love the game.

I forgot to bring our camera so I had to use the BlackBerry to snap some photos. Not the best quality, but they will do.