Brant's Rants

This is one talented man. Watch all of his utube videos because they all rock. I am posting the one that is titled Guitar Drifting. SO AWESOME!

This guy is amazing. How he does this without passing out is beyond me. Here is just one of his videos.

Here is another Nintendo song from Super Mario Bros. This one is played by one guy on two guitars. (can we say dexterity).

I just watched that one again. All I can say is holy crap!! This guy is an alien.

I have been away from U Tube for far too long. My dad showed me some guitar solo videos and I just have to post some of them here. I want to always be able to find these. So here they are.

I am going to only link one video per post. That way I can comment on each one separately.

This is the Brazilian guitar soloist. Where do these people hide out? Shouldn’t they be rich and in some famous band or something??!?

Dorothy and I went to SLC for her birthday last week. I am just now getting around to posting some of the pictures of the trip. First a note about where these pictures were taken. We decided to ‘go out’ and try to find her a birthday gift (she couldn’t just tell me what she wanted). So anyway, after dinner we decided to go  to a mall other than the trolley square (as we ate at Old Spaghetti factory). There was no mall to be found that was indoors and was close buy, so we decided to go to the gateway mall. Dorothy complained about it being cold after a little bit (the Gateway mall is an outside mall) so we ducked into the nearest store. It just happened to be the gap.  An look what we ran into. Continue Reading »

Tonight I had a bug to go and find out some more information on the pocket projectors that are just about to hit the market. I find this to be significant for many reasons. I have been following the development of OLED displays for the last couple of years and am excited to see them come to the market. However the pocket projectors may render OLEDs dead before they ever live in the open market. Why, because if a person can get a 15″ – 100″ screen from a device like a cell phone or laptop in high quality, who cares about roll up screens any more. Oled will suffer some of the same problems that LED screens suffered from like lifetime and brightness. However the laser or led driven pocket projectors will generate very little heat, can project on any surface and should not suffer from the lifetime limits of oled. Continue Reading »

Well we worked all day this fine Saturday on the house on Monte Vista in Pocatello. Dad was good enough to come an lay some rock on a fireplace for us. It looks so much better that it did. I hope that it makes a difference in how soon the house sells. The coolest thing is that the rock on there was left over from one of dad’s jobs. So I couldn’t beat the price!

Anyways are some pictures of the (mostly) finished product.

The second picture is the higher res picture. This one was taken with my camera. Also I will get a picture of the fireplace BEFORE the rock went on it. I know that I have one somewhere.

Kekthau – the spy-assassin sent to find the whereabouts of the plans for the energy conversion unit.

(kek-tha-u) he received the k on the end of his first syllable in his name because he foiled a plot against his faction at the age of 15 as he overheard his uncle speaking to warriors of another faction. He ran to his father who would not reveal the news to the high council of Jurn. So he bravely went to the council himself to tell them of the movements against them. He knew that it would definitely result in the death of his uncle, and probably the imprisonment and death of his father. This did not bother him. It only gave him an opportunity to surpass his father who had already shown too much mercy in his life. This was evident by the fact that his father, even in his aged state of 35 years had only two syllables in his name, and both of them ended with soft sounds to represent his weak and soft heart. Keyh, as he Kekthau was known then, Would surpass his dad in honor by placing a hard ‘k’ at the end of his name forming Keyk instead of the soft, novice name of Keyh. So, it was with these thoughts that he used every ounce of stealth that he had so carefully trained into himself in the last 10 years at the assassin’s academy to approach the meeting of his uncle on that afternoon so long ago. Continue Reading »

Well its new to me anyways. It is a 2006 Dodge Durango. It has the V-8 4.7L in it to haul my camp trailer all over the countryside. I had a heck of a time getting my wife to agree to buy this little beauty. She is too practical to WANT to buy an impractical vehicle. The biggest think for her was that it only gets 19 mpg on the freeway and 14 mpg in town. She wanted something that would haul the kids and get really good mileage. Well I wanted a vehicle that a man would be proud to be driving. She wanted an Acura (nice cars, but not able to tow a camp trailer). I had to really talk to get her to buy this. However, like always, the people at 20th Century Ford treated me right, and they were able to get me the vehicle at a price that even my wife wouldn’t turn down. Continue Reading »