Happy Holidays

Here's wishing all of you happy and safe holidays! I've just done a little winter cleaning, the latest 10 entries from our classmates blogroll will be featured on our site and will be the perpetual news as classmate blogs are updated so you can hit the feed in your readers or just browse the site here for the latest happenings in our classmate lives. Hoping all's well with all of you, and again happy holidays!

"She Married Him and they had 12 Kids Together!?"

You've probably seen those ubiquitous banners before for reunion websites that try to steal your credit card number so that you can see what "4 people have been recently searching for you!" Well cliche none the less and in their annoying banneresque style, I dug up an old CD from 9 years ago from 7th period Yearbook Layout that happened to have all our yearbook pictures on them and after too many wasted hours the product featuring you is seen above!

I stopped short of captioning each person's name under their picture so that you can spend a boring Friday night playing Name That Face on our website; answers are in your yearbooks. The truth is that it took wayyy too long sorting through 2700 unsorted pictures named in quirky ###-##.jpg filenames. Let's just say thank goodness for Picasa and for the fact that we were all in formal ware that helped make it doable. If you don't see your face, be patient, there's over 600 photos in random scrolling order so maybe you'll eventually see yourself. Have fun with it!

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

So the anonymous registrar of olyclass2000.blogspot.com has stepped forward being none other than our own Crystal Rasmussen (Sargent) who I must say gave me the idea of consolidating class member blogs to one place. Feeling guilty a couple of weeks ago that www.olyclass2000.com had gone into disarray for quite some time, I decided to use some of my free time between blocks to just migrate it over to Blogger where I had been blogging already. To my surprise someone (being Crystal) had already homesteaded olyclass2000 and in fact had some class member blogs up. I took a good idea and rolled with it which eventually trickled down to our most recent website revision. Our thanks and recognition to Crystal for the great idea who has been more than friendly about the idea and our apologies to Crystal for the apparent hostile takeover.

If you point your bookmarks to www.olyclass2000.com whatever address we end up using will be up-to-date and redirected to.

Where and What Are You?

I didn't know that Walt Disney World was its own industry, but apparently it is listed by Google Directory as a category along with everything else in the new poll. If Google says it's true, it must be true --just like Wikipedia! Speaking of Wikipedia, have you ever seen our school's entry on Wikipedia? I think once upon a time there was some more stuff about the school on there but it must have been defaced sometime ago. I've thrown up our link on the page. Of note however are some of the notable alumni from our school! Karl Rove for one might be a familiar name (since maybe he's been running the U.S. government for the last seven years over Bush) I'm impressed by the people making headlines but in the meantime until all of us can make that list, there's a new poll up finding out what you're doing right about now in "industry" so you can give us a sneak peak as to what Noble, Oscar, Grammy or X-Prize category you'll fall into one day. That poll and and "Where are you in 2008" run until 6/1/2008 and we'll blog the results and think of something creative to fill its place. Enjoy!

David Fehr 1982-2008

It is with sadness that we report the passing of our classmate David Fehr this past week. His obituary as published in the Deseret News is provided below. We wish his loved ones well in this time of loss and mourning.

David Edwards Fehr "Bubba" David passed away February 24, 2008. His passing was a surprise as was his arrival on this earth. David constantly surprised his parents, his wife and son, his sisters and brother, his nieces and nephew, all of whom loved him dearly. David was born February 3, 1982 to Maxine Edwards Fehr and Robert Walker Fehr. He graduated from Olympus High School in 2000. David married Kathleen Eubank at the Cottonwood Club on June 1, 2003. David was a Utility Arborist employed by Murray City. His happiest hours were spent with his son Trace, his family and hunting waterfowl at the Harrison Duck Club with his companion and hunting buddy "Moose", his great black lab. David is survived by his parents, Maxine and Bob; his son, Trace Colton; and Trace's mother, Katie; big sisters, Terilyn (Rob) Hixson, Kristi (Vince) Thurgood and big brother, Rob (Jennifer) Fehr. His five nieces and one nephew will miss "Uncle Bubba" greatly. In lieu of flowers, a fund has been set up at Zion's Bank in David's name, for his son, Trace. A goodbye for family and close friends will be held for David at the Harrison Duck Club on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. (Dirt road from northwest corner of The International Center follow arrows. Wear Levi's and camo).

Published in the Deseret News from 2/28/2008 - 3/1/2008
Image: Courtesy of Deseret News

Welcome to The Future

Did we even have computers in our classrooms when we were at school? Oh right, maybe the 5 in the library that you had to go to school early to use. Did we even have students taking notes with laptops, recording lectures, or instant messaging friends through class? Hmm, I don't think so - in fact we didn't even have mobile phones let alone laptops. What has happened to the world in the last 8 years? It seems like we stepped out from a universe devoid of technology into a futuristic world where people with bluetooth headsets tethered to their head, GPS's in their pockets, and iPods strapped to their arms appear more cyborg than akin to us. Somehow in these past 8 years we've become "plugged in" to technology, to the world, and to each other.

Remember when you first logged on to the internet? Amazingly enough each of us has lived through an era in which the PC has segued the average user into a global torrent of information exchange allowing even the most inept users to hawk their old junk that didn't even sell at their yard sale to niche collectors on eBay for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Welcome to the future. As times have changed, so has our website. Same old address, new format. While the whole user login system was cool back in the day, a couple of other innovations (namely Facebook et. al) have burst on the social networking scene to turn our once-upon-a-time innovative portal system obselete. Web 2.0 they call it. I call it a pain to compete against, so divvy out the globilization schema and let's outsource social networking to Facebook! Indeed please join us on our Facebook Olympus High School Class of 2000 Group Page for communication with old friends, messaging, etc.

So what will become of this website? As we get older and reflect more on how times are changing and how we indeed have begun to show our age, inevitably in the psychosis of every individual he or she will start to reminisce and reflect upon the past and the present. Don't believe me? The blog is a testament to this communal dementia that we all enjoy. Something about glorifying the past, reflecting on the present, and the need to share it with every other person in the world has burgeoned into another global phenomena of blogging. So blog at it! In the tradition of Blogger and blogging we'll happily link to class member blogs by name, so if you would like to share your inner sanctum of your thoughts to everyone else just send us your link and we'll post it up there.

So with this update from the future, I hope it finds you well eight years from whence I last knew you and hopefully you've managed to keep up with the times.

Dan Chan

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