May 2007

Coca Cola 600

Looks like I’m headed to the Coca Cola 600 in Charlotte on Sunday night. Here’s where my seat is located… And here is what my view will look like (add about 150,000 rabid fans and spectators)… I can’t wait! Ryan is on the pole (his 200th start as a driver) and I love the Charlotte …

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Wildflowers

I’m listening to Tom Petty’s Wildflowers tonight. It’s an album that still just as relevant and awesome as it was in 1994. I remember the first time I heard “You Don’t Know Kow It Feels”… Petty was on Letterman and had altered lyrics (“so let’s hit another joint…”) and it was an epiphanic moment for …

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Newman on the Pole in Charlotte

My favorite NASCAR driver is Ryan Newman.  He won his first pole in a long while tonight for the Coca Cola 600 in Charlotte. I might have to go to the race on Sunday night!

Dell’s Shipping With Ubuntu

I love Ubuntu. I’ve made a number of posts about Ubuntu that you can see here. Basically, it’s a free and open-source Linux distribution that replaces your Windows operating system (and is 10 times better in my opinion).  I’ve been using it full time since last summer and have not looked back. Today, Dell announced …

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Star Wars Celebration

Star Wars Celebration is this week in Los Angeles. It’s the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie (Episode 4). I want to be there! Here’s a link to the official blog (interesting that it’s a .wordpress.com blog… you’t think they’d spring for their own hosted blog!)… Star Wars Celebration Blog

Mom is A Superstar

My mom just won Employee of the Year at her school district in Mullins, SC. Send her an email and tell her congrats (miatasusan@gmail.com)… she deserves it for all the hard work and dedication she’s put in with the operation of the school and the lives of the primary school students she helps and loves …

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Paper AT-AT’s

I know what I’m doing tomorrow! Papercraft AT-AT’s The AT-AT’s were always my favorite Star Wars vehicles (besides the Millenium Falcon, of course).  I still have my Kenner AT-AT from the original toys back in 1981(?). Gosh, those are good memories! (via BoingBoing)

Modern Tech

While watching tonight’s season finale of Lost on ABC (the only show I watch regularly on TV these days), I was texting back and forth to my college roommate and long lost brother, Rion.  Amazing that we can watch the same show and communicate while being seperated by hundreds of geographical miles. Not all tech …

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Week O’ Injuries

On Tuesday, I decided to try a nifty trick and use our exercise ball (basically a large blow up ball about 3 feet in diameter) for my desk chair. The benefits are that you are constantly forced to sit upright and it’s good exercise for your abs, etc. So, it was a little flat and …

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Wintergreen Falls Hike

Anna, Schaefer, Macy and I went to DuPont State Forest just outside of Brevard, NC for a nice hike on Sunday. We had a great time and Macy is quite the little hiker… Springtime is beautiful in Western, NC! See more at my Flickr page.

Hiking Trip to Wintergreen Falls

Anna, Schaefer, Macy and I went to DuPont State Forest just outside of Brevard, NC for a nice hike on Sunday. We had a great time and Macy is quite the little hiker…

The Moon and Venus

The two closest celestial bodies to us are still rather close to each other from our own point of view on this Pale Blue Dot. If you go outside tonight or tomorrow, you’ll see Venus (althought it’s inching away from it’s closest point last week) very near a crescent Moon and it’s quite beautiful. I’ll …

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Ghost Town Returns

I LOVED Ghost Town when I was a kid during our visits to the mountains around Asheville, NC. There was something magical about that place.  It was the first place that I ever rode a roller coaster (which looked as it if were going to fall off the top of the mountain). Odd that I …

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Asia Has Claims Upon New England in Libraries

Weird to see that my little book on Assyrian art at Yale University is in a number libraries around the country… Asia has claims upon New England : Assyrian reliefs at Yale by Sam B Harrelson WorldCat: Asia has claims upon New England : Assyrian reliefs at Yale

Heliocentric Atheism

This has got to be a ‘fake’ or parody blog. Copernicus vs Brownback Please someone tell me it’s a parody blog.