Category: Status

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!

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 the initial laptops and desktops that will be shipping with Ubuntu pre-installed instead of Windows.

This is a huge day for open source, for Linux and for Ubuntu.  If you need a good, cheap and reliable computer that won’t get gummed up with viruses, spyware and adware but is easy to use, then this is your chance!

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

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 everyday.

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)

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 is bad.

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 I decided to blow it up.

In the process, the plastic stopper (below) blew into my throat and went partially down my trachea (wind pipe)…

I put the quarter in the picture for scale.

It was a scary minute as the stopper did it’s job by stopping up my wind pipe as well. I finally got it out by an incredible hack in my throat (which also scrapped my throat up all to heck). I don’t remember it popping out, but it was close.

What a horrible way to go that would have been!

To top it off, I cracked the toenail on my big toe today while playing soccer with Schaefer…

It’s only Wednesday, so let’s hope the rest of the week goes a little better!

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.

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 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 try to grab a pic on the telescope tomorrow night.