If my dad were still around, he’d be all over this. Tres Cool!

Spectrum: Winner: Poseidon Discovery – The world’s leading designer of scuba gear brings closed-circuit rebreathers to the masses

Microprocessor-powered dive gear. What an amazing age we live in!

Nice article about Ubuntu

and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com

I’ve been pretty happy since switching over my main “surfing” lappie to Ubuntu. I still have some strange stuff once in awhile (Firefox taking over the entire screen) and some stuff that took some hacking to figure out (Skype doesn’t like the default sound package) and other stuff that just doesn’t work reliabley at all (printing on shared Windows devices). However 90% of the time, it just works, which is all I ask of an OS.

I LOVE the ” Picture” series of posts from the Boston Globe’s website. Sometimes, however the pictures can be, umm odd:

Still, the site is well worth adding to your RSS feeds!

FailWhale 2009….

Man, can MS suck any harder?

In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web

And they want us to trust them with Azure? Uh, pass, thanks!

Must be something in the air, Kahuna is feeling it:
and Iron Wil is feeling it: Through Th3 Wall (Changes post) and your’s truly is feeling extra good about himself, his place on the planet and his foreseeable future.

For me, it’s probably related to getting back to a 2-a-day training regimen. I’m more focused at work and almost always “in the flow”. I look forward to my workouts, no matter how challenging or difficult. I’m REALLY looking forward to the upcoming race season.

So maybe is workout endorphins, or maybe it’s just New Years optimism, but I’ll take it!

Here’s your Friday WTF…
NEWS | Americas | Somersaulting truck, leaping bike

Deeyum….

As I was clearing out my Google Reader page, and finally got caught up on my APOD feed, I ran across this bit of beauty:

Picture of the Day – The Sky in Motion

Happy New Year to you!

As a user of many drug rep toys (my wife has worked in Dr. offices for years and years) we have a pretty sizable collection of useful, interesting and just plain weird stuff, but it can’t hold a candle to this physician:

Rep Toys

Ask me about my Viagra pen collection!

I was just looking over my numbers for 2008:

2008 (Ironman training year)
Swim: 171,628 yards (possibly a few more later this afternoon)
Bike: 2197.7 miles (I should ride to/from the pool to get an even 2200)
Run: 658.4 miles
Total: 359.5/hrs training

2007 (non-IM training year)
Swim: 55,700/yd
Bike: 568.2 miles (lots of MTB in 2007)
Run: 616.6 miles
Total: 148.2/hrs training

2008 Races:
Tri: 1 Oly (PR) 1 70.3 (almost melted) 1 IM (almost drowned on the bike/run),
Run: 1 1/2 Marathon (PR) 1 Marathon (PR)
Bike: 1 CX

New stuff: Certified as USAT official, officiated at 2 races.

So I’m feeling a bit better about my 2008 now.  The totals are all better than I had expected.  Not exactly what I hoped to have achieved for 2008, but a decent showing none-the-less.