That’s basically where things are at right now. I’m working on a few super-secret projects as always that are always fun to do, and I’m excited for the up-and-coming weeks. Oh, Social Dance is going well. We’ve so far done foxtrot and cha-cha with a bit of exposure to waltz and three step swing (more waltz than swing for sure). Waltz is a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to learning more of it. ChaCha is cool, but I have trouble remembering the steps all the time. I’m getting better at it though.

By the way, I’m downloading Ubuntu 8.10 right now and it’s streaming in at 800Kb/s. Over wireless. In a crowded chem classroom with about 200 people accessing the network at once. I love the infrastructure around here, they’ve done a great job with it. And running it on a 4GB RAM laptop with plenty of CPU and disk space is bliss. I was editing video on Ubuntu the other day while programming, compiling, emailing, running safari…by battery didn’t even take a hit. This computer rocks. I’m excited for when I get back from my mission and settle back into the groove of things. Prediction: Laptops will sport more than 10GB of RAM, at least 500GB flash drives, 8 cores per CPU with 2 CPUs per laptop, at least 1 GPU per laptop if not two, Apple having full blown OpenCU protocol implemented, and maybe even location aware technologies in every laptop. Who knows?

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Scratch that: We're up to 1.4M/sec