too legit to quit

i find it to be so completely awesome that our future president is going to post up on the internet what the estimated 3 trillion dollars is going to be spent on.

i also think it is fantastic that he has weekly youtube addresses.

i feel like america is actually starting to seem like a cool place again (not that i had lost my patriotic ways, but there were times right after 9/11 where i really thought america seemed like some sort of old western film like "true grit").

the big news for me today (outside of darrin's fantastic news) is that russia is pushing a robotic mission forward to go to mars. the mission is being labeled as the "phobos-grunt" mission that is being slated for october of 2010. it should also be heading towards one of mars' moons named phobos and will be scraping up some samples of dirt to bring back to earth for examination by 2012. i am excited to see what they discover!

rockets hit israel from lebanon today, which is also rather important news, since this raises fears about israel's offensive in gaza possibly spilling over. while i keep hoping that feuding will end there, i know that it is a goal that will not be able to happen until someone can come up with a true peace agreement (and a legitimately fair one at that) between israel and palestine.

palm has released a new gadget called the palm pre, which is a touchscreen phone with a trackball and a slide out keyboard. is it just me, or is technology becoming so cutting edge at such rapid speeds that it seems even more magical then it did when you were a child? shit...i remember thinking that the ibm we had growing up that didn't sell worth shit was pure gold. the pentium one? oh man...don't even get me started on how cool we thought that was. the first day i had to use windows vs dos was like stepping into some sort of teleportation device to the future. the funny thing is i'm more of a linux user then a windows user these days, if you were going to base this on what i prefer to use vs. what i am forced to use based on the software that will run the various programs needed to get done with my work. even if, windows was this, well, window into the future.
if you'd like to see the palm pre, you can see it by clicking here.

there you are! have a wonderful day, and stay warm!