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This post won't be very long - just enough to keep me in competition. ;)

I'm enjoying this whole blogging thing so far - it's kind of addictive. The added sense of competition with the IMBC is definitely a strong motivator. I don't need to win it all - but I do need to last longer than Pat. And I will, Pat. I will take you down.

(The original comic comes from The Perry Bible Fellowship - thanks, Scott, for sending this to me!)

I am going to conquer Ubuntu Server today. I tried a new installation, and this time it had no trouble connecting to the Internet. I tried to install a graphical user interface for it, and the packages seemed to have installed correctly, but every time I try to run the GUI it crashes. Let me grab a screenshot for you:

Well, this actually is progress: I know now for certain that my previous problem was a networking problem. I need to learn more about VMWare, I think.

In between bouts of Ubuntu installations yesterday, I found a little time to pay Fallout. Fallout is a classic post-apocalyptic RPG, where you play a Vault-dweller (Vault 13, to be exact) asked to leave the safety of the Vault and venture into the world to find a bit of technology that is vital to your Vault's water purifier. The face of the world has been scarred by nuclear war; the outside world isn't the place it used to be.

I am a huge sucker for anything post-apocalyptic, so this game is relevant to my interests. I'm not very far though. I made it outside the safety of the Vault....

 and I found...well, another Vault.

Now, I'm in a town called Shady Sands, and I either have to go and kill a bunch of giant scorpions or a band of smugglers to the southeast. While in Shady Sands, however, I found a book. And I read it. I learned A LOT about wilderness survival.

Wow these screenshots are so boring. Next time, I'll post a combat screenshot, I promise.

Shameless non-seqitur for bonus points: Action Figures

I wish I still had my Start Wars action figures. I lost them in a move when I was about 5 years old. I had every character from the first two movies, and was working on a pretty good set for Return of the Jedi. I loved how Luke and Darth Vader had their lightsabers built into their forearms, and you could push on a little tab to make them come out whle you made that "BzzzzZZZZZZZHHHHhhh" sound that lightsabers make. Anyway, I loved those action figures, and if I still had them, I would probably have built a special shrine for them. I liked G.I.Joes too - in truth they were kinda more fun to play with because the Joes had more points of articulation, so you could put them in really cool poses.

This could have been my website.

OK, that qualifies me. Later, skaters.