Here are a few pictures from my last trip to El Paso for work. Yes those are real coyotes! They came and ate scraps outside of the window at this steak restaurant. I’ll be going back in a few weeks. Hope to go to Roswell NM, and Carlsbad Caverns.

Raymond, Tim, Justin, and I decided to go to St. Louis for the grand opening of Arch Reactor the local Hackerspace up there. They had made a post to the hackerspaces.org mail list inviting everyone out to there space.  I asked a few members if they would like to go, and we made a weekend trip out of it.

I had spoken with a few of the Arch Reactor members beforehand and made arrangements to crash at a members apartment.   We left Friday night in the middle of a snow storm.  Lucky Tim is from upside down Vermont and thus knows how to drive in bad weather.  A 6 hour drive took us 10.5, but thanks to my Droid we never missed a beat with Pandora.

Once in St. Louis we found a McDonald’s to get food and then napped in the parking lot.  Then we traveled over to the Arch and did the touristy things.  We walked around the museum and rode up in the Arch.  Being about lunchtime we headed over to Arch Reactor were we hung out for the rest of the night.

The open house was tons of fun.  They probably had 50 or more people show up.  They had a Maker Bot and a CNC, along with a bunch of old and new computers.  There was some cool art, and a few talks.  Tim and I even showed off the photobooth and gave a short talk about it.  OH! and they had life sized Jenga!

As expected after only a few hours of sleep and parting all day with only caffeine to keep us awake, we crashed hard Saturday night.  Sunday morning we had lunch with a member of their space and headed home.  The drive home way way easier than the one going up.   On the way through Illinois we saw a sign for Metropolis, IL aka Superman’s Home.  Naturally we stopped and saw a giant Superman at the courthouse.

Here are the picture I took, I’ll update it later if anyone else has posted their pictures.

I had to use Google’s search history today, and realized that it has been logging my search since April 20th 2005.  I made a post after year 2 and year 3, got a little lazy last year, but I’m back with an update this year.  Here is the info on my Google Search History Trends page for All Time.

• Total Google Searches: 29337
• Top queries: “3409 Governors Dr SW, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama 35805 (1st shop address)”, weechat, movies 35802, ubuntu
• Top sites: en.wikipedia.org, ubuntuforums.org, maps.google.com, dev.mysql.com, wordpress.org
• Top clicks: wordpress.org, TiddlyWiki, Net-Twitter, Gallery,Ubuntu Home Page
• Monthly search activity Hi/Lo: 2987 in Jan, 2177 in Jul
• Daily search activity Hi/Lo: 4967 on Tue, 3509 on Sat
• Hourly search activityHi/Lo: 2526 at 3pm, 2 at 5am

It looks like I finally made a couple searches in the 5am hour.  After looking at those two searches, I can tell that happen during our trip to St. Louis.  Also since this is kind of a post about how much Google knows about me, here is a list of all the Google products I use.

• Android Phone
• Gmail
• Reader
• Search History
• Talk
• Alerts
• Maps
• Analytics
• Voice
• Wave
• Accounts
• Docs
• Youtube
• Calendar
• FeedBurner
• Latitude
• Checkout
• Groups

Here are some pictures taken over the last couple months at the shop.  Stop by and see us sometime!

Yuri’s Night was a couple weekends ago and a bunch of us went to it.  For those that don’t know Yuri’s Night is an international celebration held on April 12 every year to commemorate space exploration.  It was rather fun.  Saw a ton of space related costumes and met some new people.  Oh! Also it was held at the Davidson Center at the Space and Rocket Center.  So we partied under a Saturn V.  Here are some pics including costumes made by Makers Local 256 members.