I got a sneak peek of the Discovery Channel’s new series LIFE. I’ve never said the words “incredible” and “amazing” so much in one night. It was at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed the soundtrack live. Oprah (who was not there) voiced the series. Altogether, it’s going to be 11 hours.

I’m a fan of Planet Earth (and have the series on Blu-Ray). Surprisingly, it’s a really good date-night movie. Out of the Planet Earth series, the penguins are my favorite. I’ve only seen one episode of LIFE, and I’m torn between the octopus and the komodo dragon…

President Barack Obama appointed Howard Schmidt as the new White House Cyber Security Czar in December 2009. It’s an important position. This is the man charged with protecting the country and its citizens from cyber warfare.

What can we learn about Schmidt in five minutes using only the web? Here goes…

We wanted our wedding invitations to reflect our theme: relaxed, fun, and personal. Instead of opting for the usual (and might I add, expensive) wedding invitations, I did them myself. All it took was patience, some creativity with Photoshop, $100, and an excellent printing expert from Staples.

Our wedding is being held in our hometown, St. Louis. But we love to travel and wanted to show our guests some of our adventures. Our invitations include several photographs– from our half-marathons in Las Vegas and Virginia Beach, to vacations in Alaska and Mexico, and historic excursions to Mount Vernon and Harpers Ferry.

We all knew this was coming. A company called TrueCompanion has created a sex robot. It’s called “Roxxxy” and thanks to artificial intelligence, the machine has five different programs that simulate female personalities. The “personalities” range from shy to wild.

We don’t have to ask why this “pleasure machine” was created. But the mastermind said something in an interview that has got me scratching my head…

I’m still formulating my personal “new year” resolutions. I love making new goals each year and checking back at the end to see if I accomplished them. It’s perfectly find to modify my original plans. My big goal this year was to run five races. The plan was to end with a full marathon, but I realized I wasn’t ready to go a full 26.2 miles. I still accomplished my goal. I ran the Cherry Blossom, Frederick Half, Virginia Beach Half, Baltimore Half, and Vegas Half. Splendid!

This year, I’m looking to run more races. I’d love to complete my first marathon, but quite frankly, I’m happy doing halves. I’ll be getting married this year, so another goal is paying for the wedding a saving up for a house. That’s not going to be easy…

Way cool! This granny says her daughter talks too much, so she’d rather communicate via Twitter. She uses a service called Celery. She hand-writes a note, faxes it in, and they post it to her Twitter account. Then, they fax her a timeline of all her tweets. Here’s the video…