A little about me:

Name: Micah Kent Yoder
Residence: Salem, Oregon
Favorite Food: Papa John's Pepperoni Pizza (I got addicted to it in college in Virginia
and it's hopefully coming to Oregon soon!)
Favorite Music Group: Petra!!!
Education: BA in Computer Science, Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, VA)

Finally! I have some cool pictures from my recent trip to Venezuela here: They were pulled from my video with a Snappy.

• Total solar eclipse of Feb 26, 1998: With planets - Mercury is above and left of the sun, Jupiter is under the sun. The Diamond Ring Effect
• A 20-foot long anaconda that recently ate a crocodile: Being caught by the guides and slithering back into the mud
• An anteater with a baby on it's back
• Using fruit rhinds to attract colorful birds!
• Cacti in the high Andes with the tour guides and my dad
• The main Canaima lagoon with the Auyantepui in the background. Not far from Angel Falls. (sorry, my picture of Angel Falls stinks)
• Other Wildlife in Los Llanos: Capybaras (world's largest rodent) with a nice bird in the foreground, Me and a crocodile our guides pulled out of the river, Me and an iguana pulled out of a tree, and a a Red Ibis
• Riding mules in the Andes
• Parrot in Kavac, Canaima National Park
• Yet Another Pretty Waterfalls in Canaima National Park.

• Seeing the total solar eclipse of February 26 from Maracaibo. We had a perfect day for it!
• Flying over Angel Falls - tallest waterfall in the world!
• Hiking in the Andes and Canaima National Park - exhausting but extremely scenic!
• Fishing for piranhas. I got several bites, never managed to reel one in. :-(
• Eating at Heladeria Coromoto, the ice cream parlor with the Guiness record for most number of flavors. And what, you're asking, did I try? Smoked Trout! It was very good! I also had Spaghetti and Cheese (so-so). They also have gross stuff like onion and garlic.
• The Teleferico, the longest and highest cable car in the world. Goes up to 13,000 feet currently. Hopefully they will fix it up to 16,000 (Pico Espejo) soon.
• Tour of the Llanos. Our guides got us nice and close to some interesting wildlife. They pulled a 20-foot long anaconda - fat in the middle because it had recently eaten a crocodile - out of the mud! We also saw the largest rodent in the world, iguanas, crocodiles, an anteater with a baby on it's back, and lots of birds.
• A night on Margarita Island. Nice, but I prefer Roatan in Honduras.

Here's a picture of me and a monkey in Amatitlan, Guatemala. I'll leave it up to you to figure out which is me and which is the monkey!

Interesting Things....

• Here are some pictures and a narrative of a trip to Central America that I took with my university. NOTE: This will take a little while to download. The pictures are most of a megabyte!
• My list of Best Places on the Web. Hasn't been updated in a while, but I'll get around to it someday.

Linux

• Faster
• Cheaper (how does FREE sound?)
• Much more stable - even than NT!
• Small hardware requirements - a 486/33 with 8MB RAM does just fine (unless you want the GUI, then get 16MB)
• Everything you'd want in an operating system - including lots of free software. Compilers, Internet programs of all kinds, games, math and science programs, office suites - what more could you want?

The only time I've ever crashed it was during video configuration messups. Wish I could say that about Win3.1, Win95, WinNT (3.51 and 4.0), and even OS/2! Download a copy or buy a CD today!

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