Today I got home and to my surprise I saw a package sitting on my desk chair. I opened up the rather small package and when I opened it up I saw a tiny box wrapped with tape.

I read the note and to my surpise he'd sent me a Raspberry Pi! I'd been on the fence about buying one of these since I'd first heard of them a long time ago. The applications for a guy like me are infinite! The gifter suggested NES emulation, but I don't think I need that (my original NES still works!). I am going to play with a few distributions just for fun right now and see how I like them. Right now I am leaning towards Arch Linux and using it as an ultra-low power VPN server so I can access my home network from anywhere. Other ideas include DHCP, and DNS. I might also look into installing XMBC on it to see how good the video playback is on my TVs in the house. This is really going to be awesome!