Monthly Archives: November 2010
Waiting for @jacobbartels
| November 5, 2010 | Posted by Angela under Family Stuff, Random |
Jacob should be arriving any day now. As we wait for his arrival, I am thinking about the era Jacob will be born in and thought it would be neat to document some of the 2010 highlights:
- Barack Obama is President.
- Facebook and Twitter are the main forms of communication online with more than 500 million Facebook users and more than 50 million tweets being published per day.
- Haiti suffered a magnitude 7.0 earthquake with an estimate 200,000 deaths.
- The MacBook Air is released, weighing 2.3lbs with a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
- The Gulf of Mexico experienced the largest oil spill in US history with as much as 60,000 barrels of oil leaking per day.
- Gas is $2.50 per gallon.
- New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts for their first Super Bowl Victory.
- Texas Rangers make it to the World Series for the first time ever.
- 33 Chilean miners are rescued after spending 68 days trapped in a mine half a mile underground.
- The Discovery space shuttle is scheduled to have its 133rd and final mission.
- A ticket from San Antonio to Dallas on Southwest.com is $49 one way.
- UTSA is launching its first Football program scheduled to kick off Fall 2011.
- San Antonio still has no NFL team.
- Texting and driving is made illegal in San Antonio.
- Some artist named Justin Bieber is apparently a big pop star among the kids these days.
- Toy Story 3 is the biggest box office movie of 2010.
- Mom and dad work at Rackspace, a 12 year old cloud computing company with close to 3000 Rackers.
- Mom spotted her first gray hair this year.
- As of today, Dad has a full head of hair.
- @jacobbartels will be born to make the world a better place.
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