Today I installed Ubuntu to a USB drive

Because I don't have a hard drive in this computer yet, and it just works and I am kind of amazed at how far the process has come. I'm remembering my first Linux installation experiences, like OpenSUSE or Mandriva or something or other years and years ago, and the first one that I actually stuck with, which was Gentoo, because after spending two days sweating through that installation with all the compiling and figuring out kernel options you bet I was going to actually use it, yessir.