Month: June 2005

Monkeys

Trentham Monkey Forest

Michael Robinson sent me a story We Aren’t Monkeys, about an upset waitress.

Ever stop and think while you’re in a restaurant, that there might be other people there needing help too?

Sunday after church we visited a local restaurant where only two ladies were waiting tables.

I felt sorry for the two ladies who were definitly working their tail off to make sure everyone had everything.
Sure, it was annoying to have to wait a while to get a menu and my water and what not, but you can only expect two waitresses to do so much.

But I’ve been in places and seen ridiculous demands put on wait staff.

And unfortunately the friends I have that wait tables or have waited tables always tell me how much they hate the Sunday crowd.

They all say its the worst time to wait tables.

The church crowd is more demanding, less merciful, complains that the wait staff is working on a Sunday and not worshipping with them — and they’re usually the worst tippers.

And then they want to leave a tract to tell the wait staff how much God loves them.

That makes me want to join a church right away.

And they will know that we are Christians by our tips.

The perfect bachelor tool

I just found the perfect bachelor tool on HEB’s website. AWESOME!
I went looking for a meal idea for tonight and they have a pre-planned menu for each week on their site.
You can click on the items and pull up a recipe. Then scale the menu for how many servings you want to fix.
Personally I’m going to try two servings. One for dinner and one for lunch the next day. Granted – that’s if I only eat one serving for dinner.
Once you have the recipe scaled to the number of servings you want, you can either print out a 3×5 size card, a 4×6 size card or a full page recipe. Personally I’m going with a 4×6 to fit in the handy recipe book my sister Amy made me for Christmas a few years back (another perfect gift for your favorite bachelor).
And then above and beyond that – you can print out a shopping list with everything you need to make that weeks menu on it.
Awesome.
Now I only need a nutritionist to let me in on how healthy I’m really eating.
Some of the recipes have nutritional information and some don’t.
But this is a tool everyone should know about. Use it and have fun. I’m about to go do my shopping for the week and I’ll try the Thai Curried Shrimp with Mushrooms tonight.

Apple talk continues

The buzz continues, Wired magazine talked to developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2005 to get their opinion on today’s announcement.
Everyone seems to be supportive.
I hope that it means I can actually find quality support for my Mac computers.
Working in an all Mac office I end up being tech support anytime anything goes wrong with hardware or software.
There’s no real tech support for Macs, but maybe with a common processor and architecture, this will ease my worries and troubles.
My friend at Microsoft says he believes that this will help lower the price of Macs for sure.
And if that’s the case, I’m sure Mac users everywhere will be ecstatic.

Titans tight end Kinney fights fires

USA Today has a feature Sports article on Erron Kinney today.

After rescuing a fellow firefighter from a building, Kenney said, “For everybody else looking in, they say it was life-threatening. But I’m just doing what I’m supposed to do. That is what you do. If you have a fireman go down, you have to get him out. It’s not like you have choices.” Then he shrugs and adds, “The funny thing is, the most I’ve ever done since then is rescue a cat.”
“You cannot be half of a firefighter,” Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher said. “You either are, or you’re not. … Erron’s going to do everything he can to the best of his ability. If it requires him to make tough decisions in an effort to save somebody’s life, I’m sure he’ll make the right decision.”
So there are no concerns about Kinney’s other career?
Well, Fisher says, smiling knowingly, “Sometimes what’s difficult is when Erron will come in in the morning for a workout, smelling of smoke, and you know he’s been up all night.”

Here’s to all our public servants with a passion for helping others.

Apple shifts to Intel

Scobleizer and many others have been blogging on this all day, but CNN just confirmed that Apple computers will make a major shift in their processors by 2007.
The company will start fitting all their machines with Intel processors instead of the IBM chips they have used for years.
No one really knows the implications of this decision yet, but for me its a big “I told you so,” to all my Apple-a-holics.
If Apple’s run so much better and work so much better than PC’s, why would they need to change to Intel processors that have been running PC’s for so many years.
Who knows what the future holds? But either way, it could be bad news for IBM.