Regular turkey bacon club, plain, lettuce only, and WiFi
Schlotzsky’s is going to start offering WiFi access in its restaraunts. Since I don’t drink coffee, the wireless access at Starbuck’s does me little good. But, I do eat Schlotzsky’s turkey bacon clubs (with a root beer). This would definitely be enough to get me to stop by one of their stores, if I was travelling with my laptop.
Good for them, and me.
myPod
Just got my iPod. And before I even turn it on, I gotta say… Apple has the absolute, hands-down best packaging of any company I’ve ever seen. Just opening the box was fun. And taking each part out of the box and taking it out of its individual wrapping was fun, too. The attention to detail is astounding – even in the packaging. Each piece is wrapped and arranged in the box in such a way that it displays the part in addition to keeping it safe in transit. I can’t wait to start using it. Apple rocks.
The only drawback, and it’s a big one for me, is that it doesn’t come with a USB adaptor; I have to order that from Apple. If my PC had a FireWire port, I wouldnt care, of course. But it doesn’t. So, it’ll be yet another four days of waiting – in addition to the four weeks I waitied for the eBay guy to send me the iPod…
sigh.
Twinkle twinkle
BBC NEWS reports that “twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats…”
Maybe DeBeers will be the first company to commercialize space.
Muse
In the mid 80’s, when I was in my mid-teens, my mom lived in Terryville CT for a couple of years . When I would go there to visit in the summer, I’d generally split my time between fishing at a nearby pond or playing Tron at a local deli. Sometimes, though I had to walk “downtown” to the larger stores to buy stuff I couldn’t find at the deli. This walk always took me past a little brick house on Main street with a sign in front that said “Lock Museum of America”. I didn’t believe it; a museum of locks, of all things ?? Here, in this little building, in this little central Connecticut town ? Well, one day I went in and looked around. Not surprsingly, it was full of locks and keys (!!), and I learned that CT was the home of Mr Yale (as in Yale locks).
But what I really learned, or actually what I realized, was that pretty much anything can have its own museum; and that the words “National” or “American” don’t necessarily imply grandeur or enormity. This is something I should’ve realized earlier, having been born in the tiny city of Corning NY, home to the Corning Glass Museum, and just down Rt 17 from the National Warplane Museum and the National Soaring Museum, among others (all fine museums, of course.)
I bring this up, because I found a little entry on girlhacker about another little New England museum; this one for buttons.
Peeve!
I use Eudora as my email client and I use Norton AV as my anti-virus software. Norton has an option to check incoming emails for virsuses, but it’s error-prone; it will often screw up its own settings and lose track of the login name and password it needs to actually go get my email. That’s sub-optimal. So, I disable the incoming email check. But… when Eudora downloads an email with a virus attached, Norton’s “auto-protect” feature sees that something (Eudora) is trying to write a file containing a virus and it deletes the file immediately (often before the attachment has finished downloading). And then, because it’s so very proud of its accomplishment, it throws up a big yellow message box for me to click. But, at the same time, Eudora panics, because it can’t download the attachment like it wants to, so it beeps, and tries to download that attachment again; Norton sees that a file with a virus is being written, deletes the file, puts up a message box, Eudora panics, and so on.
During periods of high virus activity, like the past few weeks, where 1 of every 5 messages is a virus, I have to disable the Norton auto-protect feature entirely in order to get my email. Sub-optimal.
Is McAffee better than this ??
Oh, the places I’ve been
States I’ve visited:
This summer I think I’ll be able to add Colorado to the list.
Interestingly (to me), I’ve hit every state on both coasts (and if I wanted to count layovers in airports, I could add Texas, to nearly complete the Gulf Coast, too). In fact only 1/6th (4) of the states I’ve been to have no ocean coastline – though three of those have Great Lakes coastlines, which is nearly the same thing. Only little landlocked Vermont has no access to a significant body of water (yes, Lake Champlain is a pretty big lake, but it’s no Lake Superior).
Make your own damn map, here.
Snarkout
I’d like to recommend that everyone who is interested in the history of things, trivia and arcana take a look at snarkout.
For example, here it discusses how we got our current calendar; here it discusses how Valentines Day came about; here is a discussion of the continuing history of “Adventure” games (ie. Adventure, Zork and other text based puzzle games). All fascinating stuff, IMO.
