Monthly Archives: August 2004

People that don’t hail from the Rutgers area (my alma mater) just don’t seem to get the ‘Fat’ phenomenon. And then they scoff when I tell them of my plans to introduce these wondrous meals to Ithaca (where they’d be madly successful, Ithaca being a college town, and all).

So imagine my surprise at seeing this on Boing Boing this morning.

The Fat Darrell has always been my favorite fat sandwich, though my finickiness has kept me from trying too many different ones. You just can’t go wrong with a combination like chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, and french fries (all personal favorites of mine) in one sandwich.

I think they got one major detail wrong though:

Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell, the flagship of R.U.’s “Fat” line.

Though Eid may very well have assembled the first Fat Darrell, it is most definitely not the ‘flagship’ of the Fat line. That honor could belong to no other than the Fat Cat, which is (AFAIK) the first, and still the most popular, dish to be served at the Grease Trucks.

Chris knows the history better than I, so maybe you should bug him to explain it. :)

Or if we’re lucky, maybe he’ll get bored and do it himself in a comment.

I agree with Rack, this is a miserable failure

Or at least it will be. as long as you pass it on.

Links were meant to be free! (Besides, the olympics suck now)

… Because highschool dramas are stupid, highschool dramas with alien immigrants posing as teenagers in US highschools is exceptionally stupid, and highschool dramas with alien immigrants posing as teenagers in US highschools who have nothing more important to worry about than the bleeding prom is just about the stupidest thing I can imagine right now.

I suppose I’m just too smart, or more likely, too unimaginative.

I spent the work day today hanging out at a local boyscout camp, listening to talks that my group at work (and related groups) had with the NSF regarding some grants and the progress made. After all that, we hung out a bit, and played in the lake. Then we got served icky catered food.

After that, Beth and I hung out a bit at Nick’s place until her parents, brother, and dog (who are visiting) arrived in Ithaca.

Then I came home and watched the end of Berserk with Chris. What a weird anime- at parts, it was really quite enjoyable, but at others it flip-flopped between tedious and corny. And the end…. well, suffice to say the end is much worse than the end of Evangelion. For some strange reason, there were only 25 (instead of the normal 26) episodes, and it ended just as it was (he-heh) climaxing…. at the beginning. With no explanation. W…T…F…?

It’s a real shame too, ‘cuz the last two episodes or so started to get really cool…. much more so than the rest of the anime. It reminded me of Doom 2, with all the hellish imagery…. It was really pretty awesome (but I have a soft spot for crap like that). It really started to make me fee like the whole bloody anime may have been worth it.

Anyway, now I’m bummed, ‘cuz just as it was getting cool it vaporized.

I buy a bunch of organic crap, only to simply throw out my (in some cases barely used) non-organic junk.

To be fair, I do like the new stuff better, and I did offer some of it to Beth first…. not to mention that it really doesn’t make any difference to the environment whether I junk it now in one go or slowly in the drain every day.

Bah, who am I kidding? I’m still a bad person :)

And then come Mondays :(

Today I went over to Taughannock Falls wit4h Beth and ctl. We walked around a bunch, and I tried to walk partway to the falls in the stream, and almost (but not quite) fell on my ass a couple of times. Which somehow led to a conversation regarding how I want to get a dorky swimsuit.

Then when I came back home, I decided to redesign the whole picture area a bit, moving several subcategories out of Misc and putting them in the Galleries section. Which somehow led to me rewriting some of the picture script to make for more useful sorting and other trivial improvements.

It was around this time (that I really started to get into programming) that I heard that Elsa was moving in… but I was too much of a lazy (almost done!) programmer to leave right away, so Chris left without me. And then, the Travel Channel had this nifty Marvel Super Heroes’™ Guide to New York City thing on that (if you’ve been paying attention) you know I had to watch. Luckily, I managed to finish programming during the Spidey-fest, so I did eventually get out to Elsa’s place.

Of course, by that point whatever moving that had to be done seemed to have already been done, so after a brief while we made our way over to Wegmans where I bought even more organic junk, and the Shortstop, where I discovered they had a tasty chicken parmegian sandwich. Yum.

Speaking of organic, and of food, and on an (almost) related note- I’ve decided to stop eating mammals. I’ll make no attempt at being a vegetarian, as I like meat too much, but I realized that I can’t stand lamb, pork, and most beef as it is, so I might as well officially cut it out of my diet. The fact that it’s bad for me doesn’t hurt, but I really don’t have a good reason for this decision.

The closest thing to a cause I can come up with is that yesterday, after making myself sick on a turkey drumstick (and yes, I am well aware that turkeys are not mammals, but sickly pondering doesn’t have to be logical) and sicker by reading too much in the car, I occupied myself by masochistically thinking of food (don’t ask). And while the idea of all meat turned my stomach at the time, the idea of red meat, specifically beef, particularly grossed me out. So, I decided that if beef grosses me out more than chicken, I probably should stop eating it.

So I did. Today at Billy Bob’s I even had mozzarella sticks (which they served with barbeque sauce, but that’s another story).

The other Sterling. (Now on sale! Buy now!)

Chris, Beth, Chris, and I went to the Ren. Faire today. I have lots of pictures.

I think I actually like the one back in Sterling Forest Tuxedo more, but this one was pretty good too. It was bigger, but there seemed to be less interesting stuff overall. Also, there were no bread bowls, stupid modern influences, and the tavern singing was decidedly suboptimal.

Several employees recognized and approved of the shirt I was wearing today (which was definitely better than other renfaire geek-shirt experiences I’ve had…).

Note to self: I really need to remember that I don’t like turkey drumsticks, so I stop trying to eat them.

Other note to self: Next year, buy a cloak, sword, and hammock.

Mood: ill

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Boo. I wanted to get Einstein!

Since my uptime was destroyed, my computer has been rather unhappy. I rebooted it once more to enable the BIOS ‘power switch == standby’ setting yesterday, and today I came back from the grocery store (where I bought lots of organic junk, but my hippiness is another story…) only to discover my computer had crashed.

The keyboard LEDs weren’t in panic mode, but they wouldn’t respond to key presses, either. Additionally, the computer wouldn’t even respond to pings. Y’know that’s no good. A reboot restored it, but there were no useful messages in the logfiles. Now I’m curious- my computer was perfectly happy staying up for 30+ days with no issues before, but now it crashes after being up less than 24 hours? That doesn’t sound right. The computer wasn’t running anything intensive, or even particularly interesting at the time (I don’t even run xscreensaver because it used to crash X back in the day). In fact, the only difference I know of is the above-mentioned BIOS change, but that wouldn’t cause an issue like this, would it? (And no, the computer wasn’t in suspend mode. I checked.)

Anyway, I guess I’ll wait a few more days and see if I continue having problems. If so, I’ll change the BIOS back and wait some more. Then hopefully I’ll know what’s up.