Browsing through Google News stories tonight, I spotted an article called “San Francisco restaurant known for ‘rudest waiter’ closing.”  Much to my surprise, as soon as I clicked on the link, I thought, “We’ve eaten there!” I confirmed my suspicion by checking Google Street View, with which you can take an inside tour.  Here’s a view of the sign. We didn’t know about the restaurant’s legacy when we went.  The rudest waiter even has his own Wikipedia page. The good news is that the restaurant might have a second chance. We’ve been talking a lot about how to choose good restaurants…
I’m not the best web server admin, mostly because it tends to bore me. My little server spends most of its time idle, and 90% of the requests it gets are from Google’s bot. (I’ve actually just used Google’s web-admin tools to seriously reduce the crawl rate on my server, because its continually re-examining images that haven’t changed in a decade… To the tune of 2GB per month. Things are much more acceptable, now.) Anyway, I was listening to my new old Dan Bern album (New American Language) and it started stuttering. I quickly determined the problem wasn’t with the…
Back in 2000, I opened a First Union account in Georgia. Â First Union was a great little bank with excellent customer service, and I never had a problem with them. Â Then, First Union was purchased by Wachovia. Â I had a few issues with Wachovia, but they were minimal. Â Then, after the financial sector collapse, Wachovia was purchased by Wells Fargo. At this news, I contemplated switching banks, but it seemed like more trouble than it would be worth. Â I try to do most of my banking with ING, but they’ve since been bought by CapitalOne, so I’m sure they’ll be…
Berck drifted off and then when I rolled over started the following conversation: Berck: Do you know what MUNIX stands for? Jonah: Unix? Berck: MUNIX. Multiuser. He tries but he’s not very good at it. Me: Who? Berck: Shawn. Shawn David, they’re all named Shawn. Me: Shawn? Berck: Creamy rice, Jonah. Creamy rice.