With this guy’s views on Real Player.
I don’t have it installed because as you’ll read here, it is close to installing a VIRUS on your system.
That’s right, it takes over and does what it wants, which is what a virus does.
Randy “Real Player Bigot” Peterman
There is a restaurant chain that has several dining halls here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, whose name, Souper Salad, implies a good (super) soup and salad bar combo.
They offer other food items like potatoes, some sort of Mexican stuff (not tasty enough to make anything you want to call a taco) and some pasta dishes.
They also serve various breads (which I haven’t tasted, but I understand are quite tasty).
However, tonight we went there for dinner and found ourselves very disappointed.
We were upset because they had no high chair for Abby.
They used to have 4 or so high chairs, tonight?
Two.
They were both being used by other kids.
They also ran out of straws before we got there.
This was a perfect opportunity for a last straw joke, but because Abby pretty much requires a straw if she’s not to bathe in the libations, we were not joking.
In fact Jessica seriously suggested we ask for our money back.
This is not a bad idea except I was willing to do whatever was needed to get things to where I could just eat.
When I’m hungry I’ll endure all sorts of oddities as long as I get to eat.
Food is pretty much food when I’m in ‘consume’ mode.
I’m not too picky so as the weird Mexican stuff would be sufficient if I had to eat it.
As long as the food isn’t something that I’ve never eaten before and the hygiene of the staff and preparation are adequate, I’ll shovel it into my face.
Jessica, however, had her wits about her and remembered we had a straw in the car (from Starbuck, but you don’t care where it came from).
But, just then, like a souper hero from another planet (Krouton?), a waiter walked by with a straw sticking out of his shirt pocket.
Since straws were now worth more than gold in this scenario we asked him for it, and he kindly obliged.
On top of that we waived some Kroutonite at another table where a young child was sitting in their high chair and they left – leaving us a high chair for Abby.
All was saved and we didn’t even have to go berserk to get what we needed.
A perfect example of God’s mercy on us – even when we’re wacky.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Souperman” Peterman
This morning as I was approaching the stoplight at avenue K in Arlington I saw this huge Volkswagen Bug.
I saw it from a distance and immediately called Jessica on my cell phones speed dial (which means I manually flipped through 20 names until I saw ‘Home’) to tell her about it.
The problem is that as I got closer to the bug I was able to read the license plate, which, in smaller letters than the main number-letter combination, said ‘TOW TRUCK’.
Talk about huge disappointment.
never guessed that the large truck with a huge metal piece that certainly had no positive aerodynamic effects was not for towing.
I probably would have lived the rest of my life thinking I had seen the worlds largest VW bug.
NOT!
I suppose it’s a little thing, but I found it incredibly odd to post such obvious information on a license plate.
If a truck drives by the last thing I do is check the license plate to identify what type of vehicle it is.
And if we need help identifying trucks, shouldn’t we also identify cars as well?
I’m hoping that Colorado doesn’t have the same policy, but I’m not getting my hopes up – license plates are big revenue.
Speaking of revenue, I better get to work.
Randy “Vehicular Goober” Peterman
Today at work we released MDaemon 7.0.
This is a major release with lots of cool bells and whistles added.
I spent a lot of time and energy on LookOut 2.0 (WorldClient’s Out-look-alike).
The interface was seriously reconfigured and some nice new features were added including for 7.0 an HTML email editor.
In the end I hope that the users like it.
While I’m looking forward to 7.X (where X is the next minor update) I’m hoping that we’ll only have a few minor bugs to fix (I’ve got to make sure some translation snafu’s get addressed).
And then we’ll start working on some new enhancements and some good new features to qualify us for a 7.5 release in the next 6 months or so.
6.5 was a great release, but 7.0 is looking really strong.
I love working for Alt-N as it is a great company, our programs are incredibly strong, and the staff and beta teams seem to work really well together.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Coder” Peterman
Never eat that many bratwurst at one time.
It was good, but sheesh, I think I’ll be paying big time tomorrow 🙂
Doug and I both ate that many: hopefully we won’t find ourselves paying for it tomorrow.
We’ll see.
We were pretty darn sad leaving the Dellow household because we knew we were nearing our last visit whilst being residents of the great state of Texas.
However, we were encouraged to know that it shouldn’t be our last visit.
It’s good to have family like Doug and Amanda, they’re really neat, genuine folks who have been incredibly hospitable.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Sentimental” Peterman