Ponderings 3/27/11
1. All restaurants need to provide a pre-meal appetizer. There is nothing worse then showing up to a restaurant hungry and then having to wait and wait and wait for the food to come out while watching everyone one else around you eat. Mexican and Italian restaurants already do this right but here is my proposal for the other cuisines. The restaurants can still sell appetizers but need to offer something to start munching on. And while we are on subject Mexican or Italian restaurants that charge for chips and salsa or bread or for refills are just wrong.
Mexican - Chips and Salsa
Italian - Bread
Indian - Papad and yogurt.
Thai - Peanut Sauce and Vegetables (Open for suggestions)
Chinese - Green Tea + Bok Choy (Open for suggestions)
American - French Fries.
Pizza Places - Breadsticks
Persian - Hummus and Pita.
2. Does anybody miss the tune of signing into AOL via Dial Up?
3. As you add things to your resume eventually you need to delete something. After a certain point there is something you know you should delete but you just can't get yourself to do it. I still haven't removed my HS Basketball and Track and Field stuff.
4a. Coming home from work and seeing day light is the best feeling.
4b. Pink Cherry Blossoms everywhere is the second best feeling.
5. TVs need to invent a feature to let you know when a show is back from commercial. I will be watching something leave it during commercial and then not come back in time and miss something.
Mar 27, 2011
Mar 19, 2011
Ponderings 3/19/11
March Madness has taken over my life and this week's ponderings have mostly been influenced by the time I have been spending on my couch.
1. Are you allowed to pinch people at work for not wearing green on St. Patty's day?
2. How did NCAA go for so many years with only showing all the games on one channel with no way to pick which game to see when games were played at the same time. Being able to watch any game and flip between games at any point has been great this March Madness. But now when you go to a place with only 1 TV they will have a selected channel and even if the game is a blowout the game will not change to the most interesting game. NCAA needs to go one step further to have the games on different channels plus one channel that shows the most exciting game ala the red zone channel for NFL.
3. Once you fill out more than five brackets in different ways determining who you want to win each game becomes very difficult.
4. The first 4 games that are not accounted for in the NCAA Bracket should not be called round 1. All of the round 2 references and round 3 references have been confusing me all week.
5. Did anyone know what truTV was before the tournament?
6.I wonder how much work was done in America with the combination of March Madness and St. Patty's Day this Thursday and Friday.
5. At halftime of every game they should have the mascots box. The winning mascot awards their team with an additional 5 points.
1. Are you allowed to pinch people at work for not wearing green on St. Patty's day?
2. How did NCAA go for so many years with only showing all the games on one channel with no way to pick which game to see when games were played at the same time. Being able to watch any game and flip between games at any point has been great this March Madness. But now when you go to a place with only 1 TV they will have a selected channel and even if the game is a blowout the game will not change to the most interesting game. NCAA needs to go one step further to have the games on different channels plus one channel that shows the most exciting game ala the red zone channel for NFL.
3. Once you fill out more than five brackets in different ways determining who you want to win each game becomes very difficult.
4. The first 4 games that are not accounted for in the NCAA Bracket should not be called round 1. All of the round 2 references and round 3 references have been confusing me all week.
5. Did anyone know what truTV was before the tournament?
6.I wonder how much work was done in America with the combination of March Madness and St. Patty's Day this Thursday and Friday.
5. At halftime of every game they should have the mascots box. The winning mascot awards their team with an additional 5 points.
Mar 13, 2011
Ponderings 3/13
1. When you watch a car commercial you will see a very small: "Professional Driver and Closed Course" message. Why do they need to tell us this and who was the genius who sued a car company after trying out something in the commercial?
After watching this I tried to think of anything I could try from a commercial which could potentially cause harm and be a potential law suit. I quickly found that every commercial will cover their behind with some extra small text. But for every new type of company there will be a new kind of law suit available. So if you watch a lot of TV look out for commercials from new industries and plan out a new law suit.
2.ESPN finally hooked up Cricket with a tab on ESPN.com for the World Cup. However, the times are always off that I never see all the previous results I want to see. Similarly ESPN uses logic to populate its main tab where results from the previous night are shown until about 1pm EST. After 1 pm EST ESPN changes the display to show the upcoming games for the day. This works well but has not been adjusted for different time zones.
3. If the football lockout continues and we don't have a NFL season who gets the number one pick in the 2012 draft? Also what the hell are you supposed to do from September to January?
4. Jimmer is my new favorite word.
5. This past week my bus hit a parked car. The bus driver quickly gets out of the bus and puts a business card on the car's windshield. Within a minute the bus driver is back in the car and driving off. Whenever you are having a bad day just imagine the day the owner had when he came to his car and sees a small message about the bus that hit him. (The day was also windy so hopefully the card stayed.)
6. Taco Bell had 88 cent crunch wraps available last week and I was unable to get to a Taco bell because for some reason Taco Bell's are extremely sparse around Seattle. This made me create a new rule for my next location. Rule: Make sure ratio of Taco Bells to Farmer Markets is > 1.
7. The other day someone was arguing with me about why I need to watch entire Sport games instead of just the ending. I made points around every moment equally affecting the end, the fact that I enjoy watching the entire game, not all games go down to the end, as well as others. But I did concede that viewing the outcome of the game is definitely one of the most important parts and if I could only watch 10 minutes I would choose the end. However, that got me thinking sports could do some small tweaks to make things more interesting.
Here are some examples for Basketball:
-After each quarter the last team to score gets the ball the next quarter.
-The team that scored more in the quarter regardless of overall score gets an additional 2 points. (4th quarter not included)
-If you score more than 30 in a quarter you get an extra point, if you score less than 20 you lose a point. (4th quarter not included)
Here are some examples for Football:
-There is a kickoff between all quarters.
-Team that scored more in the quarter gets an extra point. (4th quarter not included)
After watching this I tried to think of anything I could try from a commercial which could potentially cause harm and be a potential law suit. I quickly found that every commercial will cover their behind with some extra small text. But for every new type of company there will be a new kind of law suit available. So if you watch a lot of TV look out for commercials from new industries and plan out a new law suit.
2.ESPN finally hooked up Cricket with a tab on ESPN.com for the World Cup. However, the times are always off that I never see all the previous results I want to see. Similarly ESPN uses logic to populate its main tab where results from the previous night are shown until about 1pm EST. After 1 pm EST ESPN changes the display to show the upcoming games for the day. This works well but has not been adjusted for different time zones.
3. If the football lockout continues and we don't have a NFL season who gets the number one pick in the 2012 draft? Also what the hell are you supposed to do from September to January?
4. Jimmer is my new favorite word.
5. This past week my bus hit a parked car. The bus driver quickly gets out of the bus and puts a business card on the car's windshield. Within a minute the bus driver is back in the car and driving off. Whenever you are having a bad day just imagine the day the owner had when he came to his car and sees a small message about the bus that hit him. (The day was also windy so hopefully the card stayed.)
6. Taco Bell had 88 cent crunch wraps available last week and I was unable to get to a Taco bell because for some reason Taco Bell's are extremely sparse around Seattle. This made me create a new rule for my next location. Rule: Make sure ratio of Taco Bells to Farmer Markets is > 1.
7. The other day someone was arguing with me about why I need to watch entire Sport games instead of just the ending. I made points around every moment equally affecting the end, the fact that I enjoy watching the entire game, not all games go down to the end, as well as others. But I did concede that viewing the outcome of the game is definitely one of the most important parts and if I could only watch 10 minutes I would choose the end. However, that got me thinking sports could do some small tweaks to make things more interesting.
Here are some examples for Basketball:
-After each quarter the last team to score gets the ball the next quarter.
-The team that scored more in the quarter regardless of overall score gets an additional 2 points. (4th quarter not included)
-If you score more than 30 in a quarter you get an extra point, if you score less than 20 you lose a point. (4th quarter not included)
Here are some examples for Football:
-There is a kickoff between all quarters.
-Team that scored more in the quarter gets an extra point. (4th quarter not included)
Mar 3, 2011
Ponderings 3/3/11
1. The other day I was wondering why no one uses rolley backpacks anymore. You would think that people are lazy and want to just drag things around but for daily travel people prefer backpacks and smaller bags.
2. Chipotle is great at counting calories. Every menu option has been precisely measured to a range of 1000 calories. Thank you for telling me this meal was between 200-1000 calories.
3. Buying fruits and vegetables and then self checking out at the grocery store makes you respect grocery store workers and there lookup skills.
February:
4. People born on leap year should not be allowed to advance in age until the next leap year. I don't get why we they need so many pity birthdays.
4b. I just realized February (on non-leap years) is the only Month where I exactly do 4 weeks of work and get paid correctly. Every other month I work 2 or 3 extra days. We should all demand 29 extra days of pay.
5. Someone needs to invent a laundry machine that can empty pockets. Every time I do laundry I lose change and get small remains of napkins and tissues on all of my clothes.
6. I always make it a point to have an extra crumpled dollar bill if I ever use a vending machine. Its way too easy and no fun if you use a crisp one.
7. Is it a sign that I have bad taste if I check what movies won Oscars to make sure I don't watch those movies?
2. Chipotle is great at counting calories. Every menu option has been precisely measured to a range of 1000 calories. Thank you for telling me this meal was between 200-1000 calories.
3. Buying fruits and vegetables and then self checking out at the grocery store makes you respect grocery store workers and there lookup skills.
February:
4. People born on leap year should not be allowed to advance in age until the next leap year. I don't get why we they need so many pity birthdays.
4b. I just realized February (on non-leap years) is the only Month where I exactly do 4 weeks of work and get paid correctly. Every other month I work 2 or 3 extra days. We should all demand 29 extra days of pay.
5. Someone needs to invent a laundry machine that can empty pockets. Every time I do laundry I lose change and get small remains of napkins and tissues on all of my clothes.
6. I always make it a point to have an extra crumpled dollar bill if I ever use a vending machine. Its way too easy and no fun if you use a crisp one.
7. Is it a sign that I have bad taste if I check what movies won Oscars to make sure I don't watch those movies?
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