Refenestration Daily.
I like today’s Buzzword of the Day, from Buzzwhack’s Buzzword-of-the-Day mailing list:
yogurt cities: Cities with thriving “active cultures” — museums, symphonies, opera, independent bookstores, etc. — where baby boomers will choose to retire (instead of retirement communities).
I don’t know if that reflects my retirement plans, but I like the word (well, phrase) anyhow.
If you’re running Windows 2000, you should have Service Pack 3 installed (it was released earlier this month). And, once you have SP3 installed, you have the option for Automatic Updates:
When you use the Automatic Updates feature, your desktop machine automatically connects to Microsoft for any critical updates that might apply to your machine. The content is similar to that of the Windows Update feature except you don't have to manually go onto the Internet to check for updates—the Windows OS does it for you. […]
Pleasantly, M$ gives the option of varying levels of control to the automatic-update process:
- Notify me before downloading and notify me again before installing them on my computer […]
- Download the updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed [&hellip]
- Automatically download the updates, and install them on a schedule that I specify […]
It sounds like a good idea to me, especially with the varying degree of automation offered.
I've recently discovered — and have been enjoying — Food 911 on the Food Network. In case you haven’t seen the show, the basic idea is that chef Tyler Florence helps ordinary people with preparing foods that they just can’t seem to get right. For instance, in one show, he helped someone cook pork chops, and in other he helped someone with rice.
I quite enjoy the show because it doesn’t concentrate on complicated foods — I could actually see myself preparing many of these foods. So, as opposed to other cooking shows, there’s not so much the effort of trying to remember specific recipes, as most of the show is just general tips for the dish.
From show on rice, I was intrigued by the brown rice with apples recipe. The name may not be very inventive, but it looked quite tasty: brown rice + apples + green pepper + walnuts + chicken + olive oil (and a few other ingredients). Were it not for the high carbs of the rice, I would be tempted to try the recipe quite soon. Nonetheless, I may still try it sometime.
The air times for the show are listed right on the show’s main page.
The PGA Championship is this weekend at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. And, as golf’s final major this year, I look forward to it. As I write this, Fred Funk is in the lead with -7, followed four guys at -6 (including Justin Leonard, Mark Calcavecchia, and Retief Goosen).
Here's the PGA Championship’s Leaderboard, which should remain current. As of this morning (Friday morning) Jim Furyk was in the lead, but now he’s at -3 overall. I was really hoping that he might win this one, as he’s one of the best players in the game that hasn’t won a major yet.
With any luck, I’ll be able to watch some of it this weekend.
I had lunch at Fuddruckers with some old co-workers. I hadn’t been to Fuddruckers before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew they had hamburgers, but that was about the extent of my knowledge.
I soon discovered that they have many sizes of burgers and specialty burgers as well. I finally settled on the 1/2 pound version of their Southwest Burger — consisting of guacamole, bacon and monterey jack cheese. Really, as soon as I read “guacamole”, I knew that this burger was for me (I’m a real sucker for avocado).
The made-to-order burger was hot and very tasty. And, I hadn’t had burger with guacamole before, but I look forward to having many more :).