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Evening at The Oven
The Missus and I ate at The Oven last night. I’m not typically the Indian food type, so I wasn’t all that enthusiastic about going. The Missus, on the other hand, was adamant. So we went. Gotta maintain a happy home life, y’know?
I’m glad we went. For one thing, my chicken tikka mahkani was very tasty. But beyond the food, The Oven has a nice atmosphere. And it is always good to see a local restaurant succeed.
One of these days I will get around to writing a review of The Oven in Eat Lincoln. One of these days.
Its Official: The 2005 Federal Government Dietary Guidelines…woohoo!
After 5 long years, the new dietary guidelines for the country were released today. Fruits and dark green vegetables are good. As is looking to fish and beans for protein. Avoid deep fried and sugar-laden products, and try and exercise every now and then. Truly earth-shattering.
Anyway, I’m still waiting for the revised pyramid thing.
Somebody ‘splain it to me
I could use some help understanding all the furor over the Randy Moss “Moongate” incident up in Cheeseheadland. What’s the big deal? He didn’t actually drop trou. The act was relevant (Packers fans are prone to mooning the opposing team’s bus). Relative to much of what professional athletes get away with, a faux-mooning seems pretty tame. Drugs and violence are OK, but mime mooning is beyond the pale?
Obviously I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about because pretty much every commentator and columnist thinks Moss should be flayed, flambeed, and fed to the sharks.
Can anybody shed light on this for me?
[update]Moss has been fined $10,000 for his actions.[/update]
Good food anyone?
I lived for four years in Iowa City, IA, a city with a population of a little over 60,000 people. I was expecting Lincoln - a city nearly 4 to 5 times larger a population - to have a wider choice in restaurants. Ironically, the opposite is true! And when compared to other neary smaller towns, say Boulder, we can’t hold up a candle when it comes to choice in restaurants. In Lincoln, there are more restaurants of course, but the selection overall is more limited. Lincoln tends to have a lot of fast food places, a lot of chain places, and that’s about it. There are a few Indian restaurants, and then your slew of Chinese-American places. What’s the matter with Lincolnites? Is it a law to only eat burgers and chicken wings? Since I’ve been here, many locals have expressed a desire that more choice in restaurants be available, and I have certainly met a number of Lincolnites who have previously lived in big cities, in foreign countries, and so on, whom you would think would bring their taste buds back with them. Why such few choice here?
What kind of restaurant would you like to see in Lincoln? Personally, I would like to see a creperie or a Malaysian restaurant in town. I wouldn’t mind more Mexican places, as long as it was good Mexican food and not the chains. And what about an Ethopian restaurant? Doesn’t this sound good?
One Month In – Impressions of World of Warcraft
This holiday season gamers have a lot choices. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and GTA San Andreas have already hit the market with a large amount of media and inside buzz. Blizzard has stormed into the fray and entered the crowded Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG) genre with World of Warcraft. According to the official website WoW sold an estimated 250,000 copies on its opening day. Good? Bad? This gamer takes a look at one of the most hyped MMORPG’s in a long time.
Belief Without Proof
A group of scientists were asked (requires registration or BugMeNot): What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? Their answers are interesting, ranging from there is (or is not) a God, to string theory is bunk, to “true love.”
What say you, fellow Lincolnites?
Oh no, Bo!
In light of Oklahoma’s Orange Bowl 55-19 drubbing last night by USC, I wonder: How will the Church of Bo respond?
The Church of Bo, for those of you who don’t know, are those who think Bo Pelini can do no wrong. He was the greatest defensive coordinator ever for the Huskers in 2003, he would have made a far greater head coach than Bill Callahan, Oklahoma would be unbeatable with Bo on their sideline, yadda yadda yadda. Seeing their man’s defense give up 55 points is a bit like Catholics finding out the Pope has 16 wives and a pool boy on the side. Talk about disillusionment.
The pro-Bo folks have some lines up their sleeves, of course. Many of the points came off turnovers, for example. But they can’t use those lines. Well, not if they want to maintain any sense of integrity, anyway. After all, the pro-Bo folks (who happen to correlate heavily with the pro-Frank folks and the Anti-Steve contingent) wouldn’t allow anybody to use similar arguments in describing the Huskers’ 2004 campaign. To use the same arguments they so recently railed against would be oh-so hypocritical.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bashing Bo. I think he’s a fine coach. I just don’t think he proved himself to be any more fantabulous than anybody else. His defense lost big games at Nebraska, and his defense lost the biggest of all games at Oklahoma. In other words, he may be great, but he isn’t the greatest.
For me, I’m witholding judgment about Bo. He needs a few more years within the college game to really prove himself (for
good or ill) to me. The same goes for Bill Callahan. But feel free to disagree.
Dear Butch
Dear Butch:
Your sorry attempt to demonstrate irony instead demonstrated only one thing: that you are an ass, but without the integrity. Derek is dead. You may stop kicking him now.
--Mr. Wilson
No Work for You!
Well, no work for me anyway.
I can’t believe UNL actually closed today. I have to think part of the decision was based on the car accident death of Derek Kieper, a 21 year-old UNL student, on Tuesday morning. I knew Derek from his time at the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center. In addition to pursuing five (!!!) majors, I hear Derek could also belt out a helluva Bohemian Rhapsody.
“The majority of taxpayers are big losers”
If baseball in D.C. is such a great idea, why won’t MLB pay for it?
I’m Number 9!
I can hardly contain my glee: I placed ninth in the December Common Answers contest put on by Kevin Stone over at Brainbashers. Ninth place may not sound too exciting to you, but 9th out of 670 entrants is pretty darn good, if I do say so myself.
For those of you who don’t know, a Common Answers contest usually consists of 10 questions. Your goal on each question is to give a correct answer most likely to be chosen by the most other entrants. For example one of the questions in last month’s contest was: Name a number from 1 to 31 which represents a day in December. The whole contest had a Christmas theme, so obviously (to me) 25 is what most people would answer. As it turns out, I was correct. I chose the #1 answer on all but Question #5 (#2 answer) and Question #6 (#4 answer).
Now that you know about it, go ahead and enter this month’s contest. You know you want to.
“A Duck Ate Me”
I happen to love 80’s video games. Today’s kids, however, do not.
I feel so old now.
I’m Back in Town!
I’m back! And I’m tired. So I’m going to bed.
Oh, and happy new yeeaeeeeeee zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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