Guess Who Turns 40 This Year!

Yep, you guessed correctly! The world famous McDonald's Big Mac. Yum! It was invented in 1967 in Pennsylvania, and the rest is history.

Do you remember the first time you had a Big Mac? I do, too! My parents finally let me order a Big Mac, big people food. I didn't feel like a little kid any more.

My next Big Mac memory was the first time, when I was in high school in Pennsylvania, when I ordered two Big Macs for myself. For one meal!

Ah. There are no memories quite like Big Mac memories.

Read The Big Mac Hits 40 article at WZZM's web site.

End of Summer

Summer unofficially ended last weekend when it was cold enough outside that the 13 year-old (we'll call him Billy, though his real name is Tim) was complaining about being cold. While sitting right in front of a window. Through which blew a strong cold breeze. Did I mention he was sitting right in front of the window? Anyway...

Not to be quickly taken out of the picture, Summer return midway during the week, preceeded by several days of nearly continuous rainfall. When the rains stopped, the heat & humidity both rose as Summer laughed, "Ha ha! You can't get rid of me that easily, foolish mortals!"

Today, and the next several days, are likely to be somewhat rainy and cool again. And the Coming of the Rains usually signifies the End of Summer anyway. So beautful Autumn is just around the corner.

Train Roller Coaster

Some fast-acting engineering students in Norway finishing constructing their train roller coaster just in time.

Our Internet Connection Has Been Repaired

Like most people having broadband Internet access through cable or DSL, we experience an occasional Internet connection outage. For the last few weeks, though, we've been experiencing connection outages nearly every day... some days we effectively had no access that entire day.

So I called the cable company a few days ago, and they scheduled a repairman to come out on Friday morning, sometime between 8 AM and noon. I called back an hour later to request a tighter time frame, 8 AM to 10 AM, but was told, "Uhhhh... We don't have any technicians available until the 1 PM - 5 PM timeframe Friday afternoon." So I agreed to that timeframe, deciding I would just leave work at noon that day. When I got home from work on Friday, there was a message from the cable company on our voice mail: "Hey, we're just confirming that our repairman will be coming to your home sometime between 1 PM and 5 PM on Saturday." Yep, Saturday, not Friday.

The cable guy actually showed up on Saturday afternoon, spent an hour and a half here, and corrected our cable Internet access. Yay! Now I can get back to work on my really important Internet-related activities, like watching hamsters dance!

We Need to Shut Down the Internet for Five Years

According to a news report, Sir Elton John wants the Internet shut down for 5 years in order to save music, because the Internet, and especially blogging, is destroying people's musical creativity.

In related news, next week the Computer Alarmists Research Institute is expected to announce results of their research indicating that blogging is a significant cause of global warming. It seems that all those computers running just for people to type and post their thoughts online generates a significant amount of heat. Go figure!

Blogging - The #1 cause of the world's problems.

update - Did you do a web search on the Computer Alarmists Research Institute? Heh.