Month: October 2003

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Breakfast was the last slice of Gretchen’s apple pie (yum!).



<ins datetime="2003-10-14T15:11:00-05:00">Lunch was a granola bar once again. I took a three mile walk over lunch, returning at the seal on College Avenue.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-15T06:53:00-05:00">Dinner was left over bean soup, a slice of whole wheat bread, and some left-over bumble berry cobbler (no beer).</ins>
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Breakfast was scrambled eggs, two sausages, and half a slice of raisin toast.

<ins datetime="2003-10-13T19:02:00-05:00">Lunch was a granola bar. I managed to get in a short walk over to Shields Building (maybe 1&frac12; miles). Dinner was ham and bean soup and a slice of apple pie (no beer).</ins>
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Some Like It Hot

The <a href="http://milwaukee.tmstv.com/aboutus.html" title="Tribune Media Services TV Publishing Division">Tribune Media Services</a> <a href="http://www.channelguidemag.com/index.html" title="The Publications of Tribune Media Services - Channel Guide Magazine - Cable Connection Magazine">Channel Guide Magazine</a> has <a href="http://www.channelguidemag.com/brown/" title="Alton Brown">an interesting interview</a> with <a href="http://www.altonbrown.com/" title="Alton Brown.com">Alton Brown</a>. He talks about his background and how he got where he is. He seems like an interesting person and not at all like I expected.



I always refer to Alton as &ldquo;Science Boy,&rdquo; so I was a little surprised by this exchange:

Have you ever heard of Bill Nye the Science Guy?

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs. Because if I saw him, I would probably start working to avoid it. Whatever naturally is analog between me and Bill Nye the Science Guy, I would probably start trying to weed out. I avoid him like the plague. Enough people say, “Hey! You’re like Bill Nye meets Julia Child meets Monty Python!” and I can appreciate the analogy, but I don’t get it, because I have never laid eyes on the guy. (Lundquist)

A little later he expanded on that point:

Are you by nature a really smart guy?

Dumb as a log. Seriously. I’m not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept — to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. (Ibid.)

He also has interesting views on society:

Do you watch much television?

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth — I just hate what is being done with it. The fact that we have now made up for our utter lack of imagination by pummeling everyone with these reality shows, I find to be the most sickening turn in American culture, and quite possibly a strong sign that American culture is in rapid and irretrievable decline.

It doesn’t necessarily show the better part of human nature, does it?

We are now being encouraged to be as mean as we can be. And I don’t just mean “mean” as in nasty, I mean “mean” as in small.

When I say it makes me physically ill — I mean it makes me physically ill. I am revolted by it. I would no more watch a public execution. Which is kind of what it is like. We’re going back to Rome. It’s the gladiators all over again… except with better sponsorship. (Ibid.)

Amen to that, brother.

Lundquist, Lori. &ldquo;Alton Brown.&rdquo; <em>Channel Guide Magazine</em>. 2003. <!-- Document date or date of last revision [if different from access date] --> <a href="http://www.channelguidemag.com/brown/" title="Alton Brown">&lt;http:// www.channelguidemag.com/ brown/&gt;</a> (12 October 2003).
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We have guests this weekend so our normal diet has changed a bit. Yesterday we had a fritata, corned beef hash, and orange juice for breakfast. I had a couple of beers during the day. Dinner was marinated strip steaks, au gratin potatoes, and baked beans &mdash; and a couple more beers. This morning, I had the remainder of the fritata and corned beef hash and some sausages.



<ins datetime="2003-10-13T08:22:00-05:00">We had dinner at Freya&rsquo;s house. It was pork tenderloin, potato salad, coleslaw, bumble berry cobbler, and a couple beers.</ins>
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Once again, breakfast was a bowl of cereal with a sliced banana.



<ins datetime="2003-10-10T12:58:00-05:00">I went for a walk over to the Hub for lunch with the gang from the office today. I had a bowl of orange chicken on chow mien and a bowl of hot and sour soup. In a minute, I am going to walk over to the computer building for a meeting.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-10T20:45:00-05:00">Dinner was a salad and two beers.</ins>
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Playing with CGI

Apparently <a href="http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/" title="Lincoln Stein's Home Page">Lincoln Stein&rsquo;s</a> excellent <a href="http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/" title="CGI.pm - a Perl5 CGI Library">CGI Perl Module</a> is installed on our script testing machine. Here is <a href="http://scripts.cac.psu.edu/users/m/h/mhl100/scripts/favorite.pl" title="Hello Ice Cream">an example</a> Perl script that uses CGI.pm.
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I had an omlette with sauteed peppers and onions &mdash; and I think a glass of juice &mdash; this morning. I went for a four mile walk over lunch, and ate a granola bar. Gretchen has promised salad for dinner, which I will probably accompany with a couple of beers.