Saturday, April 30, 2005

Ate at a new restaurant

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Menu
We finally got around to eating at the pub. We never went to it's Montgomery mall location, mainly because the Montgomery Mall location was in the 'hood, and we didn't want our car broken into, or deal with the roving gangs of hoodlums that loitered there. I swear, so called "urban" fashion these days makes grown men look like little boys wearing their daddies clothes.

Anyhow, back on topic, The Pub has a great new location on the fringes of the boonies of Montgomery. We were sat in the bar area, which was cramped, loaded with red-necks in shorts and t-shirts, and detracted from the english pub setting. Perhaps I just think of O'Doherty's Irish Pub in downtown Spokane when I think of pub. We had a round of cocktails to start off. I had a Crown and Coke, and Brandi had a fairly mediocre $7 apple martini. If you are going to charge 7 bucks for a martini, you should use something better than Absolute! Bonefish uses Van Gogh in their $7 Sour Appel Martini. Anyhow, it was just absolut, apple pucker and S&S. I make a much better Apple martini with even cheaper vodka. Our house salads came without croutons, not a big deal. I chose the house dressing, which allegedly was a balsamic vineagrette. I say allegedly because, although it shared the characteristically brown color, it tasted more like steak sauce watered down with malt vineagar. It was not sweet at all, like one would expect. Oh, and save your fork. Even though all entree's are served with salads, you silverware is not served with a salad fork. Brandi ordered the Filet and Crap Cake, and I ordered the Split Beef Tenderloin. Our steaks were both well cooked to order, and even though they were only USDA Choice cuts, they were very tender and flavorful. I chose green beans for a side, and they were quite good. Brandi had a "loaded" baked potato, which arrived late by the way. On thing that I can't stand is when a baked potato is served with less than what god intended it to have, Bacon, Cheese, Sour Cream and Chives. Brandi's only came with butter and sour cream. I went out on a limb and ordered the desert. I tried the bread pudding, which was not bad. It was certainly better than Ryan's left-over yeast roll pudding, but it was very dense, and lacked any visual appeal, since its only garnish was a poof of Whipped cream and Maraschino Cherry.

My final verdict: Not worth waiting more than fifteen minutes for a seat. The price level on most of their better entree's are disparate to the level and quality of service. If you want country service, go to a meal and three, if you want good service to go with your good food, go to Bonefish.

Since Bonefish Grill is my Benchmark for grading restaurants in montgomery, I would have to give The Pub a three quarters Bonefish rating.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Google Search: florida handcuffed

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Google Search: florida handcuffed

What the hell is wrong with this country. I'm not talking about handcuffing a out of control 5 year old. I'm talking about how some people are outraged over this. The child was irrational, and would not settle down until the police came. The lawyer for the case talked about how the child was traumatized. PULEEZ!! The only trauma that has occurred is that the child seems to have been raised in a household that does not value discipline. It is a shame that the lesson that this child learned early enough so that it won't show up on any record will be wasted by the parents "you did nothing wrong darlin, we'll just sue them and cash in" attitude. It looks like the school and the assistant principal went to extraordinary lengths to calm down the brat. I would have beaten the shit out of the punk or locked her in a closet long before they had to call the cops.

Monday, April 25, 2005

Netflix: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Netflix: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
I thought this would be appropriate in light of the ongoing debate in the senate. I also like this article from the Oregonian:

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Amazon.com: Music: Kasabian

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I was in wally world tonight browsing throught the Electronics system when I wanted to check out the Kasabian cd, based on how much I liked the Club Foot single that was on my PSP Sampler Proprietary Media Disc. I was all set to buy it, it was <$10, but then rrrrrrt, right on the front, it mentions that it is crippled to prevent you from copying it, and that you have to take extraordinary measures to get iit to play on your system. 2 words, FUCK THAT! I'm now going to download an album that I was actually willing to buy. I gotta tell ya, its not very often that I want to buy CD's, since I usually download them. Its unfortunate that the greedy record label did such an effective job of spurning more than just my attempt to purchase.
Amazon.com: Music: Kasabian

Saturday, April 09, 2005

PSP Web Portal

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Bought a PSP, mainly because I was looking for a media player. I'm really impressed with it. It has no bad pixels, and because of the referenced url, I can now surf the intarweb with the game Wipeout PURE. Pretty tight.

Now, if someone can just figure out a way to add a hard drive to it.