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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.

Google Search: florida handcuffed

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.

Netflix: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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:

User:Cfpresley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wrote a new article on Wikipedia.
User:Cfpresley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amazon.com: Music: Kasabian

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

PSP Web Portal

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.

Schiavo parents to sell donor data to direct-marketing firm

The Schindler's (in)famous for not accepting reality and using tears to twist and corrupt the checks and balances of this democracy are now selling all information from (in the words of my friend Gabe, a neo-con himself) the bed-wetting bleeding heart Neo-Cons who helped contribute to thier shenanigans. I heard many allegations by the talking head and so-called compassionate people slanderous or otherwise, the Mike Schiavo was only doing this for financial gain. The real swindlers here are the Schindlers, and the politicians like DeLay for exploiting this situation for gain.

from: Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

Be careful jumping to 64 Bit

Be careful jumping to 64 Bit
I've just upgraded my boxen to a AMD64 3200+ with 2GB of ram. I downloaded WindowsXP 64 bit eval from microsoft (free, not pirated), and thought the same thing as the guy in the post. I am finding that most drivers and software written for x386 procs do not work, even though MS claims that it will, unless it contains legacy 16-bit code.
I guess I'll just roll back to 32bit XP, until MS releases the XP64, and all my drivers support it. This reminds me of back in the day when windows 2000 came out, or when Windows 9x came out. It took a good year after release before new software started to run natively in 9x, and about that same time for drivers for existing hw to support NT5. I hope it doesn't take that long, it seems like 64 bit procs have already been out a year.

Knitting

I ran across this post on a new blog I currently use to help waste time at work. I have no intrest in knitting, but I have a cousin who does.

elective Amputation fetish

An interesting article is posted on BoingBoing about nuts that want to have specific body parts amputated. Perhaps they should join the Army or Marines, where is seems to be a frequent occurance right now.

More Right to Die rantings

I heard on the radio today that there was a memo circulated around congress to the republicans extoling the political benefits of passing a law just to save Mrs. Schiavo. Among the benefits was that it will make Democrats look bad, and there is a Florida Democrat up for reelection soon. This is all part of the same faux sentimentality that will let a Texas Governor and now PUSA condone the death penalty, and deny clemency out of one corner of his mouth, but in rushing back in an 11th bid to contradict the Judicial branch, gush about how laws should favor life, out of the other.

This is quite ironic that the neo-cons don't see the disconnect between their pro-life agenda, and their pro-death death penalty beliefs. How can executing retards, underage offenders or anyone for that matter be a law that favors life?

I'm glad that the Catholics are taking this opportunity to try and fight the Death Penalty again. It only serves to point out the hypocrasy of the "compassionate" conservatives.

It is better [that] 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." Benjamin Franklin

Republicans as aimless hippies.

Congress wastes time

The recent attempts by congress to save the life of a human vegatable by manipulating the law to keep her alive is an attack at the very checks and balances that help ensure democracy. By congress trying to call Terry Schiavo as a witness to ensure her safety is a prime example of one branch of the government over stepping their bounds. If she is a brain dead vegtable, then what good would she do as a witness? This hipocritical compassion for the hopeless is no different than PETA's compassion for only cute animals. The president is rushing back from the WhiteRanch so that he can sign a bill that will completely ignore the Florida Supreme Courts ruling, completely overturning the checks and balances afforded to the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government. He puts no value on the human lives that were taken due to overzealous torture directives by the now NSA Morales, but goes back to work early so that he can prevent the wasting of an empty shell. If they had any compassion, they would euthanize her. An overdose of morphine would put her body into an endless sleep, and finally give Terry the dignity of a burial.

Grrrr

The douche that shipped me a broken radio from ebay has now stepped away from mediation, and is now threating me with legal action because I gave him a negative rating. The mediation was the only way of me redacting the rating, and I paid an extra $20 just to try to work it out with him. Why I am suddenly an asshole magnet?
[Legal disclaimer: douche and asshole are totally deserved terms that have only been assigned after the displeasure of dealing with this douche]
I swear I'm racking up a huge karma credit; I need to start buying lottery tickets.

I went to the doctor today, and was prescribed some Antibiotics for whatever infection I have. I has already kind of made me feel better. Just in time for Friday.

nyquil high

I am just starting to feel the effects of 30mL of CVS brand Nyquil. Why am I taking nyquil you ask? Because I am sick. My neck is sore, my throat hurts, and I'm getting hot and cold flashes like a 50 year old woman. I felt even less like running today than I normally do. I've also had my birthday forgotten by Mama-C and even worse, my own brother. I don't know if its the forgetfullness, or the fact that I am now just 3 years away from 30, or 1 year closer to death. Speaking of which, I followed a link from boinbboing to Make magazine's blog http://make.oreilly.com/blog, and found a site called deathclock.com or something. It says I'm going to die in October, 2051. Thats pretty depressing. I've also sold out a little by adding googles ads to the right of my page. it was empty space anyway. So be nice and click on a link, I might just get a couple of cents out of it. I think I'm going to pass out now, I'll post more later

No Slapped head, bad controller.

i took the bad HDD out of my comp, Of all the drives in the array, the newest one is what failed. I would have figured my IBM DeathStar 75gxps would have failed already, since I've had them for almost 5 years. Instead, a 1 year old Maxtor Diamond Max 40GB weent out. The bios doesn't even recognize it, so I suspect the controller board. I took it apart and noticed several dark brown spots on the foam that insulates the controller board from the hard drive casing. This may be normal, but I suspect that several resistors overheated on nthe board, causing or resulting from the damage. Now, my only hope to recover the 120GB RAID 0 array is with the extra 40gb drive that I ordered. If it is the controller board, then a direct swap of the boards should work, if not, then I'm really screwed. If weren't for my work laptop, I wouldn't know what to do. I have a paper due on Monday, and thankfully I found a draft of it in my GMAIL account.

I also had a guy come by and pick up a fender and hood from my wrecked 240.
I think I will go running in the park before sunset, the winds look really good for flying a kite.