push it baby!

As you may already know, I like hot dogs. Considering that wienerschnitzel is the world's largest hot dog chain, you would think there stuff pretty well kicked. I decided against the dog-named treat



and went for the good old #1, which was two chili dogs, fries and a drink. Considering that it was the #1 and that there did exist a (I think) #3 which only had one chili dog, I figured that the chili dogs would be a) pretty solid, quality-wise and b) pretty solid, filling-wise. Not so much on either count. 7-11 pretty good for me on both counts. And yeah, I know it is old news, but could the actual look at least a little bit like the picture. Again, 7-11 is pretty close.

Finally, what's the best joke you got for their slogan?

did you just take a picture of your food?

Yes. Yes I did. Drew and I ate with our boss today, and though steve is well aware of me wearing orange on payday to stick it to the man, I don't think he is aware of this blog, which led to the title's question.

It was goattee tuesday, but alas, I trade my view from the top for free root beer. Troy actually called me by name today. Wow, I finally made it.

the other other white meat

Went to the noodle company with drew and a former coworker of drew's. I asked if I could feature a picture that included his hand, and there it is. Of course the other hand is drew's, but if you're a regular here, maybe you recognized him.

I spent like six dollars on mac and cheese. Actually, I think it was over six. That would buy a lot of the good kraft kind.

Rajesh got tofu. Might be the first time for me that someone I was with ordered tofu. I guess I get miso soup which has tofu in it, and I might have ordered it on accident once, but rajesh knew what he was doing.

I also went to best buy and bought radiohead's ok computer for a white elephant exchange. Pretty well my favorite album ever. Used to be u2's war, but perhaps I have moved on. Wondering if my $9.99 purchase will be exchanged for the last two pieces of someone's gum or the like. Never really know what you're gonna get there.

. . . moroni speaking

So, I now work for the church and one of the cool parts for me is being able to occasionally hang out at temple square. Last week we had a luncheon there where I played the piano, jon schmidt's arrangement of bring a torch jeanette isabella. Can't say that I had ever heard the piece until a few weeks ago when a neighbor suggested it. Turns out I liked it and I think folks there did as well. For years I was a classical only kind of guy (not sure if there are enough such people anymore for them to qualify for a group), but since then I have discovered the beatles, radiohead, wilco, lots of others and now a touch of jon schmidt. Bring a torch wasn't the toccata from bach's sixth partita or beethoven's op 110, but that might be why folks seemed to like it so much. Undergrad graduation I played liszt's la campanella, grad school graduation I played the toccata from above. Guess which I think people liked better? That's right, jon schmidt.



The luncheon was on the twenty-sixth floor of the church office building. After the luncheon, I wandered out on the balcony and shot the above shot. Pretty cool up there. Looking around salt lake there were several rather distinct views. Like up around (I think) the avenues, it looked like a little village, plenty of apartment buildings for a different look, the whole mountains thing, downtown with it's high-ish rises, and for some reason a big U on the hill.

I also sang in a little double quartet plus one, where I think we had the great pleasure of having our best performance at the performance. How cool is that?

more than almost famous

Well, you pretty well heard it here first, but being as brandon just made the front page of slashdot, he is now famous.

denny's, lenny and carl

Denny's. And you know that that means moons over my hammy. The name doesn't really make much sense to me, except that there is ham involved.

I think I have at least two friends that are famous, or on the verge. The other one is brandon sanderson. He is a hit author, will likely get a movie or two made before too long, and who knows, may get really, really famous very shortly. Me and brandon used to come to this very denny's and talk. Often we would talk about my next great programming project. You may notice that those sites look much the same. Meanwhile brandon is working it. Good job brandon! Those cheese fries and shakes must have pushed you over the edge.

If you're pretty good at java, c++, image processing, or even programming generally, the church is hiring. If you're good at cheese fries and the shakes . . .


Cameron likes the simpsons. Suddenly, when simpsons quotes enter my mind, I can filter them through, and am pretty dang sure cameron will be there with me. Pretty well daily we walk through an episode for drew. Sure drew just loves that! Your fingers are too . . . fat! Cameron knows the lines better than I do.

Sitting by the counter were


first I thought they were for sale, then I realized they were just for use.

when worlds collide

I have been thinking that we could have another blog where each day we have to eat lunch from a coupon. Sometimes ideas are better left as ideas.

It is perhaps unfortunate that you can't short local businesses, because it hit me today that first time coupon book appearers are pretty good candidates to go out of business.

Today, we went to the hot dog king. They say that they have the best hot dogs in the world. Wow, on our own state street. Drew pretty well agreed. I got a chili cheese dog and it was good, but I think that there are several other places in the world with better offerings.

Yes, we ate at 7-11 and the hot dog king within like a week. Cameron even ate at hot dog king.

Sadly, hot dog king was nearly empty when we went. I am betting that there are several lunch hours that no one comes in, and off-lunch hours must be dreadful. I wonder if I could work there from my work during such empty times.

Sometimes when driving around, seeing all the places that are likely destined for a chapter of some sort, I get sad. Eating at such a place isn't much better.

And a cinnamon roll.

smaller continents need not apply

you will guru the day!

I read blogs of a couple famous people, and since they have you know, readers, and those readers send them email, they are able to kind of get their blog posts nearly for free. The readers send emails, and via simple cut and paste, nearly all their daily entry is written for them. With a simple quip here and there, on they go with their famous, undoubtedly happy lives.

In my rather non-famous life, I have no such luxuries. That said, I do have a pretty killer camera phone, and I have a few photos sitting around which have no corresponding blog post, so here we go. Think I will break these photos into different entries.

A week-ish ago drew was meeting a friend down in provo, and cameron and I tagged along. Guru's was the place. I guess it is healthy or something. Drew's friend is a vegetarian, and guru's was pretty much made for him. They did have some pretty good steak and chicken tacos.

For some reason, I had 7-11 napkins in my pocket, and thought they looked cool on the table next to the money. Guru's is one of those "we're not really your waiter, but please tip well" places. Other such places include fudruckers and sonic. Can't really decide which of the two I think is worse. At fudruckers they don't deliver food, and I think they don't even get your water. "Anything I can do for you?" You mean anything tip-worthy!

At sonic they don't really do anything different then say, wendy's and I don't recall ever tipping at wendy's. Whatever happened to wendy's?

My, look at the fancy wall and the many empty chairs. Wonder if those two things go together. We might have been there a little late, but there you go.
And finally, now you need not leave the restaurant, to find a tree to hug!