Planes, Hunger Pains, and Automobiles

 

My wife and I just took a great trip that involved flying and driving. Here are some observations from the trip:

• I saw the Red River and it is actually red. I don’t think it’s a plague or anything. But yeah, it made me thirsty for Barq's Red Cream Soda...
  
• When my luggage is being scanned at the airport, and I’m waiting for it to come out of the tunnel thing, I always get hungry for Quiznos. Thank goodness the conveyor belt at the airport is faster than the one at Quiznos. (I always felt more secure at Quiznos, knowing my sandwich had been scanned)…
• When I see the St. Louis Arch I still get hungry for McDonald’s. I don’t have time to look this up but I bet McDonald’s has a good share of the St. Louis fast food market…
• There’s no Carl’s Jr at Carlsbad Caverns. I didn’t go there but somebody told me that. Carl’s Jr should set up a theme park thing: Carl’s Jr Bad Caverns. I’d go to that…

Google Gurgle

 

I was dictating into my phone today. It was late morning. I had paused my dictation and was pondering my next words when my stomach gurgled. Yes, I was hungry. Amazingly, the phone heard the gurgle and typed a word. That word was “No”. No exclamation mark, no other words, just “No”.  Unlike “ET phone home” the message was not clear. Regardless, I am amazed that my phone could translate the sound. I have a friend who used to work at Radio shack and I’m gonna ask him about it. 

I don’t think anyone (even the Radio Shack guy) understands what these smart phones are capable of. We’re probably just scratching the surface. Like, has anyone ever had their dog bark into their smart phone?

Tomorrow I’m gonna run around in the back yard and get the neighbor’s dog to bark. I can’t wait to see what he has to say.

Taking Sides

I had lunch with a friend the other day at an old favorite restaurant. The menu had been updated – the prices had been “updated” of course.  It was a nice, well laid out front and back menu. Each page had three columns. And it was laminated. We each ordered a burger. With the burger you get one side. Do you think either of us could find the sides on the menu? The waitress had to show us where the sides were – they were in the middle column on the back of the menu. I got the coleslaw; he got the fries.

But really. Who looks in the middle column of a menu for sides? Is it asking too much that the sides be on one of the (left or right) sides? I don’t care which. She said she’d bring it up to management…