My Geek Notes

We had dinner tonight at Ruby Tuesday, which was my first time there. Really good food, but unfortunately our server did a very poor job. My wife ordered a fancy lemonade of some sort and never got it and if that wasn’t bad enough, it was on the bill at the end. Of course we had it removed, but needless to say I didn’t tip very well. If I didn’t tip at all she may have thought I’d forgotten. That’s why it’s always wise to tip something even if it’s just a quarter saying, “hey, you did a really, really bad job”. (I tipped 11% or so … not too harsh.) The movie we saw afterward was Meet the Robinsons, which I rather enjoyed. At least the parts I saw I liked; the youngest wasn’t too keen on the idea of watching the movie.

I need to keep track of the apps that I talk about here in my second paragraph so I don’t end up repeating myself and so I can make sure to get some of my notes in the Notes section of the site. Tonight I’ll give a quick plug on the software that is running this site, WordPress. For the last couple of nights I’ve been working on the look and feel of the site making mostly CSS changes, but also familiarizing myself with the functions it allows me to use. To date I’ve been very, very impressed with how it works and when I installed it, it was the fastest server software install I’ve ever done.

The featured article yesterday on Wikipedia was about the New Carissa, “a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States during a storm in February 1999, and subsequently broke apart.” I was going to talk about it yesterday but ended up talking about Star Wars and space stuff. The ocean and ships have always fascinated me although I do have a horrible dread of swimming in water where I can’t see the bottom. Even swimming in a freshwater lake creeps me out. That being said, when I’m on a boat, canoe, or raft I have no concerns at all … well, except on a raft in the ocean then the whole shark fear kicks in. Either way, I don’t recall hearing news in 1999 when the New Carissa ran ashore, but it was a really interesting read on what happened and the failed attempt to pull it back into the ocean.