I’m going to either be refreshing/relaunching this site in the near future or changing over to an entirely new blog. I’ll keep u posted…all 1s of pple who read this.
I’m going to either be refreshing/relaunching this site in the near future or changing over to an entirely new blog. I’ll keep u posted…all 1s of pple who read this.
It has been projected that former Gov. Mark Warner wins the Senate seat in VA, adding to the Democratic majority in the Senate. He beat out former Gov. Gilmore.
Apple’s cheapest Macbook ever, the new Macbook includes a thinner all metal enclosure (made using the unibody manufacturing method that Apple has announced), an LED backlit display, 5x the graphics performance, a glass multi-touch trackpad, 5 hours of battery life.
Ships today, in stores tomorrow.
This was typed up as the event is going on, if redactions are required I will make those obvious.
Stay tuned later for Apple news and thoughtz.
Advance Auto Parts, the national automotive retailer, is moving more of its corporate assemblage out of Roanoke. A call center which routes all of the corporate phone calls will be outsourced to an IBM call center…in India. A well placed source had confirmed this and it kinda seems to fly in the face of everything the new CEO of Advance has told to the Roanoke community. He has claimed he is not dismantling the Roanoke based company, no no I mean moving its big call center to India and moving most of it’s executives to Minnesota is just a minor shuffling; nothing but field offices, according to Advance’s upper management.
Come on. Is Roanoke stupid? I mean yeah I don’t really care if Advance Auto Parts leaves Roanoke, according to several people whom I know work there hate it. The company is run with an uneven hand; one minute they (the executives) are trying to be folksy and give people hot dogs, the next minute they coldly cut 90 jobs without so much fanfare. The corporate entity that is Advance Auto Parts is a two-faced monster, as evinced by it’s CEO Darren Jackson telling News 7 “What I hope to do is take the Advantages of Roanoke, which there are many, and take the advantages of Minneapolis and its deep pool of retail talent in order to marry the Two…”
That’s a nice kiss-off to Roanoke.
Well until BreakSk8 got kicked off, after that the show kinda went downhill for me. Why did I enjoy team BreakSk8 so much? They dance….on skates…..who does that? BreakSk8 that’s who. That’s some crazy shiznit.
YAY! Another week another music video. This one is from one of my favorite groups, Panic! At the Disco. It’s their most recent single. I enjoy it and kinda hope you will too. Leave a comment if ya like.
I like food, some might even call me a foodie. Recently I have by virtue of my job and friends who don’t cook begun to eat out more and more, before this I cooked most everything I ate. So I’ve gotten to eat at a lot of various places I would never otherwise come by.
Today my friends I ate at the Olive Garden restaurant.For those no in the know the Olive Garden is an Italian themed chain restaurant owned by the powerhouse of casual dining, Darden Restaurants. If you’ve never heard the name Darden Restaurants then you just haven’t looked hard enough because chances are you’ve eaten at one of them. They own Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, and the Capital Grille. They make a lot of money.Back to the Olive Garden, upon first entry into the restaurant you are greeted by a bizarrely open foray with an annoying pretentious (this is a chain restaurant) super-waitress who takes your seating order then in a strange waste of time walks over to an awaiting underling who prepares your table.
Throughout the restaurant you see the ideals of forced culture: the plates on the wall that if you look close enough are the same five plates on each wall, just in a different arrangement, the fake stucco walls, the hard painted chairs, the windows in the dividers in the restaurant that aren’t glass but plastic.Then there is the menu where each sub-menu has it’s Italian and English language counterpart, the most pretentious of which is the “Pizze (Pizza)” distinction. Pick a language, people aren’t drooling fools. The menu items themselves sound promising on paper, classic sauce and pasta combos, no real surprising or unique flavor combinations. Ho-hum.Well, one would reason, with a menu so sparse then the chefs must be well versed in their preparation and thus ensure a singularly satisfactory dining experience. Umm no. The food is bland as hell, the sauces are thin and uninspired, the pasta is obviously mass produced cheap crap, the salad is soggy, and everything about this food…is mediocre at best. If I had made any of these dishes I had sampled at home, I would throw them out and consider it a failure.
Food quality was just poor across the board, from the dry Chicken Marsala to the deflated plate of Seafood Alfredo. As if the chefs and servers know the subpar state of their food, the presentation of this food is dour and just plain sad. The food is arranged on the plate as though in the back room there is a slightly retarded monkey doing the plating.
This leads me to wonder why so many people enjoy this Olive Garden. Are they simply puppets of inviting, family centric commericals? Pawns of the marketing gods of Darden Restaurants? Or is the American public at large lacking in taste.I think it’s a little bit of both.
I listen to a lot of music, so I was thinking why not put up videos of music I enjoy. So here’s the first of the vids I’ll be putting up, hopefully regularly. It’s a cool little vid from a Swedish band called The Sounds, which are kinda a pop-punk-new wavey kinda band. Weird, not usually my style, but damn catchy. So without further delay, here is The Sounds with their song “Tony The Beat”. Oh yeah and kids, remember, file sharing is bad. Embedding however, is encouraged.
