Fat Cats and Apples

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The weather was very nice over the weekend, for the first time in a while. Bryan and Lyn were in town so the last few days have been packed with fun, just like a Fat Cat from the grease trucks is packed with food. Twelve hours after eating the “sandwich,” I am still in the penultimate stage of Fat Cat appreciation: Regret. In case you’re unfamiliar with the stages through which you progress before, during and after eating a Fat Cat, they are as follows: Disgust (How will I be able to eat such a thing?), Acceptance (I can eat it…), Enjoyment (… and it’s not too bad), Denial (I can’t believe I actually like it), Fear (I’m going to regret this later), Sickness (self-explanatory), Regret (I can’t believe I actually ate it), and Anticipation (When can we go again?).

Also enjoyable weekend snippets: Brats (the german sausage) with the Busches, Apples to Apples, M-D‘s birthday dinner at KC Prime (great restaurant) and lunch at Carlucci’s Grill (another great restaurant).

And I’m spent.

And by that I mean all of my money is spent. Between all the birthdays and all of the restaurants in the last month, it’s a good thing I have a bonus coming.

This Doesn’t Seem Right

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I took the SelectSmart Quiz which asks you for your political opinions and tells you which Presidential candidate matches your views. The program told me that I should vote for Al Sharpton. What are your results? Leave a comment.

Speaking of comments, I updated the look of the comment viewer window and changed the code around so it won’t be quite as slow.

Getting It

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Finally, one record company is getting it. Universal is lowering its suggested retail price for CDs to $12.98. The change is said to be in order to better compete with online downloads. They’re going to have to do better than $12.98. When CDs first came out and became mainstream, that’s basically what the retail price was.

With all the technological advancements and the proliferation of compact discs, the retail price should be $7.50 to $8.00 in my opinion. Maybe at that price, people will start buying them again.

Feeling Like Dixie Chicks

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Johnny Depp made some critical remarks about the United States in a German magazine called Stern. Stern is apparently a weekly news and current affairs magazine, kind of like Entertainment Weekly with nudity. Unfortunately, I can’t actually check out the magazine from work, so I’ll have to find the article later and post a translation.

I expect there to be some mild backlash in the media, people calling to boycott his movies, etc. For my own part, I’d probably be happier staying in the south of France, too.