Lots of Monkeys

I miss California sometimes. The weather is nice, the pace of living is a little more laid back, and I’ve got the hometown advantage.

One of the things I miss most is In-n-Out burger.

I have told people about the (not so) secret menu, how you can get a burger a certain way, if you are “in the know.” You can order a Double Double from the menu, but you can also order a burger composed of the number of patties by the number of slices.

Thus, the “four by four” is a burger composed of four beef patties with four cheese slices.

Behold now, the “twenty by twenty.”

Also in that same article is the “seventy five by seventy five.”

(Insert obligatory “do you want fries with that?” comment.)

Anyone with a fireplace willing to try cooking their steak directly on the embers of their fireplace? Regarding the article, I do enjoy how it starts to wax tragic about love during the description of the inaugural meal.

Anyone? I’ll give it a shot. I’ll even buy the steak.

Had a bout with insomnia earlier in the week.

Three o’clock in the morning and I have absolutely no business being on the internet. Not really awake, and not asleep, I’m trolling for memes that I missed. I’m halfway through the Morning Musume clips on google video when my subconscious mind decides that they were only funny the first time. I guess pairing excitable Japanese women with African Rock Monitor lizards / Sadako / Bob Sapp / Tequila is a one trick pony.

On the other hand, it’s not all that likely that tequila was Patron of any sort, so I don’t blame her.

So, did you see that we’ve got a critical amount of space junk we’ll have to deal with at some point? I find this interesting because I recently started watching a television series about this very topic.

Planetes happens to be about “space junkmen,” the people that dispose of the debris in earth’s orbit. I suppose that the future of space travel in real life might follow the story of Planetes.

Orbital debris will be ignored and will build up until a catastrophic incident occurs with loss of human life. Then governments will start regulating corporations that send things into space and pass legislation requiring “debris collection departments.”

I can see it happening.

This interesting bit of news aside, I like Planetes as an interesting character driven dramedy.

I find myself drawn to the forums, even though I hardly play the game. Found this brilliant post about devotion.