We've been seeing this commercial a bunch lately. Just try to watch it without sniggering on the last line of the voice over.
[Update] The linked video is much bettery quality than my original post.
Month: July 2008
Nasty Chinese Restaurant
While driving through Port Angeles on our Olympic loop day-trip, we did a double-take as we passed this restaurant:
The restaurant's name is actually Dynasty Chinese Restaurant. And it's not just this one angle. There were so many signs along this street, that many of views were equally nasty.
We are not the first to notice the unfortunate street signs in front of this restaurant. Robert Lee, hantonmckenzie, Richard Friedman, and Greefus Groink all have similar pictures.
Olympic loop pictures
I just uploaded pics to the gallery from a day-trip drive around the Olympic Peninsula the weekend of July 4th. We drove through Port Angles, then to the Hoh Rain Forest, and down the Pacific coastline. Along the way, the logged clearcuts were full of foxglove in bloom.
C++ joining Java to get closures
Herb Sutter writes on C++ closures, which have been accepted as part of the next C++0x standard. This means C++ is joining Java in supporting closures. My first introduction to closures was Javascript, and I think it will be great for the other mainstream languages to support them. Of course, it will probably be a few years until closures are widely used, as was the case for C++ and Java templates/generics.
If you are interested in more details, be sure to read the comments at the end of Herb's blog post — there's some good examples and discussion.
Killed by his own golf club
Crazy, but true:
In 1994, 16-year-old Jeremy Brenno of Gloversville, New York, was killed when he struck a bench with a golf club, and the shaft broke, bounced back at him, and pierced his heart. Brenno had missed a shot on the sixth hole at the Kingsboro Golf Club and looked to vent his frustration by giving the nearby bench a good whack in retaliation. The fatal club was a No. 3 wood.
Snopes.com specializes in debunking urban legends, so if they say it's true, then it probably is. The article also talks about 3 other known killed-by-own-club fatalities (in 1951, 2005, and 2005), but they are not quite as dramatic as poor Jeremy.