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Monday, May 24, 2004 |
Two Burgers and a Side of Heart Disease Please
Lunch is a sordid affair at work. Sordid in the sense that I used to spend $1.50 on breakfast and lunch combined, and now I'm blowing through $6 a day if I'm lucky. At the current rate I'll spend about $2,000 a year on lunch, and for all that money I don't think I've really truely eaten all that well. Sordid in the sense that I've gained so much weight from all that fatty food, and I exercise so much less then I used to. Of course, with all the stress I crave the soothing fat and oil, which of course gets me more distressed about my weight, and the cycle continues. Sordid in that I usually go out with a few coworkers, and by the time I get something to eat and have a nice chat, lunch hour has come and gone, and all the productive things I wanted to get done just didn't. So it was with great regret that I settled on food cart guy, and his cheeseburger special of two burgers plus a soda for $5. Which wasn't too bad up until the moment he laid both my beef patties in what I call the Pool Of Grease. You see, the cart has one of those flat stainless steel frying surfaces, with the grease trap at the front, and the backsplash flush with the frying surface. Since the cart is parked on a slight incline, and not a very level surface to begin with, the frying plate is tilted slightly to the left and back. So all the grease from all the fatty food slides back and forms a giant pool of oil. Heart Attack Lake is what others call it. When giving a pita bread a slight dip in the lake, and then frying that bad boy, it makes the gyro taste fantastic. When giving the hamburger buns a slight dip in the lake and frying them, it makes the burger taste devine. When placing both my hamburger patties to soak in the Lake, that, however, it slightly worrisome. :: So I've gone ahead and ordered pics from Ofoto, Yahoo Pictures (Which is just a storefront. The real fulfillment vendor is Ezprints.com), and Winkflash. As soon as the pics come in, I'll begin the formal review. I'll have access to a color scanner (when it decides to work ... stupid HP software), so as soon as I come up with a good calibration sample, things should be quite comprehensive. I've setaside the pics for the other services, so all will be in soon enough. What I can say, however is that both the website and the upload tool for Photoworks.com sucks. The upload tool does not post to the online albumns. And the controls are far from being anything close to intuitive. The website navigation is difficult to understand. And most damning of all, they say they offer 15 free pics, but have no other documentation explaining how you get those 15 free pics. It really feels like a Bait and Switch. I haven't even seen the photos from them, but already I would recommend against ever using them (and this doesn't include the bad experience with 35mm film I had with them when they were still SeattleFilmworks.com).
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