April 13 - Five Guys Burgers and Fries

• George talked about The Chive.  He finds many random and funny posts there.
• George mentioned the fruit stand founded in 1959 by six-year-old Robert: Robert is Here.

I brought nothing to the event that I can remember.

Lunch at Five Guys -- April 6, 2011

The Jott service is shutting down May 3.  they were bought by Nuance, the makers of Dragon Dictation software, who does not seem to be replacing it with anything equivalent.  I found a possible replacement: Dial2Do.

George checked and found that coal burger is now open, and they've removed the phony testimonials from their home page.  "I'm happy to see they use grass fed beef, and pictures of the burgers and shakes sure look good:"

• http://coalburger.com/

George also remembered that he ran across The Queen's Gambit after reading a really good review by Jesse Kornbluth of The Art of Racing in the Rain.  "I was looking at some of his other reviews and after reading his review of The Queen's Gambit ("Rocky for smart people") decided I had to give it a try:"

• http://www.amazon.com/review/RRNTEWEVAAVV1/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RRNTEWEVAAVV1

Here's the rock climbing deal George mentioned:

• http://www.kgbdeals.com/phoenix/deals/16545/69-off-climbing-trip--gear-and-guide-from-front-range-climbing-co

And here's the juggling quadrocopter video:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y

Here's the link again for the Kenji hamburger video, and the link for his french fry article (probably too long to read, but definitely worth a scan through the photos):

• http://www.americastestkitchen.com/video/index.php?docid=25369&Extcode=L1CN1AB00

• http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfect-mcdonalds-style-french-fries.html

George's sister sent the following photo showing the line outside The Shake Shack:

Lunch at El Pollo Loco - March 31, 2011

Hi Paul -

Here's the Dilbert strip we talked about: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-01-25/

And here's another one I found that I call Life at Amex (top line anyway): http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-11/

Here's an article on the artificial cloud (with animated video) (I want a personal-size version of this, to follow me around in the summertime): http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9435268.stm

And how much energy *does* it take to fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt?: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=538411

Remember, today is April Fools day.  Keep your guard up!

Lunch at Paradise Bakery - March 23, 2011

The Art of Racing in the Rain (check out the top review on the page, by Jesse Kornbluth): http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Novel/dp/0061537969/ref=sr_1_1

Faster than the wind article (still have yet to read): http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_fasterthanwind/

Laser cat bowling (18 seconds): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFztjgfDWDA

Lunch at Five Guys - March 16, 2011

Links from today's episode:

• John Scalzi's thread on best Sci Fi novel of the decade:

• The instapaper site says he won't be doing an android app:

At the moment, there are no plans for native apps on other mobile platforms. I simply don’t have enough time to develop and maintain more native clients, especially for devices that I don’t own.

          But it turns out other people have developed them, and according to this guy the EverPaper app works great.

• Dan Benjamin's awesome online network of talk shows.    Dan's weekly show with Marco Arment (Instapaper dude!): http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/16

• Paul got an S107 Helicopter!

• Roger Ebert's Review of the film Monsters.

• The novel Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

Lunch at Five Guys - February 24, 2011

Links from today's episode:

• Global Buckets: http://www.globalbuckets.org/
  
  
• The Confidence Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmXHFS28pM 

• Sociopaths, Clueless, and Losers: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
  
• Kanye and Taylor Swift:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8gCZ7zpsQ 

• Kanye Meme Extreme: http://imaletyoufinish.com/ 

• Christian Bale weighs in on Kanye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8xTkbKtEs

Lunch at Pork on a Fork - February 9, 2011

Links from George:

• superheated water: http://www.bookofjoe.com/2011/01/helpful-hints-from-joeeze-water-can-explode-in-your-microwave.html

• mafomufu: https://news.fidelity.com/news/news.jhtml?cat=Opinion&articleid=201101200900KIPLNGERFINANCE__20110119100245&IMG=N

• I remembered another "didn't make much difference" experience -- the Shangri La diet, where you're supposed to get an appetite suppressant effect from consuming flavorless cooking oil.  And I remembered one thing that did, finally, seem to have a positive effect -- the Pain Free exercises.  Thank heavens.

Links from Paul:

• Possible privatization of Shuttle Fleet? http://dvice.com/archives/2011/02/space-shuttles.php  George's response: Here's the link to the photos of the Russian space shuttle today (link to it said "for fans of industrial decay"): http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3259344.html

• Humans better runners, Neandertals better walkers:http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-early-humans-won-neandertals.html

Bigelow Aerospace - Private Space Exploration

Cool photos of Bigelow's plans for a private LEO space station.  Also checkout Bigelow's homepage.

Grains Were Significant Part of Human Diet 30,000 Years Ago

George and I have both dabbled in the "Paleo" diet, so it is interesting to me that I ran across this article through my Anthropology sources:

Grinding Flour in the Upper Paleolithic

Multiple academic papers are cited, and the predominant grain seems to be cattails.

Million Dollar Baby

A favorite scene from a favorite movie: