Lunch, wireless
October 2nd, 2006 @ 22:05 by NormMonkey
From the inane-ramblings department:
Lunch has become my favourite meal of the day.
I’ve always enjoyed reading and eating at the same time. Ever since I was a kid who got yelled at a lot for reading at the table.
There’s something complementary about the two activities. Maybe eating by itself has nothing to keep my mind busy. Perhaps reading by itself gets monotonous from a physical activity perspective (hold book; wiggle eyes; flip page; repeat). When the two come together it’s like taking a step in the direction of perfection: each fills the other’s void. (now now, this is a PG discussion here, you gutterminded horny imagineer)
Don’t get me wrong, there are eating scenerios that are miles better than eating and reading. Two come immediately to mind: great discussions with friends, such as we have during fondue parties where eating is really a slow and secondary activity playing second fiddle to socializing; and dinner dates where again, eating takes a back seat to having an interesting conversation with my date and getting to know her.
I guess the thing is that these situations are exceptional; it’s not every day we have a fondue party or a dinner date. Most of the time when I’m eating with friends or company it’s less of a social activity and more like something that needs to be finished so that the fun stuff can begin, be it getting to work, sitting around the living room chatting, or breaking out the board games, or what have you.
(hrm, another great eating scenario just came to mind: sitting out on a deck or a patio in excellent evening weather, taking the time to relax and enjoy the experience completely laid-back and un-rushed… mmmmhmmmmm)
And now for something completely different: lunch has become my favourite meal of the day.
Why? I think it’s because of the routine I’ve got going: I open up CBC’s Ottawa, Canada and World news webpages, skim through the headlines for ones I want to read and open them up in new tabs. Reading through the news usually gets me most of the way through lunch. Then I open up all my favourite comics and finish off with dessert (usually a soft drink that came with lunch, but sometimes a yummy Frosty from Wendy’s or an Ice-cap from Timmy’s) while browsing the funnies.
I suppose this is pretty close to what a lot of people do in the morning with breakfast and newspapers. In fact, if I were one of those people who got to work at 09h30 or so I would probably enjoy nothing more than to cook up an egg, some toast with butter, coffee and orange juice and take that outside on the back deck along with the news and comics.
The problem with that plan is that I like to get to work early; my morning routine is: wake up; shower; dress; go to work. No breakfast, since if I can’t enjoy it then I’d much rather wait ’til lunch. Also, winter is cold here in Canuckland. I do not like cold eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
So why isn’t dinner as fun? I suppose it would be if I were going to be reading or watching TV at dinner. I don’t actually have broadcast TV (I collect DVDs instead, don’t get me started TV) and while I love reading it’s usually something I do in bursts. Most of the time, dinner is something to get through before I go off to work on a project or visit friends or what have you.
Hence, lunch. My favourite meal of the day.
And now for something completely different: Wireless!
As I was driving home earlier this month, I came across this funky van. It had that monster antenna on top so I had to take a picture so I’d remember to look it up the next day. Oddly enough, as I was checking out their website at work the next morning one of my cow orkers walks by and says “Hey, is that pointshotwireless.com? I just saw their truck outside!” So I was all like, “No way, check out this picture I took on my way home last night!”
Not Wireless… Wire FREE!
Apparently these guys do wireless on trains and buses and such. It sounds like it’s a Wifi ←→ Internet gateway using both cellular WAN (near cities) and satellite.
(BTW, apologies for the crappy throug-the-windshield photo… I did my best… you shoulda seen it before I futzed with it!)
