Archive for March, 2007

San Antonio Ice Cream Joke

Since we were just in San Antonio, Texas as part of our “Travel Adventures”, I thought I would share this classic pun with you.

“A tourist couple decides to eat in a café along the Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio as they finish up a day of people-watching and shopping. They order brisket and potatoes, and enjoy their meal while watching tour boats float by on the water.
When the waiter offers the dessert menu, they politely aquiesce and read through the list of cakes, bisques, and tartes. At the bottom of the menu, however, is the list of pies labeled ‘remember the à la mode’… ”

Ubuntu

One nice thing about having a MacBook Pro, or any Intel-based Mac computer for that matter, is the ability to run multiple operating systems. Using the amazingly wonderful Parallels virtualization software I currently run Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu-flavored Linux (all at the same time).

Last night I loaded the latest Ubuntu release and was up and surfing the web within 10 minutes with the Firefox browser within Ubuntu. Email, image editing with GIMP, you can do it all right there.

Then I came across a hilarious cartoon on xkcd.com, and had to link to it here. Hilarious!