The New AT&T

I was a little confused by these new commercials about Cingular and AT&T, so I did a little research, and found this nice explanation.

Nazis in New York

I just found out recently about this: New York Bans Most Trans Fats in Restaurants

(I had to create an account to access this page, but it's the best plain explanation of the ban that I could find. All of the newer articles are reactions to it instead of explanations.)

I realize that trans fat is "bad for you" and all that jazz. I'm not arguing with that. In fact, I think the addition of trans fat to the nutrition labels is a really good thing. I'm all for disclosure. I think that consumers should be told what they're getting then be allowed to make their own decisions. I know, it's a weird concept.

Kelly gave me the book Animal Farm for Christmas. Here's a quick quote:

He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Yeah, good point. We'd better ban those things lest anyone make their own decisions.

On a good note, most of the commentaries I've seen, like this one from the Washington Post, acknowledge how ridiculous this law is. At least there's educated people in the media (even if not among politicians and voters.)

New England

I've never been to the east coast before, so Kelly used to try and describe it to me so I'd know what it was like where she grew up. She'd tell me about all of the trees and the weird winding roads and everything, and I really had a hard time imagining a place where the houses were just built with woods surrounding them and no fences, so you could run through the forest in your backyard.

Well, now I'm here in Connecticut visiting her, so I see how everything is like she described. However, it didn't seem as strange as I'd thought just by the description. In fact, I recognized the place as we drove in to Danbury that first night: New England is where all of the horror movies take place.

That was a comforting realization as I was about to meet my girlfriend's family for the first time.

Trump

Is Donald Trump famous for anything? Isn't it just for being rich? Well we went to the Trump Tower in New York yesterday, and that place is a dump. I expected more out of a guy whose whole thing is being rich. Shouldn't the place be posh or something? Both the elevator and the escalator in the place were broken, and the little dining room we ate in was about as fancy as a Flying J. And all of the brass doesn't make it look expensive---no more than a mall food court, anyway.

C For Cookie