Today we ate at the Subway in Winnemucca, and tried out their new Hot Buffalo Wings sandwich. I think it's pretty nasty, but Misti likes it. I found some fat-free frozen treats that are just awesome: Dreyer's Whole Fruit Fruit Ice Bars (Strawberry). Mmmmm. We wanted to get an authentic Basque lunch today, but all of the Basque restaurants in Winnemucca stop serving lunch promptly at 1:00 p.m., except for the Martin House, which serves until 2:00 p.m., but as luck would have it I got out of a meeting at 1:40 p.m., and we jumped in the car and went off in search of some grub but by the time we drove around to the other three first before getting to the Martin House, it was 2:08 p.m. (eight minutes after two) and we were out of luck. Thus the nasty Subway.

Brad is migrating all of us "Nuggers" away from the advertising-laden Yahoo Groups to a standalone website: http://www.thenug.net/. At this point, it's still in the construction phase, but feel free to check it out. By the way, "niggard" and "niggardly" are not bad words. The terms date back to the 14th century and 1571, respectfully, and simply mean "a stingy person" and "stingy". "Nigger", on the other hand, simply means "black" (the color) and only dates back to 1700, so it's obvious which ones came first. The good terms came from Middle English with a Scandanavian origin (related to similar Norse and Old English words), while the "N word" came from some of the so-called romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Latin) wherein, to this day, the words for "black" are obviously still in everyday usage: "noir", "negro", "nero", and "niger". Anyone confusing the two should spend 30 seconds in a dictionary before making such a stink about it.

I've been noticing some more problems with DVDs and DVD players recently. Having used 5 or 6 different brands and models of DVD players, I've now gotten a better sense of what's out there, and I'm still not impressed with DVDs as a video solution. Most recently, I've come across four (4) "new" phenomena ('new' meaning that I haven't already spoken about them here previously):

• The "Chinese movie" effect
• The "spontaneously switching aspect ratio" anomaly
• The "flickering white background while 3-D rendering" issue
• Random captions.

To see any of these with your own eyes, give me a call and I'll arrange a quick demonstration.   =)