50 Years on a Boring Saturday Evening

This past Friday, April 15, McDonald's turns 50 years old. I remember when going to the Golden Arches was the epitome of teenage coolness, where pocket money was painstakingly saved to buy a small order of fries. I never learned to like the taste of biscuits, and until today am still a McMuffin person. I still have yet to find someone that does a hashbrown quite the same way. Whether it's a cliche of American consumerism (i.e. mcjob), or the grounds for offbeat lawsuits (the longest libel suit in English court history, the infamous hot coffee case, etc.) it's still hard to imagine that stupid clown with radioactive red curls and yellow dungarees is now 50 years old...

Howard Furness and his brother Kenneth are finally reunited after having lost contact for over 50 years. Generally I'm not one for big family to-dos, but even on my own self-inflicted little island, I still can't imagine being without relative contact for over 50 years. Sniff - makes me want to ring my family.

Here's something to make going back to work on Monday a little easier, all they need now is Corporate Bingo. I plucked this from IZ Reloaded, a pretty cool blog.

I am thick-skinned enough to want to be a better photographer, so I've been browsing the 2nd Annual Smithsonian Photography contest. Some of these were enough to make my heart stop. Such talent. If only my brain could function as a digital camera for what my eyes can see, with every twist of my left ear, my eyes blink and the image is seared forever in my memory. Then again, being thick-skinned...I think I could do better than that picture of Angkor Wat that made it as a finalist in the Travel section. Hmmmm...idea....

And, for the Star Wars fans who hang out with Chocolate fans, check this.

Sigh the weekend is half over.