Google Chrome and broccoli
A million people across the world are probably writing about Google Chrome right now, so I decided not to.
While out for a walk tonight I resolved to write about the first thing which came into my head, and quite randomly that happened to be broccoli.
This reminded me of a Year 11 Biblical Studies class at Lourdes College in 1983 when the teacher called us individually into a room and asked us to say the first word which came into our head when he said “Jesus”.
Most of us automatically said “God”. A troubled child might have said “Judas” or “crucifixion”.
There was one nervous boy left to enter the booth and he asked us anxiously what was going on.
The teacher had said not to tell anyone the question, but he hadn’t said we couldn’t give the answer, so I told the boy to say “fish”, thinking that was about the most stupid thing he could utter. Read more
Think twice about complaining
I’ll think twice before I ever complain about slow service in a restaurant after reading this report in The Age:
“A restaurateur has been jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of a patron who complained about slow service. After a fight broke out at the Bon Mua restaurant and karaoke bar, co-owner and chef Khanh Vo went to the kitchen and grabbed a small-bladed paring knife, normally used to cut fruit.
“He then returned to the scene of the conflict and stabbed 56-year-old Anh Dung Nguyen three times to the left side of his body.
“Mr Nguyen was helped outside, but died the next day in hospital despite emergency surgery.”
I’m generally not one to complain. I once sent a steak back to the kitchen because it was rare and I had asked for medium; the chef didn’t come chasing me though.
Melbourne
I managed to spend some time in Melbourne during my flying visit to Victoria. Melbourne is a great city and its public areas have improved immensely since I was a child 30 years ago.
Docklands is now an attractive cosmopolitan residential and dining precinct where there was once shipping.
I walked from my hotel in Collins Street to Docklands for dinner at a Cambodian restaurant (my first taste of that cuisine) and took this photo with my mobile phone looking towards Telstra Dome and the city.
For the record, Cambodian food was a cross between Thai and Chinese; very tasty.
Lunch at Mandurah
The first day of our Mandurah holiday was all we expected: balmy weather, great beaches and lots of fun.
Juliet and I plan to dine out plenty of times, and generally for lunch, so we don’t leave the kids alone at night. Today was a family outing though.
The Sunday traffic was crazy and it took nearly 40 minutes to drive about 10km from Falcon to Dolphin Quay. We went to Nino’s seafood restaurant, which was crowded. It was a good atmosphere though, and a nice meal.
Juliet forgot to pack my camera, so I experimented with my JasJam phone, with the above result. It must have a setting I don’t know about, where consecutive photos blend into each other, because I didn’t intend this effect.
Here’s a bigger version on Flickr. I emailed the photo into my account.
Today was 28 degrees, tomorrow is expected to be 37.
Cooking a cockroach
I tried cooking a cockroach tonight. Well, I didn’t really try; it was more an accidental event.
We were preparing for a barbecue at home and after lifting the cover a cockroach crawled into the grill. Juliet wasn’t worried, she thought it might add some “flavor”. I think she was joking, but we both believed the roach would sizzle.
I was curious to find out though, because I’ve heard that cockroaches are the only creatures to survive nuclear explosions.
And so it was. Forty minutes later, while the sausages and chops were sizzling, the roach made its escape from the fiery depths.
Amy’s Restaurant
We had dinner tonight at Amy’s Restaurant in Flanagan’s Hotel for the first time. Flanagan’s is the Kalgoorlie Miner watering hole, but it’s the first time I’ve eaten there. Apparently it was formerly called the Union Club Hotel.
I don’t know why the name changed. Flanagan is presumably the miner who discovered gold with Paddy Hannan to start the Kalgoorlie rush. Read more
York Hotel, Kalgoorlie
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I had a day off in lieu for working Sunday last week. Juliet and I put the twins into daycare and enjoyed lunch at the historic York Hotel in Hannan Street.
It’s a heritage building with a curious, ornate design, almost oriental on the outside. I’ll make an effort now to learn the history.
It was very quiet when we arrived at noon, with just a few blokes in the front bar. I had a beer and Juliet ordered a coffee while we perused the menu.
By Kalgoorlie standards the prices were reasonable. Specials were $14 for mains and menu items were $20 to $29. As it turned out, the servings were huge, so no complaint about the price. Read more
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