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Judging quality in a restaurant

NewMexiKen’s list of the top ten reasons to chose another restaurant if you want to impress your date or customer:

10. You pay before you eat

9. You pay after you eat, but you stand in line and pay a cashier

8. More men eating with caps/hats on than those without caps/hats

7. The piped-in-music is louder than the TVs

6. Soup served with soup spoon already in soup

5. They fill the condiments while you’re at the table

4. Menu includes photos of the food

3. Menu includes samples of the food stuck to pages

2. They wipe your table with a wet rag

And the number one reason to chose another restaurant if you want to impress your date or customer

They wipe the seats of the chairs with the same rag

It’s the birthday

… of Issac Hayes. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is 62.

Isaac Hayes is a multi-faceted talent: songwriter, producer, sideman, solo artist, film scorer, actor, rapper and deejay. He has been hugely influential on the rap movement as both a spoken-word pioneer and larger-than-life persona who’s influenced everyone from Barry White to Puff Daddy. Hayes is best known for his soundtrack to Shaft, one of the first and best “blaxploitation” films, and for the song “Theme from ‘Shaft,’” a Top Ten hit. But his varied resume boasts everything from backing up Otis Redding and writing for Sam and Dave and others at Stax Records in the Sixties to serving as the voice of Chef on South Park in the Nineties.

… of Connie Chung. The newscaster is 58.

… of Robert Plant. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (as part of Led Zeppelin) is 56.

… of Al Roker. The weatherman who’s not half of what he used to be is 50.

… of Joan Allen. The three-time Oscar nominee is 48.

Update on child discipline

Via Jesus’ General, Gerber joins the baby food as discipline crowd.

Background here.

Ouch!

From Morning Briefing:

From Seth Soffian of the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press: “Did you hear the one about Tiger Woods? During [last week's] PGA tournament, Amy Mickelson handed one of her children to him before she realized it wasn’t her husband, Phil.

“Sorry,” she said, “I’m still used to guys who can’t win majors.”

Just like ringing a bell

Voyager 2, the first of two Voyager spacecraft (Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1 — go figure), was sent to explore the planets of our solar system on this date in 1977.

NewMexiKen wrote about The Golden Record on board each spacecraft some months ago. The record is “a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth” so that extra-terrestials might learn about life on our planet. Among the music is Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, various native music and Chuck Berry performing “Johnny B. Goode.”

If we ever hear from extra-terrestials, I imagine their message to us will be, “Send more Chuck Berry.”