Lunches at work are usually nothing to write about, however every now
and then, we get an external restaurant that makes a memorable dish. A couple
of weeks ago, that was the Cajun shrimp po’boy. The sandwich was relatively
simple: a toasted baguette, a big of mayonnaise, some shredded lettuce, and
seasoned Cajun shrimp, however the taste was amazing. I had an inkling about
the origin of the name po’boy, but the price of the sandwich betrayed that thinking.
A bit of research on the web revealed a couple of origin stories. The most plausible
and heartwarming was on Wikipedia:
that during a 1929 street car workers’ strike, restaurant owners served the
sandwich to their striking colleagues for free, jokingly referring to the
strikers as poor boys, after which the sandwiches took the name, and in the Louisiana
dialect shortened to po’boy.
I am not an Apple fan, but I do like their computers, and recommend them to colleagues and friends for a variety of reasons. They are well designed, and in addition to an excellent user interface, they run a flavor of Unix--which makes the life of computer programmers a lot easier. But most importantly, Apple's customer support is impeccable, that despite all the hardware issues I experienced in the past, I still recommend Apple computers. Let me explain why. A year and a half ago, I bought a Mac Book Pro for work. At the time it was the first generation unibody laptop, that had an i7 processor, lots of memory, and lots of disk space. Alas, like first generation models everywhere, it also had a lot of hardware problems. The most annoying of which was the screen randomly turning dark, with the hard drive spinning out of control. The only way to get out of this state was by forcing a reboot by holding down the power button, and losing everything I have been working on. At first
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