Monday, March 31, 2008

Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson dies

Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson dies
1972 breakfast idea became a big hit for McDonald's

LOS ANGELES - Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald's official said Wednesday. He was 89.

Peterson died peacefully Tuesday at his Santa Barbara home, said Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald's restaurants in that city.

He began his career with McDonald's Corp. as vice president of the company's advertising firm, D'Arcy Advertising, in Chicago. He wrote McDonald's first national advertising slogan, "Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day."

Peterson eventually became a franchisee and was currently co-owner and operator of six McDonald's restaurants in Santa Barbara and Goleta, Fraker said.

'Partial to eggs Benedict'
Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald's breakfast item in 1972. He "was very partial to eggs Benedict," Fraker said, and worked on creating something similar.

The egg sandwich consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle with the yolk broken, topped with a slice of cheese and grilled Canadian bacon. It was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin.

The Egg McMuffin made its debut at a restaurant in Santa Barbara that Peterson co-owned with his son, David Peterson.

Fraker said that, although semiretired, Peterson still visited all six of his stores in the Santa Barbara area until last year when his health began to deteriorate.

"He would talk to the customers, visit with the employees. He loved McDonald's," Fraker said.

'Embraced the community'
Fraker, who said he worked with Peterson for 30 years, said "he was amazing as far as giving back to the community."

"He embraced the community and the community embraced him," Fraker said. "We loved the man."

Peterson is survived by his wife, son and three daughters.

A public memorial service will be held April 23 at All Saints by the Sea church in Montecito.


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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Wow

It is quite unbelievable to think how after 87 months, I feel exactly the same way about this amazing woman -- perhaps, even more. Seven years and three months of love, laughs and turmoil; of truimphs and adventures, heartaches and well, sometimes 'nothing.' I find it hard to imagine how someone like me can deserve someone like her. God, how fortunate of me to be given such a wondrous blessing, such unexpected gift. Times like these, only one word comes to mind... Wow...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Worst American Idol 7 Episode

Tonight was such a freaking waste of TV time! The performances were just so fucking lousy! Ugh! My wife and I should've just watched Cold Case! It so fucking disappointing! I mean, I love Idol and the remaining hopefuls... Of course, I adore Simon, I'm fond of Randy and I like Ryan quite a bit... (Paula?! Who's Paula?!) But the songs, the renditions!!! Ugh!

'Nuff said

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

This is it

Lots of changes happening so fast! It's a roller coaster of emotions -- fear, excitement, anxiety. Sometimes, it's just a mental game. Whatever happens, I'm oh-so ready... All these, because of, and for the love of my life... Ü

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Digital Euphoria

Over the weekend, one of our greatest wishes came true.

We found out that our other PC, jellie24 isn't dead. It was the AVR, the fuse to be exact, that got busted. As such, we decided to transfer one of the 256 memory we have on mijel24 and got him two 512's, making it a total of 1G virtual memory for mijel24 and a total of 512MB for jellie24. We also got him a DVD Writer so we could burn our movies and free up some space. You see, I've been downloading movies like crazy. And since I busted mijel24's monitor while over-zealously playing Wheel of Fortune, they now have to share some hardware, thanks to the KVM switch. KVM, which stands for keyboard, video and mouse, is a great way to have two towers if you have limited space, so it's really working well for us and our tiny room. I'm also very happy because I finally got myself a Maxtor external drive. It's nice and compact at 160G. And to make sure that we have access to everything from either CPU's, we setup our network again. How dandy! Ü Now we have a work PC, a gaming PC, and an extra drive to back everything. Oh, and by the way, we also grabbed a nice optical mouse to further improve our gaming prowess and well, experience. Hehe!

Now this, my friend, is digital euphoria! Ü

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Multimediamaniac

Oh my gawd! I've become totally addicted to multimedia files! If I hear or see any interesting video or sound, I feel like I MUST download it and have it on my mobile phone. As we speak, I have a variety music videos, funny ads, and notorious videos on my phone, ranging from Ken Lee, Bb Pilipinas Q&A, and well, how to solve the Rubik's Cube. Am I going insane or what?! :-S

Multimediamaniac

Oh my gawd! I've become totally addicted to multimedia files! If I hear or see any interesting video or sound, I feel like I MUST download it and have it on my mobile phone. As we speak, I have a variety music videos, funny ads, and notorious videos on my phone, ranging from Ken Lee, Bb Pilipinas Q&A, and well, how to solve the Rubik's Cube. Am I going insane or what?! :-S

Friday, March 07, 2008

Millie's Visual MEME

1. the age you'll be on your next birthday = 30



2. a place you'd like to travel = New Zealand


3. your favorite place = The kitchen! =)



4. your favorite food = STEAK!!! =)


5. your favorite animal = a panda

6. your favorite color = Pink!!! (believe it or not!)


7. first name of your significant other or crush = Jel



8. the town in which you live in = Mayamot


9. your screenname/nickname = con7


10. your first job = Sales Assistant in a Duty Free -- where I got my asthma


11. a bad habit you have = whining when uncomfortable (which my honey swears she hates! heehee!)

12. your worst fear = speaking in front of a really BIG crowd

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Visual MEME

1. the age you'll be on your next birthday = 28!!! Gawd, I'm so ancient!!!


28 Weeks Later - Spring 2007


2. a place you'd like to travel = Barossa Valley in Adelaide, South Australia a.k.a. Tomador Destination Down Under -- Vineyard tours and wine-and-cheese-tasting!!!


3. your favorite place = Home -- Ours doesn't look as posh as this though



4. your favorite food = Carbs!!! Pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, noodles, pastries, and the list goes on and on and on and on...


5. your favorite animal = Meow! I love cats! And that's why we have 10!!!

6. your favorite color = Need I say more?!


7. first name of your significant other or crush = miLLie! How cultured! It's an actual musical!



8. the town in which you live in = Mayamot -- our town doesn't look anywhere like this though... I don't know how, I just googled it up!


9. your screenname/nickname = |BadGirl`JeL| -- well, I kinda cheated on this one... I just used 'badgirl' because the whole thing doesn't show interesting results


10. your first job = traffic reporter -- I don't understand how Queen Latifah's picture got here... Again, I just googled it up! Try it! =) Incidentally, I love her, so I'm putting her photo here anyway! =)


11. a bad habit you have = i so LOOOOOOVVVVEEEE wasting time!!! I love this picture!!!

12. your worst fear = death of loved ones =( It's quite interesting that I found this...