Egg McMuffin inventor Peterson dies - Food Inc.- msnbc.com

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.

[From Egg McMuffin inventor Peterson dies - Food Inc.- msnbc.com]

Good night, sweet prince.

I know I am just one of many within the geek hordes that will mourn the passing of one of our food industry heroes.

The egg McMuffin is a thing of beauty.

Egg sandwiches rock, but they have always had a problem: they are messy. Greasy, delicious, godly messes. The egg McMuffin, on the other hand, is a neat little setup that doesn't skimp on whatever it is that makes my cholesterol readings get worse every year.

What about the croissandwich? Fuck the croissandwich.

Gamerscore Correction - Xbox Live's Major Nelson

The shit just hit the fan at XBL:

I wanted to follow up and let you know where we are on the post I made a few months ago on Gamesave Tampering. Today we took action on some of the accounts we have identified as the most serious offenders who have violated the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use by tampering with their Gamerscore and Achievements.

[From Gamerscore Correction - Xbox Live's Major Nelson]

About god damn time.

Letter from the Editor: The Passport Breach Scandal

By now most of my readers have learned that some people within the U.S. Department of State have improperly accessed the passport records of some of the current presidential candidates.

Searching Google News for "presidential candidate passport breach" yields 2,239 results.

We would like to let our readers know that my passport records at the Department of State have NEVER been breached. Of this we are 100% confident, but we decline to disclose our source for this information since this mess is in full blast.

Tempus Fugit

To add yet more confusion to the DST switch, I am switching this blog to UTC.

Why? Here's a hint: It rhymes with "because I can."

Photo by TonyVC, used under a Creative Commons license.

Spring Ahead

Don't forget that Daylight Savings Time for participating areas of the U.S. starts tomorrow, Sunday March 9.

DST has always been weird time for me. I lived in Puerto Rico for 21 years, we were on Atlantic time and close enough to the equator that the summer daylight variation is not as extreme as here or in South West Germany.

I learned the "Spring Ahead, Fall behind" rule the hard way: on the Fall 1992 switch I was either in the last weeks of my U.S. Army basic training in Fort Jackson, SC, or freshly arrived at the US Signal Center in Fort Gordon, GA for my advanced training.

I reported for breakfast one hour early.

Instead of finding everything closed, I found the KP crew lining up to get inside and start working. It was plain dumb luck that I did not get pulled inside to do KP with the rest of them.