Monday, April 26, 2004 - Posts
Taken out today: Rice Krispy Treats
# of referenced posts by category: Blogging: 3; Development: 4;
Other: 9; SQL: 2; WILY: 1
Line of the day: I'd much prefer to figure out a way to
discourage stupid people from entering IT.
Post of the day:
Start the Hype Machine – I’m On .Net Rocks This Thursday
I'm headed up to Minneapolis Thursday afternoon to participate in a Conference call with Mahesh Prakriya, a Lead Program Manager in the CLR team. Mahesh is responsible for integrating CLR into SQL Server to bring SQLCLR functionality. Needless to say this is great opportunity to ask some questions about SQLCLR. If you have some you'd like to ask, please leave them below as a comment and I'll try to bring them up. I'll post my notes from the meeting here as best I can too.
I know I've railed a bit about Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters. I'm usually one that says “If you don't have any better ideas, keep your negativity to yourself.” So then, how would I “fix” ICA?
- Change the judging: My number one gripe about ICA is how easy it was for the Chefs to win or lose not based on their dishes, but on how they talked about their dishes. That mode of presentation has to end because this isn't Toastmasters, its Iron Chef. There needs to be a minimum of four judges and three of them need to have some demonstrated expertise as Gourmets. The judges used on the first four panels just failed that criteria miserbly. They need to have a regular culinary critic (other than that stainless steel buttplug of a drawcansir Steingarten) as an anchor judge.
- Change the scoring: 10 points for taste is good. 5 points for originallity is fine. 5 points for presentation is fine. There needs to be a component for rating how well or poorly the Chef made the best use of the theme ingredient, and it needs to be worth more than either originallity or presentation. It is Iron Chef, after all.
- Good bye Bobby, Hello Tyler: Enough said.
- Get Alton some help already: Alton was a good choice for the Hattori role... at least as far as IC America goes. I'd argue myself for Shirley Corriher, but that's not going to happen. Alton not a trained or experienced play-by-play guy and it showed big time. So get someone who is. Fukui wasn't a trained Culinarian (as least as far as I've been able to discover...) yet he was ideal as the anchor. My suggestions? Gary Thorne or even Stuart Scott (lets get a lil' flava in the Hizzle, boo-ya!).
- Ease up there “Mr. Chairman.” The thing about Kaga that worked, IMHO, is that we has “over the top“ and he was completely comfortable with it. He sold the role very well. This stiff didn't look like he'd be comfortable after a fifth of Maker's Mark and one-hour whole-body massage. You've got one of the best roles on TV -- live it up.
That's the last I'm going to first-source post on this topic. For now, at least.