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I've never been to one, for various reasons. Are they as good as their prices reflect?

We have a Shula's Steakhouse here, with $10 "baked" potatoes (actually steamed in foil, tacky as hell) which I've also not been to.

Kris

It means it's the "Guru's Lair" owned by Don Lancaster.

I know the answer to that one: Ruth purchased a place already named "Chris Steakhouse" and always said that the contract required she keep the name "Chris". (Sounds to me that it was more of a way to save money on a new sign.)

Or the new sign in Ogden, Utah:

Higgins Antique's

Kris

We have those on every corner....that doesn't already have a Lone Star.

My little town is the Chain Restaurant Capital of Utah.

Kris Get that Arizona fire smoke outta here

Absolutely, positively the best steak you will ever eat in your life. If you don't won't butter ya better tell'em. They broil them at 1800 degrees and they come out on a 500 degree plate slathered in butter.

Then we'll try it, next time we're near one. I tend to hang out in Utah, Idaho and New Mexico....not exactly Ruth's territories.

Kris

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:10:02 GMT, Kris Baker muttered something like:

The food is quite good, but they tend to pack the tables in far too closely. For me that's a huge detractor; I don't like paying premium prices to sit elbow-to-elbow with the table next to me, and hear every word of their conversation whether I want to or not.

-Bertha

Works just fine on my tongue. Went to one in Columbus OH for my wife's birthday. ;-)

I'm not a web guy, but aren't there non-proprietary ways of accomplishing the same thing? For example, don't CGI and php let you do magic stuff behind the scenes without locking your whole web-site into a proprietary technology controlled by a single company?

Just wondering.

--Mac

Yes, but after looking at them, .ASP was overwhelmingly better on all counts.

It was not even remotely close.

CGI and php are cruel and inhuman punishment.

Try this: ABC company's parking lot. ABC company's president's parking space. The construct grammatically correct, and clear in meaning.

Don Lancaster may have control over, and responsibility for, numerous places. One of those is named Guru's Lair. Thus the phrase Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair is gramatically correct, and clear in meaning.

Ed

The main thing you missed was to delete the post to that shower of plonkers on alt.mentally.deranged.

Paul Burke

Excellent comments. I was rolling on the floor for that. How about a different background. Perhaps some stars and planets and an "enterprise" to cruise around.

Rene

--=20 Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar -

Actually, I didn't find the site to be as bad as all of these people seem to be saying. Admittedly, it's mainly bloggish fluffery, but it's readable, and navigable, and it didn't break my browser.

Cheers! Rich

No, then it'd be "Don Lancaster's Gurus' Lair."

Since I don't know ASP, but I have Apache on Slackware, for something like that, I'd use "server-side includes". You can recognize them by the .shtml "extension."

Or, go to a full-on CGI script (or even an executable) and just spit out whatever you want the viewer to see.

Cheers! Rich

CGI is a protocol, not a language. ASP *is* CGI. It's also useless, particularly if combined with VBScript rather than JScript.

ASP.NET is a massive improvement over ASP, but if you just want to get things done, PHP is your man.

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:31:36 GMT, Mac muttered something like:

Of course there are. Apache has server side includes. Banner rotation can be done any number of ways.

To be fair, Don did say you needed ASP "or server side equivilant." Fortunately those equivilants are numerous and easy to find.

-Bertha

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:35:17 GMT, Rich Grise muttered something like:

You can also set apache to search for includes in .html files; the extra load on the server is insignificant and you don't have to rename everything if you're adding them to existing pages.

-Bertha

Whats a modern lair?

A loft with a big TV?