Widget envy
This morning I have widget envy.
Rob's column on Maryland's Ultimate Burger according to the Food Network Magazine has pride of place among the home page's widgets today. It's an excellent column, with lots of information my modest little post at the end of April didn't begin to cover. ...
But I did break this important story over two weeks ago, and did I get any love then? No.
Did I get any credit today on the home page for opening the e-mail from the Food Network my fine investigative reporting? No.
To make matters worse, I don't have a Table Talk in today's print edition because I was on "vacation" last week. Now I have such a pile of things to talk about I'm not even going to begin to be able to fit them into next week's Table Talk.
However, the soft-shell crab Top 10 was in the paper today. I'll link to it in case you want to see what comments made it in. (I usually give my editor all the comments that have been posted by my deadline and let her pick and choose.)
(Photo by Mike Buscher/Special to the Sun)
Comments
What's a widget?
His photo kicks your photo's butt.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | May 13, 2009 9:57 AM
I guess because the burger is so bad for you they dont want to give you too many fries?
I count 10, 10 fries, AHAHAHA (The Count)
Posted by: black sneakers are ugly | May 13, 2009 10:41 AM
What's a widget? Acoording to Wikiepedia, it's "anything that can be imbedded in a page of HTML, i.e. a web page." In this case, it's presumably a home page blurb linked to a featured story or column. Like Rob Kasper's follow-up to our blogmistress' crusading hamburger reportage.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | May 13, 2009 10:51 AM
That looks like a tumor on a bun.
Cool name BSAU
Posted by: die zombie die | May 13, 2009 11:01 AM
die zombie die - thanks for that vision. My appetite has been completely destroyed.
Posted by: Kitkat | May 13, 2009 12:26 PM
What with the economy tanking and all, there is a surplus of widgets.
Posted by: Lissa | May 13, 2009 2:00 PM
Widgets: my father used to write case studies for management classes (he taught at Villanova and Wharton) about widget manufacturing. Since he was interested in the management issues, it didn't really matter what the product was, ergo widgets. Apparently this usage was widespread in the field.
Posted by: MD Canon | May 13, 2009 2:32 PM
Yep, MD Canon. A "widget" is the canonical "foo" in econ texts. Hence the current surplus of widgets, since spending is down.
Posted by: Lissa | May 13, 2009 8:41 PM
He doesn't know what a foo is you damn geek, 8>)
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | May 13, 2009 11:03 PM
I'm sure MD Canon is bright enough to look up metasyntactic variables on wikipedia. He's got that fancy Hampshire degree and all .
Besides, I'm at least a thrice-damned geek.
Posted by: Lissa | May 13, 2009 11:35 PM
Lissa, do you have The Devil's DP Dictionary?
Posted by: Hal Laurent | May 14, 2009 7:20 AM
See, everyone went and answered the question, and I simply assumed that Owl was channelling Rodney Dangerfield.
Posted by: Claude | May 14, 2009 8:17 AM
I have _The Devil's Dictionary_ in print, but not the DP, Hal. I'll have to look it up.
Hmm...kind of like the Jargon File?
Posted by: Lissa | May 14, 2009 11:13 AM
Haven't heard of the Jargon File. I'll have to look that one up.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | May 14, 2009 1:10 PM
The Jargon File. A version was printed 10-15 years ago, called _The Hacker's Dictionary._
Posted by: Lissa | May 14, 2009 1:36 PM