Link Post: Steak, Suburbs, Windows 7
We’re nearing the end of another semester, getting ready to make that last push to the end. I just wrapped up my (annual) summer internship/job search and I’ve got one lined up, should be pretty interesting. I’ve got a mixed bag of links for you today, give them a look and let me know what you think…
- Latest College Reading Lists: Menus With Pho and Lobster: New York Times
Article talking about how colleges are using high-falutin cuisine to attract new students - steaks done to order, organic this - I feel like an old geezer, but these kids have it soooo great. I think that is kind of reflective of a trend that has bothered me in the past, with student housing being marketed as “resort-style” or luxury accomodations for students. Whatever happened to poor college students? I remember when (not too long ago) “good” college food meant that less than half of it was fried (Georgia Tech’s fried chicken being the exception) and you could identify ingredients in the dish.
“You can order a whole Maine lobster, New York strip and rib-eye steaks cooked how you want them, grilled sesame-crusted tuna with wasabi mayo,” Rick Johnson, Virginia Tech’s director of housing and dining, said of some of the à la carte selections.
- Suburban Living is not appealing to Gen Y: YWorking.com
Matt Elliott (a fellow Brazen Careerist) has a story on the movement from suburbia to urban living that hits on a lot of the points about why Generation Y is making (and leading) this transition. I agree with most of what he is saying and I am getting close the point in my life where I need to be thinking about these sorts things and making decisions.The pop culture point is a good one. We haven’t seen suburbia portrayed as ‘cool’ in mass media in years. Even sitcoms, which for a good decade were generally set in tree-lined suburbs, have now given way to single-camera comedies set in more urban areas.
- Cast your vote in the Windows 7 prediction pool: Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
On an unrelated note, Windows Vista’s first year or so has been rocky, to say the least, and there has been discussion recently in the blogosphere about Vista’s successor (Windows 7). Ed has a good write-up on when he suspects 7 to be released (mid 2009, in time for the 2009 holiday season). I think that is an ambitious schedule, to say the least, but MS has to make that deadline to stay competitive after Vista’s lackluster performance.Waiting until Q4 2010 is not an option. There’s no way that Windows 7 can be ready for Q4 of 2008, so Microsoft and its PC maker partners are already braced for a lackluster selling season this year. But missing Q4 2009 also? Heads would roll in Redmond if that happened.
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