Posts tagged as:

coffee

Why do we keep eating?

January 17, 2009

Why do we eat? The simple answer would be that if we did not eat, we would die. But that is not entirely true. Science can provide us with a pill we can take that would provide exactly the nutrition we need — no more, no less — to keep our bodies healthy. Yet, we [...]

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Round up all the web geeks and pelt them with pebbles

January 12, 2009

I just spent the last hour of my life fighting with some CSS that works perfectly in Safari and MESI 7.0, but not in MSIE 6.0 or the “standards compliant” Firefox whatever version it is now. Since I am working pre-coffee, pre-office hours from a laptop on my kitchen table, I don’t have the luxury [...]

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What would you do if you had $1 million dollars?

December 10, 2008

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

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You suck! Your comment sucks!

December 8, 2008

You write a blog post and post it. Someone comes onto your blog and has an alternative point of view. But, instead of engaging this commenter in a logical argument, you lash out at him, belittling his point of view and then using sarcastic remarks in subsequent comments. Is that smart?
This happened recently to me. [...]

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How this financial disaster is like Catholicism

December 5, 2008

I grew up Catholic.
One of the things you learn very early on is this earthly life is a test of your faith for a reward of either heaven and eternal life or hell and eternal damnation. Life here is supposed to be hard, we are supposed to feel pain because these trials are [...]

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Left-leaning, mommyblogger-hating blog

November 20, 2008

Are you here to check out this left-leaning, mommyblogger-hating blog? Oops, sorry to disappoint you.. we just have some really entertaining posts.
Please stick around and read a few. Thanks!

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Free stickers and a nice shout-out!

November 14, 2008

Thanks to the really cool folks at Sticker Giant for the shout out on their blog!
The folks at Plain Joe saw a sticker I did for Guy Kawasaki at Alltop and wanted something similar. This design has four designs on one sheet, they are kiss-cut with a steel rule die so that each design can [...]

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Palin popularity not the same as ability

October 20, 2008

On Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough sat in his chair and said with a straight face: (I am paraphrasing as I was so dumbfounded at what I was hearing that I could not work the TiVo fast enough)
Governor Palin has been able to attract the largest viewership ever for SNL, the largest for any VP [...]

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Put the smart guys in charge, please

October 1, 2008

Susan Suess Kennedy wrote an article recently for the Huffington Post examining why Americans have such a disdain for smart people. A popular terms among the non-intellectuals and shallow thinkers is “elistism.” The undereducated white guys chant this, along with “drill baby, drill” (which I don’t really get as a mantra, but ok..) Here’s the [...]

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Someone to watch…

September 10, 2008

I found this on my way to other things. Kinda supports my earlier post. Thanks, Phil!

PS You obviously drink coffee, so why not Plain Joe?

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My buddy Kevin

May 9, 2008

This is Kevin. He is there every morning as we go through the Englewood Tim Horton’s drive-through window. He knows who I am, he knows I like two honey-dipped Tim Bits with my decaf coffee and he is always cheerful. I don’t know if he likes his job, what he does on his day off [...]

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A shout out to Tim Hortons

February 24, 2007

Ok, after a couple years of mooching honey-dipped Tim Bits from the really cool morning crew at Tim Hortons on Main Street in Englewood, here is my shout-out to them!
From left to right: Linda, Denise, Sara, Beverly (Manager) and Tonya (Co-owner) You are my mostest, favorite peeps!
Welcome to my fan club!
And anyone who is reading [...]

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Business advice from a 20-something

June 14, 2006

I was sitting outside the Uptown Cafe in Oxford, Ohio this morning, drinking coffee, watching the sights… and this 20-something unlocked his bike from the meter and asked me if I was with Vanguard (my free computer bag had the Vanguard logo stitched on the front). I told him no, but we entered into a [...]

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Restless Daylight Savings

October 31, 2005

Rufus’ body clock is off, so we went for a walk at 10:00 today…. I really didn’t want to work today anyway… parked the van on Wolf and walked behind the fence… the Java Spot is BUSY mid morning. One guy was ordering and forgot the order his wife (I guess) sent him for. He [...]

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JD’s Custard is now closed for the season

October 3, 2005

JD’s Custard is now closed until spring…. Rufus really enjoyed his weekly double scoop of frozen vanilla custard. The really bad thing is they are taking the picnic tables away until spring as well, so there is nowhere to sit when we eat the “canine coffee cake” muffin from the Java Spot next door.
Well [...]

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In the third person

September 27, 2005

Well, a funny thing happened when I decided to write a blog about my walks with Rufus.. I find myself writing the blog entry in the third person as I am walking, complete with sentence deletes and re-writes… I’m not sure if it a good thing, but it is a thing.. I’ll have to keep [...]

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