July 2010
“The Chipotle Mexican Grill heralds its “Chipotle Experience,” in which customers can watch their food being made behind a glass partition. Now a Ninth Circuit panel (including famously liberal judges Stephen Reinhardt and Dorothy Nelson) has ruled that the “experience” violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, to quote the AP, “because the restaurants’ 45-inch counters are too high.”
—ADA and the ‘Chipotle Experience’ | Cato @ Liberty
Attn Coffee Drinkers
Can you please tell me the benefits of a French Press? They look snazzy.
Better taste and less counter space.
But! I have found it pretty impractical if you and another drink several cups of coffee. Also, it gets colder much faster. However, the taste is MUCH better. Gotta grind your beans yourself (even if just at the store) since pre-ground coffee is too fine.
agreed with armeck: french press is best suited for small batches & it loses heat way more quickly. it’s way better tasting, though. if someone doesn’t like black coffee because it’s too bitter, have them try french press.
as wikipedia says, ”Because the coffee grounds remain in direct contact with the brewing water and the grounds are filtered from the water via a mesh instead of a paper filter, coffee brewed with the French press captures more of the coffee’s flavour and essential oils, which would become trapped in a traditional drip brew machine’s paper filters. French pressed coffee is usually stronger and thicker and has more sediment than drip-brewed coffee.”
“…this may be harder than we dreamed, but i believe that’s what the promise is for.”
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Andrew Peterson in his new song “Dancing in the Mine Fields”
[via Hear It First]
Joy replaces sadness when baby thought stillborn breathes - KansasCity.com →
kansascity.com
beautiful. major props to the emergency personnel who didn’t “just” save a life, but made life possible.
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Wizards beat Manchester United in front of record crowd - ESPN →
espn.go.com
oh. yeah.
OH. YEAH.
see, not all kansas city sports teams suck!
Alphabetical. Chronological.
Charming Birds
Charming Birds - Alphabetical. Chronological.
Please welcome the Charming Birds, the newest great band in our great city. The sound reminds me a lot of Dinosaur Jr. with respect to tone. Apparently, Willamette Week thought so too, as they were included in a mini-feature on all the bands playing in Portland with animal-based names and were labeled Dinosaur Jr. Jr.
This song takes its title from the great book/movie High Fidelity. Great sound, great band, great song. Welcome to the world Charming Birds.
tight sound
yeah, you should listen to this.
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The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget [Mackinac Center] →
michigancapitolconfidential.com
“The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.
That’s how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall.
The city has the money to do it because in 2007, it agreed to set aside for public art 1 percent of money that went into capital improvement projects that were $100,000 or larger. Most capital projects involve streets, sewers and water.”
squashed, do you have anything to add? i imagine there’s more to it than this.
“Perhaps I became consumed myself. Such is the spirit of the day, it would seem: mundane, outward obsession whose worst trick is to disguise itself as fruitfulness.”
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a fantastic insight into our greater culture.
“Many of today’s console games exert a time crush. They demand tens or even hundreds of hours of attention to complete, some or most of which often feels empty. In that respect, one could argue that many games seem to destroy time. But social games do something even more violent—they also destroy the time we spend away from them.”
—Ian Bogost - Cow Clicker
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Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie' - CNN.com →
edition.cnn.com
a good write-up of why the tech scene in the midwest is increasingly attractive. it mentions the silicon prairie news, RockDex, CyberRead, and hudl, as well as the reasons why i enjoy living & working here.
[via @shaneadams]
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"Zombies" crash on interstate in Portland →
kgw.com
A car full of people dressed as zombies crashed on Interstate 84 near downtown Portland on Friday, causing initial confusion by people who witnessed the crash.
Best headline I’ve read all day.
Best Places to Live 2010 - Top 100: City details: Overland Park, KS →
money.cnn.com
w00t! i love me some north OP!
“If we have a pool we want to fill with water, does it make more sense to turn on a faucet and fill it up, or to hire pilots to seed the clouds and try to make it rain? Cloud-seeding, like our current approach to dealing with unemployment, would be discredited “trickle down” theory with a vengeance! Why not go with a straightforward approach whose costs and results are measurable, which has worked in the past, and which could put a total end to unemployment rather than just reducing it?”
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Paul deLespinasse (via azspot)
An easy question with an easy answer: because unemployment is structural. It’s because paying people to do the jobs they once did - building/improving homes, retail - is good money after bad. We need capital investment to drive future jobs, not short-term stimulus to extend the lfespan of our broken economic infrastructure. That means new jobs from new corporations founded on new ideas, not - for example - paying autoworkers obscene salaries to make cars to drive on our broken, oil-dependent highway infrastructure.
(via unsolicitedanalysis)
where are you going to get that water, anyway, Paul?
were i feeling saucy & had i the time, i might argue that the analogy is backwards: Mr. deLespinasse’s cloud-seeding is more like American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in that it seeks to directly commandeer private funds in order to indirectly spur economic behavior [not sure how much more round-about you can get]; whereas a cut in taxes is the most efficient, immediate, and simple way to give people money to spend.
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Obama opts for Oklahoma Joe's over Arthur Bryant's
finally! if only all of his decisions were this good!
