Law Students

In re: Cuban coming to Columbus

Posted on November 20, 2009
The Plaintain cafe put up a sign in it’s Gay St. window a long time ago when it was still a gutted space. Over the passing months I’ve been waiting excitedly for this Cuban restaurant. While I love El Arepazo and it’s many Latin options aside from their core Venezuelan menu there can never be [...

In re: Passionately defending a made up history

Posted on November 15, 2009
“Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head… Right there in the preamble, the authors make [...

In re: So long? Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN (finally)

Posted on November 11, 2009
Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately. via Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes...

In re: Another football story: ?Is It Time to Retire the Football Helmet??

Posted on November 11, 2009
“One of the strongest arguments for banning helmets comes from the Australian Football League. While it's a similarly rough game, the AFL never added any of the body armor Americans wear. When comparing AFL research studies and official NFL injury reports, AFL players appear to get hurt more often on the whole with things like [...

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In re: Football, dogfighting, and brain damage

Posted on October 25, 2009
Football, dogfighting, and brain damage : The New Yorker. Interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell about head injuries in football.  One of the interesting things that he raised when I saw him on PTI and before I read the article was his comparison to boxing that after an acknowledgement of the huge physical/mental toll boxers will have [...

In re: Playoffs full of ex-Indians

Posted on October 08, 2009
Good for them, but definitely sad for an Indians fan to see so many ex-Indians playing all over the playoffs.  Was thinking about this while watching the Cardinals/Dodgers series that seemed like almost everyone had been an Indian, “flyout from Belliard to Ludwick...

In re: Is the public option ?big government??

Posted on October 06, 2009
I was struck recently that people in our country are really good at seperating government they like and ‘big government’.  I was up in Maine, in Acadia National Park, which is  truly one of the most amazing places I have been.  While on several ranger led hikes through the park I got to thinking about [...

In re: Maine

Posted on October 01, 2009
Was up in Bar Harbor, Maine a month ago and had meant to put up some shots.  Had never been before and it was spectacular

In re: Van Halen?s Brown M&Ms Contract Rider

Posted on August 23, 2009
Heard about this recently on an episode of This American Life talking about the Fine Print in life.  One of the stories was about the story behind Van Halen’s contract rider specifying there should be M&Ms backstage, but the brown M&Ms needed to be removed, and failure to do so resulted in full payment of [...

In re: Tim Hortons ads work

Posted on August 18, 2009
For some reason I like the idea of Tim Hortons. Yeah that might sound strange as it’s a big chain and I tend not to be into chains. Well for one I don’t really put my liking the idea into actual visits , but still something about it being Canadian, being formally owned by Ohio [...

In re: Soccer gaining traction?

Posted on August 17, 2009
Thought this was a good column about the US v. Mexico game by Bill Simmons who isn’t really a soccer guy, but claims he is getting into it (and was into it enough to travel down to Mexico to see the game in the Azteca).  I’ll tell you, one of the major attractions for me [...

In re: Champions league on FSC

Posted on August 17, 2009
While I might not be a huge fan of Fox News (or fan at all),  I think I going to be happy with the move of Champions League Football from ESPN to Fox Soccer Channel this year.  ESPN never made the tournament a priority, didn’t work to get an HD feed even when showing it [...

In re: Spicy Teriyaki Tuna

Posted on June 29, 2009
Its not often that I make anything Teriyaki.  I am not sure why I treat Teriyaki with such distrust, somehow I see it as the dish non sushi eaters get if forced to go grab sushi (great Curb Your Enthusiasm on that).  Anyway, the other day I was craving grilled tuna, you know the super [...

In re: Food inc.

Posted on June 07, 2009
I haven’t seen it yet, but I have been waiting for Food Inc. for a while.  The movie is just about set to open up in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, it doesn’t come here to Ohio (Cedar Lee in Cleveland Heights) til July 3 – see opening dates here, but I imagine [...

In re: The pain of losing

Posted on May 25, 2009
I grew up with plenty of losing sports teams in Cleveland, Ohio.  For decades it was the norm and I was fortunate to happen in time when the Indians got hot for more then half a decade.  Additionally I was alive for some good cavs team (although I was young), but then Jordan got in [...

In re: Wolfram|Alpha ? Google killer?

Posted on May 25, 2009
“Wolfram|Alphas long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything...

In re: what is a center-cut chicken breast?

Posted on May 12, 2009
What the hell is “center-cut chicken breast”?  Wendy’s from right here in Columbus, Ohio is advertising its spicy chicken sandwich, a longtime staple of the Wendy’s menu.  But what is a center cut chicken breast?  Are they referring to the location of the chickens breast? or are they referring to the fact your getting a [...

In re: Kindle?s audio ? blessing for the blind or copyright violation?

Posted on May 08, 2009
Users with disabilities are fighting back against a recent attempt by the Authors Guild to shut down the Kindle 2?s text-to-speech feature. About 300 people drawn from the National Federation of the Blind and partner organizations protested outside the offices of the Authors Guild in New York Wednesday in hopes of reversing the Guild?s stance...

In re: Pasta w/ your bread

Posted on May 07, 2009
Its pretty standard to have a pasta dinner come w/ some kind of bread and I’ll admit despite this combination of starch based dish and then more starches, I am into it and I am just as happy as the next person for a salad, pasta and garlic bread...

In re: Korean tacos & twitter

Posted on April 19, 2009
Yeah, you read the title right, the fusion of Korean BBQ Tacos (a fusion of its own) is big business when fused with twitter.  What do the two have to do with each other?  Well for the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck in L.A. using Twitter to announce their next stop means that when they [...

In re: MLB At Bat for iPhone does NBA too?

Posted on April 10, 2009
[Quick background, MLB At Bat is a program in its second year for the iPhone that now exists as a free 'Lite' version and a pay $9.99 full version.  The full version that I have allows detailed stats and scores for all games in real time (or close to) and additionally live audio for the [...

In re: Guitar Hero culture

Posted on April 06, 2009
While lying in bed sick over the weekend I caught up on some Real Time with Bill Maher (via the podcast as I don’t have HBO) the show translates quiet well to an only audio experience and I applaud HBO for putting out the full show as a podcast...

In re: Wrong Side of History

Posted on April 05, 2009
Host Ira Glass speaks with Harold Wilshinsky about a piece of advice he gave to his daughter and son-in-law over 15 years ago: take your money out of the hands of Bernie Madoff, and diversify. Reluctantly, they listened to Harold, even though his son-in-law?s family was making a fortune investing with Madoff...

In re: Huntington Park sponsorships rolling in

Posted on March 15, 2009
Huntington Park won’t open for five weeks, but it’s almost a sellout — for sponsorships. The ballpark’s board has nailed down $39.6 million in corporate money for naming rights and is negotiating deals worth an additional $9 million...

In re: Apple has gone insane

Posted on March 15, 2009
This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans: are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality? It?s a [...

In re: Cost to get railroad going in Ohio

Posted on March 14, 2009
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland says the state could restore passenger rail service with $250 million in federal stimulus money. Strickland’s administration released the estimate Friday. Trains would run along existing freight tracks connecting Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland, with the eventual goal of making the service high speed...

In re: Funny signs

Posted on March 14, 2009
The Telegraph is one of the newspapers that I regularly read (although admittedly mostly for football stories) one of my favorite sections is called “Sign Language” and consists of funny signs from the UK and around the world…one such example below...

In re: Technology in Soccer Broadcasts

Posted on March 10, 2009
I’ve been surprised (not really upset I might admit) that the television in England hasn’t jumped on all the gimicks of digital imaging and breaking down plays that the US has.  Some of these efforts were complete jokes (the glow puck in hockey, thanks Fox) but others like the first and ten line worked and [...

In re: Prank war? really funny

Posted on March 04, 2009

In re: Dispatch layoffs

Posted on March 02, 2009

In re: iPod helps Manchester United win the Carling Cup?

Posted on March 02, 2009

In re: The Omnivore?s Dilemma

Posted on March 01, 2009

In re: Imagine this season without LeBron?

Posted on February 28, 2009

In re: Safari 4 Beta

Posted on February 27, 2009

In re: bagel update

Posted on February 24, 2009
After getting some new baking including some high gluten flour. The results? Awesome.

In re: Amish Space Heater: Is that an oxymoron?

Posted on February 12, 2009
“?I think a lot of it goes back to the irony of the Amish and an electric fireplace,? he said. ?How can that be? It?s like skintight baggy pants.?   Amish Space Heater: Is That an Oxymoron? is an interesting article in the NY Times details the strange product that is apparently right here from Ohio that has [...

In re: Passenger trains in Columbus

Posted on February 01, 2009
“State leaders are determined to connect Ohio’s three largest cities by passenger rail as early as next year, an idea that Gov. Ted Strickland endorsed in his State of the State address Wednesday. The so-called 3-C corridor was abandoned in 1971, a consequence of falling ridership and the breakdown of the national rail network...

In re: Flash coming to iPhone? Still no copy and paste

Posted on February 01, 2009
While there are plenty of fixible flaws with the iPhone’s software (copy & paste, mms, sideways keyboard in everything… oh we could go on) one is support for Flash, which love it or hate it is a reality of the web and when they claim that the whole internet is available in your pocket, missing [...

In re: Bagels at home

Posted on February 01, 2009
For whatever reason bagels, those delicious, chewy, simple, standard, but  yet hard to get perfect, breakfast item is something that many don’t make at home.  (Don’t know what a bagel is? or want to know more about their history see “A short history of the bagel”)...

In re: Bring your own bike lane

Posted on January 18, 2009
   “Instead of adapting cycling to established bike lanes, the bike lane should adapt to the cyclists. This is the idea behind the LighLane. Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid...

In re: Audiophile review of Playstation 1

Posted on January 18, 2009
“A year ago, when I heard that some audiophiles were using Sony’s original PlayStation 1 as a CD player?my friend Michael Lavorgna, who writes for 6moons.com, was the first to cross my attention?I was more than a little confused. Sure, I’d heard of the Sony PlayStation, just as I’ve heard of the Game Boy and [...

In re: Guinness Stew

Posted on January 17, 2009
With cold and dark weather the norm this time of year, suddenly certain dishes that don’t look and sound so good in July become the perfect comfort foods.  Of course soups and stews head up this list of comfort foods.  One such stew that I came to know when doing a January trip to Ireland [...

In re: Blu-Ray? Only if your 20/20

Posted on January 15, 2009
Apparently vision experts in England have concluded that the gains in resolution via Blu-Ray aren’t worth it for many folks, as they can’t see the difference.  Why is that?  They don’t have good enough vision. “But many consumers are wasting hundreds of pounds on high-definition equipment because their eyes are not sharp enough to pick up [...

In re: No Knead Bread

Posted on January 14, 2009
A few years back Mark Bittman had a column (The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work) talking about no knead bread he had been introduced too. The bread wasn’t some soda bread or pound cake, it was a real yeast bread with character, flavor and texture, things that we all associate [...

In re: Advertising 2.0 - Sacrifice your friends for a whopper

Posted on January 10, 2009
“Fast-food chain Burger King has created “Whopper Sacrifice,” a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.” via Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper | The Social - CNET News...

In re: On the Fly - Columbus Vegetarian ?Street Food?

Posted on January 10, 2009
A few weeks back I was driving down King Ave. here in the Short North and I noticed a store front advertising Empanadas. I thought it must have been a new little Mexican hole in the wall (which would have been sweet) but on my way back I stopped in to see what it [...

In re: Hound & owl (kinda sounds like a pub?)

Posted on January 02, 2009
“”It won’t come as a surprise that they love nature documentaries, but they also like soaps like Coronation Street and Emmerdale.” via the Telegraph (UK) one of those heartwarming stories that everyone seems to love and half the time I hate, but occasionally even I can get into (come on this is pretty [...

In re: My First Baguette

Posted on January 02, 2009
For whatever reason, recently I got interested in doing some baking. Without having really looked to much into it I started making some cinnamon rolls (to be clear I have done baking before, but not as much yeast leavened baking - with the exception having worked on pizza dough for a while)...

In re: Bialetti revolution

Posted on December 30, 2008
“Tea is said to have fueled the Industrial Revolution; caffeine has been credited with modern physics and chemistry. ?A mathematician,? the prolific, nonsleeping Paul Erdos liked to say, ?is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.? - One Latte, Hold the Milk (NYT) On the subject of Espresso there is not consensus: “We could sit for [...

In re: Blu-ray - what?s its future?

Posted on December 28, 2008
Article in Silcon Alley Insider talking about “An interesting argument by Paul Sweeting on Content Agenda: Blu-ray needs to stop pretending it’s a revolutionary new format like DVD and start acting like what it is…a minor quality improvement that consumers won’t pay any more for...

In re: Late night confession

Posted on December 26, 2008
I might not have mentioned the Wire on here in a long time, probably haven’t thought about it as often as I used to.  So it came as a bit of a surprise a week or two ago I got a late night phone call from a friend of mine, who after having just a  [...

In re: I am Ira Glass (in my car)

Posted on December 26, 2008
File under random: So last spring I went to see the live via satellite show of This American Life (see earlier post), which I thought was very cool. Anyway, I was somehow fascinated by the way he would adjust all the little knobs on his DJ equipment...

In re: LeBron might stick around?

Posted on December 20, 2008
“LeBron James tells The PDs Brian Windhorst he’ll consider signing extension with Cavs this summer” via LeBron James tells The PDs Brian Windhorst hell consider signing extension with Cavs this summer Cleveland, Ohio Sports News, Scores, Teams, Results & More - cleveland...

In re: Irving - the secret ingredient in Vienna hot dogs?

Posted on December 19, 2008
This past week on This American Life (one of my favorite things of the week is listening to this) had a unique show: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes Instead of the regular “each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme” business, this week we throw all that away [...

In re: Is a $1 salary paid all at once or in 4-cent installments?

Posted on December 09, 2008
“It’s paid in a lump sum. Richard Kinder, the CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, gets his $1 dollar salary by check every January?that’s 93 cents, after deducting for state and federal taxes. via Is a $1 salary paid all at once or in 4-cent installments? - By Nina Shen Rastogi - Slate Magazine ...

In re: Coldplay caught stealing notes? Arena district a boom? Bookclubs?

Posted on December 08, 2008
Headed out west for a couple days tomorrow and figured I mention a few interesting things I saw recently, so just a hodgepodge post: Coldplay is being sued for copyright infringement for their song Viva la Vida by guitarist Joe Satriani, (see a YouTube video comparison)  check out his much lesser known song in comparison - [...

In re: Abstract City on Coffee

Posted on December 04, 2008
I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I?m afraid I won?t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious...

In re: Cleveland Clinic to Add Transparency.

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Cleveland Clinic plans to announce this week it has begun publicly reporting the business relationships that any of its 1,800 staff doctors and scientists have with drug and device makers. The clinic, one of the nation?s most prominent medical research centers, is making a complete disclosure of doctors? and researchers? financial ties available on its [...

In re: The long, slow, torturous death of Zima

Posted on November 30, 2008
There are a million ways to slight a rival's manhood, but to suggest that he enjoys Zima is one of the worst. Zima was the original "malternative"?a family of alcoholic beverages that eventually came to include such abominations as Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver?and it has long been considered the very opposite of macho: a [...

In re: Columbus Crew win MLS cup!!!

Posted on November 23, 2008
Well its been a while since I posted, not sure why, I was over in England for an amazing vacation and been busy with work, but here I am back in Columbus prepping some food for my office’s thanksgiving lunch tomorrow while watching the Browns turn in a horrible performance but followed it up by [...

In re: What?s Putin up to these day? Tracking his Knoi his dog

Posted on October 18, 2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s black labrador dog, Koni, Friday was given a collar that will allow her master to track her movements by satellite. via Putin’s dog gets a satellite collar | U.S. | Reuters At a meeting about Russia’s new GLONASS global positioning system Putin was able to get his black lab setup with one [...

In re: Gourmet Magazine has some cheap & good eats in Cleveland

Posted on October 07, 2008
Despite living 2 hours away from Cleveland where I grew up I have been fortunate to be able to stay up to date on the food scene up there and to say the least its a pretty impressive spread of choices that is growing up there despite the tough times.  This is the point of [...

In re: Make-Believe Maverick

Posted on October 06, 2008
On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe...

In re: Chefs Are Taking On the Whole Cow

Posted on October 01, 2008
Mr. Benno butchers his own pigs throughout the year, and spring lamb and venison in season, building degustation menus that proceed through various bits of anatomy. In the Per Se kitchen, pork shanks are braised, pig tails are fried and pork trimmings turned into classic French charcuterie...

In re: Campaign suspension only a ploy?

Posted on September 29, 2008
There was no suspension of his campaign. His surrogates and ads remained on television. Huffington Post bloggers, working the phones, couldn?t find a single McCain campaign office that had gone on hiatus. This ?suspension? ruse was an exact replay of McCain?s self-righteous ?suspension? of the G...

In re: USC goes down already?

Posted on September 26, 2008
Well it wasn’t long that USC held the number one spot. Oregon St. did what Ohio St couldn’t despite being the huge underdog. Leaves the season wide open and who knows rematch at the Rose Bowl anyone? We can hope…       

In re: has McCain worked to hide POW information?

Posted on September 20, 2008
An interesting article in The Nation that follows John McCain’s efforts to keep information concerning POWs that were left behind in Vietnam from reaching the light of day.  The information concerns among other issues the fact that the US may have hundreds of POWs behind in Vietnam who were likely eventually executed as both the [...

In re: Miles of Aisles for a Gallon of Milk?

Posted on September 10, 2008
“After years of building bigger stores ? many larger than a football field and carrying 60,000 items ? retailers are experimenting with radically smaller grocery stores that emphasize prepared meals, fresh produce and grab-and-go drinks.” Miles of Aisles for a Gallon of Milk? Not Here - NYTimes...

In re: Jon Stewart on Sarah Palin?s backers in the media

Posted on September 05, 2008
Worth checking out… if only to hear Karl Roves insanity and Bill ‘Papa Bear’ Orielly act like a fool (again). http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/jon-stewart-ann.html

In re: McCain Retaliates Against CNN For Asking Tough Questions

Posted on September 03, 2008
I can’t say I really ever watch any of the cable news channels unless I am prepared with a trash can to catch my vomit.  Every now and then I do catch a good clip that breaks the mold of weak journalism that enforces the idea that we don’t really need 24 hour news channels...

In re: Indians end triple-A deal with Buffalo

Posted on September 03, 2008
The Cleveland Indians informed Major League Baseball yesterday of their desire to terminate their player development contract with triple-A Buffalo, ending a 14-year partnership with the Bisons. The Indians’ decision appears to clear the way for the club to move its top minor-league affiliate to Columbus to play in new Huntington Park next season...

In re: Cowboy?s stadium. Maybe a bit over the top?

Posted on August 29, 2008
If you hadn’t heard, the Dallas Cowboys are almost done building a new stadium and from the sounds of it it’s a bit over the top.  Sounds specially over-the-top compared to some others, especially when you think that Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium is pretty sparse for the ‘biggest’ team in teh world...

In re: Finally a call re-examine the drinking age?

Posted on August 19, 2008
Two Ohio college presidents are among dozens nationwide who are asking lawmakers to consider whether the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21. College presidents seek to re-examine drinking age - Cleveland Metro News ? The Latest Breaking News, Photos and Stories from The Plain Dealer...

In re: Box wine going upscale?

Posted on August 18, 2008
ITALY?S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government?s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. Op-Ed Contributor - Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com. Box wine should become mainstream (i...

In re: Pandora can?t make money, may pull the plug

Posted on August 18, 2008
Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher [...

In re: tomatoes, basil, green beans!

Posted on August 17, 2008
Cooking tonight with some of the great stuff I’ve been getting from my CSA share. Tonight I made using a baguette from TASI a chevre panini one of my favorite street foods in Paris (goat cheese and tomato. Some salt and pepper voilà) also made some green beans with some shallots, sauted and then finished [...

In re: Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?

Posted on August 17, 2008
?the best campaign team in the universe ever,? working out of ? ?The Daily Show? news-scraper: 117 stories, 73 situation rooms, 26 news tickers,? and promising to bring ?you all the news stories ? first … before it?s even true.? (Quoting the current ad campaign for the election coverage of the Daily Show)  Is Jon [...

In re: Phelps by .01

Posted on August 16, 2008
Unbelievable finish to the 100-meter butterfly last night with Phelps keeping his quest for 8 golds alive with a miraculous comeback.  Cavic who appeared to have the race one was a hair short of the wall allowing Phelps to complete another stroke and hit the wall...

In re: Good bye WOW, Hello TWC and DVR Expander Fun

Posted on August 16, 2008
So if you read the title you probably don’t have a clue what I am talking about here.  Two things, one is I recently changed my cable provider from Wide Open West (WOW) the budget competitor to Time Warner here in Columbus (and other Midwest cities) back to Time Warner Cable (TWC), who despite having [...

In re: Court says copyrights apply even for free software

Posted on August 15, 2008
The free software movement had a tough choice of whether to appeal a lower court decision that held freely distributed software couldn’t be protected through the use of copyright infringement claims (only contract claims).  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D...

In re: Phelps is also a world champion eater

Posted on August 15, 2008
Phelps kick starts his day and his metabolism with three fried-egg sandwiches…Amuse-bouche out of the way, he throws back two cups of coffee and sits down to an omelette - containing five eggs - and a bowl of grits…three slices of French toast…And to finish: three chocolate chip pancakes...

In re: Cablevision?s Network DVR Doesn?t Infringe Copyrights

Posted on August 04, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just overturned a lower court’s March 2007 ruling, which found Cablevision’s Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder infringed on copyrights. The Second Circuit held that offsite DVRs were not copyright violations (could still head to Supreme Court some think), paving the way (for now) for cable companies [...

In re: Pikes place

Posted on August 01, 2008
Just on the way back from a brief visit to Seattle. While there I was able to make it over to one of my favorite spots , Pikes Place Public Market. While it is packed with crowds of tourists, it is also packed with all kinds of great food, from fruit and fish [...

In re: SF liveblog

Posted on July 25, 2008
Live from SF some pics in front of Hills Bros Coffee (don’t worry I am not drinking any)

In re: blogging from above

Posted on July 25, 2008
So I am sitting (when I write, not when it gets uploaded) here halfway between Dallas and San francisco in seat 13F and I thought why not fire off a post. I am on my way to SF for what looks to be a great weekend, visiting great friends in a really great city that [...

In re: overpacked? Brooks Brothers order a bit wasteful.

Posted on July 23, 2008
So a bit ago I ordered some new work shirts from Brooks Brothers online during a big sale they had (their non-iron shirts are amazing). Anyway I also ordered a replacement pair of the little knotted string cuff links (the only kind I’ll wear generally, a more casual and cool looking I think , just [...

In re: mobile blogging

Posted on July 21, 2008
What’s different about this post? Not sure if you will notice any difference between this post and any of my earlier ones. To keep you from guessing I’ll give you the answer… I am blogging from my iPhone (yeah it’s the now antiquated 1st gen)...

In re: Fighting a ticket with GPS?

Posted on July 20, 2008
Speeding tickets are one of the more annoying things to deal with, there is a certain helplessness that most people feel in terms of the ability to fight a supposed radar gun reading.  An interesting case is taking place out west on the subject where a teen was nabbed for speeding, the only difference between [...

In re: Arrests Real; Badge Was Fake

Posted on June 30, 2008
A crazy story that is just to strange to be fake that is written up in the NY Times.  Basically in Missouri a man  known as ?Sergeant Bill,? went around w/ the local police who he convinced that along w/ him they did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he was a [...

In re: Welcome back and Wal-Mart

Posted on June 27, 2008
Well until I get a few posts strung together maybe I shouldn’t welcome myself back to the blog, but I have had enough complaints about my extended recess to remind me to get back on here.  About to head down to DC for a quick weekend trip so I will keep this first post short, [...

In re: Should I buy a used Geo Metro?

Posted on May 30, 2008
So those of you who know me know that I am all for high gas prices.  Yes you read that right, HIGH GAS PRICES, see I said it again.  Why?  Am I nuts?  Well since I was lobbying earlier for a $1 a gallon gas tax (on the coat tail of an article by Thomas [...

In re: Appeasement is talking?

Posted on May 16, 2008
President Bush has recently been making a lot of dumb statements, some are about his sacrifice of giving up the sport of golf to show solidarity with our troops who are fighting and dying overseas (see story), another unfortunate statement he made was in front of the Knesset in Israel comparing Obama’s pledge (not by [...

In re: Foie Gras ban lifted

Posted on May 14, 2008
Chicago has by the same large margin that they instituted a foie gras ban, repealed their ban on the sale of fois gras, something that many, including myself thought was pretty ludicrous.  Why ban foie gras?  well some would argue (and do) that its inhumane, but if Chicago really cares about animals they’d probably be [...

In re: Unassisted triple play

Posted on May 13, 2008
How often does one get to see something that has only happened 14 times in the last 100 years?  Well if your a baseball fan yesterday was just such an opportunity in the second game of the Indians double-header with the Blue Jays (how often do you see double headers?  this one was only due [...

In re: Is it really just the label?

Posted on May 08, 2008
Many of us know that we are influenced by labels, hype, presentation and apparently with wine that holds true as well.  Came across an interesting article in NY Times (discussing a book / study on the subject) yesterday on wine tastes and the influence that price and labels have over how we percieve the tast...

In re: Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 05, 2008
So while a few of us have celebrated Cinco de Mayo from time to time, maybe had the occasional Margarita and some tacos?  Many of us forget what the holiday is anyway, probably most people would guess that it is Mexican independence, it is not, but since I couldn’t remember what it was (aside from [...

In re: ?Crybaby? is bad for business

Posted on May 04, 2008
In game six of the Wizards v. Cavaliers first round playoff game some Washington Wizards fan’s came equipped with ‘Crybaby 23′ t-shirts, directed at LeBron James who had been fouled hard throughout the series and who Wizards fans was soft...

In re: This American Life - Live

Posted on May 02, 2008
Last night I went and saw a ‘one night only’ showing via satellite of the This American Life stage show being beamed from a New York auditorium to satellite equipped movie theaters around the country. (see story about the event here)  The turn out in Columbus was pretty small - although apparently some locations sold out...

In re: Energy policy? nope

Posted on April 30, 2008
This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country. (Describing the results of putting in a gas tax holiday - resulting in increased consumption) I just mentioned the gas [...

In re: ?This is just to say?

Posted on April 24, 2008
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast.   Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.                                                   – William Carlos Williams   This is just to say is a famous [...

In re: Nintendos at the ballpark?

Posted on April 23, 2008
I love baseball and not much could get better than a night out at a baseball game with friends and a few beers.  Nintendo is trying to change all that (for the better - lets remember that Japanese love baseball as much as anyone) by introducing for their hand held video game system the Ninentdo [...

In re: Neo imperialism

Posted on April 19, 2008
So there can be no doubt in anyones mind that the United States has moved into Iraq for a really long time - possibly forever - as the new US Embassy clearly shows. Nothing says permanent U.S. occupation of Iraq more than the construction of the largest embassy in the world, a $474-million compound with 27 [...

In re: McCain?s gas tax holiday = dumb idea

Posted on April 17, 2008
I just heard about this on my drive home today (thankfully while on the subject of gas its only a 5 minute trip), anyway John McCain the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has proposed a summer gas tax holiday, meaning the 18% or so federal gas excise tax would be discontinued for the summer so as [...

In re: Extreme Savers

Posted on April 17, 2008
Uber saver Mike Hegarty, a CPA in Des Moines, Iowa, says he saves $500 a year on meat by purchasing whole animals from local farms. In case you’ve never done it and you’re having a hard time visualizing it in your garage, when you buy a quarter of a cow from a local farm, a butcher [...

In re: ?Monsanto?s Harvest of Fear?

Posted on April 11, 2008
Most Americans know Monsanto because of what it sells to put on our lawns? the ubiquitous weed killer Roundup. What they may not know is that the company now profoundly influences?and one day may virtually control?what we put on our tables. For most of its history Monsanto was a chemical giant, producing some of the [...

In re: What went wrong?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Observers agree that fuel prices were perhaps the single biggest factor in Skybus’ demise, but they disagree on some other points. Some say the company wasn’t managed properly.”  Columbus Dispatch “How could it happen” Skybus burst onto the scene as the newest low cost US airline last year formed in the model of Ryan Air and [...

In re: Spicy Baconator

Posted on April 04, 2008
The Spicy Baconator is an action-packed burger, but part of its success has to go to its hip name. It’s even cooler if you say it with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. - Drive Through Gourmet, The Houston Chronicle So for those that limit there extracurricular activites to reading In re: I appologize for my absence, [...

In re: Why so hard to renew?

Posted on April 04, 2008
So we live in an era where I can renew my library books merely with a mouse click (even if they are already overdue - basically stops the bleeding) yet for some reason I still end up with overdue books and massive (by library standards I don’t know) fines...

In re: Shouldn?t he know this?

Posted on March 21, 2008
One of the big plus factors behind McCain’s in the upcoming presidential election is his supposed expertise on foreign affairs and knowledge from top secret senate briefings over the years. Not trying to be ticky-tacky here but I must say I was a bit concerned when recently in a press conference Joe Lieberman corrects [...

In re: Is $400 million for a helicopter democratic?

Posted on March 19, 2008
We live in a democracy that has changed a lot, with the addition of scores of security measures to protect our president at a huge cost.  As we became world policeman we invited more than domestic malcontents to make the president and his entourage a target...

In re: Columbus No. 1 ?Up-And-Coming Tech City?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Forbes Magazine has published a list of the Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities and Columbus, Ohio of all places tops out the list at number one.  Why you say?  “No. 1: Columbus, Ohio. In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio’s largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U...

In re: Ohio vs. NAFTA

Posted on March 12, 2008
The campaign has brought up (for Democrats at least) strong language against NAFTA (although you can’t get Hillary or Barrack to say they’d pull out) they do say that they would use the power to pull out to re-negotiate it with Canada and Mexico to include fairer terms (does Canada have a competitive advantage because [...

In re: Its 3am. Reading into this a bit too much?

Posted on March 11, 2008
You probably know about the White House phone call ad that Hillary Clinton put out prior to winning the Ohio and Texas primaries. Many people have been debating the ad (I thought the one on Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty good). Anyway, most people will agree that it is a negative [...

In re: Why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers?

Posted on March 10, 2008
An interesting case from the other side of the pond (fictional mind you) from column of the late Miles Kingston, humor columnist for the Independent (via Volkoh conspiracy blog) : “A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more than [...

In re: Why We Fight

Posted on March 10, 2008
” We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes...

In re: Could the Indians AAA be coming to Columbus?

Posted on March 02, 2008
As a Indians fan I have been thrilled by the way Buffalo has been run as a AAA affiliate.  The Indians over the last 15 years have really benefited by an amazing farm system thats crown jewel has been the Bisons.  Columbus has the county owned Clippers whose old stadium (current stadium for one more [...

In re: Jarvik out as Lipitor Pitchman

Posted on February 27, 2008
If you remember my post on Dr. Robert Jarvik and RX advertising (In re: Rx advertising - Liptor and Dr. Jarvik) you’ll recall that he was mostly a celeb indorser of sorts and that his medical creditenals were dubious at best.  Well now in the wake of an investigation into the advertising by the House Energy [...

In re: Secret Shopping for CR

Posted on February 27, 2008
“He enters the supermarket carrying a Styrofoam cooler full of dry ice (to keep the ice cream cold), a pair of gloves (to keep his fingers warm), and a flashlight (to help him see the inkless indentations on the bottom of each container that show where and when it was manufactured)...

In re: Cultural Diplomacy

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Philharmonic accepted the North’s invitation to play last year with the encouragement of the U.S. government at a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff involving the two countries. … Ahead of their arrival, North Korea was even tearing down the anti-American posters that line the streets of Pyongyang, Mehta said Sunday, citing [...

In re: From Cleveland the last Democratic debate?

Posted on February 26, 2008
Tonight at Cleveland State University Clinton and Obama lace up their gloves for what might be their last debate.  While I gotta be honest and say I have really tuned out of the debates until last week when I watched some of the Texas one.  To be fair I’ve always thought that having lots of [...

In re: Pavlik defends Youngstown

Posted on February 17, 2008
If you don’t know who Kelly Pavlik is your either not a boxing fan (highly likely in our era) or your not from Ohio where Pavlik has a cultlike following especially in his native Youngstown in Northeast Ohio where he is from and has remained. His surprising rise to boxing greatness is only slightly [...

In re: High Cost of Free Parking

Posted on February 15, 2008
I finished up Pillars of the Earth the other day and instead of starting in on another page turner (Pillars was just such a book, despite the topic of being about the building of a cathedral the book moves really fast and you get pretty taken into the back stabbing, the rivalries, and the crazy [...

In re: EPL going global

Posted on February 08, 2008
Despite fan opposition already (domestic) and some manager opposition its looking likely that in three years time the English Premier League will be hosting 10 matches (a whole extra 39th round) overseas.  Larger in scope then the NFLs who has already started the trend with a regular season match being held in London and another [...

In re: Finally on to the important stuff

Posted on February 08, 2008
Roger Clemens is testifying about his steroid use (or supposed lack of), Arlen Specter wants an investigation into why the NFL allowed the Patriots to destroy evidence of their cheating (see Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think), and Sen...

In re: Feburary Warm

Posted on February 06, 2008
Out last night walking the dog in just a light rain jacket (dripping trees from all the rain) but it must have still been 60 degrees at 9:30pm.  The air was laced with the Wonder Bread factory’s baking and the sky was lit from behind in a somewhat surreal fashion - kinda in disbelief that [...

In re: Cleveland Clinic has gone global

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Cleveland Clinic is by far and away the biggest brand in Cleveland and the largest employers (probably the biggest real estate holder, but I don’t know about that one - they do seem to grow by a block or two along Carnegie and Euclid Ave every year as well as branches in Florida for [...

In re: Lowbrow Brewing?

Posted on January 28, 2008
“Should a cup of coffee should be a rich, sensory experience or a cheap chemical fix? Like most things, it depends on what you?re willing to pay.” Dwell’s Kitchen blog Caffeine is the worlds most used (or abused?) drug and for many of us we get our daily fix from coffee, although there is an ever [...

In re: S&N sold for £7.8bn

Posted on January 25, 2008
Scottish & Newcastle, brewers of one of my favorite beers Newcastle just got added to the list of brewers worldwide who are now part of massive conglomerate brewers  (well actually split between two Carlsberg and Heineken going at this in a joint venture)...

In re: New world economic order

Posted on January 24, 2008
Just got back from a brief but enjoyable trip to London, always enjoy getting to walk around that city and amazing to see how international it is even compared to 10 years ago.  Anyway, as you all well know the American economy is struggling under the problems of the sub prime lending problems, and it [...

In re: How not to attend a football match

Posted on January 23, 2008
Half the reason I planned a trip to London was to go watch Arsenal play, the north London football club (soccer) that I follow. Playing away at Fulham meant a less then competitive game (Fulham is facing relegation with their bottom 3 of the table spot) and while Fulham plays at Craven Cottage, one [...

In re: Wolfgang Puck Express Review

Posted on January 17, 2008
Wolfgang Puck may have ushered in our era of celebrity chefs and he has run with that making his name by putting it everywhere he can think, including a chain of fast casual restaurants. In Columbus he has one on Lane ave (as well as another in the airport one of my earlier introductions)...

In re: Wired in on the Media

Posted on January 12, 2008
The new and final season of The Wire (its fifth) is in full swing already (one episode down, nine to go - although you can watch a week early on HBO inDemand so I am two weeks in). Much has been written on the new season (for those who follow the show that is) [...

In re: NHL goes outside

Posted on January 01, 2008
If your not a hockey fan you may have missed a great sporting event today, the NHL winter classic, an outside game (the 2nd time ever for the NHL) was played in the Buffalo Bills football stadium with 70,000 plus fans in attendance for the Sabers vs. Penguins open to the elements...

In re: Does Starbucks actually help mom & pop coffee shops?

Posted on December 28, 2007
I find Starbucks an interesting company to read about, I’ve talked before about the economics of Starbucks an almost entirely corporate owned empire compared to the fast food empires that tend to be franchises.  Well, the newest article of interest on Starbucks I’ve come across is in Slate and discusses the subject of whether Starbucks [...

In re: Flex games?

Posted on December 27, 2007
Flex games are new to the NFL, allowing Sunday Night Football (replacing Monday night as the premier game showcase) to shift the time slot (to primetime) of a game in order to get the best game out there (with complex rules on which games they can touch) this is to prevent getting stuck as in [...

In re: NCAA limits in game blog posting

Posted on December 21, 2007
Live Blogging is something I am not really too familiar with, but the NCAA is apparently familiar enough with it to come up w/ some crazy new limits on reporters blog posting (they have apparently thrown a reporter out of a game for too many posts already)...

In re: Coffee hypocrisy

Posted on December 16, 2007
So I’ve been accused of being a hypocrite before, being a ‘flip flopper’ or the like and I say yeah, well I think thats really not that bad a thing. What does it mean? it means that I don’t become so entrenched in my view that I am not willing to change when [...

In re: How America Lost the War on Drugs

Posted on December 02, 2007
I can’t say I read Rolling Stone much these days, but every now and then some great writing comes out of it (the great book Fast Food Nation got its start in the magazine, as well as Eric Schlosser’s second book Reefer Madness which partially covers the problem with the drug war in America)  Anyway [...

In re: We forgot.

Posted on December 01, 2007
Following the holocaust the world said ‘never again’ and we believed it.  That is until genocide repeated itself again and again, with the world often doing nothing or waiting and waiting.  The UN was at the center of the attempt of the post world war international regime that was supposed to allow collective action to [...

In re: The next Iron Chef?

Posted on November 21, 2007
Cleveland native and famed restaurateur and chef Michael Symon (of Lola and Lolita fame) has won a televised competition to choose the ‘Next Iron Chef’ on the Food Network.  While this is probably old news to Ohio ‘foodies’ and probably foodies around the country, and despite hearing about it on the day it happened it [...

In re: Supreme Court to hear 2nd amendment case

Posted on November 20, 2007
Been very slow on the posts recently, not really for a lack of subject matter, but rather time as work has been busy combined with a lot of travel over the last few weeks, including San Francisco and San Antonio, both places I’ve never been before and an unintended night in Memphis where Northwest Airlines graciously [...