Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in consumer on 12 April 2008 - 8 ניסן 5768
A standard joke for the Orthodox is that they get to buy their Easter Candy at a discount price. My first Pascha at Holy Trinity Cathedral, I cleaned out the local Walgreens supply of remaindered Cadbury Eggs. The only problem being that most of the upscale goodies were gone.
Not any more!
Buy Chocolate Easter [...]
Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash: “I Woke Up With Brown Spots On My Teeth”.
I’ll be throwing mine out this morning.
Props to Brodie for sending the link.
Posted in consumer, politics on 1 March 2008 - 25 אדר א' 5768
I filled up the car today (32 mpg) and gas cost $3.40 a gallon. Allowing for dollar exchange and litres/gallons conversion, that’s only 85¢ less than Canadian gas… which is, basically, taxes. Thus gas is now pretty damn near close to the same in both countries.
And yet I just heard, today, [...]
Posted in consumer, jocularity on 26 February 2008 - 21 אדר א' 5768
In the NY Times today, breaking news - A Nation Briefly Without Starbucks :
At 5:30 p.m. Eastern time today, all 7,100 Starbucks locations in the United States will close their doors for three hours.
Immediate ramifications stretch far beyond the lack of strong coffee in dozens of permutations, though that was certainly the most important [...]
Posted in consumer on 14 February 2008 - 9 אדר א' 5768
Jew/Carrot asks a serious question:
Is anyone else just getting bored by our (meaning Jews, meaning Americans, meaning Israelis etc.) collective ignorance and/or defiance about how the animals that give their lives to feed us are treated?
Think of it in terms not of “kosher” or not. Think rather in terms of cruelty. Farmed fish in tight [...]
Posted in Buffalo, Judaism, consumer, emergent on 12 February 2008 - 7 אדר א' 5768
On Monday, the New York Times‘ Andrew Revkin blogged the end of the 1950s - or at least he blogged a movie preview about the topic: The End of Suburbia
Revkin promises to blog attempts to “uninvent” Suburbia. The movies to which he links, which are now on my “must see” list, seem very clear about [...]
Posted in consumer on 7 February 2008 - 2 אדר א' 5768
Ideas and a daily menu from The Rt. Rev. James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool
Posted in asheville, consumer on 5 February 2008 - 30 שבט 5768
Simply give it away and ask for a donation
The food varies daily, and reflects the school’s multicultural population — about a third of its students speak English as a second language. This week alone the menu includes buriyani rice, Japanese pancakes, Singapore noodles and Moroccan hot pot. Like the five other outlets, the kitchen is [...]
Posted in Judaism, consumer on 2 February 2008 - 27 שבט 5768
Creation, Environment and Torah. Integral living. Yes, it’s about Judaism. But how can the rest learn from this - especially Christians who claim to revere the same text?
Starbucks moves to offer an 8oz cup of brewed coffee for $1. This “innovation” in the market is, if I remember correctly, exactly the way Coffee used to be before Starbucks took over the market.
I seem to remember coffee (light, no sugar) a buttered roll cost me $1.50 in NYC, c1990.
The free refills, btw… [...]
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