August 7, 2008
Personal Health - Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions - NYTimes.com
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July 12, 2008
1. Computer dies
2. Computer pronounced dead
3. Much debate over new shop computer
4. New Mac Mini
5. Happy return post via the Tumblr dashboard widget
6. Good to be back.
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June 27, 2008
Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source I mean, c’mon, I think we all saw this coming. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

I mean, c’mon, I think we all saw this coming. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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June 14, 2008
A Truck That Runs on Coffee Grounds (and How Wood-Gas Powers Cars With Garbage) : Gas 2. All you people who consider yourselves eco-holier-than-thou just because you use coffee grounds in your mulch can bow down to this guy. I always knew coffee would save the world, I just figured it would be via the stimulation of the intellect. It would seem coffee can have a more hands on approach. Thanks to James Hoffman over on the Jimseven.com blog for the link.

A Truck That Runs on Coffee Grounds (and How Wood-Gas Powers Cars With Garbage) : Gas 2.

All you people who consider yourselves eco-holier-than-thou just because you use coffee grounds in your mulch can bow down to this guy. I always knew coffee would save the world, I just figured it would be via the stimulation of the intellect. It would seem coffee can have a more hands on approach. Thanks to James Hoffman over on the Jimseven.com blog for the link.

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June 12, 2008
A Thomist sounding very Platonic.
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June 9, 2008
Sweet! I can finally say good-bye to my long term co-dependent relationship with Sprint and feel the sweet 3G love on a new iPhone. Now if they would just make those native apps a little more friendly to GTD…

Sweet!

I can finally say good-bye to my long term co-dependent relationship with Sprint and feel the sweet 3G love on a new iPhone. Now if they would just make those native apps a little more friendly to GTD…

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June 6, 2008
Gas Prices??
Here’s a nice intro to the economics behind gas pricing. It is a good primer to have at hand to debunk the rhetoric of people running for office and making promises they could never keep.
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Saw these machs over at flying thud and it made me sick. I have got to update my pouring skills.
Saw these machs over at flying thud and it made me sick. I have got to update my pouring skills.
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May 26, 2008
Nice try Mr. McCain, but unless that’s a double shot of Reagan Kool-aid, I don’t think it’s going to help you get my vote. It would be interesting to see what the coffeehouse drink of choice for each candidate is. Coffeeboy Network- activate! Make it so.
Nice try Mr. McCain, but unless that’s a double shot of Reagan Kool-aid, I don’t think it’s going to help you get my vote. It would be interesting to see what the coffeehouse drink of choice for each candidate is. Coffeeboy Network- activate! Make it so.
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TED | Talks | Bono: TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa (video) Say what you want about Bono. Say what you want about the humanist elite and their preaching to their own choir over at TED. But, What Bono says here, about Africa, is very true and a good reality check for all us rich American Catholic types. Plus, if you look carefully, he’s still wearing that black rosary that JPII gave him. “Am I buggin’ ya? I dunt mean ta bug ya.”

TED | Talks | Bono: TED Prize wish: Join my call to action on Africa (video)

Say what you want about Bono. Say what you want about the humanist elite and their preaching to their own choir over at TED. But, What Bono says here, about Africa, is very true and a good reality check for all us rich American Catholic types. Plus, if you look carefully, he’s still wearing that black rosary that JPII gave him. “Am I buggin’ ya? I dunt mean ta bug ya.”

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May 17, 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Music ‘can enhance wine taste’ And people still wonder about all the emphasis Plato put on music in The Republic. It would be interesting to do this study with seasoned wine tasters and sommeliers, to see if the swing was as wide. Also, it would be cool to see what role conversation plays in it, or arguing and debate. I’ve drank a lot of fantastic wine while being forced to listen to that damn Rod Stewart’s “Great American Songs” travesty and it still tasted pretty damn good. Could it have tasted 60% better to Vivaldi or Jeff Buckley? I may never know. 

BBC NEWS | UK | Music ‘can enhance wine taste’

And people still wonder about all the emphasis Plato put on music in The Republic. It would be interesting to do this study with seasoned wine tasters and sommeliers, to see if the swing was as wide. Also, it would be cool to see what role conversation plays in it, or arguing and debate. I’ve drank a lot of fantastic wine while being forced to listen to that damn Rod Stewart’s “Great American Songs” travesty and it still tasted pretty damn good. Could it have tasted 60% better to Vivaldi or Jeff Buckley? I may never know. 

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May 16, 2008
Geurrilla Marketing at its finest!! So, what do you do when, after surviving several months of construction in front of your coffeehouse, a giant festival comes to town and they put a portable espresso bar in a position that everyone has to walk past to even get to your shop? You get creative.

Geurrilla Marketing at its finest!!

So, what do you do when, after surviving several months of construction in front of your coffeehouse, a giant festival comes to town and they put a portable espresso bar in a position that everyone has to walk past to even get to your shop? You get creative.

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May 13, 2008
The New Criterion
Wow, seems like providence has handed me something of a cornocopia of great writing on education today. I’ve only skimmed these, but check out the The New Criterion online. More great thoughts about Newman’s “Idea of a University” by Roger Kimball and a great article by the always insightful and prophetic Victor Davis Hanson. I need to get a subscription for the shop!
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FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Personality, Place, and Catholic Education
This a great reflection on the personal nature of the true mission of Catholic education, using B16’s address to Catholic educators as a launchpoint and Newman as the inspiration. Good stuff.
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May 11, 2008
Happy Mother’s Day!!!! Continuing the visual theme, here’s a shot of me and my mommy on the day that I was declared among those who know.

Happy Mother’s Day!!!!

Continuing the visual theme, here’s a shot of me and my mommy on the day that I was declared among those who know.

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