Category Archives: Too good to miss

Start me up

Posted on 20 September, 2013 by jb

Doesn’t get much better than this….

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The Hemingway (and other) burgers

Posted on 19 September, 2013 by jb

PAPA’S FAVORITE HAMBURGER. There is no reason why a fried hamburger has to turn out gray, greasy, paper-thin and tasteless. You can add all sorts of goodies and flavors to the ground beef — minced mushrooms, cocktail sauce, minced garlic … Continue reading →

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Random acts of kindness…

Posted on 19 September, 2013 by jb

Too. Cool.

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Pull my finger….er..touch my balls..

Posted on 19 September, 2013 by jb

..and I’ll tell you the time.

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With mates like this…..

Posted on 18 September, 2013 by jb
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“Can you tell people that we make $2.13 an hour?”

Posted on 16 September, 2013 by jb

  This is kind of cool….

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Now that winter’s almost upon us….

Posted on 7 September, 2013 by jb

..it’s time to hone those snow-clearing skills. A toe-loop with a double axel in this case, methinks. I normally slip in a Biellmann spin. Either that or a Salchow jump. Showoff that I am….

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This.Is.Marketing.

Posted on 7 September, 2013 by jb

Stumbled over this couple in an article in (AFAIKR) the Frankfurter Allgemeine about young vintners sometime last year. They have 3ha (which is bugger all) in Stutttgart, limit their yield to achieve better wines and brand them themselves “RUX” (from … Continue reading →

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Cranberries

Posted on 4 September, 2013 by jb

Jason Kottke writes: This video seems like it was made specifically for kottke.org. In the first half of it, you learn how cranberries are harvested. In the second half, there’s gorgeous HD slo-mo footage of wakeskating through a cranberry bog. … Continue reading →

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You’ve been Vinnied

Posted on 29 August, 2013 by jb

Vinnie Jones is an ex-footballer with an aggressive streak that bordered on the psychopathic. Gets booked in the first 3 seconds of a match. Sent off goodness knows how often Actor in Guy Ritchie’s “Lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels” … Continue reading →

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