From Extraordinary Observations
March 11, 2010 at 6:15 pm
The New York Times dining section has an outstanding article about coffee in the big apple. Even if you're not a New-Yorker, it's worth a read.(from Flickr user indieink)It's worth ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 10, 2010 at 6:21 pm
The weather has finally gotten to the point where I can make the 8-mile bike ride to work in the morning. On Monday it was still pretty cold, so there weren't many other bicyclists ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 9, 2010 at 6:04 pm
This is a comment that a friend of the blog emailed to me yesterday:Here's something I noticed on Saturday night: I stopped at the Westlake Giant Eagle at around 9:30pm and found ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 8, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I graduated from high school in the spring of 2005. In the months prior to commencement, I applied to five universities, got accepted at three, rejected at two, and ultimately ... (
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March 7, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I snapped this photo last Friday, around 2:00 in the afternoon.Anyone who has lived, worked, or visited Cleveland Heights, Ohio will probably tell you that the local police are
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 5, 2010 at 9:05 am
Earlier this week I took my bike and rode over to Legacy Village, one of two "lifestyle centers" in suburban Cleveland. I've been to Legacy Village before. I don't visit often. ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 3, 2010 at 4:55 pm
This post on public transit by Yglesias makes many good points, including a response to the argument that public transit is a socialist ploy and infringement on liberty:But of ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 2, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I'm very loyal to my favorite brands. I buy both my morning cup of joe and my beans at Phoenix Coffee. I recommend a Great Lakes beer whenever someone ask for a tip on a microbrew. ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
March 1, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Between December 1st and yesterday, I biked 285 miles (which I tracked using the awesome website dailymile). Almost all of the riding came in the form of simple "around town" trips ... (
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February 28, 2010 at 1:15 pm
What do you think of this headline?..Burger King to sell Starbucks’ Seattle’s Best brew -ReutersIf you’re a coffee snob like myself, you’re probably thinking: “nice job destroying
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 25, 2010 at 6:10 pm
David Alpert worte a nice piece at Greater Greater Washington about the attitude toward bicyclists in Virginia. What caught my attention is one of the arguments that Virginia legislators ... (
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February 24, 2010 at 6:01 pm
A colleague of mine recently offered an interesting perspective on the ‘extra bedroom problem’, or the phenomenon where people buy houses that are unnecessarily large in order
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 23, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I watched the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? on cable over the weekend. I hadn't seen the film since 2006 when it was first released in theaters. It's fascinating to listen ... (
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February 22, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Having spent so many years of my life involved in high school and college policy debate, I felt obliged to write something about Joe Miller’s book Cross-X. This book has been on
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 21, 2010 at 3:13 pm
It's been a long winter, for a lot of reasons. As if the many cities that got pummeled with snow haven't suffered enough, denialists have taken the opportunity to argue "proof" ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 19, 2010 at 6:09 pm
A reader emailed this picture to me recently (click to enlarge), it's really an incredible question to think about.Scan this blog's archives and you'll see that I used to believe ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 18, 2010 at 5:15 pm
It sucks. But you already knew that. In light of the situation, I'm participating in The Senior Series over at the excellent Ms. Career Girl blog. My first guest post is up today. ... (
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February 17, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Mike McIntyre writes that Cleveland’s RTA will finally get rid of the “Best Transit System in North America 2007″ stickers that have been plastered all over buses, trains, and
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 16, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I've been spending a lot of time in coffee shops lately, and have noticed that there are some common issues that keep many of them from being more efficient. In other words, if ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 15, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Last week I went on a mini-rampage against Forbes's "Worst Winter Cities" list and the Plain Dealer's sloppy reporting on the issue. Yesterday, Ted Diadiun, the PD's reader representative, ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 14, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Via @DonaldShoup comes this article about city employees losing their "free parking" privileges in San Francisco. For years, government employees have enjoyed nonenforcement of ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 12, 2010 at 11:45 am
When I first wrote about my beef with "best of" lists last summer, I suggested that local news outlets, for their own good, ought to stop going wild over the nonsensical fluff ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 11, 2010 at 6:08 pm
I found the Census Bureau's Super Bowl commercial to be sufficiently entertaining (at least compared to what you might expect from one of the stereotypically most boring agencies ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 10, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Michael Lewyn has a nice little post up at Planetizen about the functional problems with suburban office parks.I can think of no reason why an office building (other than, perhaps, ... (
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From Extraordinary Observations
February 9, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I think just about every college-aged person on Twitter has made some comment about this article in the past few days. The premise is simple enough: more women go to college than ... (
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