February 2012
““My boss won’t let me make espressos,” says the barista....”
– Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com
Wow. That’s some serious ommitment to quality.
“The Chabadniks, on the other hand, greet Oprah with the sublimely cheerful...”
– Oprah Visits a Hasidic Family, and They Wonder: Oprah Who? – Tablet Magazine
“Telling his side of the story, Mr. Savitsky, dressed in a chef’s shirt, said, “I...”
– N.Y. Caterer and Ex-Workers Fight Over Kosher Compliance - NYTimes.com
Dreadful.
“In a newly launched Facebook page, Israeli fans of U.S. pop megastar Madonna are...”
– Israeli fans beg PM to hold off Iran attack over Madonna show - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Let’s just pause on this for a minute.
“It’s almost like we need another word. Startup is a great one, but I feel like...”
– All or something - (37signals)
This.
Is Menu and Hours a startup? No, Menu and Hours is a product that I’m building a business around to make something awesome and sell it to people who will find value in it.
“I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you...”
– Ellen DeGeneres Responds to JC Penney Controversy | NBC 10 Philadelphia
“If you want to step up to the next level in any area of your life, you have to...”
– Gratitude Twenty-Four Seven (via mellemusic)
“How important are apps in this new economy? According to new research from...”
– Apps create 466,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2008
“Four is hardly a trend but it is interesting that the death and biography of the...”
– The lessons of Steve Jobs
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Culture Desk: M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized : The New Yorker
Timmy "Too Hype" Benson
littleknownblackhistoryfacts:
First person to get a party started right, and also quickly.
“Beginning in 2008, a group of female engineers at Google in Israel decided to...”
– Official Google Blog: Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering
January 2012
“If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place....”
– Business & Technology | AP Interview: JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
“With our brain power, and Jewish wealth,” he says, “we can do wonders.”
– Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal on the benefits of Israeli integration into the Middle Eastern economy. (via journalofajournalist)
Well….
“I actually think we’re all divine beings. I’m not well versed enough...”
– Charles Stick
Garden & Gun February/March 2012
“Earning the position of the honest broker is time-consuming and expensive....”
– Seth’s Blog: The honest broker
The Archive Muckrakers: Heroic Act of Resistance... →
ifounditinthearchives:
COLLEGE PARK, MD. — It was one of the most celebrated acts of resistance by a Jewish woman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp: an actress stripped naked and about to be gassed pulled a gun from a notoriously brutal guard and shot him dead.
A 33-year-old Polish timber merchant…
“The penguin … just defecated on the floor.”
“Actually, senator, I believe...”
– Kentucky Senate President David Williams and Senate President Pro Tem Katie Stine. Stine was presenting a resolution to honor an aquarium. (via officialssay)
Menu and Hours: On Chains →
menuandhours:
Someone recently mentioned that she hopes a restaurant called Chuy’s will be included in Menu and Hours and she was a little unhappy when I said it won’t be because it’s a chain. There is only one Chuy’s in Louisville so perhaps it doesn’t seem like a chain to some folks but in my mind it is…
“If you want a symbol of how deeply the liquor trade has mattered to American...”
– Five Books: Film, Booze, Ben Marcus, Tony Judt, and More – Tablet Magazine
My people, in more ways than one.
Menu and Hours: A Few Post Kickstarter... →
menuandhours:
Since the Kickstarter project ended successfully a week and a half ago I have finalized arrangements with the designer David Yeiser and the developer Jeff Jackson. I’ve also drafted brilliant local artist Matt Dobson to design the Menu and Hours t-shirts for Kickstarter backers who chose that…
Decided to do the Menu and Hours blog on Tumblr.
“What’s satisfying about Apple’s current success is that it’s proof that you can...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Watching Apple Win the World
“Wild Turkey? It’s GMO-free because it’s so cool. No, wait. Actually...”
– Grist investigation finds GMO-free bourbon is a rare spirit - Environment - MiamiHerald.com
“The Talmud tells the religious man, in effect: If you have a problem, you deal...”
– Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Modesty Fight - NYTimes.com
“Put more plainly, the Talmud says: It’s your problem, sir; not hers.”
