101 Best Restaurants in America. Yum and yum.
Starting at Canlis in Seattle.
Jessie Char and Jason Permenter launch the fantastic new podcast ‘Hour of Pour’ on the Mule Radio Syndicate. They talk about how the end up as designers in San Francisco and how they work has taken over the life. Sound incredible West Coast to me.
Neven Mrgan:
I wasn’t making parts for machines that saved people’s lives; I was interrupting people’s dinners. But I had enough time and energy to pursue my design interests after work, and I could hang out with people on my break, and I commuted to a respectable little urban plaza instead of the middle-of-nowhere warehouse where machining shops are usually located.
I helped ruin American factories. I’m not proud of it, but I’d do it again.
I think we all have stories like this to tell.
I remember as a kid visiting the printing business my Dad worked at and being shown the big Heidelberg printers that were impressive, but dirty. Then we were lead upstairs to watch the people use the early scanners and computers to modify photos and I thought the future just had arrived and I had to get a taste of it.
Yes, at some point in my work career I also worked at an assembly line, putting car batteries into Mercedes-Benz E-Classes but it was commonly understood that the job to aspire to, to dream of and work for, was a job upstairs, at a desk, behind a screen. A clean job. One that would allow you to live and enjoy life outside your 40 hr workweek.
I am now purposely choosing to fight against laziness, slothfulness, the cheap trick to do less and complain more.
I’ll be joining Seth!
Next week Alpine Experience is sending me and Seth up to White Pass to go snowboarding… or being made fun of. I haven’t snowboarded in years….!
Either way, we’re going to have a blast and are taking the cameras with us for an epic episode of ’Go Outside And Play‘.
Slate’s funny article on German’s selecting “shitstorm” as the best English contribution to the German language in 2011.
We checked to see if a contest for German additions to the American vocabulary exists, but U.S. culture appears to be predictably insular in this regard. If only more of us would get over the angst we seem to have about foreign culture from kindergarten on, maybe we could make the many foreign borrowings of English a bigger part of the zeitgeist.
A movie about Nazi’s in space combines two things I can’t stand watching: the sci-fi genre and nazi movies.
It’s 2018, and an American space mission discovers that there’s a huge colony of Nazis on the dark side of the moon, living in a swastika-shaped castle and bent on invading Earth. The comedy ‘Iron Sky’ has proved a surprise hit at the Berlin Film Festival.
Must watch this!
Thank you Whitney.
50,000 kilowatt hours of power could be sourced by “recycling” a dead whale that stranded on a beach in Belgium. A alternative energy company offered to ‘take care of it’.
Awesome.
Both John and Amy Jane Gruber shop by at Mule to talk out of their arses to delight to your ears, as they say. Good shows.
“My boss won’t let me make espressos,” says the barista. “I need a year more, maybe two, before he’s ready to let customers drink my shots undiluted by milk. And I’ll need another whole year of practice after that if I want to be able to froth milk for cappuccinos.”
“Where Facebook is for telling what we’ve done, and Twitter about what we’re doing right now, Pinterest is about what we are going to do.”
A thought.
Salt and Fat is a new audio podcast by Neven Mrgan and Jim Ray on Mule Radio.
Fill your belly and your mind with a podcast about cooking and enjoying food.
And I thank you for it!
” If the sun goes out, we’re hosed anyway”.
The American military will close two military bases in the German state of Bavaria by 2015 as part of a planned drawdown of forces stationed in Europe.
I was interviewed by Marcus DeHart on his podcast ‘You Can’t Judge A Book’.
Well, I was just reading ‘Making Ideas Happen‘ by Scott Belsky of ‘The 99 Percent’. A book for the entrepreneur, contractor and all around modern business person.
Have a listen and read the book.
The surviving Monty Python members are set to reunite for new movie.
Amazing!
Bill Gates labelled capitalism phenomenal system:
“We’re going through a tough period, but there is no other system that has improved humanity.
Ballard residents eat themselves through every restaurants in Ballard. Great blog.
S is for Schwab Klaus Schwab has been Mr Davos since founding the WEF in 1971 with the motto “committed to improving the state of the world”. Schwab, who was born in Germany in 1938, said last week that capitalism, in its current form, “no longer fits the world around us”.
Must read for me, since I want to go there pretty soon… Who’s inviting?