July 2010
10 posts
“WHEELAN: Well, I don’t like the baggage fees any more than you do, but I...”
– Charlie Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, on why he sued United for $25, even though the filing fee was $50.
Vengeance for airline passenger | Marketplace From American Public Media
Culinary Trends I'm Opposed To
Back in April, I visited Olivia in Chicago. As part of my visit, we dined at Schwa, the uber avant garde restaurant located on Ashland in Wicker Park. Here’s her write-up of the experience, which covered nine courses and three bottles of wine.
The final course was certainly the worst of the night, a celery root panna cotta that was left pretty much untouched by each of the diners in the...
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Book #21: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Finally! I’ve made it to the end of the Blomkwist/Salander trilogy with the massively long The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Dan’s mom Cindy was nice enough to mail me the British translation, so I wouldn’t need to purchase a hardcover version for myself. This book is a huge, burdensome hardcover — which is all the more reason to read it quickly, I think.
Like the...
“Picky eaters tend to gravitate to certain foods, including blander products that...”
– No Age Limit on Picky Eating - WSJ.com
Um, because french fries and chicken fingers are super delicious?
In all seriousness though, I always worry that if I had kids, they might somehow turn out to be picky eaters. Interesting piece about how some adults never shed their picky...
Jeffrey Campbell Shoes →
Here is a super first world girl problem — when a favorite designer completely abandons your aesthetic.
I used to LOVE Jeffrey Campbell shoes. Quirky, cool, a little irreverent, but generally wearable to work. Today, most of what they’re offering is at the best, trashy and disappointing, and at the worst, kinda just ugly.
