On your next trip to McDonalds you may (apparently only in some markets) see a new size of soda, the Hugo, a 42 oz soda that would contain just over 400 calories. You may remember that McDonalds got rid of its famous lineup of supersize products in the wake of the Morgan Spurlock movie that [...]
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Tomorrow the Ohio bar exam starts at 9am and for those of us studying its almost a sigh of relief to finally get to the bar (that doesn’t mean we feel prepared). Today I tried to study, but it is really hard to try and do anything meaningful last minute for an exam that is [...]
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File under necessities. Yes the Japanese clearly do get everything cool first. Latest case and example: The Asahi Beerbot, which will open and pour a can of your favorite beer all while talking about something in Japanese. You can get your own (slightly used) for $800 bucks here (also check out the Youtube video of [...]
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Just a few misc topics to distract you with (I should be studying and I will get back to the books ASAP – the bar is tuesday can’t wait!)
Saw this on Slash Food, normally we think of the Japanese as healthy eaters (although I’ve mentioned before how that’s changing as they have shortened lunches and [...]
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From the dearth of posts recently you may have gathered that the bar is getting closer and closer. Studying for the bar is extremely annoying because most of the stuff your cramming into your head will be long gone come August (after hopefully vomiting the information you stuffed in your head in a nicely ordered [...]
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By cutting 100 million plastic bags a year San Francisco will save 1.5 million litres of oil, and eliminate 4.2 million kilograms of carbon dioxide….
180 million: Roughly the number of plastic shopping bags distributed in San Francisco each year.
2 to 3 cents: Amount each bag costs markets, compared with anywhere from 5 [...]
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A search of the internet for “General Tso’s Salad”, “General Tso Salad”, and “General Tsos Salad” turned up nothing and I didn’t feel like wading thought the 8 billion results if i took the quote marks out. So anyway, I can’t be sure, but it seems like this isn’t something people are doing. Why not?
I’ll [...]
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“When I look at my bookshelves, I see my life. Whole glimpses of previous interests are represented, from my collection of Latin American fiction to the many reminders of the years I spent living in Italy (the novels of Primo Levi and Italo Calvino). There is my love of Ian McEwen, Susan Sontag and Paul [...]
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“Remember, the mobile industry is one where some of the biggest companies in the world have tried and failed: Siemens, Philips, Fujitsu. None of them have creditable market shares. Even IBM put a toe in the water in the late nineties and then stayed away.” (The Register)
Got into a bit of a debate on [...]
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OK, read Ed’s last post below on the iPhone. I just went to the Apple store and checked out the new iPhone. Besides the high price and lack of a buttoned keyboard, I think there’s something even more basic that may prove to be the iPhone’s Achilles’ heel:
The screen smudges with fingerprints easily basically [...]
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