Jeff Jarvis relates his Dell customer service hassles. I’ve had some too – with a just purchased dead printer at home.
Yearly Archives: 2005
Take Control of Your Career
Radical Careering.useful
Be Your Own Security
The world is an increasingly dangerouse place. Research has shown that people need to get inspected to feel secure, even if the actual inspection is a complete farce. Yet as a society we cannot hire half the population to perform bogus inspections on the other half in order to keep up with market demand for perceived security
Classic – read it all.
LFB: Allowable Changes in Madison Property Tax Levies
Legislative Fiscal Bureau (via WisPolitics): Madison’s levy can increase (and therefore will) by 3.3% this year according to the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau. This cap is the result of Governor Doyle and the Legislature’s Property Tax “Freeze”.
Favre Yearns for Quiet
He recently had the windows of his truck tinted a dark shade to secure perhaps a little anonymity on the roads in this football-mad city of 100,000. Any Packers player is recognizable here. Favre? Anywhere, anytime.
“When I stop at a light, I don’t stop beside a car in the next lane,” he says. “If there’s two cars, I’ll pull up between them. I notice where I’m going to park. I envision what’s going to happen if I park there or here. People say, ‘It’s terrible you have to live like that.’ But it’s not. I love playing football. Some people live for being known, for sitting and being seen, but I always joke that I’m going to be like Don Meredith and suddenly be gone.”
ATC: Gas Prices Set Based on Regional Zones
All Things Considered, August 15, 2005 ยท The Lundberg Survey says the average price of gasoline has gone up 20 cents over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.53. But different areas, or zones, are paying different costs. Michele Norris talks with Elizabeth Douglass of The Los Angeles Times.
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Milwaukee Magazine on the Shorewest/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Circulation Fraud Lawsuit
Peter Robertson (PDF file):
Mark Belling, talk show host on WISN-AM (1130), called it “an enourmous crisis,” while media insiders say it could be a blockbuster story. Yet nobody involved is talking about it because the legal stakes are so high
An Ephraim Sunset
Here’s a larger version of this Door County, WI sunset photo. Satellite view.
Door County Breakfast? Think a bit different at Good Eggs in Ephraim
The general temptation when considering breakfast out in Door County is to visit one of many restaurants, including Sister Bay’s Al Johnson’s and the Sister Bay Cafe across the street. Just this once, resist and drive over to Ephraim where Good Eggs is literally whipping up egg wraps. These wraps, which can include bean salsa, mushrooms, peppers, cheese, onions, potatoes and chicken are simply delicious. This is rather high praise coming from someone who does not eat eggs. Check out these photos (click for larger versions) and stop.
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Getto on Monroe Street’s Papa Phil’s
But in two visits we found a lot of things to like at Papa Phil’s.
I’ve always been a fan of pasta with white clam sauce ($12.95). And every version I’ve had of the dish has usually included clams, butter, garlic, white wine and oregano. Papa Phil’s rendition had all of those things, with a few spoonfuls of cream added. It’s a variation that’s served in some parts of Italy and it worked very well. That cream gave the sauce a satiny rich backdrop against which the flavors of clam, spices and wine each made notable appearances.
Most of the pasta dishes at Papa Phil’s allow patrons to pick their fresh-made pastas. I chose linguine for the clam sauce and didn’t leave a single noodle fragment on my plate.
I’ve been a few times and agree with Getto that the pasta sauce is quite good. Well worth a visit. Map.