Author: John

Posnanski: Rough Week. Joe’s dad is in the hospital with some pretty serious GI problems. This prompts Joe to write about some of the great stuff his dad’s done. As usual, funny and touching at the same time.

Wired: Retro Game Challenge Reheats the 8-Bit ’80s. A very cool sounding game for the DS. Here’s the gist: You play a character who’s been trapped in the 1980’s. (I agree: This would be a disaster.) In order to escape you have to win at a bunch of games that are similar to real games…

Some education posts from the NY Times today: NY Times: A nice profile of new Education Secretary and former Chicago Schools Superintendent Arne Duncan and how the $100 billion in the stimulus bill is an unbelievable opportunity to remake US education. NY Times: Our Greatest National Shame. Nick Kristof on how broken our current educational…

URBAN FARMING! Some folks we know are planning a Detroit Shoreway Orchard. Here’s an article from the Plain Dealer on it. Jesse Bearden: A Real Tweet. There’s a guy who posts on Twitter as “The Real Shaq”. Jesse and his friend Sean try to determine if it is in fact Shaquille O’Neal. A very funny…

Urban Farming! There’s a very nice post on the Green City Blue Lake blog that includes Joe Cimperman’s enthusiastic rundown of some other ideas and upcoming legislation in this area. One item in particular is interesting: A partnership between the OSU Ag Extension and Blue Pike Farm (72nd between the Shoreway and St. Clair) on…

Bill Callahan: Big banks declare moratorium, file 25 new Cuyahoga foreclosures on same day. Bill’s definitely on the case here. I’m wondering what possible explanations these guys will come up with. I’m sure they’ll be interesting reading. On a related note, PNC (aka National City Mortgage) announced a similar moratorium today. I really hope they…

NY Times: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update. A profile of New York elementary school librarian Stephanie Rosalia and all the new skills necessary in that position. In this age of Wikipedia, I particularly liked her trick of using this site to force kids to recognize reliable and unreliable sources.

More Convention Center Stuff! Tony Coyne had a nice piece in the paper today that again tried to show how completely non-secret and non-speedy the Convention Center site selection process has been. I’d forgotten about some of those earlier discussions. While Tony mentions the Cleveland School District’s infrastructure problems as derailing this initial push for…

NY Times: Cycling Enters Electronic Age. Electric shifters for racing bikes. One of the most interesting parts of this article for me was the discussion of the prices for this high end gear. What makes a shifter worth $2400? We looked at a lot of different shifting parts when we were volunteering down at the…

Convention Center Stuff: Lots of good info today on this. First of all, the great Cleveland Mag Politcs Blog, MMPI and the Mall 2, Forest City & Cleveland Partnership 0. It’s pretty clear that MMPI was the only party in this mess that did their homework. And from Steve Litt: Medical Mart presentation makes convincing…