Category: Today’s Report

Fish Fries! OK, it’s Lent. And among other more important things, Lent means Fish Fries. Here’s Channel 3’s list. Update: Here’s the Cleveland.Com/Plain Dealer List — much more complete. Here’s the Diocesan page, but there doesn’t seem to be much there yet.

Daily Routines: A blog about how various famous folks (such as CS Lewis, Winston Churchill, Fred Rogers, and Barack Obama) organize their time. What a great idea! NY Times: Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging. Recently Tropicana switched from their traditional “Orange with a Straw in it” package design to a much more…

Bill Callahan: US Bancorp CEO: TARP was meant to fund bank takeovers all along. Very illuminating quotes from Richard Davis, the CEO of US Bank. Apparently US Bank is considered one of the most stable of the big banks. For example, see this. But if you follow Callahan’s blog, US Bank is constantly one of…

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.