JR: Toledo food truck fest sat, jul 12, 2014 - Food trucks. Toledo will celebrate them at its first Food Truck Fest from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Hosted by the Collingwood Arts Center (2413 Collingwood), the Food Truck Fest is sponsored by Miller Lite and is supported by The Old West End Associatio... more>>
- Jul 11, 2014 - #toledo #food #restaurant #art #event

JR: Toledo lighthouse festival - Some year I'll attend this wonderful-sounding event. The Toledo lighthouse out in Maumee bay is a local iconic symbol. We have small models of it. This weekend. Info The Toledo Lighthouse is celebrating it's 110 year anniversary in 2014. T... more>> 1 min read
- Jul 11, 2014 - #event #lakeerie #toledo

JR: Complaining about free web services - #todo Media whiners. They're prob upset that a 10-year-old website, created with php by a teenager in a college dorm room could dominate so much of the digital landscape when newspaper companies that are over 100-years-old failed to adapt to ... more>>
- Jul 11, 2014 - #todo

JR: 09/13/2002 Archived Entry "The Browns are cursed and goofy" - A sportswriter in our local paper wrote an article describing the Cleveland Browns as a cursed team. It's probably the Paul Brown curse, slapped on the Browns franchise after he was run out of town by Art Modell. Paul starts a new team in Cincinnati,... more>> 2 min read
- Jul 08, 2014 - #sports #football #nfl #browns

JR: Michigan birdwatching - August 2002 - 08/09/2002 Archived Entry: "Oscoda and Tawas Pt." On Sunday, 8/4, we visited Tawas Pt along Lake Huron. I saw my first Black Tern while there. We saw a family of American Kestrels, and some other birds. We visited the town of Oscoda for a bit. ... more>> 1 min read
- Jul 08, 2014 - #bird #michigan

JR: 06/25/2002 Archived Entry "Fad or Trend?" - I like this person's method of determining if something is a fad or a trend. "One way to distinguish a fad from a trend is to ask what would happen if you reversed the order in which technologies were invented. For example, suppose that we had all o... more>>
- Jul 08, 2014

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- Jul 08, 2014

JR: Cleveland chosen to host 2016 Republican National Convention - Excerpts from a Jul 8, 2014 Cleveland.com story Cleveland edged out Dallas, the other finalist, as the recommended location for the convention, giving the city an opportunity to strut its stuff to a national crowd while placing Ohio even more firml... more>> 2 min read
- Jul 08, 2014 - #ohio #cleveland #business #politics

JR: My Jul 8, 2014 ToledoTalk.com comment - McCaskey: "What's right is right, and the word-twisting is something the local daily-haters would accuse it of doing in a blink if given the opportunity." You're comparing the Toledo Blade and Toledo Talk. Do you understand the difference between a ... more>> 1 min read
- Feb 25, 2015 - #forums #toledo #media #moronism

JR: Ants on an Apple Jack means end of story. - My Jul 7, 2014 ToledoTalk.com comment I'm glad that we resolved the issue whatever the issue was. I now present you with ants commandeering an Apple Jack. -30-
- Jul 07, 2014

JR: Apparently, some Toledo Blade journalists would like to see ToledoTalk.com disappear - paulhem wrote on Jul 7, 2014: As one of The Blade's editors told me recently, "You may not like us, but you can't ignore us." Would that be one of the journos who would like to see this site go away? paulhem wrote on Jun 22, 2014: A lot (not ... more>> 1 min read
- Jul 07, 2014 - #toledo #forums #media #moronism

JR: Toledo area places to walk - #toledo - #park - #nature Cullen Park is a city park, and that is an interesting walk to the end of that peninsula. Other Toledo spots that I enjoy visiting include: Ottawa Park Greenwood Park Detwiler Marsh If you like to mountain bike, try Je... more>> 3 min read
- Jul 08, 2014 - #toledo #park #nature

JR: Media websites, JavaScript bloat, tracking, Ghostery monitoring - Jul 4, 2014 - PandoDaily - I just installed a tool which shows how popular websites are spying on me. The results are horrifying With JavaScript enabled, an article page may take several seconds, maybe more than 10 seconds, to load completely. With ... more>> 7 min read
- Aug 21, 2015 - #media #browser #javascript #blog_jr

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- Aug 07, 2015

JR: Our Trappist beer drinking notes - As of July 2014, only 10 beer-producing monasteries in the world are labeled with Authentic Trappist Product. Brasserie de Rochefort - Belgium - 1595 Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle - Belgium - 1836 Brouwerij Westvleteren/St Sixtus - Belgi... more>>
- May 20, 2016 - #beer