But if we count butterflies here, won't that cause floods in Brazil?
Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation will hold its 11th annual butterfly count from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 9 at the farm, 817 W. Dupont Road.
Participants will learn how to identify butterflies and will be given nets to catch whatever they can. Finally, participants will tally the species they find.
Just wondering. And they're going to actually catch them, too, so maybe we ought to start preparing for the Rapture.
I wrote about restaurants yesterday, mostly chain steakhouses. It shouldn't go unremarked that the patriarchs of two of Fort Wayne's most well-known restaurants (and, as it happens, a couple of my favorites) died last week within a couple of days of each other. On Monday, Hartley McLeod died at 81. On Wednesday, Evangelos"Von" Filippou died at 87.
Have you seen those CleanAirForce commercials urging us all to do our part? There's one where the Goody Two Shoes Brigade on Bikes (think back to high school) harangues a guy who is just trying to get his yard mowed. And then there's the one (featured below) where they drag this poor woman out of her car and force her on the bus. Don't you just want to grab those smarmy idiots and shake them till their teeth rattle, then throw then under the bus?
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The way the economy has been struggling, you'd think this wasn't the time to lauch a "national branding" for an emerging chain of high-end steakhouses, esecially one originating in Fort Wayne, Ind. But more power to the folks at Eddie Merlot's:
Eddie Merlot's is taking the next step, or perhaps 11 smaller steps, in creating a national brand.
If you've done a lot of cooking, you might know the French phrase mise en place, defined by the Culinary Institute as "everything in place." It means to have everything you need to prepare a meal -- utensils, main ingredients, spices -- lined up precisely so that there's no searching or fumbling around once the actual cooking starts.
Breaking:
We just got a tip that the Indiana coalition is one of the finalists in the bid for the Lincoln Museum. That's good and unexpected news, although the cynic in me wonders if we were included just to soften the blow when the exhibit is awarded to one of the more famous national brands.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Here are some details from Indiana's NewsCenter.
Anybody have any sympathy for Judge Kenneth Scheibenberger, who now faces formal charges of judicial misconduct before the Indiana Supreme Court? I have some:
Well, this is interesting. "Shortbus" is an unrated film with sexually explicit scenes. It's the kind of movie some would call obscene and some would not. In 1973, the Supreme Court more or less gave up on obscenity and decided it should be based on what an "average person" would consider "community standards."
This seems like a sensible policy, but how is it going to be enforced? Will it be on the honor system, or will there be spot checks of the odometers? "Monitored very closely" could mean almost anything and usually begins to slip after awhile:
Representatives of Indiana Michigan Power visited with the editorial board yesterday to argue for their proposed rate hike, and I've gone into a mini obsessive state over what electricity costs:
1,000 watt-hours is a kilowatt-hour (kWh). For example.
- One 100-watt light bulb on for an hour, is 0.1 kWh (100/1000)
- One 100-watt light bulb on for ten hours is 1 kWh (1 bulbs x 100W x 10h= 1000Wh = 1 kWh)
