October 2008

If I Had A Pony

29 October 2008

I’m pretty amused by things like the Global Electoral College at the Economist, which polls people people around the world asking how they would vote in the US election. Of course the results are gong to look like this map from lumma.de. It’s like asking little kids what they would do if they had a [...]

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PapaScott for Obama

28 October 2008

I haven’t blogged much about this year’s presidential campaign. But I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. I’ve just donated one month’s advertising proceeds from PapaScott to the Obama campaign. My Text Link Ads are fully booked, so it’s not an insignificant amount. However, it’s not as significant as a single vote. [...]

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Easy Morning in Words and Pictures

22 October 2008

We finally have a list of our new breakfast products online (also as PDF), for those of you that can’t make it to our restaurant and have been wondering what all the fuss is about. The text and pictures are from the menu cards we’ve had on the tables since September, Since the new breakfast [...]

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Harz Highlights 1

19 October 2008

Christopher has school vacation, and we took a few days off and spent four nights in the Harz, the German mountain range between Niedersachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt. It’s popular for short trips, but doesn’t seem to be as well known for foreign tourists. Our first highlight was taking the HSB narrow-guage steam engine train to the [...]

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Easy Morning for Free Update

15 October 2008

Just a note that our Easy Morning for Free was a huge success, and we have the newspaper article scanned in at our restaurant homepage (or click on the picture for a pdf). Now for a couple days of R and R!

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Easy Morning for Free

11 October 2008

Next Tuesday, in a promotion in the “so crazy it has to work” category, we hope to give away 1000 McMuffins between 6:00 and 10:30 am in a promotion we call Easy Morning for Free. The daily HAN newspaper in Hamburg-Harburg will be printing a coupon on page 1 of their Monday edition that is [...]

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Vintage Expats

2 October 2008

Last weekend I was finally able to attend the annual Whiny Expat Blogger Meetup, organized the past 4 years by J. Good thing, since when we were voting on the location it was my idea to stuff the ballot box for Bremen so we’d finally have a northern location. So while most folks had to [...]

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