Quick Hits — August 31st

This is a fast food restaurant review themed Quick Hits so it gets both the “Quick Hits” and “Restaurant Review” categories. Here we go!
- Arby’s is a solid fast food restaurant and it’s the only one I know of that features Roast Beef, and a plethora of other kinds of sandwiches you normally don’t see [...]

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On Vacation!

Hey there folks,
I’m on vacation!
There will be no new posts until August 30th at the earliest.
Thanks for reading, whoever has found this, because I still haven’t told anyone about this blog yet… at least until August 29th at 8:01pm, when, little does he know right now, Max Jacobson will find out!
-Jon

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Restaurant Review — The Black Whale

I’ve gone to City Island thrice in my life, as far as I can remember; twice in the past two weeks. From what I’ve noticed, City Island has two primary types of restaurants. The first type of restaurant that’s there is an elegant restaurant that is pricey for an unemployed college student such as myself, [...]

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Quick Hits — August 20th

- These Office promos that have been on during the Olympics have been great! Here are links to two more:
#1 — Michael and women’s beach volleyball.
#2 — Dwight’s centathalon.
- Last night I watched an excellent Olympic table tennis match between Canada and Brazil. After taking a 3-1 lead in the best-of-7 series, Brazil lost the [...]

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Restaurant Review — Goldfish

Tonight’s restaurant review is for Goldfish, a seafood restaurant located in Ossining, New York.
For a mere $15, restaurant goers on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, can be treated to an excellent three course price-fixed meal. The first course features a choice of appetizers and salads including a delicious New England clam chowder, shrimp tempura, mussels, and [...]

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Thoughts on the End of Mike and the Mad Dog

The Mike and the Mad Dog radio program, an afternoon drive show on WFAN 660AM, which was also simulcasted on the YES Network, had its final show on Friday afternoon, a day after it was announced that Chris “Mad Dog” Russo was leaving the show. On this solemn Friday, Mike Francesa hosted the show by [...]

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Quick Hits – August 14th

Still continuing with the dashes as bullets, since I still don’t know the code. Onward!
- So first, a little bit of site maintenance news and out loud thoughts. I changed the banner! It’s now an original picture of my old Buick reaching 200,000 miles. Also, it seems like the tags feature is most appropriate for [...]

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Books I Plan to Finish/Read Sometime Soon

I don’t read many books. However, if there is one setting where I read a lot, it’s on the beach. There are a number of books that I have read some of or would like to read sometime soon, and with a beach trip coming up, I might be able to get a lot of reading done. Without further adieu, here’s a list of books that I may or may not finish or read sometime soon with some descriptions that I’ve taken from Amazon.

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Quick Hits – August 11th

It seems that I have forgotten the HTML code for bulleted lists. I’ll figure it out eventually. But for now, here are some quick hits.
- I think I’m gonna try to write a list of assorted thoughts at least once a week. That will keep me writing often and hopefully with more substance than [...]

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