A hundred bucks might buy you more than six dozen burgers from McDonald's, but the swanky Old Homestead Steakhouse will sell you one brawny beef sandwich for the same price.
Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams could barely speak between bites as he devoured the 20-ounce, $100 hamburger billed as the "beluga caviar of sandwiches."
"Heaven on a bun," restaurant owner Marc Sherry said.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
0 comments 0 commentsLearn how to open a coconut
Everone has a few problems the first time they try and learn how to open a coconut. These little guys must be the most well protected nut in all of the world, but we humans can't just sit around and let monkeys show us up, right? In this site I will detail the most common method of opening up a coconut along with pictures of the process. It is fairly simple, but does take some time to do.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
0 comments 1 comments"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"
See how many movies you can name. Add a comment with your guesses. And don't forget to leave your name!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
0 commentsKilladelphia is #2, but still, everything's bigger in Texas
Philadelphia suffered one of the worst increases in homicides among major cities last year, the FBI reported yesterday.
Of the nation's largest cities, only Houston saw a bigger increase, while many other cities, such as New York, saw decreases.
And the violence in Philadelphia continues to escalate.
Of the nation's largest cities, only Houston saw a bigger increase, while many other cities, such as New York, saw decreases.
And the violence in Philadelphia continues to escalate.
Best buildings of the year
The 11 projects recognized with this year's AIA Honor Awards for Architecture include several museums, as might be expected given the undiminished power of museum mania. But there are also an equal number of libraries and government buildings — a happy sign that municipal agencies are increasingly respectful of good design.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
0 commentsWhy 6/6/06 is just another day
Somewhere, Revelation's author is having a big laugh.
Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans of blood and rivers of fire. Oh, yeah, and the beast. The beast that branded the godless with the number 666 - a sign of their devotion to him.
But he was really just warning churches about the evils of emperor worship. Or was he?
Monday, June 05, 2006
0 commentsNow based on a true story
The much-talked-about movie "Snakes on a Plane" doesn't open until August. But Monty Coles doesn't have to see it. He's lived it.
Three-thousand feet in the air on Saturday, he discovered a four-and-a-half-foot black snake peering out at him from the instrument panel of his Piper Cherokee.
He'd already been preparing to land in southern Ohio after a flight from West Virginia.
Cat Apolcalypse
What’s furry, has claws and triggers the end of the world? You guessed it. It’s your trusted, feline friend: your cat. And cats are not the only animals causing problems. Rabbits do it. Frogs do. Yes, even the cute Giant Panda is helping to blow the world to kingdom come. Sit back -- and shiver!
If you felt sorry for the dinosaurs, consider this. At this very moment, we’re in the middle of a period of mass extinction that’s actually WORSE than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. You read that right. More species go extinct at this very moment than during the last days of the dinosaur!
You see, it took the dinosaurs thousands of years to die out altogether. Today, the speed of extinction is higher -- much higher. Each day, an estimated seventy species go bust. That’s seventy species! Gone. Not to be seen ever again. A few centuries more, and half of all species will no longer be here. Thanks to the meteor impact called 'mankind'.
Hot day in Hell, MI
They're planning a hot time in Hell on Tuesday. The day bears the date of 6-6-06, or abbreviated as 666 - a number that carries hellish significance. And there's not a snowball's chance in Hell that the day will go unnoticed in the unincorporated hamlet 60 miles west of Detroit.
Nobody is more fired up than John Colone, the town's self-styled mayor and owner of a souvenir shop.
"I've got '666' T-shirts and mugs. I'm only ordering 666 (of the items) so once they're gone, that's it," said Colone, also known as Odum Plenty. "Everyone who comes will get a letter of authenticity saying you've celebrated June 6, 2006, in Hell."
