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Wickliffe Main: More Living, Less Driving

Love this great sustainable green community project in Wickliffe, Ohio (just outside Cleveland) and a shout out to my high school classmate, Roger, who you'll hear narrating the video. Kudos to him and his partners for working to bring this sort of community-strengthening project to life!



Learn more at wickliffemain.com

Dear 16 Year Old Me

Our Visit to Vintage Bar & Bistro

Last Friday night, hubs and I enjoyed a nice dinner at the new Vintage Bar & Bistro in Tallahassee. For those of you keeping score at home, we have very few truly new places here; Vintage used to be Cafe Cabernet. It has a whole new menu and new vibe, both of which impressed us. 

We were seated right away when we arrived, and had our section almost to ourselves (it was an early date). Our server was helpful and knowledgeable about the wine list and the details about menu items. We each had a glass of wine and started off with the flatbread of the day, which had braised short rib meat, asparagus and other goodies on it. Tasty, as were the wines. 

For dinner I had the grouper: 

GULF GROUPER con maiz

warm corn salsa, garlic sautéed spinach

& cumin tomato béchamel

and hubs had the Southern burger - he couldn't pass up the chance to have the pimento cheese - olive - pepper jam combo which was just how the server described it: a great combination of smooth, salty and sweet.

SOUTHERN BURGER

with pimento cheese, green olives, 3 pepper marmalade

We both wanted to try the blue cheese grits, so we ordered them as a side. Even though white on white in a white bowl doesn't make the best photo, here it is:

BLUE CHEESE GRITS

My fish and hubs' burger were both prepared just right. The warm corn salsa was really good - a little sweet but with just enough heat to keep to keep it tangy too. As the evening progressed, the restaurant got busier (especially the outside patio which our server was also covering) so it took awhile to get our check, but we weren't in a hurry so it wasn't a big deal. We'll definitely be back - there are other items on the menu (see it here) that we want to try... and I really enjoyed the background music (doesn't happen often in restaurants). 

http://www.vintagebistroandbar.com/

http://www.facebook.com/VintageTally

http://twitter.com/VintageTally 

Great New Documentary Short Film

Saw the trailer for this great project from Edge of Seven on The Girl Effect's facebook page:



In case you're not familiar with The Girl Effect, this video tells their story:

Fun Gift for Your Favorite NumberHead

Last week etsy devoted one of their daily email updates to all things geeky. There were a lot of cute things, but I just love these distribution plushies. They would be great gifts for your favorite methodologist, statistician, researcher or graduate student who aspires to be any of the above.

from the description:

Light Green Standard Normal Distribution

Baby Blue t Distribution

Light Yellow Chi-Square Distribution

Light Pink Log Normal Distribution

Lilac Continuous Uniform Distribution

Tan Weibull Distribution

Olive Green Cauchy Distribution

Slate Blue Poisson Distribution

Maroon Gumbel Distribution

Gray Erlang Distribution

Plushies are approximately 10" wide by 6.5" tall, but do vary from distribution to distribution.

Check out everything in Nicole's cute "uber-nerd" etsy shop at Nausicaa Distribution! 

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