*I’d love to credit where I stumbled across this but sadly, I just can’t remember. Apologies in advance if it was you.
I’ve never seen or heard of cooking on a salt plate but after this description and its supporting images, I’m sold. You can serve food on it both hot and cold, and as an added bonus, you can put it directly on the grill.
I’ve never been shy about my love of charity: water and their mission to provide clean water for those who don’t have it around the world. They are celebrating their 5th year of service this month and coincidentally dot-comrade Cameron Moll is doing the same with his fantastic job board, Authentic Jobs. I also love the fact that Cameron chose to create a campaign to give back for his anniversary. As always, I encourage you to give, whether to the AJ charity: water campaign or something else you believe in. If you’re reading this, you’re heavily blessed. Be thankful.
And if you need a little motivation, watch how excited the Bayaka people get over something we [highly] take for granted.
It was nice to see dot-comrade Chris Bowler launch his newest Internet venture last week: Idea Cafe
Like Chris, I have a notebook fetish and my to do lists often resort back to pen and paper so of course I am a fan of this one. I dig the fact that you can buy individual notebooks as well as bundles that are role-based. I’ve heard a rumor that there’s potential for coffee-related sales in the future as well.
It was fun to watch this come to life through sneak peeks on Dribbble. Great design, killer photography and even some quality branding help from another mutual buddy, Aaron Mahnke. Win-win-win.
Chris, one request: When we were getting ready for our SF trip, I spent more than enough time trying to find the SF Moleskine City Journal and still came up empty handed, niche market possibility for you?
Continuing the recent coffee-heavy related content, the menu at the (now defunct) Gastown, England-based Workspace is fantastic. You can mark it down as “borrowed” in much of my new artwork, I’m sure.
Working from my local [hipster] coffee shop this morning. This fits well.
Also of note, it seems BG got a new website. Shame, a step back visually from what they had.
With temperatures supposed to reach 105°F through the end of the week, I’ve got to find ways to take my mind off of it. Music sometimes helps. Feel free to spice your summer up a bit with some new melodies from my latest Muxtape: http://bit.ly/mux08
PS. To cup-half-empty you just a bit more, the head index will be higher than the stated temp above meaning that it will feel more like 110°F. Realistically though, once it hits three digits, it’s just plain hot.
