Today In…

The turkey was awesome. We did it en papillote. The gravy was salty. The pies were straight-up amazing. All in all, a good thanksgiving.

Streusel Pumpkin - Sunset Magazine

Took more than an hour in the oven — looks good to me.  Anyone for dessert, before dinner?

I had an abundance of leeks from “the farm”, and we have this great cookbook by Molly Katzen –The Vegetable Dishes I can’t Live Without.  Did I *really* need a printed recipe to accomplish this appetizer?  Sliced leeks with a bit of olive oil, baked in a 275 degree oven for more than an hour.  Huh?

So…tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and lots of this family will be at various locations for their meal.  I know that I will be taking pictures of Aunt Lynn’s gathering and food and posting them when I get home.  Can I encourage Clay, Adam, Bryce and Nathan to do the same?

Note to Clay:  at one time the “poster’s” name was listed at the top of the post(like you have at the top of each of your posts at exitcreative). Can we get that on Today In… again?

So as I was walking home the other day, I had an idea for a new way to do bike store websites.

By and large, local bike shops don’t do a good job online, mostly because it (1) seems expensive and (2) seems unnecessary. That’s mostly right. Bike stores don’t need a catalog, because you can pretty much order whatever the customers want. And there’s no need for e-commerce, because other, bigger companies can do it better.

But the great thing about the web is that it can connect people and help you build offline (real) communities. And thinking about the group-ride “thing” that lots of good bike shops do led me to this idea: nextride. Basically any shop could create a site for free (because we’re nice guys and we like bike shops) that would make it SUPER SIMPLE to tell your people when the next group ride would be. You’d get a site called “lifecycle.nxtrd.com”, and people could sign up for notifications and all that, just like with Today In. And it would have your address, number, and the brands you feature.

Thoughts?

I’m tired of looking at the thumb when I open “Today In…”

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