As I Twittered the other day, I stumbled upon a nifty local Japanese restaurant Friday night. It was hot, and TELS can be a sauna when it has been shut all day, so I really did not feel like cooking. After a while, I decided to go out looking for a cool drink, AC, and someone else cooking. I knew there was this Japanese restaurant on Aurora just ( Read more... )

Jack FM - 96.5 has this program called Half-off Jack. Other radio stations do something similar. What they do is get a bunch of gift certificates for one or more restaurants, and then sell them for half off. The usual catch is not so bad, you usually get 2 $25 gift certificates for the price of one, and you can only use one per visit. They ( Read more... )