Comments on: Diary of a visit to a coffeehouse run by a madman. http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214 In Soviet Russia, blog hits you. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Amanda http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-20651 Amanda Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:19:56 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-20651 Hi Paul, I was intrigued by your random comment about yelp and logs...What exactly did you mean by that? I tried to figure it out by looking at your post for the counter, but didn't get it. I am a college student (art major) and just finished my math requirements. I always found math terrible, but am intrigued at how you were applying it to yelp. Fill me in! Thanks! Amanda ;) Hi Paul,

I was intrigued by your random comment about yelp and logs…What exactly did you mean by that? I tried to figure it out by looking at your post for the counter, but didn’t get it. I am a college student (art major) and just finished my math requirements. I always found math terrible, but am intrigued at how you were applying it to yelp. Fill me in!

Thanks!

Amanda ;)

]]> By: Michael http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-15226 Michael Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:23:35 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-15226 Paul - you need to break in after hours and get pictures of the signs backstage directed at the staff. Even if the staff have all left presumably the signs are still up. Paul – you need to break in after hours and get pictures of the signs backstage directed at the staff. Even if the staff have all left presumably the signs are still up.

]]> By: April http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-15219 April Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:56:56 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-15219 "Thankfully authors would not get away with this crass behaviour in England" hahahahahaha wow Christina do you even live in England to have written that?! I do and I couldn't possibly disagree more. The free papers you get on the tube could have been written by a catty 12 year old girl... Paul though - funny stuff, I never usually post comments but just felt compelled since it wasn't so hard to sign up and so many people seemed to have gotten their panties in a bunch over your innocent funny post... C'mon who can't see irony in ridiculously high priced "free" wifi posted on the back of a Buddha and any business establishment that refers to #2 and "big toilet" bahahahaha “Thankfully authors would not get away with this crass behaviour in England”

hahahahahaha wow Christina do you even live in England to have written that?! I do and I couldn’t possibly disagree more. The free papers you get on the tube could have been written by a catty 12 year old girl…

Paul though – funny stuff, I never usually post comments but just felt compelled since it wasn’t so hard to sign up and so many people seemed to have gotten their panties in a bunch over your innocent funny post… C’mon who can’t see irony in ridiculously high priced “free” wifi posted on the back of a Buddha and any business establishment that refers to #2 and “big toilet” bahahahaha

]]> By: Aaron http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-14990 Aaron Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:16:54 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-14990 Nope, that not how it is... Nope, that not how it is…

]]> By: Phoenixism http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-14777 Phoenixism Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:48:10 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-14777 That's awesome. I had a Seinfeldian flashback to the Soup Nazi... That’s awesome.

I had a Seinfeldian flashback to the Soup Nazi…

]]> By: Paul Gowder http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-14773 Paul Gowder Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:05:11 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-14773 Mike, this comment amused me -- do stick around, I like your attitude. Mike, this comment amused me — do stick around, I like your attitude.

]]> By: Mike Reddy http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-14739 Mike Reddy Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:58:58 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-14739 First of all, the coffee is great, the food is great, and the back seating area is an awesome hideaway. And unlike many small establishments of this kind, he takes cards. I know the owner from chatting with him a few times, and he is indeed from the dark side. I wouldn't want him in government or anything, but I do quite like him. He makes a lot of openly bigoted comments, which turn out to be pretty benign, he just doesn't know how to be PC since he's a crusty-ass old persian goat, which is adorable. (The first time I met him, he told me he doesn't like persians coming into his place and trying to get comfortable "through the shared language") Most amusing is what he says about the way I take my coffee- "Again without milk!? you are not Indian!" When I suggested he put a sign up outside to tell people about the parking in the back (his location is HORRIBLE) he said "I don't want all kinds of people coming here, I want people to discover it by themselves". I can't help but be deeply in love with it, and I'm sure the author feels the same way on some level. Anybody who cares about honesty and authenticity knows that this hard-to-digest place is the real deal. Not everybody is welcome, there are rules, take it or leave it, and that's the point. I don't want any aspect of this adorable old dude's asshole nature to be undone, and I don't want him to take down any of his ridiculous signs. I realize that on some level he's the enemy, but who cares? I remember to go to the big toilet before I get there, I check my sense of outrage at the door, and it's good times. First of all, the coffee is great, the food is great, and the back seating area is an awesome hideaway. And unlike many small establishments of this kind, he takes cards.

I know the owner from chatting with him a few times, and he is indeed from the dark side. I wouldn’t want him in government or anything, but I do quite like him.

He makes a lot of openly bigoted comments, which turn out to be pretty benign, he just doesn’t know how to be PC since he’s a crusty-ass old persian goat, which is adorable. (The first time I met him, he told me he doesn’t like persians coming into his place and trying to get comfortable “through the shared language”) Most amusing is what he says about the way I take my coffee- “Again without milk!? you are not Indian!”

When I suggested he put a sign up outside to tell people about the parking in the back (his location is HORRIBLE) he said “I don’t want all kinds of people coming here, I want people to discover it by themselves”.

I can’t help but be deeply in love with it, and I’m sure the author feels the same way on some level.

Anybody who cares about honesty and authenticity knows that this hard-to-digest place is the real deal. Not everybody is welcome, there are rules, take it or leave it, and that’s the point.

I don’t want any aspect of this adorable old dude’s asshole nature to be undone, and I don’t want him to take down any of his ridiculous signs. I realize that on some level he’s the enemy, but who cares?

I remember to go to the big toilet before I get there, I check my sense of outrage at the door, and it’s good times.

]]> By: Paul Gowder http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-13827 Paul Gowder Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:09:06 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-13827 Where might the proprietor be coming from precisely? Where might the proprietor be coming from precisely?

]]> By: Christina http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-13812 Christina Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:22:51 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-13812 this is deeply unempathetic, childish and shallow. There is no attempt to understand where the proprietor might be coming from and I am deeply saddened by everyone's willingness to laugh - which is presumably the general attitude that lead the man to put up the signs.. did you try to talk to him about his life or religion, or does your iphone not stretch to that level of investigative journalism. Thankfully authors would not get away with this crass behaviour in England. this is deeply unempathetic, childish and shallow. There is no attempt to understand where the proprietor might be coming from and I am deeply saddened by everyone’s willingness to laugh – which is presumably the general attitude that lead the man to put up the signs.. did you try to talk to him about his life or religion, or does your iphone not stretch to that level of investigative journalism. Thankfully authors would not get away with this crass behaviour in England.

]]> By: Manual http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214&cpage=2#comment-8989 Manual Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:19:43 +0000 http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=2214#comment-8989 This is sad. Looks like in this country the more irresponsible and unpleasant you get the more successful you are. Only a few handful criticized this post! ! ! Ibsen was right in saying "the majority is always wrong". read "The Enemy of the people". This is sad. Looks like in this country the more irresponsible and unpleasant you get the more successful you are.

Only a few handful criticized this post! ! !

Ibsen was right in saying “the majority is always wrong”.

read “The Enemy of the people”.

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