We took a road trip to Boston, Mass. last fall. Nice place, that Boston. We enjoyed many of the sights and walked around a great deal. On the first evening we were strolling along a side street, not far from Boston Common. It was close to dinner time and we were looking for a place to eat. We came upon a little bistro place with a decal declaring “Boston’s Best Small Bistro 2010”. Well, let’s give it a shot we thought. We were lucky to get seats, we thought, since it was Boston’s Best. The place did get busy and the food was good. We left thinking we were fortunate to have stumbled upon the place.
Over the next several days we noticed something peculiar as we continued to walk around. We saw several Boston’s Best decals-it became a bit of a humorous sighting. We concluded it was perhaps not the special thing we might have originally thought. It seemed the designation is given out freely (or maybe you buy it from a Boston’s Best decal shop). We think the bistro was perhaps Boston’s Best Small Bistro between 3rd and 4th Avenue. And the dry cleaning shop a few blocks away was Boston’s Best on a Tuesday in October and so on. On that theme, I figure if Boston can do it, so can I. So I thought I’d put forward Barb’s Best. There’s no decal, no jury or panel or Deloitte and Touche, just Barb and what seems to be the Best-at least for that minute or hour or day or month.
Let’s try a couple:
Best Virtual School-Khan Academy
- Sal Khan, a former investment banker has established on-line virtual school. What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.
Best Ice Cream Bar-Magnum
- Magnum Ice Cream Bars. They are delicious! There are several types and not a dud among them. I’ve seen them in the UK and in Singapore (where a colleague and I ate one a day for a week-because it was so hot there of course).
- And the really great news is that Magnum Bars are now available in Canada. If you are really creative you could enter their contest and win a prize valued at $250K! No kidding, it’s a true story-that’s quite the prize. If you win with the best video (that’s what you need to do, make a short video), I’d appreciate you remembering you learned about it here. A small remembrance-perhaps a year’s supply of ice cream bars.
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