From the daily archives:

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

La Pirogue takes the temperature with this Purple Goldfish

January 11, 2011 purple goldfish project

What’s Your Thermometer?
#664 in the Project is comes from a blogpost by Ron Kaufman at ‘Up Your Service’:
A waiter at La Pirogue Resort in Mauritius comes to work each day with a thermometer in his pocket. On the way to the restaurant he takes the
temperature of the ocean water and the swimming pool. As […]

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St. Francis Hotel makes lagniappe out of spare change

January 11, 2011 purple goldfish project

Shiny coins are a ‘little extra’ and tradition worth keeping
#672 in the Project is taken from a post by Ben Popken from the blog, ‘The Consumerist’:
St. Francis Hotel

“As a favor to guests, one hotel washes every coin it receives, just like it’s done since 1938.
The practice at the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco is said […]

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