RIP Mr. Coffee Creator Man

Shame.

Mr. Coffee Creator Has Passed Away

Samuel Glazer, creator of automatic drip coffeemakers, died at 89

Mar 22, 2012 @ 11:37 AM
Posted by Jessica Chou, Editor 

 

In the second food-related death to hit the news this morning, The New York Times reports that Samuel Glazer, co-creator of Mr. Coffee, has died. He was 89.

Glazer and his friend Vincent Marotta Sr. adapted the industrial automatic drip coffeemaker for the home, introducing the machine to the home market in 1972. This was at a time where one could only brew coffee at home with a percolator, or just settle on instant coffee.

As The New York Times writes, "There is a great dividing year in the history of coffee in America, and it is 1972. Before it, the percolator. After, automatic drip."

Since then, other automatic drip coffeemakers have been introduced to the market (and other methods of brewing your morning cup of joe), but even in 2002, Mr. Coffee was considered one of the most important home products in the past 75 years by trade publication Home Furnishings News.

source: http://www.thedailymeal.com/mr-coffee-creator-passed-away

RIP Little Bunny, We Hardly Knew Ye

This is so sad.

I have a hunch that had Carolyn known about this bunny, she would have put it on her death list:

Earless Bunny Crushed to Death by Accident

• by Paul Canning
• March 19, 2012
• 3:00 pm

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Germany is in mourning for a celebrity rabbit accidentally killed by a TV cameraman.

17 day old Til was born without ears. March 14, he was getting ready for his close up on German TV by hiding in hay. A fatal mistake as a cameraman took one step back and …

The Director of the zoo in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna, Uwe Dempewolf, said that Til did not suffer. “It was a direct hit,” he told Spiegel magazine.

Germany has become known for celebrity animals such as Knut the polar bear, Heidi, Leipzig Zoo’s cross-eyed opossum and Paul the octopus who predicted Football World Cup winners.

All are now dead. Berlin Zoo has been criticized for failing to hold a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Knut’s death, March 19. Zoo director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz dismissed the criticism, saying: “You mourn people, not animals!”

The Zoo, which was hoping for another celebrity animal to attract visitors, has been offered replacements but, said Dempewolf, “we’d be criticized if we simply said let’s just take another one.”

Til is survived by five siblings — with ears.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/earless-bunny-crushed-to-death-by-accident.html#ixzz1pbcEqX36