December 2009
20 posts
"If A Recognizable Actor Or Actress Is In The... →
My friend Kevin told me this theory three years ago.
Challenging Flavours // The Other Black Stuff →
Most of you who are reading this might not care about coffee, but the blog post linked above exactly delineates my feelings about what the specialty coffee industry feels about bitterness and “off flavors/defects”. Lots of naturally processed coffees are loved by customers but outright rejected by cuppers and roasters. My own city’s Intelligentsia Coffee (a really wonderful...
“We face an appalling choice of succumbing either to Kraft, makers of the plastic...”
– Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, describing Cadbury’s fight against hostile takeovers from Kraft and Hershey’s.
Prague TV Tower - World's Largest Spherical... →
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game... →
I have played this game, and it is gobs of fun.
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Huh.
It seems at present that the most important thing in my possession is a pair of $20 spoons.
Not really, but almost.
WatchFeeding Cities.
And another thing.
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
gamesockson:
This is why other coffee shops want to kick Starbucks in the shin.
Their wonky ass sizing? Tall, grande, venti? Specifically, tall?
Okay. I don’t get pissy when people come in and say Starbucks sizes to me. But I always have to ask “Small or large” when people ask for a small because even regular Starbucks customers mixed up tall and venti all. the....
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“But what would be even nicer would be an opt-out function, for those curmudgeons...”
– Google Jumps Into Real-Time Search With Both Feet | The Big Money
The next line. Mr. Thompson, when was the last time you actually looked at the Internet?
Oh, and there’s already an opt-out feature; it’s called scrolling. No one is forcing you to read that “useless, inane...
“Google won’t insist on offering tweets on subjects that don’t have...”
– Google Jumps Into Real-Time Search With Both Feet | The Big Money
Listen, I hate people who study philosophy just as much as the next guy (err…yeah I know) but there’s no way that’s less useful than some journalist’s article wankery about search overload.
Turkish Coffee Theories
1. It’s better to use dark roasted coffees when making Turkish coffee. When I say dark, I mean that there’s some oil showing on the beans at most. If the beans are shiny and covered in oil then it’s too much (ew, gross). Reason: the slurry in the briki spends a lot of time at a temperature that is lower than what is considered optimum for coffee extraction. Too-cold water means...
“Hollywood star Charlize Theron has endeared herself to the entire Irish nation...”
– FIFA shock as Charlize Theron picks Ireland as first team in World Cup draw | Irish Sport | IrishCentral
Meghan Keane: ‘The Office’ is the Most Depressing... →
THIS articulates exactly why I couldn’t watch the American version of The Office regularly. At least the British one left us with [SPOILER ALERT STOP READING NOW]
a happy ending. What comes after is completely controlled by my naively idealistic imagination and thus can’t make me feel awful.
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“Breyer says the statute precludes the state from putting up anything on that...”
– The best Supreme Court case ever about partying on the beach. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
What’s obviously most important here is the question of whether the hot dogs are prepared properly. Don’t forget the celery salt.
Also, wouldn’t the hot dog stand in the water be a...
The Rain in Paris
nellieandbeckygowest:
I just watched tonight’s Gossip Girl, and they were really loving Paris. Blair would move across the Atlantic for a roasted chicken, Momma Blair and Balding Jewish Lawyer want to live on Ile Saint Louis with the other Americans and eat Berthillon all day, and really the only person who doesn’t want to go to Paris is fucking Serena, because she ranked Paris third, in the...