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I’m learning more about coffee. The main reasons for this are that I enjoy knowing a lot about things–especially when they are as rich and nuanced as coffee, and also because I’m trying to be more healthy, which means drinking coffee black.
One thing I’ve picked up through my limited research is the fact that most coffee consumed by the masses is not high enough quality to be consumed black. A recent Consumer Reports review of the major coffees contains language like this:
…milk and sugar may help.
This is actually the language they use to separate their categories of coffee, which I found quite interesting. Their top coffees they rated as:
Good choices, even when black.
That says a lot, and it relieves much of the stress I’ve been feeling due to not enjoying most coffee black. The problem seems to be that I’ve not been drinking good coffee.
So here are some that I’ll be trying soon, as they scored the top three slots in Consumer Reports’ latest coffee evaluation.:
In addition, I’m going to be making my coffee at home in the morning and bringing it to work, and I’ll be investing in a French Press soon so I can get whole bean coffee, grind it myself, and make smaller quantities of a higher quality.
Anyway, if any of you are coffee geeks/snobs and you have some guidance for me…I’d love to hear it. ::
But not just any avatar–I want one created by Paul at IconizeMe. He made one for my friend Joel and for Lawrence Lessig. Here’s the type of avatars he does; they’re great for representations of yourself in social services, places like LinkedIn, etc.
I’m on the waiting list…
Anyone who likes Reddit needs to check out another similar site called Hacker News. It’s rather like Reddit used to be before it went mainstream, i.e. lacking the high noise that reddit now has. The big difference is that this one is almost purely technical in nature.
Definitely check it out if you’re looking for a high-quality reddit alternative for technology-related content.
Image from JetPens.com
I’ve always been a bit into drawing, and I love writing…as in, the physical kind. I like the stuff associated with it as well, like Moleskine Notebooks and drafting supplies and such.
So this pencil has me all excited. The freakin thing rotates the lead as you write, so you always have a precise, sharpened point.
The Kuru Toga has a core rotation mechanism that continually rotates the pencil lead as you write. This allows a uniform wearing of the pencil lead so that it always remains as a pointed tip. Not only does it solve the above problems, but it also gives you an amazingly thin line. You are effectively using only 50% of the lead area that you were previously using with your old mechanical pencil. Thus, a 0.3 mm Kuru Toga will write incredibly thin lines and have less breakage than a standard 0.3 mm mechanical pencil.
Want. ::
XKCD comes through again.
Image from xkcd.com