Coffee Geek Gets Brewed

by | Oct 31, 2005 | Coffee

Perhaps in a fit of nostalgia for simpler times, Mark Prince at CoffeeGeek has authored a “how-to” article that has nothing whatsoever to do with espresso… but instead offers a spiffy step-by-step walkthru –with photos — of how to brew a...

NaNoWriMo?

by | Oct 31, 2005 | Arts & Letters, Forty-two

In a fit of optimism (read, insanity) I’ve registered for the annual writing marathon at NaNoWriMo — or National Novel Writing Month. The goal: fifty thousand words in thirty days. Now, it’s more or less expected that much (all) of the...

Out of This World

by | Oct 30, 2005 | Forty-two

It’s crisp, it’s cold and it’s clear skies in Vermont (a very welcome change) and Mars looks like a pumpkin in the sky....

Something New Under The Sun: Clover

by | Oct 30, 2005 | Coffee

“But what about me?” says you, a fan of fine, single origin coffees.” I mean… there’s oodles of cool new tools for the espresso-hound — PID temperature control, ever-more-fine grind control, bottomless portafilters,...

Manhattan Smells Good: Officials Baffled

by | Oct 29, 2005 | Coffee, Forty-two

It’s still a mystery why New York City residents suddenly found themselves in a cloud of winsome aromas… An unseen, sweet-smelling cloud drifted through parts of Manhattan last night. Arturo Padilla walked through it and declared that it was awesome....

From the Reading Chair

by | Oct 28, 2005 | Arts & Letters, Forty-two

I have to remind myself that, since I now have a spiffy, categorized site I can write about whatever I want, and you can simply tune into to what you want to read… and tune out what you don’t. (It’s Blog 2.0, don’t ya know.) So without further...

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