Archive for September, 2004

Coffee roaster anatomy/my Flickr addiction

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

In spite of having gallery installed on this server allowing me near infinite uploads of images, I’ve started playing around with Flickr.

Flickr is ostensibly a site for uploading and sharing photos, but with an astonishingly full featured social networking infrastructure lurking quietly below it. Among the many cool features (like RSS feeds for specific tags, […]

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yes, i have wheels on my shoes.

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

People always ask me if i have wheels on my shoes. Because I do.

In March I bought a pair of Heelys skate shoes online based on the advice of a Canadian comrade. I had only seen them in action once (a teenager whizzing past on the sidewalk) but had become obsessed with […]

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toward a beverage manifesto

Sunday, September 5th, 2004

I have tried to refine one aspect of my coffee snobbery to its brutal essense - a sharp, solid, crystalline truth that I may use to bludgeon heretics, a mighty sword of coffee righteousness, a chilling fatwa from the espresso jihad. I submit to you the following: No beverage, with the exception […]

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