Archive for February, 2005

baristas or baristi?

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

from a discussion on another site, the answer from Counter Culture Coffee’s roaster Peter Giuliano:

Language, like coffee, is interesting!
In Italian, most masculine words ending in ‘o’ are pluralized ‘i’. Like un gatto, due gatti (one cat, two cats). Feminine words ending in ‘a’ are usually pluralized ‘e’. Un pizza, due pizze.
“Barista” is irregular. Since it […]

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new Victrola page

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

I’ve been working on a new webpage for Victrola that is 95% complete. Its built on WordPress (like this site) using the Kubrick template and Kellen’s excellent Magpie RSS parser to integrate del.icio.us feeds. Only today, after much being in-over-my-head with this stuff, do I discover that WordPress 1.5 has been released and […]

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After much silence

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Attempting to get back in the swing of maintaining the blog… some interesting stuff to come soon. A full report from the pilgrimage to Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Portland that a handful of us from Victrola just made; a review of the Synesso Cyncra - Victrola’s new tricked-out espresso machine; and I’ll unveil the […]

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