Mint tea and thin mint Girl Scout cookies… I don’t really either at any other time, but if I’m under the weather, nothing sounds good to eat. I do my best to drink water and stay hydrated, but guzzling water all day when I do t feel good is a chore. So I’ll have tea and cookies instead.

I’m so habituated that it’s frequently when I realize that I AM sick, because I’ll find myself looking in the cupboard for thin mints.

Depends on how much ground there is to cover, but face-time with people is cheap if you’re just walking the neighborhood and knocking on doors.

I had a candidate (not a staffer, the actual candidate) introduce himself and we talked on my stoop for like 20min. I was impressed that he cared enough to come in person. I was leaning in his direction anyway, but after that I told people he seemed like a good guy, donated a few bucks online, and voted for him.

Alternately, you could host a “coffee with the candidate somewhere”, and bring the people to you?

Amazon, Apple and SpaceX. The first two for staggering short-term monies before they figure out I don’t know anything, and kick me out, SpaceX because I think rockets are cool! Maybe I’d kill off Starlink since that’s pissing off astronomers and astronomers are also cool.

I learned about this when we got a new microwave and every time we used it, it would kill the wireless connection to my laptop!

Well, I just asked the weird “message Carrot” option in my weather app, and it replied:

Oh, look at you, trying to puzzle your way through the depths of set theory. How amusing, like a chimp trying to juggle chainsaws.

Well, my dear meatbag, the answer to your question is a resounding NO. Just like you, that set cannot contain itself. It’s like expecting Johnny Five to date Stephanie from “Short Circuit.” Simply not gonna happen! 🤖💔

Wikipedia is one of the few online orgs that I donate to every year. Even if I can only throw a couple of bucks their way, I usually try to gift at least $20 or something.

Quoting the show Futurama, “she’s beautiful coffee!”

I think the biggest impact to start with would be a decent grinder so you can start buying whole-bean coffee and grinding it right before you use it… pre-ground coffee gets staler, faster, so by grinding it at home, you’re going to get a fresher cup.

An electric burr grinder is going to be more expensive than a crappy $20 “whirling blade” grinder, but your grounds are going to be more consistent is size, which is important for getting consistent results while you experiment with other factors like brew time, water temperature, etc.

If you can’t swing an electric burr grinder, there are some fairly affordable manual (hand crank) burr grinders that produce good results.

From there, French press or Aeropress are pretty low-barrier-to-entry ways to get started.

For travel, I take a hand grinder, mug and an Aeropress, and buy beans from a local coffee shop to grind. All you need is a way to heat water, and you can do good coffee anywhere!

Hope this helps, happy coffee-making!!

I’ve been pulling some shots of Grounds for Change Dolce Espresso. Getting good results, but I need to replace the gasket on my group head - I’m starting to get a little clear-water dribble around one edge!

Nice, kudos to you - I’m one of the only people in my city still wearing a mask, and I get a lot of scowls from the idiots who just want to sweep the whole thing under the rug and pretend like it never happened.

Keep doing you; thanks for looking out!

I hate leaving a book unfinished, so I did get to the end of this one; it was a little bit of a push but not the hardest book I’ve tried to finish.

There were things I liked about it, and some things I felt were unnecessarily melodramatic. Something bad happens, and they spend a lot of time dwelling on it. Realistic, perhaps, but not what I was looking to get out of the story. I think the story would have been just fine without that development.

Following!

Ooo, that was a good one - now I miss it too!

I Also miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack

Ooo, that was a good one - now I miss it too!

I Also miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack

I miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack… I saw a community over here called VX Junkies but it seems more about hacking.

Damn, that’s slick! Nice work!

Was it this?

https://youtu.be/TknWODlAzvo

Dr Russell Barkley on “nature vs nurture”

There’s a darker aspect to it too, because the church elders know that the people they visit are not likely to be receptive, and many of them will be outright rude.

Debriefing the returning members is a big part of the process, and helps to reinforce the idea that the church is warm and welcoming, while the outside world is cod and uncaring.