RT @kwightca: Sysadmin stuff is fun! (When nobody, including yourself, is relying on it for anything.)
Collaborating with a 4-year old
Mica Angela Hendricks opened up a brand new sketchbook, and ended up collaborating with her 4-year old on a set of awesomely creative sketches. Visit the article to see more.
RT @eightface: Making perfect coffee…
RT @eightface: Making perfect coffee eightface.com/2013/09/making…
RT @carambula: Vignelli’s Law: Given…
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Making perfect coffee
Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez explore How to Make Perfect Coffee for The Atlantic.
The Percentage Extraction is the amount of coffee particles extracted from the original dry grounds. The Percentage of Total Dissolved Solids is the percentage of coffee solids actually in your cup of coffee (commonly known as “brew strength”). When you correlate these, the result is a Coffee Brewing Control Chart, with a target area in the center that highlights the optimal brew strength and extraction percentage.
When you’re brewing coffee, the goal is to get into that center square of perfection. Everyone seems to advocate their own sort of mystical process for achieving the right extraction, but we’re here to tell you it’s not that crazy.
Bill Watterson’s take
A quote from Bill Watterson in A cartoonist’s advice.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy but it’s still allowed and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble
Update: A short interview with Watterson at Mental Floss.
@lalamaguire @HybridConf Only available in…
@lalamaguire @HybridConf Only available in US/Canada at the moment (cardsagainsthumanity.com), or ebay as @zachinglis mentioned for the UK.
@I_am_Heather Oh wow, I’m jealous……
@I_am_Heather Oh wow, I’m jealous… amazon is pretty pathetic here compared to the US and UK versions.
@alpower so, so wrong. So,…
@alpower so, so wrong. So, so right!
@Avigail for sure!
@Avigail for sure!
@I_am_Heather This seems to be…
@I_am_Heather This seems to be the only Japanese whisky available here at the moment saq.com/page/en/saqcom…
@I_am_Heather Nice, thanks! Someone else…
@I_am_Heather Nice, thanks! Someone else mentioned Japanese whisky to me recently too, definitely something I need to get ahold of.