Jeremey's Weblog

Great Shots!

I pulled three very good shots this morning! Woohoo! I just had to share.

Three, you ask? Yes... I pulled one, it was good. So I pulled another, it was good too. So I had to pull one more. And it was good. But four would be really pushing the caffeine intake. :)

Problem: Shipping Specialty Coffee

OK... the specialty (quality) coffee industry has a problem. Mail order shipping is too expensive! If you're serious about coffee, you're going to want it fresh. To get it fresh, 2-3 day shipping is required. If 2-3 day shipping costs upwards of ten bucks, you're talking about paying for almost another pound of coffee, just to get the coffee to you in a reasonable time to drink it before it loses too much flavor.

If you're going to make the high shipping cost economical, you have to order more beans, which means they won't be as fresh, which contradicts the whole goal.

There needs to be a solution! I have some ideas...

CoffeeGeek Meetup

I went to a meetup at Catalina Coffee (best coffee in Houston) for CoffeeGeek users this afternoon, and it was great fun... lots of great coffee and conversation.

Kudos to Max (Catalina's owner) for being devoted to quality coffee and for helping build a coffee community here in Houston.

I forget what the bean was, but we got to compare the same coffee brewed in a Chemex, a FETCO extractor, and French press. The Chemex brew was light and flavorful, but my personal preference was for the FETCO or the press... both had more body. The Chemex is almost tea-like. I could definitely see using all three (the FETCO being definitely a commercial unit).

As always, the lattes were beautiful and delicious:

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coffee, coffeegeek

Latte Almost-Art!

I'm getting there with the latte art... here's this morning's effort, it's close:

Dropbox

While on the subject of cool stuff, Dropbox is awesome. Check it out.

Blogo Screenshots

Blogo

Giving Blogo a try. Pretty interesting UI, and it's written in RubyCocoa, so it would appear (from the errors I got on my other box).

What I'm really liking is the free-form keywords and categories. But since TypePad has defined categories, I'm wondering how this'll work... time to try...

TypePad Mobile

I haven't used typepad's email interface before, so this is a quick
test. I wonder which blog this will end up on. :)

Sent from my iPhone

Iron Man!

Iron Man was awesome! Great story, great technology, very funny, etc. If you go see it, STAY THROUGH THE CREDITS.