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Is that any way to talk about your wife?
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Nope, it's about my life.
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Cafetiere - I took one to my last company, as the "coffee" was so bad. You can get single cup versions, and they work nicely (as well as preventing anyone else feeling slighted that you only made a "pot for yourself" with your own coffee.
Freshly ground is the best, but the ready ground stuff is a lot less hassle - I'm drinking "Taylor's of Harrogate 'Hot Lava Java'" which suits me.
I know @Nagy-Vilmos rates these: Portable espresso machine, car and travel espresso maker - Handpresso[^] but they seem a bit too much trouble for a couple of teaspoons of caffeine ...
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- I grind my coffee normally each morning; currently using Rouiba Strong Roast, but I'm about to run out and I'll switch to Omnia or Karavel [all unavailable in the UK as far as I know, but, you know, snob]
- I'm only replying to this as I stopped to make a coffee with my handpresso and it was bloody good.
- It takes me a minute to make a single shot and it gives good thinking time.
- With a flask, it's a lot quicker than going to the kitchen every hour.
And finally, style.
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Cafetiere coffee is, for me, weak and devoid of flavour. A miniscule step up from filter.
Pod coffee is okay [+/- okay]. The problem, for me, is that the water is generally circulated, so it passes over the ground multiple times. This is not a good thing, more of the rough flavours are drawn out that way; think the vile dyed water at a US 'Gas Station'.
Go for espresso, real espresso. A good machine at home - I have a Kitchenaid Artisan [amongst others] and a portable for away and work. My preference is the handpresso, snob and cool, but the aeropress is a pretty cheap alternative; not perfect but okay.
And as for powder? That shi stuff is worse than decaf and isn't fit for the compost!
There may be other opinions but, as you'll know, they are wrong.
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One mention of coffee and Nagy is back, I'm sure the same would of happened if this post was titled "Gin, Beefeater, Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, Clear Go Go Juice"
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If the sheep botherer hadn't @'ed me I would not have known, but obviously on such a subject my correct opinion is required.
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Obviously, I'll be sure to ask the group about gin next week.
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The most useless drug on this planet, and I've tried nearly all of them. Just really don't get the fascination with the sh*t.
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If it's instant vs pods I'll take the former, who really wants plastic coffee?
Weak, wasteful, expensive, fad.
If it's instant vs starbucks, hmmm, I'll take the enema - at least there will be some sensation.
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Starbucks do coffee? When did that start?
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At work, we have a Keurig and I drink Green Mountain Dark Magic.
At home, we have a Cuisinart and use ground coffee, Maxwell House, and well water.
No, it isn't preppy, pricy or perfect.. but since my wife and I are the ones drinking it, so as long as we are content with it, it shouldn't matter to others.
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Israeli-style Turkish coffee. Ideally, it should be made over an open flame in a finjan, but security are unaccountably fussy about allowing open flames in the office.
It meets Voltaire's standard for the ideal cup of coffee: Hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as love.
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I have a coffee cooker for making Arabic/Turkish coffee. It is little more than an exposed element that gets hot as [redacted]. Makes damned good coffee though!
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All coffee, whether it is instant or shat out by a civet cat, is abominable.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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You sire, are a heathen!
Or maybe Belgian, I get the two confused.
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No sir, I am British and consequently dring tea. I am currently drinking a rather nice loose-leaf Assam tea (without any of that milk and sugar rubbish).
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I used to drink tea, but with all the ceremony around the whole procedure, I find it takes around 1 hour per cup. My boss threatened to sack me.
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Any morning - every morning.
Two 16oz cups.
- First one, I usually make myself.
- Second one, usually whatever bupkis[^] extract is in the company's urn.
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Folgers or Maxwell House, whichever one is on sale that day, brewed through a regular drip coffee maker. I have always preferred it straight black...pour and go.
What irritates me are coffee snobs, especially at places like Starbucks.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Folgers or Maxwell House, whichever one is on sale that day, brewed through a regular drip coffee maker. Now there's something I can agree with.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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See post above. Drunk and can't think of coffee now.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: Drunk and can't think of coffee now. Sure you can, Irish coffee!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I brew a potful at home (1 scoop caffeinated, 4 scoops decaf) and bring it to work in a 2 liter Thermos™.
We have Tassimo machines here in our cafeteria. It's okay for when I don't have the stuff from home (I commute on the bicycle sometimes).
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't really expect a serious answer to this. I just found a few database tables which obviously had been designed by that Russian who's liver I already would have liked to be served (fried, with onions). Now I start to believe that he is actually from Eta Carinae and I'm doing my best to understand alien database design.
If I have two tables A and B and a relation table inbetween, that must be a many to many relation. Fine. Nothing unusual.
But what do you call it when there are two relation tables in a row between A and B? A many to even more relation? m to m^2?
And that's only the beginning! How about a relation table that has three relations to yet more relation tables , which have a relation to tables A, B and C. What's that? A multible m to n^3 relation? Or an omnidirectional star relation to the third degree? The Romulan relation nova?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
modified 16-Nov-17 4:28am.
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