It’s late, and I’m tired, but I really don’t want to break the chain of daily posts.
So here’s me, from a few mornings ago, in the early stages of my daily bootup sequence.
It’s late, and I’m tired, but I really don’t want to break the chain of daily posts.
So here’s me, from a few mornings ago, in the early stages of my daily bootup sequence.
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I use my phone to record all of my talks and readings, and then I put them with all my glasses and my shoes, so I have them.
We disembarked from Star Trek: The Cruise Thursday morning at 715 in Orlando, waited in the airport for seven hours, and got home to Los Angeles just before midnight, which […]
I looked at it, curiously. Why do I still have this?
Just a couple of days ago, I told Anne that though I am always a little sad to wrap a season of Ready Room, because I genuinely love my job that much, I was glad to have the time and energy to do stuff together. It's always so weird how we can live together, sleep in the same bed, see each other every single day, and still miss each other because we're just so damn busy, and going in opposite directions most of the time. I was so happy that she had the idea to go out together, which is something we just haven't done in a long time.
Wesley Crusher, Traveler, having helped the Enterprise reunite Data (TNG trilogy The Body Electric David Mack) and subsequently save the Galaxy, once again (Q arching an eyebrow) discovers that extreme exhaustion and coffee is a terrible combination, despite being quasi entity of other planar ability…even in the future, you need sleep, man 😊🖖
Excellent Queen Elizabeth cosplay, though the hair could use a little work…
Hey, on the subject of coffee that can stand your hair up, I recently started reducing my roasting time and increasing the early level of heat and it has done a couple of things:
1.) More water loss for an equal level of physical bean darkness yielding more mouth-feel and baking-chocolate type characteristics.
2.) No more of that bitter aftertaste. Not sure how to put it other than – sort of like the aftertaste of a cheap jammy merlot only less pronounced.
I used to do a full pound with 1.5 minutes of preheat and then starting a 23:30 roast cycle for a total of 25 minutes bringing the heat up slowly using a P3 profile and controlling things manually starting with ~6 to ~8 minutes remaining.
Now I’m starting with a 1.5 minute preheat and beginning with a 20:30 minute roast cycle on P1 which is a faster ramp. After about 6 minutes I kick it up to P5 manually and increase the drums speed and have hit first crack as early as 8 minutes to go. Once first crack begins to roll, I kick it back to p3 or even p2, leaving the drum speed fast, and just let it roll till it’s done with 1st crack and then decide whether to carry it further. I did a 17 minute roast the other day. I think that was a bit too short.
The reason I started trying to shorten my roast time was that I read an article (forgot where) Some roasting competition and the winner was talking about his … jeez I think it was Kenya Nyeri… how he got it so clean and sweet while still bringing out the earthy elements and he said: I could see from the video that he dumped to the cooler at 19 minutes, which was about two or three minutes earlier than most of the competitors and a lightbulb went on. I’ve heard of people unwittingly “cooking” the bean during the early stage of the roast by bringing the temp up too slowly. Instead of drying the bean and then moving directly to roast temperatures as you’re supposed to, the bean spends too much time under 212F and it cooks/steams a little. It gives the bean a bit of a winey / stewed fruit taste, but it doesn’t seem to be looked upon as good so I guessed that this might be the bitter cheap merlot thing I was occasionally getting, particularly with fresher beans and more dense (African etc.) beans. After three shortened roasts – I’m guessing that I was indeed “cooking” the beans a little in the early roast. Really happy with the difference now that I’ve shortened my roast time to ~18 minutes (after a 1.5minute preheat) and am ramping early heat more aggressively with a P1 profile.
OK. Had to tell someone 😉 Thanks for letting me rant on coffee. LOL.
/r/decaff changed my life.
Wow. I tried to use html tags and somehow really broke that post. Sorry.
Rock stars pay good money for hair like that 🙂
Thanks for the post!
If you’d be wearing these Chewbacca slippers, it would be completely hilarious! 😀 http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jgrj/
Fantastic hair, Wil!
Shirt. Want. Now. [throws cash at screen but remains in boring shirt]
When did your hair join a boy band?
At least his hair isn’t grey… Yet. 😀 And he still has some…
Swap your mug with a Wonder Woman mug, and that’s me in the morning. Time to go trim my beard. (Keep the streak up, Wil! You’re an inspiration!)
Cool picture. Why not rock a red shirt, though? Nothing like living on the edge. Your hair makes you look like the lead singer of a punk band.
right on brother
#butts
I wish I had hair (I’ve been sporting a “Captain Picard” do for the past decade or so), so I could have epic bed head days like you. I do have a beard, so I get some epic bed beard though 😉
You look lovely dear.
Want to hear something messed up? No? Then stop reading…
Sure why not? Ok: Yesterday I wasn’t feeling well and I took a nap. Lucky you had a supporting role in one of the weirdest dreams I’ve ever had. We had been friends forever, but you only ever called me when you wanted something. This time you wanted me to put on a production of Cabaret to celebrate a lifetime achievement award that Anne was going to receive. This was a big change because usually you wanted me to help you bury the body in your trunk.
For the record, I hate musicals.
Also I have never seen Cabaret and I have no clue what it’s about, which did not stop my brain from creating it anyway. In my version (if you’re not a masochist stop reading now), Cabaret is about two lesbians who have been together for many years. One of them is very politically minded and a bit of liberal crusader, the other is pretty apolitical and did not even bother to vote in the last election. After Donald Trump is elected president, our political lesbian leaves her lover, unable to forgiver her political apathy and holding her accountable for the ruin of America. Our apathetic lesbian (I wish I’d given these women names) decides to go on a quest for political understanding so that she can win back her lover. Knowing nothing about political study she decides to begin with Nietzsche and having read him, concludes that in the present day, as when Hitler was in power, Nihilism is the only correct political viewpoint (full disclosure, I have also never read Nietzsche, I’m also not a lesbian – not even while in college). I have no idea how this play ended, but I remember that there were songs, so many terrible songs. I am not certain, but I am fairly sure that this not what Cabaret us about. Anyway, you were not in this play and you and Anne never came to see it. When I went to your house to tell you it was finished you were indifferent and asked me to help you bury the body in your trunk. While we were digging, Anne to tell me how great it was that you were on a quest to murder Republican senators. When the body was half buried you left so you could drive your dog to yoga. That’s all I remember.
I wish to god I was making this up.
I’m never taking a nap again. Also I’m sorry I made you a serial killer. If it helps, the version of you in my dream had all the depth and personality of a cardboard cut out. I imagine your presence was due to me thinking that someone should take out all the assholes who voted to strip healthcare from children, and you’re an American who’s name and face I know.
I’d forgive you if you banned me.
This needs to be done! Hollywood Blockbuster. HBO high-budget mini-series. Lifetime made-for-TV-movie. Local dinner theater? Who cares! An epic like this must be shared with the world at large!
Lol. Well since you enjoyed it, I hereby gift it to the public domain (at least those parts that are mine to gift). May it fall into the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.
I have employees who come to work with that hairstyle. Purposely.
Sir, your containment field is out of alignment.
DUDE! your hair is amazeballs!!! coupled with the starfleet jammies i don’t know how anne keeps her hands off you EVER!
Charming………..
Daily posts (from me) were a complete bore, so I gave it up. Daily posts from YOU, Sir, are amazeballs. THIS post, with so few words, says so much, to so many. And brings tears of laughter in a time of real grief. Thank you.
applause
The eye squint is really A+. It’s probably an automatic touch for an actor, but it’s one of those 20/20 hindsight things that makes me appreciate the quality difference in photos.
I want a source for those PJs so I can buy them for everyone in my family.
Nice plumage.
What everyone else said… plus, the page loaded, I barked out a guffaw and high fived the screen. You, ensign, are absolutely too much. Keep doing what you do cuz you do it best!!!!