After reading the Culture Shock! books for Chile and Cuba, I thought I’d read the one for Vancouver. My first trip to Canada is in a week. How shocking is the Vancouver culture? Judging solely by the book Culture Shock! Vancouver: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! at Your [...]
If I were a comic book superhero I would have the oddest super power. My presence in public places will often change the music being played to 1970s pop. Doesn’t matter where I am. Doesn’t matter what was playing before I got there.
Many people have seen this effect. When TheTailGunner and myself were taking [...]
Seems there are two camps of people out there. Camp one are fans of Seattle and believe that this blog has been too harsh on the area. One person wrote me and stated with the exception of coffee, I wasn’t singing the praises of Seattle enough. That’s like saying with the exception of X-MAS, that [...]
The December INeedCoffee features a new article by me called Troubleshooting French Press Coffee. It is the sequel to my 2002 article Press Pot Tutorial.
The full INeedCoffee December 2007 newsletter follows.
** Vacuum Pot Brewing
by Ryan Jacobs
http://ineedcoffee.com/07/vacuum-pot-brewing/
Vacuum brewers come in many shapes and sizes, yet they are more alike than they are different. They have [...]
It’s snowing in Bellevue. I need to find a cheap flight to Central America. Now.
Legacy Comments
Joe
Do you have your windshield scraper?
That, a good pair of gloves, and a warm house and you’ll survive.
Here’s hoping it’s a mild winter!
MAS
I refuse to buy a windshield scraper. Gloves at least have a skiing [...]
Why the modern world can’t seem to predict outlier events with extreme impact is the focus of the book The Black Swan.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is not an easy read. It goes deep into mathematical history and philosophy. But the concepts buried in the academic name-dropping [...]
