Eat Our Product, Or You'll Be GAY!

Is it just me, or do the ads for beef jerky lining the freeways of The Puget Sound annoy anyone else as much as they do me? The worst one reads, "Banana Chips may lead to figure skating." Translation: They'll make you gay. Don't be gay. Eat beef jerky instead.

Dammit, I like jerky. I also like guys. ("Don't go there, Jake.") But these ads are enough to turn me off the stuff for a lifetime.

Which I'm sure would please Omaha.

Making Coffee

The Ingredients and the Process
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I've been making coffee. Not just brewing it, but starting from raw beans (an Ethiopian harvest) and turning it into real coffee. Since I've had pleasant success with it, I've decided to try and write down what I'm doing.

( Cheap, good roast! )

A note about using the air popper for coffee.

Don't cover the chimney completely! I forgot to mention that: you don't want to cover the chimney completely. The spoon I use is just the right size to keep the beans from popping out when they well up from the center, but if you prevent the airflow from leaving the popper it will burn out and then you might just need that fire extinguisher. If you hear the popper whirring up, you're blocking too much airflow, and that's not a good thing.

A DVD died: An annoying lesson

This evening I wanted to watch Someday's Dreamers. I've been watching the series very slowly and had finally finished the first DVD, so I popped in the second. No Disc. I tried it in all of my DVD readers, and none of them would read it. And when I went to go find the originals I discovered that they were missing.

Grief. Now I have to go rent them, or buy them, or something. I know Wonderworld has them on VHS, but what a pain. I don't know if this was a bad burn or what; those happen very rarely these days, but this DVD was burned a long time ago, before I got the new stable power supply. (By the way, I blew out the innards of my computer with a can of air and it's been stable as a rock since. I think some dust may just have shorted something.)

Bleah. Oh, well, this gives me an excuse to finish Nanoha instead. I'd better finish it soon: the sequel started last week.