Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’
April 4, 2010
I have a new device. No, not that device. Or that one. No, this is a Nespresso Aerocinno.
I saw one at a friend’s house on a trip to Los Angeles last winter. This thing is amazing. Usually I’m content to take my espresso or coffee straight, but every once in a while I want some foam and froth.
I have managed to steam and froth milk with various steam-shooting attachments on espresso machines over the years, but it was usually a big mess, and the results were mixed.
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Tags: Blogs, NYC, technology, Apple, computers, Coffee!, drinks, Café Grumpy, Novo, Pandora, Blogging, iPad, soy, foam, cappucino, Nespresso Aeroccino
April 15, 2009
I’m on vacation from the job that pays the bills this week, but vacationing is hard work, especially since our daughter is off from school and my wife has to work. I need many shots of espresso to keep up my stamina. On Monday, I hustled my daughter off to a playdate, then wandered off on a chilly but sunny day to the Ninth Street Espresso outpost in Chelsea Market. I was on a specific mission: All of NInth Street’s coffees are roasted by Intelligentsia, which has a roasting lab but no shops in New York. I had been pleased with several Intelligentsia “guest” coffees purchased at Cafe Grumpy, including this Colombian. I’ll have more on the results of the expedition later. How did this bean fare in my ongoing coffee quest?
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Tags: Blogs, Café Grumpy, Camilo Merizalde, Coffee!, espresso, Finca Santuario, Intelligentsia, Ninth Street Espresso
January 26, 2009
This week’s installment is the Podcast Zeitgeist of second chances, and probably the last such post for a good long while. I’ll continue to listen to a few favorites, but a hiatus is in order. This started as an effort to make some notes about what worked for me as a listener. But it became an exhausting and time-consuming exercise, particularly since I sampled many more hours than I ever wrote about. It was cutting into my Twittering time. At some point I may summarize what I have learned, or not.[See all lists.]
Cranky Geeks 150: Big Wig Bailouts As tech podcasts go, this is one of the best, hosted by John C. Dvorak, with Sebastian Rupley of PC Magazine, Chris DiBonaof Google and Jason Cross of Extreme.com. Topics: Steve Jobs, Bernie Madoff, the fake Belkin reviews scam, disruptive technology like location apps and more. Dvorak keeps it moving. Good stuff. Running time: 31:40 minutes including several ads. Released: Jan. 21.
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Tags: Blogs, NYC, investing, iPhone Apps, technology, Podcast Zeitgeist, iTunes, Apple, computers, Twitter, Uhh Yeah Dude, Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly, iPods, Scott Bourne, Seth Romatelli, Jonathan Larroquette, John C. Dvorak, geeks, Andy Ihnatko, Vomitus Prime, Steve Jobs, YouTube, Daisy Whitney, podcasts, iPhones, Alex Lindsay, Geek Loves Nerd, 40-Year-Old Boy, Monty Python, Andrew Horowitz, Dr. Kiki, Pixelcorps, Lisa Bettany, Super Bowl, TiVo, economy, recession, Cranky Geeks, idiotboxradio
January 19, 2009
Welcome to the Podcast Zeitgeist list: presented in apparently random order, at inconsistent intervals, its purpose obscure, its usefulness in doubt, its taste questionable, its methods and motives suspect. [See all lists.]
This Week in Tech 177: There’s a Little Shatner in All of Us and 178: Call of Doody. I’m catching up here with two episodes. A special guest on the first of these was Star Trek’s Geordi LaForge (Levar Burton). Burton held his own as a geek on a panel with Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Ryan Block, and Lisa Bettany. A lot of talk about TVs. (Block: “Plasma TVs are on the way out.”) Reviews of the “disappointing” MacWorld Expo and the Consumer Electronics Show. Whether the Palm Pre phone can save Palm (Dvorak: “They’re done.”) They end with the prospects for another Star Trek movie and a discussion of Geordi’s visor. The latest episode, recorded Sunday night, devotes 20 minutes to the news that Steve Jobs is taking a temporary leave from Apple for health reasons, with a focus on news coverage, from Ron Goldman of CNBC to this profanity-laden Gizmodo post. Dvorak predicts that Apple will go into decline in two years. This is followed bya discussion of the Downadup/Conficker worm that infected 9 million Windows computers in four days (download the security updates, people). Laporte is wiggy on this episode (“Conficker? I hardly knew her!”), perhaps because he and panelist Tom Merritt attended a concert the night before by the geek troubadour Jonathan Coulton and the improv duo Paul & Storm. (The “doody” in the podcast title refers to panelist Patrick Norton, who has to change his son’s diaper during the show and never returns.) The liquidation of Circuit City. A discussion of digital TV up-converters (Dvorak recommends a model.) Laporte recommends an audiobook: “Predictably Irrational.” United Kingdom porn filters are blocking Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. Are Are Google layoffs and the killing of <a href="“>features like Jaiku and Dodgeball a sign of a market bottom? The episode ends with a clip of Coulton’s “Mandelbrot Set.” Running times: Both 1 hour 20 minutes, give or take a minute. Released: Jan. 11 and 18.
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December 26, 2008
The mix this week is more culture than tech. Most of the podcasts I sample were off for the holidays, or they had recorded episodes in advance, so I went a little farther afield. [See all lists.]
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December 16, 2008
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Tags: Andrew Bird, Andrew Bujalski, Arcade Fire, Bishop Allen, Blogs, Calexico, City Room, Daniel Johnston, Decemberists, Eric Hutchinson, Feist, fires, Funny Ha Ha, Harvard, In Rainbows, iPhones, iPods, iTunes, journalism, M. Ward, music, Mutual Appreciation, Neon Bible, R.E.M., Raidohead, Rilo Kiley, ringtones, The Essex Green, YouTube
I have a new device. No, not that device. Or that one. No, this is a Nespresso Aerocinno. 
