Coffee Hero

For those caffeinated cat fans.

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Surprises are always in store a novice coffee home-roaster, but nothing prepared me for the creatures that swarmed my fourth-ever home-roast.   My first home-roasting experience was a certified fiasco, and the second one had its bumps as well.  But yesterday, my fourth attempt finally produced the dark-roast I craved.  That’s not the reason I’ll remember [...]

Does a daily commute on the Interstate always have to be monotonous?  The Washington Post’s Click & Clack car care column receives an idea for some comic relief on the highway:
I was thinking about affixing a coffee mug onto the roof right above the driver’s seat, as if I forgot my morning coffee. I think [...]

I should have known better.  You don’t jinx a no-hitter in progress.  You don’t change hats during a winning streak.  You don’t spit into the wind.  You don’t mess around with Slim.  And you don’t, under any circumstances, say that a move is going well until every last item is moved.
I knew this, all of [...]

On April 1st, I had my guard up.  I would not be a victim to an April Fools joke.  In fact, I took the time to post on a classic coffee related April Fool’s Joke in the post A Coffee April Fools Joke For Techies.  Little did I know I would tricked by my local [...]

Paul over at Caffination tipped me off to a techie April Fools Joke created back in 1998.  Over on the RFC-Editor site (RFC = request for comments), they posted the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0). It was written by Larry Masinter.
Here are some gems I found in the protocol.
Coffee pots heat water [...]