Nissan (REDUX)

11.3.2013

I subscribed to a magazine called Make earlier this year. It chronicles and is dedicated to "Do It Yourselfers" (DIY) and the hack-jobs, modifications and tweaks they do to everyday things. Like turning a cheapy single-use digital camera into a multi-use cheapy camera. Like building an electric guitar out of a cigar box. And like in this month's issue, hacking yr espresso maker.

You might think, WTF would anyone want to hack their coffeepot or espresso maker. Turns out one can add a web interface to one's coffeepot that can control on-off status, temperature and the like. There are directions on how to modify the espresso machine to produce shots with the maximum amount of crema (and if you know anything about espresso, you know the crema is the fuckin' bomb.) I am fired up to drill, grind, hack, wire and totally DIY me a Frankenstein espresso/coffeepot.

Coffee is a meaningful part of my life. I heard a pussy-ass "commentary" on the NPR the other day where the puss was lamenting Strbux kiosks in the Safteyway stores. She went on about how they destroyed her memories of sitting around cafes, sipping coffeemilksugars and reading the Washington Post, because, since she was in high school at the time, she felt "bitchin." Not once did the bitch say that she actually liked coffee, only that she liked the lifestyle. Got a word for that kinda person; word is poseur.

The coffee situation in my little family has been turned on its fuckin head in the last couple of weeks. I bought a ittybitty thermos offa the eBay and now grind/brew fresh Peet's (best goddamn coffee inna world) every morn and bring it in to the joint I'm workin'. I had no choice, really, b/c the coffee situation is abysmal. Buy it from the place with long line, the other place with shite coffee or the other place where it's way too $$. Buy it. By the cup. Every-fuck-day. I gave up buyin' by the cup and control my own daily coffee adventure, in 6061-T6 Kaiser aluminum-style.

So that's the good! The bad, (the really GRAVELY bad) was reported to me just this morning: The ad joint where my lovely wife works has been awarded a part of the Starbux ad-making. So in good faith, the owners of the ad joint CANCELLED THE INSTITUTIONAL PEET'S COFFEE SERVICE AND NOW HAVE STRBUX. I feel soooo sorry for her.

Tonight - The Homestead 
(due to Thanksgiving preempting the final Thursday of the month, Homestead moves up a slot.)


bye-ee!

whrr ... clik!