In the interest of sharing important slices of life from my time as Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station’s bartender, I give you the recipe for “Enhanced” Sangria, AKA Mechanics’ Juice. Accidentally freeze an entire airdrop pallet of wine so that you have enough broken bottles that need to be consumed NOW so that this recipe’s portions make sense. …
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Peruvian Salkanty and the State of the BBotE Address
In my continuing efforts to find new and interesting things, I decided to head a little further in South America to try a new distinctive dark roast. Brazil has generally been a bit of a let down for roast consistency but I hadn’t had a lot of opportunity to play with the coffees of Peru. …
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International Shipping Is ON Again
Error has been fixed in the sense that my “helping” has been undone. Remind me the next time that I try to fix something on The Internets that it isn’t as simple as building an x-ray fluorescence unit. The next time I get that urge, I will resist it and go have a cocktail instead. This is …
International Shipping Error
Right, the back end migration has not been without casualties. It appears that I’ve lost the ability to ship internationally for the moment until I & my trusty webminion can get home to sort this out. In the meantime, you nice folks in Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Norway, enjoy this nice video of a singing …
Further Q&A – The Ego Feeding Edition
A reminder: over the last weekend there was a swap of back end for the store which means, unfortunately, you cannot access your old pre-February 24th, 2012 orders to chat with me. The database should remember who you are but you’ll have to drop me a line the conventional way. Alas. I get some personal …
Maintenance Upgrades
This weekend, in response to some long standing grumbles, the store side of the website will be going into maintenance mode as it undergoes a major upgrade. During this time, you may be redirected to read my blithering rather than being able to buy wonderful shiny preciouses. What will this mean to you, The Viewing …
The One Where I Play Sherlock Holmes
It’s been quiet here for a bit, so I figured it’s time to tell you about my super power. Some people know the fire and electrical codes inside and out. I swear to booze that there’s this one guy at LLNL who is the goddamn Cement Listener and can tell where subsidence is going to occur …
Caffeinating PAX East & Other Sundry Information
Soon, PAX East will descend upon Boston like the plague of locusts that it is, consuming all the Cheetos, Pocky, and Mountain Dew within that fair Commonwealth. I won’t be there, but Black Blood of the Earth will be. Test Subject & Steinwielder ECT has kindly volunteered himself as The Mule to PAX East as …
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Lest Ye Become Arrogant In Your Knowledge
In my continuing efforts to make sure that world becomes a More Awesome place, always remain aware that you don’t know everything. When someone says, “Pffft, no…[sotto voce] dumbass” to one of your proclamations, remain humble and take a moment to consider if everything you’ve ever known is wrong. My favorite exemplar of this is …
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Ineffable Goat of SCIENCE #1
The special new labels, with art courtesy of Molly Crabapple, have been picked up and will now trickle into the BBotE stream as my whim or special events dictate. Here is the first one on a bottle of 1000ml Kona. You want it, come ‘n’ get it.
New Art For BBotE
When I began making BBotE and Steins of Sceince, I had no idea that the best thing that was going to happen was the collection of awesome people I was going to accumulate. A dedication to More Awesome is not just physical goods but trying to generally improve my life and the lives of people …
I’m Not Ashamed To Admit This
But I emitted a squeal of schoolgirlish delight upon getting the phone call from UPS letting me know that more Guatemala Mundo Nuvo had arrived from Caffe Vita. So my previous declaration that I had to bid farewell to my favorite Central American roast was premature. It’s back, for a little while at least. Also, …
The Wire
At this point, the only things that have any hope of getting to folks in time for Christmas are the Steins of Science that I currently have on hand and the BBotE production runs due to complete by Tuesday. There’s a few batches of Ethiopia and Kona slated to finish on Wednesday, but unless you …
Crunchtime and HOORAY!
As the days grow shorter, so to do the opportunities to grab a little dab of the ol’ Scientific Drinking. The Steins of Science on hand right now are the only ones that I’ll be able to ship in time for Christmas. The last international shipment to make sure everything (Steins or BBotE) gets out in time …
BBotE Update: The Decembering
As promised yesterday, me make coffee words much the good YES! Let us begin with the bad news. As always, the limited offerings are called such because the coffees they use are not infinite. In the course of my insatiable need to experiment, I find delicious and wonderful single origin coffees that I think are …