By Chris Gagne
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June 4, 2007
Warm up the machine, portafilter, and glassware.
Set, grind, and dose. 28 grams. Triple basket in a “naked” portafilter. Free trade, organic, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Supreme Bean. Tastes like blueberries!
“Tamp” the coffee down. 30-40 pounds of pressure. Polish. Use a bathroom scale for practice.
Lock and load, baby. PID set to 202.5 degrees.
WE HAVE IGNITION! (5mb QT [...]
By Chris Gagne
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June 4, 2007
“You Are NOT the Anything-Killer Until You Actually Kill Something” (link)
Ten years from now when we reminisce about the 00’s and laugh about Web 2.0 companies, one of the lamest company pitches we are going to remember is this:
Our Company is the <Insert Successful Company> - Killer
Netscape will launch the Digg-Killer
Socializr is the Evite-Killer
AnythingYouCanName.com is [...]
By Chris Gagne
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June 3, 2007
THE SOCIAL NORM OF LEAVING THE TOILET SEAT DOWN: A GAME THEORETIC ANALYSIS (link to the article)
. . . In this paper, we internalize the cost of yelling and model the conflict as a non-cooperative game between two species, males and females.We find that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down is inefficient. [...]