Year: 2010

How Much Can You French Press?

French press cof­fee is as much a part of my morn­ing rit­u­al as “Thomas the Tank Engine.” I’ve watched sev­er­al videos to help me hone my skills and Jasper here has real­ly done the trick, espe­cial­ly with the tem­per­a­ture of the water and the tim­ing. I feel pret­ty con­fi­dent about my cof­fee to water ratio these days.

I’m drink­ing a deli­cious, oily cup of cof­fee right now. Love it!

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Welcome Back, Conan

I’ve nev­er watched much late night tv. Remem­ber see­ing Conan’s very first show…and then nev­er tun­ing in again. Then I caught the late night bug with Jon Stew­art and Steven Col­bert on Com­e­dy Cen­tral, but even that waned. But after the ker­fuf­fle between he and Leno, I became a fan.

One small prob­lem: I almost nev­er stay up that late. What to do?! Well, I’ve moved into the 21st Cen­tu­ry and I’m watch­ing on my com­put­er. Even awe­somer? I can treat it as some folks do Howard Stern and just run it in the back­ground at work while I’m knock­ing out oth­er things.

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The Most Anticipated Album of 2010

Can’t tell you how excit­ed I am to hear Kanye’s new album. “Run­away” just blows me away. I’ve loved every­thing he’s done so far, so why should My Beau­ti­ful Dark Twist­ed Fan­ta­sy be any different?

Feel like he real­ly turned a cor­ner with 808s & Heart­break, which I felt was unfair­ly maligned in some cir­cles as being too misog­y­nis­tic. I thought it was a painful, hurt­ful, fright­en­ing breakup album. Loved it. So did Mau­ra and Whiney. I feel like his next album is our sweet reward. Can­not wait.

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