Category Archives: Misc

Cold Brew Recipe

I’ve been making and drinking my own cold brew for a couple years now… here is my tried and true recipe. There are many ways to make code brew and no right or wrong ways… this one is mine…

I brew with this:
coffeesock
but any 64oz container would work.

The coffee I use is either of these:
gevalia

com-chicory

I like the Comunity coffee with chicory from my days buying Peet’s Cold brew and the Gevalia just has some amazing flavors. I need to try mixing them.

Recipe:
1) put 1.5 cups of coffee into your cold brew. If you’re using a filter/sack/bag, put it in there.
2) wet the coffee a few times in the sack before closing it off (and keep the drippings in the jar).
3) tie off the sack, drop it in the jar then fill the container with water
4) refrigerate it for 24h.
5) next day, just pull out the sack (I squeeze it to get the last bits of coffee out)

Done! Drink it how you like it. I use about 50% code brew with 25% milk and 25% coconut creamer.

MC Frontalot Kindle Scrensaver Images

I just hacked my Kindle to show custom screensaver images and found zero MC Frontalot Kindle images online! As a huge Frontalot fan, I could not sit idly by while the interwebs were devoid of Frontalot Kindle images, so I made some.

Click for the larger image, ready for your Kindle. (I did not create these images, I just made them Kindle-ready)

Enjoy.

MC Frontalot Logo Kindle Screensaver Image MC Frontalot Kindle Screensaver Image
MC Frontalot Goth Girls Kindle Screensaver Image MC Frontalot Goth Girls Kindle Screensaver Image

New job!

Yesterday was a big day for me. After almost six years at my current job, I am changing jobs and I have accepted a job offer from a local non-profit and I start on July 9. Words can’t express how happy and excited I am to start this new job.

New office – theme?

With our new home, I’m getting my own office. I really want to theme it, and I’m trying to decide what to go with. Note that there will be 3 arcade games in the office: Star Wars, Tron, and Discs of Tron. Some options:

  • Space: I have some beautiful space-themed canvas prints for the walls (Thanks, sister!) which would make a good start to the theme, and the Star Wars arcade game fits in.
  • Robots: I want to have a place to display my robot collection and this could be cool, especially with some robot-themed art work
  • Portal: I saw a cool Portal-themed office recently that really made me want to try. Do the wall, have some Portal knick-knacks around, and some Portal art on the walls. Could be cool.
  • Star Wars: I have a few Star Wars collectibles to display plus the Star Wars arcade game. Could be good if not overdone. I saw an office once (and have a picture somewhere) that looked like the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon – that would be cool.
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: I have a framed and signed poster from Douglas Adams, a 42 towel, a C64 HHGTTG game, etc. This would be subtle but classy and my robots could fit in as long as I have a Marvin in there.
  • Tron: I’m leaning towards NOT doing Tron. The only way to do it right is glowing blue on black and that’s not the look I want.

Ideas? Leave a comment!