RL things I love

[TiredEwok]

@surreality

This was back in the mid-80s, the summer between my fifth and sixth grade years in school. The severity of the wound itself might've also played into it as the cut was deep enough to require internal stitches as well as externally.

Never had staples. Can see how they'd be weird to have, though.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I have a few local ramen places myself. I'd order delivery from them every goddamn day if I could afford it.

I have duck confit ramen the other day.

I was disappointed; they served it with soba noodles.

[Auspice]

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I have a few local ramen places myself. I'd order delivery from them every goddamn day if I could afford it.

I have duck confit ramen the other day.

I was disappointed; they served it with soba noodles.

I am disappoint as well!

[Auspice]

Whenever I go out, I come home to a cat who is like, dog-levels excited to see me. And commence an hour or more of purrs and cuddles and 'OMG YOU'RE BACK'

... the downside is I feel immense guilt whenever I do go out.

[Faceless]

@Auspice don't. If you pass away unexpectedly he or she will feel no such guilt while using you to survive.

Just some food for thought.

[mietze]

Staples suck so bad until they pull em out, but us is the best feeling afterwards! I have had them with my three c-sections. I have never scarred much, by the time I got my last one my old scar was hardly visible! I will admit to being somewhat disappointed at not getting a crazy gnarly scar like my friend who had her knee surgery ages and ages ago!

I found the steri strips post staple removal were far more irritating but at least you can shower with them right away!

[surreality]

@mietze I didn't end up getting the strips put on (maybe 'cause the staple removal was almost a week later than planned? I dunno!) I was kinda expecting something, but there was nothing, and all the drive home I was like, 'am I going to asplode? Because that would be gross.'

I promptly covered it in active-flex band-aids when I got home on principle, but after a bit, meh, they could go.

They used the strips to secure the fancypants IV, though, and they yanked my skin right off along with them, so I'm pretty glad they did not take that route.

I keep hearing I have 'perfect tattoo skin', which apparently means 'pale as death and can be sanded off by old denim like it was asphalt'. It should be interesting to see how this goes.

[surreality]

Apologies for double post, but new subject for the coffee junkies amongst us: I the AeroPress. Damn, this thing is simple as can be and actually makes pretty damned good (read: strong as hell) coffee.

I could never get my fauxKeurig (which I had already chosen since it produced a stronger brew than the real one on strong) to do this after the good espresso machine died (rest in peace, Bliss the coffeebot, your service will forever be remembered with the utmost fondness), but I can now get plain hot water from said fauxKeurig and with about another minute of time, voila, good strong coffee.

This thing is desk-friendly, folks, and cubicle small (about the size of two standard mugs stacked on each other, a little smaller and frankly a fuckton more effective than a traditional french press), and it's plastic so you needn't be paranoid of thin glass being around•. Also easy to clean and whatnot. Most excellent, do recommend, and I found this one at Bloodbath&Beyond for $30 before one of their ever-present coupons.

Worth it. Cheap, works, and will not explode into shards of glass that could injure or cause someone anal-retentive in management to give you a case of the glares about safety concerns. (Friend of mine ran into this one at a few places, since I work from home it's not a thing, so I have no idea how common this is.)

• Thermal shock is no joke, either. With glass, not only do you need to worry about knocking the thing over, but thermal shock. Thermal shock is the quasi-technical name for that phenomena we're all used to re: putting ice cubes in a glass fresh from the dishwasher and still warm. It cracks all over. Pyrex, which is what most coffee pots and french presses are made from, is borosilicate glass and was engineered to be more resistant to thermal shock. (It also is used to make some seriously incredible beads that are unusually light-reactive. (GUESS WHICH WAY I LEARNED ABOUT THIS GUYS, IT'S COFFEE OR ART SUPPLIES, THIS ONE COULD ACTUALLY BE HARD! <cough>) It still does it, though. It just doesn't always do it right away, and will only happen if lightly nudged/etc. I found this out the hard way when the upstairs coffeemaker died once, and I meandered down to get the one from the kitchen we hadn't used in a year, and so help me gods, the moment I reached toward the old machine, the coffee pot exploded in what I can only assume was pure, huffy spite (and stored thermal shock).

(Exploding glass is no joke, even when it's incredibly funny in hindsight.)

[Three-Eyed Crow]

@surreality said in RL things I love:

Apologies for double post, but new subject for the coffee junkies amongst us: I the AeroPress. Damn, this thing is simple as can be and actually makes pretty damned good (read: strong as hell) coffee.

I REALLY want to try an AeroPress. I should pick one up since, cheap (not like I need more coffee gadgets, but I am always happy to add more to the cupboard). I'm a Chemex devotee personally (still haven't found a cleaner/stronger cup), but I don't always want to fuck with it in the morning.

[TNP]

@surreality said in RL things I love:

AeroPress

I don't know. I watched the video on their site and think I'll stick with my French Press. First, the Aeropress is small and won't make as much coffee in one shot. Two, it uses a filter so not only does it have a regular expense even after you buy one but filters absorb the oils that make using a French Press the best thing since Betty White. I don't get any grounds at all in my French Press and cleaning it is even simpler than what they showed.

The only plus I see is it being plastic and there are French Presses that come in plastic (though I have one that's glass).

[surreality]

@TNP The little filter things are several hundred for $5 (so much cheaper than the standard filters for most stuff -- I usually just get a gold filter and say screw it, admittedly, and wish this had one available), and I'm pretty sure it would be easy to tuck a cut normal piece of filter in there, too, for what it's worth.

...now I'm wondering if there's a way to make a gold filter for this thing. Hrm.

[Auspice]

I bought an AeroPress a few months ago and I will say it is amazing.

[Auspice]

@surreality said in RL things I love:

@TNP The little filter things are several hundred for $5 (so much cheaper than the standard filters for most stuff -- I usually just get a gold filter and say screw it, admittedly, and wish this had one available), and I'm pretty sure it would be easy to tuck a cut normal piece of filter in there, too, for what it's worth.

...now I'm wondering if there's a way to make a gold filter for this thing. Hrm.

Psst:
https://www.amazon.com/GoldTone-Disk-Coffee-Filter-Aeropress/dp/B00LBJCBN8
https://www.amazon.com/Able-Brewing-Coffee-AeroPress-Espresso/dp/B00E58P7ME

[Ganymede]

@TNP said in RL things I love:

The only plus I see is it being plastic and there are French Presses that come in plastic (though I have one that's glass).

French presses should never be plastic. Metal and glass only, unless you want some of that plastic nonsense leaching into your hot coffee.

I have a French press, and it is awesome and easy. Better than the AeroPress, in my opinion.

But I don't use any of them at the office. In my practice, if there isn't a fresh pot of coffee at 2 PM, heads will roll.

[Thenomain]

I live within walking distance of fresh, loose tea. Not brewed, god no, I brew it myself, but if I run out of gunpowder tea, it's not like I'm hurting for it. This is critical because there are so fewer places to get good tea than good coffee.

[Catsmeow]

I effing LOVE tea. Coffee I am not a huge fan of. Tea, yes. But I'm a tea 'purist' I don't like stuff in it. I like it with water and leaves. That's it.

Also @Thenomain - I'm moving in, k?

[surreality]

@Ganymede They're good at keeping the temperature in the safer levels to avoid the leeching problem, actually... granted, that involves people actually reading and following those directions, which is where it becomes a crapshoot. Some plastics are better and worse about this; I'd hope they're using one of the less awful ones.

What's killing me at the moment is that I could have potentially replaced my old beloved Bliss with a refurb, since there was finally one available... but I had to reorder supplies instead. I have some serious sadface over this.

[Cupcake]

I'm super excited about this. It feels like collaborative storytelling brought to an amazing level.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zombieorpheus/strowlers-preludes-ireland-and-mongolia

[Kanye Qwest]

Hearing that Night Vale is doing a show in the area, and then instantly hearing "I got us tickets. We're in the balcony."

Wooo!

[Auspice]

Pest as she is, I am so glad to have this cat back in my life: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQOtk_Jji91/