What Is Noise

I have put into consideration that perhaps I drink too much coffee. Maybe. I’m not convinced. I have drank high caffeine drinks all my life. I know as a toddler I’d drink my grandfather’s coffee. Hell, they likely put it in my bottle. Seems reasonable to me. I know my mother stopped smoking when she was pregnant with me, but I can’t imagine for two seconds that she stopped coffee.

I currently consume about six strong caffeinated drinks per day. As of 2pm today I’ve already had a quad iced Americano. Just pulled another two shots. These aren’t my last for the day. When I’m in the office I’ve been downing 2-3 large pots of French press coffee and then a few cups of black tea.

If I don’t drink coffee, I get headaches. Badly. Yes, there is a chemical addiction there, and I know it. All of my counter space in my kitchen is dedicated to making coffee. I only have an espresso machine, a turkish ibrik, a french press… and I’m thinking of getting a chemex. Ok, maybe I am a bit far in. What’s horrid, is that almost no coffee shop can make a drink that I actually like anymore. That’s what I get I guess for getting my first espresso maker at 13. Thank you John Firesheets (my good friend who for many years was my only guitar teacher. Amazing guy) for getting my drinking coffee that much more!

So one thing that I can’t get ANYWHERE around here to make anymore is a decent iced cappuccino! They all claim that putting heated foam onto ice is dangerous and causes bacteria to spore. Maybe I’ve just had enough of the bacteria that my body no longer cares, but I see no ill effects from it.

They tell me all sorts of food-related things are dangerous. Very rare steak, rare hamburger, raw eggs, oysters on the halfshell, raw milk, raw cheese, moldy cheese, raw seafood at large, etc…

I have only once ever had my stomach ever feel bad in a way that I attributed to bad food, and I don’t even know for sure that it was the food then. I’ve eaten raw eggs, rare/uncooked seafoods and meats for a long time. No ill effects. I mean, I cook my pork well, but steak? Barely. Tuna? Never does heat touch it.

So I wish that these places would stop it with the liability bullshit and foam their milk right. I’ve tricked a few $tarbuck$ by telling them to give me an “iced latte with foam”. Some of them are stupid enough to not get it. La Roma by default no longer makes them right, although most of them will if I ask pretty. Espresso Royale at least still makes decent ones.

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I’m somewhat upset that Slashdot never ended up putting out a story on Plone 3. Plone 3’s release is pretty significant. They announced Zope 3, Plone 2.5, etc… But for whatever reason Plone 3 never made it. There were plenty of us that submitted stories to the Firehose, but nope… never got it up. Drupal gets too much attention there.

At least Digg got it up there, with over 500 diggs.

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I’m very excited to be attending my first AES (Audio Engineering Society) convention in NYC in October. After that, i’m headed off to Naples, courtesy of Jazkarta for the Plone Conference 2007.

AES should be really fun. Apple has two rooms there. I’ve got a new product I want to talk up to people (couldn’t afford a booth this year, maybe next year) and get some preorders on. Logic 8 soon? Please?

I’m really looking forward most to meeting some of the people I talk to so often on Gearslutz.

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I hate Digg. It’s a bunch of Ron Paul loving, alarmist nutjobs, who lean so far over the left that they fell off a cliff (left-lemmings) and need to RTFA first. Yes, I’m about as left as you can get, but they don’t even think before the click ‘digg it’ or make comments.

At the same time, it’s often a place that has news before CNN/NYTimes/Slashdot has it. It’s one of the few sites that actually has more topics that I am entertained by than I can read without wasting entire days. Most web boards are too slow for me, and CNN barely changes it’s content ever. Slashdot might have 10 stories a day. Digg is at least entertaining in that it has a ton of stuff per day, and that is what I see as it’s strong suit.

At the same time, it’s got more ‘junk’ on it than anywhere else.

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I’m removing all of the adsense ads from this page, except maybe just a tiny one at the bottom just so I can play with adsense still. I didn’t launch this blog to make money at all, but I think the literal PENNY that I earned in the past few weeks, isn’t worth the amount of bandwidth that I incur to my readers.

So basically, sorry for all of the ads. Maybe some day I’ll get some back on here, but only if I find them to be personally useful products that I like/use myself. I wouldn’t mind having a ThinkGeek banner on the top, because they have cool stuff! But all of these ads for plasma TVs just suck.

Again, sorry! No more crappy adsense stuff!

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