Sometimes I want a hug from someone that can afford one, but instead I’m giving out hugs to everyone else that needs it. And that’s just these unplanned days.

In a foreign land, no less.

“We’re gonna build a new Venuzuala and the Americans are gonna pay for it.”

Yep. Cowboy coffee is Turkish brew. The only difference is a lack of any extra implements and it’s usually done in a big camp kettle or pot. The grind isn’t that fine either. But for all intents and purposes, the method is the same. Greek coffee is also very similar.

I’m also a big fan of boiling more tea than normal to get a strong flavour lol. But usually out camping, I’ll have my coffee grind and just tea bags because they’re much easier Always double bag it 😁 Big peppermint fan, but also like a lot of smooth and flowery blends. Like the opposite of the coffee, I guess—cover all bases.

Bloom is the period that the coffee floats and foams out bubbles, because the heat is expelling the CO2 (and other gases) from the grind. Once it’s out, bloom is over, the foam/bubbles settle, and the coffee sinks down to the bottom having no gases to float with anymore. During bloom, most of the flavour is being released from the grind. Think of it like the coffee is “opened up” or blooming.

Because there’s no way to pull out the grind in cowboy coffee, bloom just goes until msx, making strong flavour. But, that’s where pulling it off heat early or adding cold water can control bloom time to weaken the hit. Personally, I just max it out and dilute it in the cup if it’s too strong, but I like strong flavour coffee.

Cowboy coffee is delicious if you do it right.

1. Fine grind
2. Get the water boiling so it’s rolling
3. Add grind. The rolling helps keep the foam and spillage down as CO2 escapes, but feel free to agitate with a spoon to help.
4. Bring off heat after a minute and let bloom finish. All CO2 out, grind sinks and settles.
5. Leave it resting for another 3-5 mins after bloom is done.

Some people like to add cold water, I don’t. Really depends what you like and there’s a few ways to go about it, but basic concept stays the same. Boil, bloom, rest.

I make coffee in the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere a lot lol. A fire, tin, and water is the only coffee machine you need when done right 👍

You can. You just may not. But no one is defending the may and so Lady Liberty is dead.

Well here’s the kicker. You lot can get together whenever you want. It’s a lot easier, enjoyable, and convenient doing it that way too. Most of all, it’s actually your day, so it means something.

Even in my most troublesome situations, they are less frequent and quicker/easier to resolve than my Windows hurdles.

I’ve lost so much time of my life dealing with Windows breaking, blocking, being randomly fucked on basics, requiring insanely complex workarounds to keep the engine running.

Windows is definitely the harder OS. But ya don’t realise it until your first drive of a Linux distro. Then it becomes clear as day and you feel like you’ve been cutting off your foot to spite all the bullet holes you shot into it.

SQL enjoyer?

Every time I use it I feels like I’m going back to the 90s. No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE or subquery…👍

UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”

looks up better way

“Oh, what the fuck?!.. Nope, this will just be quicker…” UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL…

Join in a table sharing column names… Everything breaks. You gotta put the new prefixes in front of all the headers you called in now. In every select, in every where, etc… Which is weird because that kinda works like a variable and it’s fine…

“When you see this little piece of text, it means all this, got it?”

“Okay. Yep. Easy.”

“So why can’t you do that with expressions?”

SQL SCREAMS MANICALLY

“Okay, okay, okay!.. Jesus…”

And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…

I hate it. It has speed, when you can finally run the script, but everything up to that is so…ugh.

We need Lex Murphy on the case.

ring ring

“Hello?.. Sure … Hey NY! It’s 1965! They want their gas infrastructure back!”

Restart to find out.

“Couldn’t reboot because these programs”

9 of them

“Restart anyway?”

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

No-brainer for them. They’re in the middle of cost-cutting and rebranding.

Much healthier companies don’t want a bar of manufacturing in the US due to tarrifs and countries are already shifting toward a version of globalisation that doesn’t rely on the US. Not because it sucks, it’s just proven how disruptive it can be if it’s unstable.

Nissan is kind of staring down a slow death on its current course, so has started a big radical change including shutting down its own domestic plants. Exfiltrating from manufacturing in the US where possible can just be assumed.

Guys, gals… Just because your brain rips through things faster than a conversation can keep up with, doesn’t mean you have ADHD. Back in the day, this was a marker of intelligence. The source of always being ahead; being able to summon the words perfectly in the moment because so many thoughts covered so many bases before speaking. An enthusiastic, thoughtful, and engaging interaction to anyone interested in the topic.

ADHD is more like, you do that but you can’t pull any of it together because it’s already boring you, so your attention diverts elsewhere.

Don’t confuse enthusiasm with ADHD just because people that can’t keep up say a fast mind or topical passion is now ADHD.

Where we had “nerd” decades ago, “ADHD” and “ASD” are quickly becoming the terms to use by people that feels intellectually vulnerable. Ignore that and keep kicking ass with your super brain. Others can’t be so lucky.

USE JELLYF-

Be prepared for a barrage of “Jellyfin” in your comments.

Oh.

Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

Can’t sorry. Late for work!

But there’s bread on the toaster and I left the avocado out. The umbrella’e next your shoes, gotta go!

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.