On my way to my last exam for this semester. Open-book. The only mistake (other than not actually learning anything since the start of the year) you can make is taking too much material in with you, and taking longer than necessary to find what you're looking for. That 800+ page C: the Complete Reference may have been a bad move. Regardless, spring break is imminent. Woo. And I'm deferring next semester as work is getting pretty busy. Did somebody say "eight months of spring break"?
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2006 just called. He wants his news back. This.It's probably not true. But it would explain an awful lot. I just knew something weird was going on. I'm sure I was not the only one who was screaming, “Why is this guy famous? I swear his band doesn't actually exist!”P.S. I think I'm doing quite well so far with making my titles as intriguing as possible. Too bad they won't be on my Twitter feed anymore. (Spoiler: my Twitter feed doesn't exist.)
Something a little embarrassing happened yesterday while I was riding my bike along Merri Creek. I caught somebody doing something. They were doing it out in the open. They were not expecting to get caught. They thought nobody was watching. They were alone. That's right, if you've joined the dots correctly, you'll have guessed that when I came around the corner, I saw a girl hugging a tree. Really. I didn't realise people really did that. Sure, some of us go around calling hippies treehuggers, but I never thought that people ...
Next time you're in the Carlton North area, check out a shop called Belki. It's a handful of doors up from Tre Bicchieri. Anyway, it's worth a look because of the window. It looks like someone has traced a circle into it. You know, like in Tom and Jerry cartoons, when someone wants to break in and they just draw a circle with a penknife a few times? That's what this window looks like. All it needs is a good sturdy Acme™ Suction Cup and that handbag's as good as stolen. It does make ...
This post has nothing to do with Tre Bicchieri.But honestly, I've been there a lot. Their coffee is great. It almost always is. I'm sort of running out of things to say about them. But luckily, something else takes precedence today.New Super Mario Bros Wii!Wow. Four-player simultaneous side-scrolling radness! It's out November 14.
I'm on a bus.Cars may be a great way to get around, and you can leave whenever you want, but you always have to allow time for traffic and finding somewhere to park.Trains only stop at stations, which are very far apart, and only run on tracks, which are also far apart, but they move very quickly and there is never any traffic.Trams are a bit slower, stop more often, and often service routes that don't have a train line running through it.Walking is really the ultimate if you want to leave whenever you want, travel for free, get some ...
Okay I'm heading off to Darwin tomorrow. I'm considering taking the Aeropress with me. That's a first. But I'll probably have to take a grinder too. That takes up most of the suitcase. Hmm. Is it worth it? If I successfully order hot water on the plane and make an Aeropress and take photos of the process, it will definitely be worth it.Oh, scrap that. We're flying QANTAS. No need for outside coffee there.In my opinion.Of all my opinions, I'm sure "QANTAS coffee rules!" is one shared by nobody else I ...
This is my second coffee for the day. It will be my last.Miraculous, really, after only four hours of sleep.But I've been propping myself up quite successfully with these coffee cookies LLL made last week.They are seriously amazing.There's a few handfuls of ground-up Seven Seeds in there.Yes, real coffee grounds.And a bean (or two if you're lucky) on each one.I'm not sure how many cookies you have to eat to get the effects of a cup of coffee, but somewhere around five should do it.I'm not sure how this fits in with my blogging rules: do I need to ...
I often worry about getting a takeaway short mac or espresso in a paper cup on a day this cold and windy. There was a serious danger of it cooling down too much just between the shop and the car.But a short drink isn't going to sit around long enough to get too cold. One traffic light, and you're done.And if your cup holders* are as stupidly-placed as mine, that empty cup will get annoying. But you'll have doubts about throwing it in the back seat. That last drop that you couldn't get to roll out ...
Off to the footy. Walking to the MCG. From here. The only sane choice in today's weekend footy traffic climate.Coffeeing up before you get to the ground is another sane choice. The queues at half time were unbelievable. I should have taken photos, but my hands were full of various cups of tea and buckets of chips.I spent most of the last corner flogging the dead horse that is the cat-vs-dog puns that seem to present themselves at a Cats vs Bulldogs game:"Well, they're barking up the right tree now.""The Cat's not quite in the ...
It took us a while to figure out who this dog looks like:But in hindsight it's pretty obvious he's a cross between Michael McDonald and Master Splinter.
Very orange today. Like our year 10 co-ordinator when she fell asleep in the tanning bed that one time and came to school looking like a mandarin.
In the Odd Spot today:Proving the adage "less is more", New York City's narrowest house, a three-metre-wide, 14-metre-deep Greenwich Village red-brick, is up for sale for $US2.7 million ($A3.2 million). Real estate agent Alex Nicholas admits, "You have to be very clever in how you decorate."I'm not sure I agree with the hyphenation, but something tells me the new owner would be wise to utilise the property as a café called The Narrowest House in the Village, complete with polished concrete floors, exposed beams, recycled furniture, room out the front for parking of fixed-gear bikes or Vespa scooters, free ...
I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.Sorry, that was a tad ambiguous. The emphasis could have gone either way:I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.or, at a stretch:I'm not sure why I have flat whites here so often.What I was going for was number 1. I think it might be because I like their cups.With that out of the way, let's move on to something else. I want to point out how hard it was to interrupt that ordered ...
I showed you the elephant last time. It's worth noting that there is a giraffe (albeit an upside-down one) on the other side of the cup.Leaving aside for a moment that it's unlikely a giraffe would ever be hanging upside down from something, that's a nice looking cup.
Dr J.Mo texted last night to say that she was at Dose in London, and it was the best long mac since she left Melbourne (18 months ago). I thought, "Long mac...that's a good idea."But let's talk about haircuts, and haircut conversation in particular. How much are we, as customers, expected to really want to talk about ourselves to a complete stranger? If it's one of those hairdresser/hairdressee relationships where you see each other every month, more often than some of your real friends, then it's understandable you would actually talk about what's been going on in ...
Smooth.
Matt Preston's review of Tre Bicchieri informs me what Tre Bicchieri actually means. I could regurgitate it here, but you should probably read his review. Nice use of quotation marks around "baked eggs". He doesn't mention the coffee until the last sentence, which is funny, because I've been there about twenty times and only ever mentioned the coffee.It seems I've missed the point.It's a wine bar.
Don't worry, I won't leave it on the roof.
Bing is Microsoft's new search engine. As far as I know, it's named in honor of Ned from Groundhog Day:(if you feel like you've seen other bloggers make that same connection, consider it a salute to the repetitive nature of the referenced material)I have no plans at all to actually use Bing, but I thought it might be vaguely interesting to check how easy it is to find my blog via Bing.It turns out it's pretty difficult. You need to search for "ryan on coffee" in quotes. Any less specific than that, and I'm not in the ...
Yes, I have coffee at home. It may seem weird to go out and get a takeaway coffee for no reason. Well, this was just a safety net coffee really. I was a bit worried those beans still weren't going to work out, and I didn't want to be stuck at home with coffee I wasn't going to enjoy drinking. So with a Latte, Tre Bicchieri, Carlton North under my belt at least I would only have to deal with one of the following scenarios:A great latte and a great espresso.A great latte and a passable ...
Sometimes, it can take ten minutes for one of the staff to come back to your table and inform you that they've run out of the thing you ordered.I find it hard to understand this.They didn't seem to take, "I'll get the croissant, that won't take long will it?" as the affront to their order-taking skills that I thought it implied.
This is quickly becoming my favourite coffee in the village.(I meant Rathdowne Village. Sorry, maybe it's not famous enough to be abbreviated that far.)
JB was a little worried about the European Hot Chocolate he ordered. "It sounds more like a sex position!"
A flatty at Bicchi. A great afternoon for it too.I was a bit alarmed at how often JB was using the phrase "a known chode-fancier".It all started when he said he wrote a highly fictitious Wikipedia entry for his new band Joe Neptune, and promptly received an email from Wikipedia saying they knew none of it was true, and as such wouldn't stay on the site.That's hardly fair. Consider the following infomationlet:Before they settled on Joe Neptune, their other candidate for a band name was Jivon and Hardfunkel.It sounds made-up, doesn't it? But is it? It ...
