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Grizzled veteran of the War on Christmas.
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People who are still getting paid through the shutdown, or people in that bracket who don't have to reach for a credit card every time something costs $400, might not feel it yet. But there is starting to be buyer's remorse for Trump votes, before the situation has even really started to get bad.
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
People who are still getting paid through the shutdown, or people in that bracket who don't have to reach for a credit card every time something costs $400, might not feel it yet. But there is starting to be buyer's remorse for Trump votes, before the situation has even really started to get bad.
But here's a straw in the wind: Michigan Survey consumer confidence, via Krugman today: notice that even in the worst of the 2008-9 crisis, it was not as low as it is now. Joe Average seems to be getting a sense, even if people who spend too much time reading and commenting on poli-sci blogs aren't
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
But here's a straw in the wind: Michigan Survey consumer confidence, via Krugman today: notice that even in the worst of the 2008-9 crisis, it was not as low as it is now. Joe Average seems to be getting a sense, even if people who spend too much time reading and commenting on poli-sci blogs aren't
Sometimes the things I do for fun on Saturdays are indistinguishable (to a non-expert) from what I do for money Mon-Fri.
August 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sometimes the things I do for fun on Saturdays are indistinguishable (to a non-expert) from what I do for money Mon-Fri.
Is there a tea feed? It does appear that tagging with #tea gets seen somehow...
Setting up a session with YS's "Mu Shu hong" from last year
I felt like this was kind of meh for the $$, until I started pushing the brew time hard, like 15s+
Setting up a session with YS's "Mu Shu hong" from last year
I felt like this was kind of meh for the $$, until I started pushing the brew time hard, like 15s+
July 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Is there a tea feed? It does appear that tagging with #tea gets seen somehow...
Setting up a session with YS's "Mu Shu hong" from last year
I felt like this was kind of meh for the $$, until I started pushing the brew time hard, like 15s+
Setting up a session with YS's "Mu Shu hong" from last year
I felt like this was kind of meh for the $$, until I started pushing the brew time hard, like 15s+
Preparing to drink some #tea, namely a 2009 Tian Yuan brand Yiwu raw puer via White2Tea.com. This one has been in my own storage for 9 years and it's coming along nicely. I will use it up in 8-10 steeps but it's the kind of thing some people might infuse 20 times. It makes a strong orange soup.
June 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Preparing to drink some #tea, namely a 2009 Tian Yuan brand Yiwu raw puer via White2Tea.com. This one has been in my own storage for 9 years and it's coming along nicely. I will use it up in 8-10 steeps but it's the kind of thing some people might infuse 20 times. It makes a strong orange soup.
And who can forget the soothing, calming effect of viewing Picasso's Guernica?
June 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And who can forget the soothing, calming effect of viewing Picasso's Guernica?
Ah yes, all the masterpieces that prove Art has to be pretty... Mathias Grünewald's Crucifixion, for example.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ah yes, all the masterpieces that prove Art has to be pretty... Mathias Grünewald's Crucifixion, for example.
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🍽️ Cocktail time
I decided to follow @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's suggestion for a martini made with orange bitters. Though I deviated by using French vermouth and a lemon twist garnish.
I must concur it is a fine restorative potion.
I decided to follow @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's suggestion for a martini made with orange bitters. Though I deviated by using French vermouth and a lemon twist garnish.
I must concur it is a fine restorative potion.
May 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🍽️ Cocktail time
I decided to follow @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's suggestion for a martini made with orange bitters. Though I deviated by using French vermouth and a lemon twist garnish.
I must concur it is a fine restorative potion.
I decided to follow @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's suggestion for a martini made with orange bitters. Though I deviated by using French vermouth and a lemon twist garnish.
I must concur it is a fine restorative potion.
Wheeeee!
"VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is ... often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge."
"VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is ... often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge."
April 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Wheeeee!
"VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is ... often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge."
"VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is ... often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge."
Tea of the day is a 1990s raw puer gotten from Essence of Tea.
Forty years ago I read John Blofeld's "Art of Chinese Tea" and was fascinated by the description of tiny clay pots ram full with tea leaf to make brew to drink from walnut-size cups. I never expected to live to make tea that way myself.
Forty years ago I read John Blofeld's "Art of Chinese Tea" and was fascinated by the description of tiny clay pots ram full with tea leaf to make brew to drink from walnut-size cups. I never expected to live to make tea that way myself.
February 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tea of the day is a 1990s raw puer gotten from Essence of Tea.
Forty years ago I read John Blofeld's "Art of Chinese Tea" and was fascinated by the description of tiny clay pots ram full with tea leaf to make brew to drink from walnut-size cups. I never expected to live to make tea that way myself.
Forty years ago I read John Blofeld's "Art of Chinese Tea" and was fascinated by the description of tiny clay pots ram full with tea leaf to make brew to drink from walnut-size cups. I never expected to live to make tea that way myself.
How do you get hold of somebody at Google Maps to tell them that their site got hacked and it is displaying bullshit?
February 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
How do you get hold of somebody at Google Maps to tell them that their site got hacked and it is displaying bullshit?
Avocado toast, Assam tea 🍽️
January 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Avocado toast, Assam tea 🍽️
Oat porridge with butter and raisins, chopped salad with lemon Dijon vinaigrette, scrambled egg, Yunnan green tea 🍽️
January 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Oat porridge with butter and raisins, chopped salad with lemon Dijon vinaigrette, scrambled egg, Yunnan green tea 🍽️
Imagine you spent years training be like this
January 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Imagine you spent years training be like this
Really excellent "Taiwan Biluochun" from The Steeping Room
It does not resemble any mainland biluochun I have tasted
But it is extraordinarily fine tea, suitable for soaking all day in boiling hot water
It does not resemble any mainland biluochun I have tasted
But it is extraordinarily fine tea, suitable for soaking all day in boiling hot water
December 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Really excellent "Taiwan Biluochun" from The Steeping Room
It does not resemble any mainland biluochun I have tasted
But it is extraordinarily fine tea, suitable for soaking all day in boiling hot water
It does not resemble any mainland biluochun I have tasted
But it is extraordinarily fine tea, suitable for soaking all day in boiling hot water
Christmas breakfast at the crack of 1400🍽️
December 25, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Christmas breakfast at the crack of 1400🍽️
Oh look a stopped clock
December 20, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Oh look a stopped clock
The image... Homage to a classic?
December 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM
The image... Homage to a classic?
Today's tea: 2006 Shi Kun Mu Yibang
I've heard that in Qing times, Yibang was where the Emperor's puer came from
If this tea is representative, the Emperor's tea-finders knew their job
I've heard that in Qing times, Yibang was where the Emperor's puer came from
If this tea is representative, the Emperor's tea-finders knew their job
December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Today's tea: 2006 Shi Kun Mu Yibang
I've heard that in Qing times, Yibang was where the Emperor's puer came from
If this tea is representative, the Emperor's tea-finders knew their job
I've heard that in Qing times, Yibang was where the Emperor's puer came from
If this tea is representative, the Emperor's tea-finders knew their job
I'll see your Crystal Phone and raise you a late-80s Logitech Visible Mouse
December 2, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I'll see your Crystal Phone and raise you a late-80s Logitech Visible Mouse
Whole wheat toast with gnarly peanut butter and Castlevetrano olives, Assam tea with milk 🍽️
December 2, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Whole wheat toast with gnarly peanut butter and Castlevetrano olives, Assam tea with milk 🍽️