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I just applied Alton Brown knowledge for the first time evah, making a cup of coffee more or less as prescribed by Good Eats, using a manual-drip coffee maker to produce a pretty good hot cuppa of the nothing-special whole-bean coffee which I have boxes and boxes of (thanks to my parents getting me a "subscription" to it last year).

Now to try it with Diesel Fuel...

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The iPod Shuffle is a brilliant insinuation of eristic philosophy into an aneristic marketplace. That its appearance has confused and even angered so many people, to whom it appears to be utterly unsellable nonsense, is delightful evidence of this. Discuss.

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Hang on, what are you doing drinking coffee so late? Well, I really wanted one. And I was mulling the possibility of pulling an all-nighter in order to better the chances that I'll finish all this work and be able to attend the whole Hunt guilt-free. As luck would have it, I'm getting quite sleepy anyway, and will probably just turn in now that I've reached the "OK, at least it compiles" phase.

Things are looking grim. But, ask me again tomorrow.

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A new season of Carnivale! I wasn't expecting this; I don't follow entertainment news (beyond the really obvious stuff that trickles down to me), so I had no reason not to believe that the end of the first season (months and months ago) was the (disappointing) end of the whole series (having taken similar lumps from Twin Peaks long ago)... but I never bothered removing it from my TiVo's record-on-sight list, so this is a nice surprise.

The show is as good as I remember it, with gorgeous visuals and a gripping modern-fantasy (well, 1930s-fantasy) story, and with a tasty new plot twist right out of the gate. It also continues to be an example of a TV show that correctly uses HBO's looser content regulations for narrative effect, rather than titillation; it may have more sex & gore & naughty words than a network TV show, but not any more than any of the SF novels on the bookshelf beside me, and deployed for the same reasons. (Well, the same reasons as the better novels, anyway.)