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Endless War
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Unknown location and date.
He walked in and asked for a drink. He really didn’t care what he had as long as it did the job.
The bartender does this, that and the other and fires a shot glass down the bar. “Quad-ristretto! If that doesn’t do the job, then, well, I don’t know what will…”
A few seconds to cool, sip, sip, and finish. Overwhelming intensity. Sweet golden syrup body finishing with emulsified fruit extracts clinging to the back of his tongue. “I think that will do it, I hope.”
Today is the day of the final battle. That big push to end the Endless War. The tyrant will fall and peace shall be restored to these lands. One can dream.
“One more before I go Tanis, I’ll need to keep my senses keen this day”
*psssssssssssssssssssssssssssst, thunk, ccrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, thunk, thunk.*
*clinck, clinck*
“Take care of yourself out there Ummon, this ones on me and our people.”
I can feel it warming up my heart, I can feel the vigor rising and my mind turning. Today I will be a Champion for the living, a rogue to the dead.
Daggers sheathed, hood wrapped tight, I disappear into the morning shadows.
My infrequent updates have led to frequent questions. Maybe not.
To say things have been quiet on the coffee side is very untrue. Work has just been so busy the past few weeks that I havn’t really had much time to play with anything. Sure I’ve tried a few new coffees, but I havn’t been able to really test them out.
I love to play with temperature and pressure, pre and post infusion, dose and grind. These are just variables that I can’t play with when the cafe is bustling. I need to build a coffee lab to play in.
We’re getting our 3 group head Synesso installed today and our patio will also be opening very soon, so it’s going to get even busier at Crema.
The organic espresso was really bad at the end of last week. A really watery body with barely any flavour, I wasn’t impressed at all and had to switched to the Epic for the weekend. I hope this doen’t happen again with this current roast date.
I’m not sure what my favourite 49h coffee is at the moment, I don’t think I have one. I’m still leaning towards the Ethiopia Kaharian on french press, but it doesn’t seem to hold up so well on the Clover and is a bit to acidic for a straight espresso, though it does make an interesting cappuccino. I’m a fan of the Sammy Piccolo WBC espresso blend, but it’s pretty expensive and I can’t play with it too much.
We’ll have to see what coffees come in over the next few weeks, I’m assuming we’re going to go through a change in seasonal beans soon.
At home we have Intelli’s “Bolivia Anjilanaka, bourbon, caturra, typica grown at 1700-1900m. Smooth and silky on the tongue, with notes of green grapes and figs. The finish is long and lingering with notes of cocoa and cane sugar.” I’ll open it today and see what I make of it on my siphon. Tastes good on a press and the Clover.
Matt, fairly random poster.
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Tanzania Karmaro Microlot
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Tanzania Karmaro Microlot from 49th Parallel.
- Region: Mbeya
- Varietal: Peaberry
- Process: Washed and Sundried
- Grade: Special Category 100
- Altitude: 1400-1700 meters
- Harvest: April-September
- Export: September-February
Introduced by mulled cider and rhubarb, with citrus and fruit to brighten the cup. This complex and juicy offering is very sweet with an equally clean finish.
I’m not sure why I’m getting so much glare when shooting macro lately… Bah!
I’m loving this coffee and I know that I haven’t tasted it at it’s best yet. Still need to play with brewing times and temperatures. Been fantastic on both the Clover and Siphon, though I preferred what I was getting from the Clover, but I did only grabbed 26grams to have a taste on the siphon at home. Today I’ll try it on aeropress, french press and maybe even as an espresso.
We also have the Tanzanian Hope from 49th to play with aswell, but I’ll stick to this one for now.
Matt
Tags: 49th parallel, peaberry, Tanzania Karmaro
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Implosion of the hand that feeds.
Friday, August 15th, 2008
“In the end, the light ended with an urgency unparalleled.
Gone, before the blink of an eye.
No pain, no suffering.
No warning.”
In the refresh of a page, whilst in the middle of designing my wordpress template, my home network some how gets blocked from accessing my own website.
Inital thoughts are that maybe my host’s server is down, but upon visiting their website I can see that everything is running fine.
I am able to visit any other website, just not www.ummonshadow.com. I just get a server time-out.
The same thing happens with Swe’s macbook on our network, yet connect to another network and we can access the site.
The most bizarre occurance.
Tracert’ing and ping’ing shows that after stage 9, the network hops and cannot connect to anything further.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>pathping www.ummonshadow.com
Tracing route to ummonshadow.com [80.76.216.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 UmmonShadow.lan [192.168.1.64]
1 speedtouch.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 lo-0.erx.tor.primus.ca [216.254.132.30]
3 core2.tor.primus.ca [216.254.130.165]
4 gi1-0-3.bb1.tor.primus.ca [216.254.128.164]
5 te3-8.mpd01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [38.104.158.129]
6 te2-3.mpd01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.101]
7 te7-1.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.186]
8 linx1.uk.othellotech.net [195.66.224.244]
9 gateway1.as29527.net [80.82.140.47]
10 * * *
Computing statistics for 250 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 UmmonShadow.lan [192.168.1.64]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% speedtouch.lan [192.168.1.254]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 147ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% lo-0.erx.tor.primus.ca [216.254.13
2.30]
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 52ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% core2.tor.primus.ca [216.254.130.1
65]
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 40ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% gi1-0-3.bb1.tor.primus.ca [216.254
.128.164]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 53ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te3-8.mpd01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.c
om [38.104.158.129]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 63ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te2-3.mpd01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.c
om [154.54.25.101]
0/ 100 = 0% |
7 128ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% te7-1.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.c
om [130.117.0.186]
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 — 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% linx1.uk.othellotech.net [195.66.2
24.244]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 125ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% gateway1.as29527.net [80.82.140.47
]
100/ 100 =100% |
10 — 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% UmmonShadow [0.0.0.0]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping www.ummonshadow.com
Pinging ummonshadow.com [80.76.216.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 80.76.216.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
It’s not the easiest problem to explain to a technician, since they can access the site without a problem, and thus initally believe that it’s a problem with a firewall or something. Long winded explanations about working fine on my PC and Swe’s through other networks, just not our own, seeds more appropriate responses.
So the issue has been passed from the level 1 technicans at Primus up to the top level, because it’s way over the lower tier technicans head. The guy had no idea what was going on and couldn’t see where the problem could be coming from. But after showing him the Ping results and my explanations and the fact that he can access the site, he agree’s that something perculiar was afoot (possibly witch-craft) and that he’d pass it onto his managers.
So now I can do nothing but await the results, or a phone call.
I’ll still be able to update things from a different network, it’s just so frustrating.
I bid you Adjure,
Matthew
Tags: ummonshadow.com
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The search for a new computer…
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I am currently in the pursuit of a new computer. My current PC is dieing slowly, it has been on life support several times in the past 5 months, death to power supply, motherboard, large decrease in video card performance and most devices will not install on the new motherboard, plus all none of my firewire ports work anymore.
I seem to have unlimited options and it’s a tad overwhelming.
I’m leaning more towards a high end laptop, though a very nice desktop could easily sway me towards that option.
Do I want to go Windows based or Mac? I think if Mac, then it would have to be a macbook pro, which are quite pricey, even for just a 15″ screen. I could get a better spec’ed laptop with 17″ for cheaper than the 15″ macbook pros.
I know I’d love to get an Alienware laptop/desktop, but I’d like to physically see it and play with it before I buy, and Alienware is online only.
I’m not sure what other options I have, I guess I’ll have to hit the computer shops and see what else is on the market.
Anyone have any ideas on the best computer stores in Toronto?
Matt
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Crema Coffee on Facebook
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Indeed, join the group @ facebook
That is all,
Matt
Tags: crema coffee
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