Unroasted Coffee. At left is an image of unroasted coffee from the farmer’s market in our neighborhood. The guy who sells this stuff is named Raul, and he and his wife import their coffee from Guatemala. In addition, Raul will be teaching a class at Grossmont College this semester on the production and process of [...]
The internet hosting company Dreamhost (which hosts this site and many many others) made a catastrophic error sometime after midnight California time, January 15th, and customers are furious. What happened apparently is that Dreamhost charged their customers for billing services as if the date were Dec. 31, 2008 and in most cases charged their customers [...]
In the second part of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, King Henry (who’s sick and soon unto death) begins a little monologue about insomnia: How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids [...]
Bereaved-widow-cum-spiritual architect Sarah Winchester started her house in San Jose in 1884 and carpenters worked for 24-hours-a-day on the place for the next 38-years until she died. Now known as “The Winchester Mystery House,” it was meant to be a maze for the spirits that haunted Mrs. Winchester because she believed (or was led to [...]
I found this article by John Hockenberry (posted all over the place) to be an engaging diatribe against the (perhaps obvious depending upon one’s internet perspective) failures of corporate news. Hockenberry worked for Dateline NBC for nine years before getting kicked out in a corporate downsizing extravaganza. In the essay, Hockenberry muses about the failure [...]