From Lifehacker: Caffeine Zone 2 Tracks Your Caffeine Usage and Tells You if Another Cup Will Do Any Good

iOS: If you spend the bulk of your day downing cup after cup of coffee, you likely know the feeling of taking it one cup too far. You might be nervous or have trouble sleeping later on. Caffeine Zone 2 is an app that allows you to track your caffeine usage so you’ll know if that late afternoon cup is doing you more harm than good. More »


 

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From Lifehacker: Reuse a Pocket-Sized Pepper Mill as a Coffee Grinder for a Fresh Ground Brew Anytime, Anywhere

This is brilliant!!! 😀

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Just because you’re away from home doesn’t mean you have to go without fresh ground coffee. If you’re a fan of using a French Press like we are, or you prefer an Aeropress for your morning cuplike we do, you need fresh ground coffee to get the best, most flavorful brew. This trick uses a standard pepper grinder or mill you can buy in any grocery store to deliver small quantities of fresh, coarse ground coffee, perfect if you’re traveling, camping, or just don’t have a coffee grinder handy. More »

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From Gizmodo: Learn Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coffee and Coffee Gear

You might’ve noticed that the other Mat and I talk a lot about coffee and coffee gear, and occasionally we say some things that sound crazy, like the French Press is the most brutal “French” invention since the guillotine, or that we’d sooner drink water from a muddy elephant footprint pressed into a swamp fed by nightsoil runoff than anything that comes out of a Keurig. We’re not trying to be jerks, really. Honest. Mostly. More »


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Australia’s Small Town Starts a Trend (Hopefully)

NY Times

Small town in Australia decided to stop the sale of bottled water altogether!  Plastic bottled water has been infamous for at least two major reasons:

  • Making plastic bottles & transporting them has been detrimental to the environment
  • Drinking water from such bottles have been known to be harmful as bottled water is likely to have been stored fairly long time and thus contains plastic in some amount in the water

I hope it’s a worldwide trend to stop it.  On top of that, most of the bottled water comes from your local municipal water treatment centers!  So it’s nothing special.

Hot Choco and God

With the “colder” weather around, I decided to make hot chocolate for the kids for snack   What is interesting is afterwards.  Evidently, JJ decided to clean up after himself and wiped the spilled hot choco that was on the placemat.  I somewhat chuckled at seeing his rather lame effort at the clean up.

Then it reminded me of how God would look at my way(s) of cleaning up my own mess in life, only to come after my attempts and He does His own clean up.  I wonder if He chuckles as well seeing at His son’s lame attempt at cleaning up.    It also reminded me that I shouldn’t mock anybody else’s mistakes, but rather keep myself in check.  It’s rather funny how God can re-teach lessons of life in so many ways.

I am humbled… yet again.