Tag: saturday

grind & brew

Lizeth Samboni
La Esmeralda
Sidra - Washed
Colombia
(bag)

25.0 g beans

1.9.3 (↑1) on Timemore

purified water
248 g water @ 0:20
404 g water @ 1:40,
poured w/ spout,
clockwise spirals

Easy Immersion recipe
immersion until 3:20
draw-down until 4:20

patagonia no dams mug
Hario Switch w/
brown Hario paper filters

grind sniff

listen

Answer (2026)
Bibio & Dorian Concept

pensieve

unlidded calm aroma
sipping sweetened complexity
chocolate-sided squint
pulse of a flower
fizzing into wind,
the rough, the sigh,
the hemisphere, the right
air, tiny cinnamon
nails, vaporized
fantasy

neighbors

aking winds’
lavor: roma’s
licious gaze
imulates altitudes
ossible earth
co- minglings
magined priors
ixtures & estiny

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       r
       o
       toward
       i
l factoids
o      n
w      p
     xdependence
       r
       i
       e
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       c
       e

[cup/1 · saturday · method/easy-immersion · water/purified · colombia · sidra · listening/bibio · listening/dorian-concept · companion/unicorn]

grinding & brewing

beans: trader joe’s ethiopian
(new bag) (first time)
25g beans + 3 spritzes RDT

grind: 1.9.1 on timemore

immersion: 2 min 45 sec
draw-down: 1 min
mug: patagonia — barely fit
with lid to prevent spill
water: 400 g — poured w/ gooseneck

tasting

closer to dark roast, that bitter burn
edge, enjoyed, oral flowers, no tiers,
pleasant and gradual.

listening

oneohtrix point never: russian mind (2009)

thinking: travelogue app

basic idea

make it as easy and fun as possible
to reflect on, create and share
memories and experiences that happened
in specific places,
presentational format vs archival.

“back of house”

upload / import
record reflections
(write / voice)
curate / edit
return to a
scrapbook aesthetic

“front of house”

share
“comment”
add cards for
bulletin board
and yarn

design / aesthetic

simplify complex images
and map elements
with an illustrative overlay
that gradually fades
to the real photo / map
with each tap or scroll

illustrative styles are
themed with prompt collections
by default; they
increase signal to
noise by starting
simple (3 lines)
then becoming more
detailed

trip representations

1. timelines
   (like subway maps)
   scroll; heading; focus; paragraph about
   what happened; fade in
2. geographical
   maps
3. “hand-drawn”
   diagrams / illustrations

[cup/1 · saturday · method/easy-immersion · ethiopia · listening/oneohtrix-point-never]

Context

🦄 made a coffee robot poster for the kitchen brew nook for Valentine’s day! Adoration.

Haven’t been outside much yet. February air wasn’t quite as cold in my tshirt as normal when taking out the garbage. Cloudy.

Listened to Peter Steinberger talk about OpenClaw on Lex Friedman while working on some laundry:

Did a few flashcards for tmux keyboard shortcuts.

Listening

Brendel playing Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” again this morning. Brings me back.

Brew Notes

Preheated 209 g purified water and burned off a bit too much.

New Gear RDT Atomizer

It was easy to put together, very slick. Purified water goes in through a tiny metal funnel by squeezing a plastic bellows synringe. Looks like lipstick when compacted.

Two aerosol sprays on the dose before grinding. Unscrewed the Timemore catchment … this RDT aerosolizer works well! Grounds could be tossed and shifted about the grinder catchment cleanly, with little cling on the cup walls.

Ground texture landed right in the workable range: loose enough to move cleanly, tight enough to stay uniform.

Groundsniff

I think the RDT changed the character of the smell of the grounds. It made the particulate matter speak. A tunnel to a vibrant underworld, filed with black purple velvet hairs that are glowing.

New Gear - Hario 03 Brown Cone Filters

Finally ran out of the filters that came with the Hario Switch. After a day or two using Melissa O2 “conical” filters (really more of a prism shape), which worked okay, my new Hario 03 brown cone filters came.

Somehow the brown filters feel more compostable, as the white filters were likely bleeched to achieve its gleam.

Observe

RDT with the aerosolizer reduced winter static significantly.

Setup was quick and low-cost, and the technique felt repeatable.

Tasty

First, sparkled with acidity and caramel.
Second, enjoyable, and at a sideways tilt,
whirling around.
Third, mohagonay veneer.
Some wet splash with bright light glare;
the edge of the tongue with its oils
like a creme brulee film.
n, finer things of life unlocked.

Reflect

Using this aerosolizer is worth it. Cheap and respectful. Ideal in a way. Default going forwards.

[cup2 · saturday · listening · equipment/new · water/purified]