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And – Action! (or what you can use olive oil for, as well)
So after describing to you guys how my beautiful new coffee machine is oh so great, I have to admit, I needed advice. Hence, what follows will be the conversations I am currently having with the guys at www.orphanespresso.com, who seem to be more into the machines than their makers…. the people at www.olympia-express.ch, the makers […]
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The Olympic Coffee Games – or: welcome to coffee geek world
My father had bought a Swiss espresso machine back in the eighties, when hipsters had no clue what a lever machine is or how important the grinding and tampering is for crema (or, for that matter, what crema is). He paid something like 800,- DM for it, which was quite outrageous, but just as he […]
Posted in gaumenfreuden, just recently, tech advice Tagged Breakfast, cafe, city-life, coffee, cooking, cremina, drinks, espresso, food, olympia, swiss, tech advice 1 Comment
the infamous kochklub – or, how to make too much food and eat it, too
So these three great friends of mine and I initiated a kochklub, a cooking club. Originally one of these friends cooked for two of the others since they were leaving to study abroad in London. This was 1999… Upon their return, the cooking was established as a regular thing. The rules (of course there are […]
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berlin, du bist immer eine reise wert
I spent a week in Berlin – and even though I only had a few hours per day to walk the city, and even though the weather was mostly terrible, and even though I announced Sendling as the new Brooklyn recently, I have to admit: I love Berlin (and that’s something for a born and […]
Posted in gaumenfreuden, just recently, shops and things Tagged berlin, cafe, city-life, coffee, drinks, food, shopping, travel 1 Comment
archivePad – the good, the bad and the ugly
Honestly – I bought the iPad 3 this year mostly because it is the apple product I didn’t own yet. But I wanted to use it for reading PDFs and marking them up with a pen (or stylus as they like to call it) as I go. With my set up between good reader, […]
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archive anxieties
Now this is, if anything, a cry for help rather than advice. Imagine you go to an archive, and have no idea what to expect. Imagine, then, it is not an archive curated by a historian, but an archive in a corporation, which partly burnt down in the 40s, and is now a collection of […]
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meals from the kettle
In Germany, I don’t have a microwave. So if i want something warm to eat but don’t reall feel like cooking, two of my favorite meals come from the kettle. My breakfast, and my late evening dinner. Give it up for……..savory oatmeal! It is hands down the best breakfast ever. To make it in Germany, […]
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My first blogsy post
So this will be interesting. This is a very short blog post, mainly designed to test blogsy, the app for the iPad for remote blog publishing. Rated highly, the app promises easy drag and drop editing, and publishing from anywhere you and your iPad are having a good time. I will try to add an […]
workflow – for the mac. some hints for pc.
[UPDATE: I have added and changed a few things here after working with the apps for a while now. Mostly I would say I cannot image life anymore without Dropbox, and Devonthink is an amazing power tool for anything relating to research, especially since I imported all my archival material and OCR’d it. Evernote still […]
Posted in apple, apps, tech advice, workflow Tagged apple, apps, database, devonthink, evernote, iPad, MacBook Air, omnifocus, omnigroup, omnioutliner, scrivener, tech advice, wiki, workflow 2 Comments
How to get your iPhone unlocked – and make your own micro sim