I've owned a number of coffee pod machines over the years. Today I collected another such machine, bough online yesterday. This is a Nespresso Vertuo Next device that works rather differently, spinning the barcoded pods at up to 7000 rpm to dispense the coffee. There are five different sizes of pods, the barcode around the rim of the pod tells the machine whether to dispense 40 ml; 80 ml; 150 ml; 230 ml or 414 ml. The pods are expensive and thus far only Starbucks and Nespresso themselves make suitable pods. I have on order from Amazon a set of caps to fit the 230 ml size pods to make the original pods reusable, cutting the expense and waste considerably.
I makes fantastic coffee, too, with a rich, thick crema on top. I bought this device on a special sale at a saving of $47, plus the manufacturer has a $50 cash back promotional offer valid until the end of May.
On Twitter, Elon Musk took away the Pope's blue check.
And then his rocket exploded.
Coincidence? I think not.
IKEA-sourced computer desk, consisting of two 4-drawer cabinets, two telescoping legs and a bench top measuring 8 feet by 2 feet. There are two quad power outlets above the desk, all individually switched.
The Mac Mini with its arm-mounted 28-inch 4k monitor will be mounted on the left side, between the cabinets.
I couldn’t get far enough back to take a single photo so this image is an imperfectly-stitched union of two separate shots.
Alas, after a 13-year run from April 15, 2010 to April 15, 2023, the Mac User Group I’m a member of has had to close one of its satellite groups because it was unable to find a co-ordinator. The sub-group had been run as hybrid meeting for the past 6 months with more members present on the Zoom component than physically in the meeting room.
I had the honour of being one of the presenters at the inaugural meeting and I was also the venue co-ordinator for what turned out to be the final meeting. The venue co-ordinator acts as the interface between the physical room equipment and the Zoom component of the hybrid meeting.
Depressed, cold and sore. A rotten day, physically. My crook knee just wouldn't respond to any treatment and wearing the elastic support brace seemed to make things worse. I'm at home, in bed with the convection heater warming the room and the electric blanket doing the same for me.
In six days God created heaven and earth and everything therein. On the seventh
day while he rested, the cat he'd also created walked over his keyboard.
Long story short, here we are.
@variablepulserate My sister and I decided to hit Mum's rhubarb patch in Dad's orchard/vegetable garden with a ride-on mower. This patch was around 2 square metres in area and we mowed the damned space down to ground level, literally. Scraps of rhubarb and fine soil particles flew everywhere.
I don't know quite what we were thinking. The misbegotten horror of a plant patch regrew to an even greater height and density than previously
// @coopey
Hitched up my soundbar to the TV and also selected the OG HomePod stereo pair to play Elton John's Funeral For A Friend track really loudly. This track is the opening one for the almost 50 year old Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, released in May of 1973.
Why play such a track?
Because it was appropriate, I'd just returned home from the funeral of a friend.