I just ran out of coffee concentrate in my office. And there are 5+ hours left. Bah! Back to office coffee for the rest of the day…

The incident reminded me, however, that I’ve been meaning to post instructions for its creation:
NYT recipe for (and explanation of) cold-brew coffee

Super special thanks to Neil for sending me this article and making me my first batch. They sell the stuff in NOLA, and I missed it for years, but didn’t realize you could make it (duh!). It’s really improved the quality of my life lately. I mix it with Light Chocolate Silk soy milk. It’s amazing. Chocolate + coffee = happy me.

Michael Nagle for The New York Times reports on artist Steve Powers’s simulated display of waterboarding:

“Some people look at Coney Island and see a paradise of carefree entertainment. Others see a cesspool of gritty squalor. Few are those who gaze upon its shrieking kids, grizzled wanderers and fast-talking flimflam artists and see an opportunity for engaged political discourse.

In Steve Powers’s ‘Waterboard Thrill Ride’ in Coney Island animatronic figures simulate an interrogation method used in Guantánamo; visitors view the scene through a barred window.”

Link

Controversial political artwork featuring robots? Mandated roadtrip.

… so I’ve become very flakey at updating this blog. So I’m pausing for a second to explain. I moved to Rochester for graduate school one year ago, and I love it, but I’m sort of absorbed in starting all of my research… and maybe don’t have a lot to report aside from that! And my research, I talk about on my work site, and, even there, only in rough detail infrequently.

So I’m not sure what to do with the blog. I don’t have the energy or gaul to report on my shoes and haircuts anymore. Recounting book plots and quotes… slightly less myopic, but, no, not really. Not sure to what degree I can openly talk about my research… or to what degree it’s smart to. I could keep complaining about ads and politics, and keep posting overheard conversations…

I’m not sure what I want to do. I don’t have the time to revert back to blogging about robots, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, which is a lot of what I talked about in the beginning.

This blog is read primarily by strangers, but also friends and family… I’m not sure why anyone reads it, I guess, or if that should influence what I put here. If I were to blog for the sake of blogging, I’d post pictures and lists of things and, occasionally, rants. That might be the direction things are going.

Would that be terrible? I’m not even going to edit this post, because it’s that kind of day.