I’ve got the home-security guy showing up Monday, an allergy-doc appointment on Thursday, two large book shelves to empty before next Monday when they start installing the new doors, a birthday party next Tuesday, and a whole house to clean before I start cooking for Thanksgiving. No pressure.

(the home-security guy is scoping out “how to make sure the sensors still work after they replace all the exterior doors and frames”)

Shared monitor nuisance

So far, the only downside of having my 4K vertical monitor attached to two Macs at the same time is that the Thunderbolt connection to my laptop doesn’t always notice when I turn the monitor on. I’d blame Apple’s QA department, but they haven’t had one in years.

Refined Waifus

I’m using my SwarmUI API script to re-gen my early 4K waifu wallpapers, and so far every pic is coming out obviously different but with better fingers and toes. The only real failures are ones where it decided she needed a larger head.

On a random side note, I’m glad I improved my image-posting workflow with deathmatch, because I recently noticed that Apple broke Preview.app more than usual. It used to be that dragging a thumbnail image into a Terminal window copied the full path followed by a backslash, while dragging the tiny icon out of the title bar copied the full path followed by a space. The tiny icon still works, but dragging the thumbnail now produces two copies of the path, the first one followed by a newline, the second by a space; this is spectacularly useless.

Grabbing a bunch of pics from a directory full of GenAI or traditional cheesecake is a lot easier since I added the “export current filtered view” function to deathmatch.

Cold comfort

I decided to try out James Hoffmann’s recent cold-brew coffee technique. It’s not like his “Ultimate X-brew Method” videos, which tend to draw out the tastes-nothing-like-coffee flavors that the modern specialty coffee enthusiast craves, and he even concluded that it produces better results with cheaper, darker roasts, but as techniques go it’s trivial, with only one trick: adding a few drops of beer fining agent to produce a cleaner brew without a filter.

I didn’t have any of that on-hand, and haven’t made it over to the homebrew store that’s about 1.5 miles away, but he insisted that the grounds would settle out pretty well even without that, and you could pour carefully. Which was mostly true, except for the layer on the top that I had to scoop off. I ended up pouring it through a V60 filter anyway; next time I’ll try the fining agent.

Of course, “next time” might be “Spring”, since he posted the video just in time for cold weather…

What coffee did I use?

Marisol’s Café, purchased from Marisol herself when I was at St. George’s Market in Belfast. Yes, the beans spent a year in the freezer. Still darn tasty. I don’t know how she brewed the samples she was handing out that day, but I don’t usually like black coffee, and it was so good I bought two bags.

Appreciating Ina

Ina Enohara is not the prettiest model working in Japan right now, but she’s one of the most appealing, because there’s so much personality coming through when her face lights up. Which happens a lot more often than with most of the competition.

It doesn’t hurt that she has giant soft natural breasts that match her body, but I would never have bothered learning her name if it weren’t for her smile.

(site obviously NSFW, and the usual shields-up warning applies)

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