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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • When I was a teenager in the 90s, I once dated someone whom I thought otherwise to be a smart and collected girl.

    Then I watched her and her friend rummage the side streets for half smoked cigarette butts that people had disposed of out their car windows. The bliss in their eyes when they lit up a half smoked one.

    Looking through the eyes of an adult now, it makes me wonder why I continued to try and strike a habit myself over the next 2 years. Fortunate for me, it never seemed like my drug of choice, though I did find others.

    Being addicted to anything will make you realize just how fragile “giving a shit” really is.





  • Not sure if this is what you mean, but there’s a locally famous coffee shop in Boone, NC that makes seasonal specialty drinks that pairs coffee with all sorts of things. Some of the more interesting ones I’ve seen over the years:

    • Campfire - nitro coffee, milk, burnt sugar, homemade toasted marshmallow
    • Coffee paired with matcha
    • Espresso with grapefruit and burnt sugar
    • Espresso, lime, local honey, ice, garnished with a candied lime and a piece of honeycomb

    Then of course you have your random places that mix chicory into coffee, which I enjoy from time to time. Cafe du monde in New Orleans is the famous one. A local shop in Carrboro, NC has it as cold brew.

    So it’s out there in the world, I’m not sure where these folks talk online though.




  • Doug: “Hey Vince you really know how to put the “D” in R&D”

    Vince “Thisfugginguy, you used that joke last year ya dunce”

    Doug: “And did it get a RISE outta ya then?”

    Vince: “The balls on this guy! Go back to sellin boner pills, it’s whatcha good at.”

    Donnie: “Alright, alright, adjourn?

    Rest: “Adjurn”

    Donnie: stumbles “Motherfuckers! Who tied my shoelaces to the swivel chair! Ya all fired!”



  • I have some engineering concerns.

    For one, reducing the turbulence area and increasing the air intake at that angle is going to create a vortex near the intake. This could lead to dangerous cavitation and knocking effects. It likely will require splitting the powertrain into two chambers by an internal membrane. My suggestion is somewhere near the Mason carpetbagger and the Dixon scalawag.

    For two, I think that was genius what you’ve done with the reduction of the diffuser, thus minimizing drag. But where, my friend, do you plan to dispose of all the waste products? We don’t want those infecting the rest of the machine, and I think it’s disingenuous to think we can just empty those right out into the environment, particularly when said waste products don’t believe in said environment.