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Oh, who's going to compile and submit the praxis for Break Bread last night? Or are we going to do it a few times and build up a bit more before we go ahead and submit it?
@amoeba: I can't, I actually have submitted one before.
I'm at my 10/10 task limit at the moment- though by the end of the day, I may not be (hard to say right now).
I just realized I can share my technique for cold-brewed coffee at the next meet if anyone wants. Would you folks be interested in such a thing? The extra energy you get from it can be a powerful force to leverage for tasking- or, y'know, wrestling a tiger.
I support all food knowledge sharing. I'm in.
I guess I can share all kinds of odd stuff, but have to see what people want to see. I would also be interested in anything musical, which is a big laughing void in my repertoire.
I'm always down for learning odd stuff. I happen to know the proper technique for wrestling an alligator, though I've never tried it. I can also deal with escaped lobsters. I can perform the Heimlich maneuver on a cat. I also used to play drums.
I have two more suggestions: 1. Sharing creative writing methods, tips, and experiences and/or pick/invent a creative writing method and do it together. 2. I've learned the basics of some programming languages, but no one ever taught me how to build a user interface. That could really expand my programming possibilities.
I am absolutely down for #1, and I can refresh my knowledge of Swing (Java UI library) and TKinter (Python UI library) in furtherance of #2.
By the by, Kattapa and I were thinking about undertaking an Exquisite Derive, long-distance style, and we wanted to know who else is interested/can participate. I'll be putting up a Doodle later tonight, and we'll work things out from there. It'll be crazy! Ideally.
That sounds like exactly what I had in mind to do in Tokyo anyway. If we manage to stay in contact, I'm down.
I just realized- do we need a Doodle? I thought this whole thing was happening asynchronously (i.e, each person takes a short trip, posts their instructions, and then once all the instructions are posted everyone walks the route on their own time).
Daah, sorry I kind of dropped off about the whole Exquisite Derive thing. My time as of late has been occupied with jury selection and the headache that entails. But I was disqualified, so I'm back on track.
So, thus far, we've got myself, Relet, and Kattapa interested. The time zone differences will probably make doing this whole thing all at once more than a little difficult, so why don't we stick with the asynchronous setup? Barring any objection, we'll start on September 29th (the day after the next Skill Share), so if you want to get in on it, say so!
I'm in.
I guess that you mean that we make plans during the skill share and then do the personal routes as well as the combined route as shortly as possible after?
That makes sense to me.
I happen to be driving to Gothenburg on Friday night to organize a Journey. Any chance to move this to Wednesday before or Monday after?
Wednesday works best for me, but I ought to be able to do Monday too.
Ok, I will just be online on both days, and leave you all the options. :D
Wednesday is fine by me, see you then.
September's exchanges: language learning sites, some talk about programming, and a recipe for cold-brew coffee.
Some tips for language learning sites: italki.com, busuu.com, duolingo.com, scrabbin.com, listenlive.eu, lernu.net, and slovake.eu.
Conclusion from chat about programming: C++ sucks, learn for instance Python if you want something that is easily and effectively applicable. (I'm currently doing this course and it's a lot of fun: https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython)
And finally, Amoeba Man's cold-brew coffee recipe and tips:
AmoebaMan: Oh, speaking of coffee, did you still want my process for cold-brew coffee?
relet: sure!
AmoebaMan: I hesitate to call it a recipe. An algorithm, maybe.
AmoebaMan: (Hooray I can finally share something!) Okay, so, you need a few things:
AmoebaMan: Obviously, coffee of your choice, water, a bean grinder, and a sturdy container with a good seal (Mason jars work really well so far).
relet: ok. I got a decent mixer and coffee cans.
AmoebaMan: We find dark roasts work really well, they come out with a nice flavour and the caffeine content is reasonable enough that you don't quite risk apoplexy, but it's mostly down to preference and experimentation.
relet: .wik apoplexy
shmulik (relet's bot): "Apoplexy is a medical term, which can be used to describe 'bleeding' in a stroke (formerly described as a cerebrovascular accident)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoplexy
AmoebaMan: Man, shmulik is a bro.
relet: he's really the helpful kind.
AmoebaMan: Also, we like to boil our water first, then chill it before we use it. It just helps keep it clean.
AmoebaMan: I guess you knew that last bit.
relet: Ok. I might be able to skip that part, since Norway.
AmoebaMan: Oh yeah, true.
AmoebaMan: Actually, now I check my notes, we also use it to keep the containers clean. We boil the water, put it in the jars, and then put that in the fridge. Then the containers are nice and clean too. But yes, continuing:
relet: ok]
AmoebaMan: The only things you really want to watch are the ratio of water to coffee, the coarseness of the grind, and the seal on the container.
AmoebaMan: The grind should be reasonably coarse, basically what you'd use in a French Press. For a ratio, we have between 35-42 grams of coffee to every liter of water. That gives us a decent steep over the times we're working with.
relet: coarse I can do.
AmoebaMan: I've heard of people using insane ratios of coffee to water to get overnight steeps (like in the neighbourhood of 4 and 5 to 1), but obviously you'll burn through your bag a lot faster that way.
relet: 42 I can remember easily.
AmoebaMan: Right on
AmoebaMan: So once you've got that done, make sure your water is lukewarm/cold (as long as it's not hot), and mix the two in the container of your choice.
AmoebaMan: In our experience, it's best to fill it so that there's no air- generally the better ones we wind up with are those where the vacuum seal held. That's why we like Mason jars, they seal very tightly.
AmoebaMan: We've stumbled on some weird flavours that we think were a result of contamination from a bad seal (a couple of batches were tomato-ish).
relet: as in, filling it up completely?
AmoebaMan: Yeah, to the brim.
relet: ok!
relet: need to find a different container than I thought of, then.
AmoebaMan: Once that's taken care of, though, you can toss it in the fridge and leave it for a few days!
relet: hmm, I could fill the last bit of the container under water, I guess.
AmoebaMan: So far our best experiences have been with 24 and 48 hours- you get a really nice, smooth brew. I prefer to heat it once it's done brewing, but a few of my cohorts will take it straight and chilled.
relet: and then consume it gradually, as in your experiment.
relet: sounds like a perfect experiment for the office over a weekend...
AmoebaMan: Yeah- with the 24 hour stuff we're mostly okay with as much as we'd have in a normal-sized cup. The caffeine isn't so insane at that point to make it dangerous
Kattapa: :p
AmoebaMan: 48 hours is my favourite length, I find it gives you a solid boost in caffeine and a robust flavour.
AmoebaMan: After 48 hours, you're not going to be getting a heck of a lot more in terms of flavour. It'll mostly be caffeine drawing out at that point. 72 was the one I tried in my task and we basically got nothing done for the rest of the afternoon.
relet: heh. that's past the productive point then.
AmoebaMan: We've heard of 96, but we don't dare try it.
AmoebaMan: Heck, I needed to quaff a good, strong beer after the 72 just to take the edge off!
relet: oO
relet: I'm very curious now.
AmoebaMan: It can take some trial and error to get right (we still joke about the Ratatouille Coffee) but when you get it down, it's really worth it.
relet: heh
relet: that seems to give some interesting side-effects.
AmoebaMan: The only problem we're still really having is storing it; we left some 72 in the fridge over the weekend and came back to find it in bad shape. Now, our fridge isn't especially clean, at the office, so it could well have just been ambient crap, but yeah, seal that stuff up tight.
AmoebaMan: We at the Dal Oceanography department would be interested to hear your results!
New suggested topic: life long learning, online learning, the school of freedom concept, peer to peer university (P2PU), free online university level courses, etc.
Sorry I didn't make the last one, I ended up having to drive out and get my parents at the airport today. I only found out I'd have to yesterday, I thought it would be my brother up until then.
No problem. Hope you have a great time with your parents.
Libris' recipe for beer bread:
00:41 libris we run the dry ingredients: 3 cups flour, 3 tsp. baking powder, 1 and 1/2 tsp. salt, and 3-6 tbs. of sugar through the sieve.
00:41 libris I like sweet bread, so I use 6 tablespoons, some people like it more savory, and only use three.
00:42 sage learning new recipes are always exciting
00:42 libris You need a greased pan ( I like to sue a pie pan, because you get more crust, and the crust is my favorite part).
00:42 libris *use. no litigation here.
00:43 libris And an oven heated to 350 degrees F.
00:43 libris Then, you take a 12 oz. bottle or can of beer. It needs to be room temperature.
00:44 libris Then, you dump it (carefully) into the mixing bowl, and mix it with the dry ingredients.
00:45 libris Pour it into the pan, and put it in the oven quicky. Bake for about 45 minutes to an hour.