Trying out this Blue Bottle Opascope espresso w/ this hand grinder w/ my Kamira espresso maker. But the Kamira is not pulling the espresso for some reason. Comparing the Lavazza grounds to the Opascope grounds I can’t tell there’s a difference. Is it too fine? Not fine enough? This is the hand grinder. Here is what 2 out of 4 of the Blue Bottle pulls ended up like And after that I did a Lavazza pull and it looked pretty normal....

The material source “Rabbit Rever” by Susan Orlean published in “New Yorker” in the “July 6 2020” edition The article in 3 sentences The author writes about how the rabbit, apparently domesticated for hundreds of years now, has been all of livestock, fur source and since mid century a third most popular choice of pet in the US. But a highly contagious and highly lethal “Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease” ( RHD the “rabbit Ebola”) caused by a lagovirus from the Caliciviridae family, has been wiping out populations of rabbits outside the US since 1984, but in mid 2019, dead rabbits fitting the RHD signs were showing up in the islands near Seattle and in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico not long after....

I was reading Team of Teams sometime around September 2019. I at least remember reading it in a really cold Starbucks in a mall in Tokyo haha. First, the standard template: The book in three sentences Team of Teams is former General Stanley McChrystal’s account of his time at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in his role in the conflict with AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq) and Abu Musab al Zarqawi....

Made some Xero shoes.

Vitamin D questions There are a couple mini researach questions I have around Vitamin D. How different are humans with respect to Vitamin D, from other life forms or just other mammals. Also what does the synthesis pathway look like for Vitamin D (or more than one pathway if dietary is a separate pathway from skin). And how exactly does vitamin D enable immune function? The names. Per 1 , “plasma concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D” is one “vitamin D” biomarker....