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MSN Crushed Eggshells Are The Secret To Better Cups Of Coffee[^] Have not yet attempted but looking forward to.
"Much becomes obvious in hindsight, ... Yet it is striking how in both physics and mathematics there is a lack of proportion between the effort needed to understand something for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the solution once all the required stages have been completed." - Giorgio Parisi, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Crushed eggshells are almost pure calcium carbonate, which one can get in most pharmacies. I'd rather add that to my coffee than something that has been in direct contact with a chicken's cloaca. 
(The inside of the egg hasn't been in direct contact, which is why I eat the inside of eggs.)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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But do you have sausage with your eggs?
Hogan
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Those who like sausage and respect the Law should watch neither being made.
-- (I forget who)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thank you for the information however I am not certain CaCO2 powder can easily be filtered out as I have enough difficulty w/ so called "stalling".
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That sounds about as appetising as using glue to keep the cheese on your pizza. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
They do taste kinda funny,
But it keeps them on the knife!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I attempted it today. The brew seemed somewhat smoother than usual. Maybe I should try it on pizza too to take the edge off the glue.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing pizza[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Just stick with cowboy coffee. All else is for wimps! 
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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When I was old enough (maybe 10) I was weened on cowboy coffee.
It was the coffee of choice for my Father.
It was The Army version of coffee in the field was cowboy coffee.
My coffee of choice now is from a drip machine.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The title is misleading. Should say "For the Coffee Snobs". I drink coffee every day, but its just a bit of Folgers and I'm quite satisfied.
Hogan
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Same here. My wife and I prefer the simple Maxwell House Columbian. I'm only a snob* about the coffee maker. If it isn't a Bunn it's going to make crappy coffee for my tastes.
*Okay, I'm a snob about a few other things, but let's not change the subject.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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The only coffees I drink are brands that use only Arabica beans. Cheap coffee made with anything else, like Robusta beans, taste like cr@p!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Greetings Kind Regards
I just ordered Yuban from Amazon as it has the lowest acrylamide content. The best coffee I ever had was Folgers ground many years ago. That's another story. I will say though it actually tasted like coffee ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) . Since then I have yet to taste a coffee which tastes like coffee despite spending modest sums in the search. That's the story.
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There's a chain of coffee shops near my office in London that advertises that use robusta in preference to pure arabica!
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This makes no sense!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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It all sounds a bit desperate to me. If you're not enjoying your coffee, why not drink something else instead? Coffee's pretty overrated anyway, IMHO.
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What the he$$ is it with companies and management deciding that MORE meetings mean better productivity?
Over the past couple of years (with the new CEO of the corp I no longer support), there has been a deliberate push to put as much as possible at the company headquarters. They rationalize this with improving efficiency but never look at the metrics. Corporate IT is trying to get it's act together, but it's f'ing hopeless. I asked for a simple Windows Server VM. Request went no where. Inquiring into my request, a WEEK'S worth of research was done, and my request was closed. Apparently, cloning a virtual machine (which is ctlC/V operation) is a project not a request.
So, I created a project. A week passes... nothing. I inquire. Oh, we need to have a meeting. "Really, why?" "We need to discuss your requirements." "It's in the project. Clone the existing VM and move it into the new environment." "Why do you want to do that?" "You really would not understand..." At this point, I bailed out of the conversation. 3 meetings and 6 months later I have a virtual machine. 
So, part of my exit strategy is pulling my development stuff into virtual machines. It's a bit of work, I think I'm there, but the VMs represent about .5TB of files. No way I can move that over VPN, so I go into the office... And the file server is full. Got to love corporate IT and their lack of monitoring. So, I open a support ticket. "Please increase the size of the VIRTUAL SoftwareDevelopment folder by 2TB." Crickets. Then the ticket was assigned.. then it was escalated. I'm sure IT will want to have a meeting, but my credentials expired at 11:59pm yesterday, so I no longer have access.
happy days
Corporate IT spent 10s of millions of dollars on a new more flexible approach such that they never get anything done.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I feel your pain. Our IT department is forced to behave the same way due to understaffing.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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reminds me a joke. big ship with 1 leader and 16 people rowing. Thought they would get better productivity out of the rowers by having another manger. So they replace 2 people with 1 manager. Wow they thought. The ship is lighter and we are going faster. and we have to have less food.
more is better right? so they do it again and repeat until they have 8 managers and 2 rowers and don't understand why they are going backwards. So they shoot the people rowing and blame them.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I could deal with understaffing - I get that. But a few years ago, the company ramped up on UI "designers" that maximized artwork and have not hired a s/w person to do any implementation what so ever.
It's not that they cannot do it - they won't. Since I no longer have credentials, f*** it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I understand what you're going thru -- though I guess few others do, because I've posted similar stories & most people will not discuss this type of thing. I guess they are too shell-shocked from the idiocracy around them, not sure.
I worked at a large bank -- hundreds of branches.
We had a successive list of VPs of IT. Each one coming in for about 1 year & then leaving.
At one point we had a VP of IT who came through the hallways (cubicles) who had heard a rumor that some dev was reading the newspaper during work hours.
However, he had one guy's 1st name and another guy's last name put together to create a non-existent person. We had a Frank Fuller & a Joe Johnson (fake names) and he came through the hallways yelling, "Where's Frank Johnson, because I"m going to fire him today."
Nothing happened and this VP of IT was gone long before Frank or Joe.
Next genius VP of IT came through and his great idea to motivate and inspire was to install signs over the cubicles (into the tile ceiling).
The signs each had one word like: Inspired, Encouraged, etc.
The one I can never get out of my mind though is the one that said: Boundarylessness 
But, it was only months later and the VP of IT was gone but the signs stayed. I guess they were too lazy to take them down again.
All during these years there was little actual IT work to do. You might have a 3 month project for the entire year. Of course, everyone reported as "busy".
At one point, there was a power struggle between two guys who wanted to manage our little Software Dev group within IT. They fought politically for over a year. During that time I was put on a project that only took 6 weeks and was eventually shelved anyways.
And, to top that off, my manager told me: "I was hoping that project would fail."
"Why is that", I asked.
"Well, we think that group that you worked for is irrelevent and we wanted to prove it by them failing on that project."
Uh, I thought we all worked for the same company?!!
I've worked in IT for over 33 years now and there have been numerous companies just like that.
Most of the Dev time is spent "waiting on the Genius Managers to figure out what they are going to do."
One time I was sitting at work, reading yet another tech book online and my coworker I had worked with at the time for over 3 years came over and said, "i'm so bored I'm sitting over there watching family guy videos and going out of my mind. You're reading another tech book aren't you?!!!"
In reality, most companies are so frightfully mis-managed by the dumbest of people, who just yammer away about nothing and are completely ineffectual. However, they are quite good at lying to the bosses just above them (playing the role of sycophant). And so it goes on.
But, I"m sure I'm the only one who has experienced this. 
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You terrify me. 
I was into my new manager slot about a year or so, and I had this hard a$$ I hired <-- note *I* hired him. Ray - I'm looking at you. This guy pissed me off to no end, like my MIL. Why? Because we had the same attitude, perspective, etc. We had a customer down, high profile yada yada. VP walks by to ask how it's going. I stroll out to Ray's cubicle and ask. This mf turns around and says in a loud voice "if you useless ****s would go away, I'll fix it. Leave me the f*** alone."
To my credit, I did not say anything nor did the VP. I learned a valuable lesson that day.
But your stories of IT. Sigh...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: You terrify me. 
I'm not sure why. I am literally telling the stories that occurred while I sat and watched. Nothing more.
charlieg wrote: This mf turns around and says in a loud voice "if you useless ****s would go away, I'll fix it. Leave me the f*** alone."
I'm really not that way. I would never say such things to boss'.
I just recognize all political games and the inconsistencies of bosses. That's it.
I know that nothing I say will ever change a company so I don't fight it.
When things get bad enoug, I simply vote with my feet & leave the company.
You've made me pause to consider if it possible that I come off that way though.
I'll add a couple more nuggets about that large bank:
1. They attempted to re-write their entire Loan Origination system. One of the VPs of IT said in a speech when we started, "3 other large banks have all tried this and crashed & burned. We will be the first bank to succeed!"
2. They spent $75 Million over a 3 year period (contractors, contractors, contractors)
3. They finally gave up when branches said they hated it all and they never used a line of code written for the new system.
During that time I had a contractor manager.
I had to go to him to ask questions (reporting chain required) & asked him about a HR thing (insurance, etc)
He said, "I don't know what your company does. Why don't you go ask someone who knows that? Im a contractor."
That same Contractor manager would report status: "We have so much work we are drowning."
On a project of 100 contractors and 3 of us FTE (Full Time) us FTEs all looked at each other bec we were sitting around doing nothing.
Contractor manager was bringing on more contractors to do "work". He received $1200 bonus for each tech hire. He brought on 10 contractors in one year. I'll let you do the math.
This was on the $75 million project.
Try telling this to upper management. "There's a reporting chain, report it to your manager."
But I'm the angry one?
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