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Put cold water all over your arms and swing them back and forth. Let gravity do most of the work.

Whatever you use to track your expenditures, categorizing purchases can be a pain, especially if you buy many types of thing from a single retailer, like Amazon.

The easiest way I’ve found to remember what a particular purchase was is to look at my credit card statement (or mint.com, etc), and search for the prices in my Gmail account. Simple, but it can really save time.

(Adapted from my previous post: My Coffee Recipe)

To start you’ll need an Aeropress, and a grinder equivalent to Capresso’s Infinity conical burr grinder. A normal burr grinder or even a decent blade grinder would probably do just fine, but you might end up with a smokier taste.

You’ll also need a way to boil water, a twelve ounce dishwasher safe glass, and of course, some coffee beans (probably at least 1/8 lb to be on the safe side). I don’t recommend trying a glass that is not dishwasher safe, because even with ice, it will get hot.

1. Fill the glass with ice cubes to half an inch below he rim.
2. Add skim or 1% milk to the ice-filled glass until it is up a third of the way
3. Set up the Aeropress on your glass
4. Now, bring the water to boil. You’ll only need about 6oz at the most
5. Once it begins boiling, turn off the heat. If you leave it boiling, the water will be to hot when you brew.
6. Grind on the finest “fine” setting on the infinity (not extra fine) for 25-30 seconds (#5 on the infinity), and pour grounds into the Aeropress.
7. Now, fill the Aeropress the measuring cup/plunger to between 2 and 3 cups.
8. Trickle some water into the grounds, and then follow with a full pour
9. Work Aeropress’s magic. (you know, stir for 10 seconds and then plunge for ~20)
10. If there is space left over in the glass, just add cool water
11. Wash Aeropress
12. Enjoy!

I suggest not adding any sugar, so you can get the taste of the bean. Trust me, give it a couple tries if you’re used to sugar. In fact, I don’t think this method would work well with sugar, since it’s best to add sugar before icing the coffee, and this ices it right away. You could try agave syrup instead.
But, if you use this method your coffee will not be very bitter—only the natural bitterness of the bean which is much less than you’d expect.

What is up with signatures on comments? Are there people out there who like reading them? This is definitely a noise/ego problem on many websites. You can learn to ignore them to some degree, but you inevitably end up glancing at them. They’re distracting, they’re devoid of content, they’re often only funny or meaningful to the commenter.

Anyways, if you’re a blogger, forum administrator, web developer, don’t allow signatures in comments, you know that’s the right thing to do.

Everyone who is excited about Spore currently seems unhappy with Space, myself included. Here are some tips to get you through the tough parts and hopefully remove a little tedium.

• Get an auto-blaster for your ship. Since targeting when fighting is so hard, this will end up helping a ton.
• A little later on, get an allied ship and try to keep it alive, same reason as above.
• Don’t start an alliance until you actually have room in your fleet for an allied ship.
• Don’t colonize too fast. Try to keep to 2 colonies (+ homeworld) until the 2 colony planets each have at least 2 cities. Then expand to 3 colonies. Eventually it won’t matter, but if you expand too fast, you get into wars with too many races.
• To simplify spice collection, make three T3 worlds in a system, and put three cities on each planet, that’s 90 spice per system, with less loading.
• If someone won’t stop attacking you, attack back until they sue for peace, it’s generally worth the effort.