This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004).
This blog is one of the transitions for the new year. I've started it This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004).
This blog is one This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004
Let the Good Blogs Roll
3:11 PM Friday, April 14, 2006
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After months of neglect, my blogroll (look at the sidebar to the right) has been enhanced with the addition of several interesting blogs to which I would like to draw attention: The Blue Bottle Clown College is published by Blue Bottle Coffee, a local coffee roasting company, which sets a standard of espresso excellence, not only for the San Francisco Bay Area, but for all of North America. Until recently, the Clown College weblog was in the hands of DogMilque, a Blue Bottle roaster who now has his own weblog, having recently left Blue Bottle. In a parallel process, Tonx, a roaster for Seattle's Victrola coffeehouse, has left for his next big adventure. Tonx's weblog, Tonx Dot Org, is here. While still on the subject of coffee and cafes, I've also added Valentina Cinelli's photoblog of gorgeous coffee cups, which I mentioned some weeks ago. And finally, I added the Coffeegeek, whose informative podcasts provide a crash course in everything coffee-related.
Another weblog which I added recently is Emily Chang's eHub, which has nothing to do with coffee and everything to do with the cutting edge of Web technology, variously called Web 2.0, and in Emily's words, "social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing." I find this site spellbinding, I read its feed daily, and I usually check out all the new sites that Emily mentions, one of which was Suprglu, which ties together all my online stuff in a snazzy interface.
Having not mentioned some of the less recently posted blogroll items in a Coffeeblog article, I'd like to put in a plug for Hewn and Hammered, published by Joshua Lurie-Terrell, who grew up in Berkeley and frequently comments on my cameraphone shots of Berkeley area bungalows and cottages. H&H celebrates the architecture and design tradition known as Arts and Crafts in the USA, a cousin to Art Nouveau, Barcelona modernisme, Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie homes, and other early 20th century movements which rebelled against the industrialized design overkill of the Belle Epoque. I hope I've piqued the interest of my readers: keep on clickin'.
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