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Re: I Am Under 18!

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics
Subject Re: I Am Under 18!
Date 2021-09-18 13:29 -0600
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On 09/18/2021 09:18 AM, RabidHussar wrote:
> On 2021-09-17 10:51 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On 09/17/2021 08:29 AM, RabidHussar wrote:
>>> On 2021-09-17 10:16 a.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>> On 09/17/2021 05:44 AM, RabidHussar wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've even roasted my own from Sweet Maria's green beans. The
>>>>>> neighbors
>>>>>> confirm their suspicions that I'm crazy when I stand out in the snow
>>>>>> roasting coffee over a Coleman gas stove. If you've ever roasted
>>>>>> coffee it isn't something you want to do in the house.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would agree with that but I imagine that it smells great if you
>>>>> do so.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not so much...  Remember your starting with green beans so for the few
>>>> minutes it smells like your grilling compost. You're also driving out
>>>> a lot of water. Finally you get to the stage where the beans start to
>>>> crack and it starts to smell edible. There's a lot of chaff produced.
>>>> If there is a slight breeze I separate it by pouring the beans from
>>>> one colander to another and letting it drift downwind.
>>>>
>>>> There are counter top roasters that are supposed to work but they're
>>>> pricey.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.sweetmarias.com/behmor-2000ab-plus-roaster.html
>>>>
>>>> Supposedly that one isn't too smokey
>>>>
>>>> https://www.sweetmarias.com/roasting/hottop-roaster-basic.html
>>>>
>>>> but even that one says
>>>>
>>>> "Yep, if you roast more coffee you are going to get more smoke.
>>>> There's no way around it. You are going to need ventilation, ideally
>>>> by using it under a kitchen vent hood or near an open window. "
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you look at the green beans selling for $7 a pound, don't forget
>>>> all the steam, smoke, and chaff.  I never weighed it but a pound of
>>>> green beans is not a pound of roasted coffee.
>>>
>>> I guess that had I grown up in a Communist state like my parents did,
>>> I'd not only find it fun but less expensive to roast my own coffee.
>>> However, price-wise, the work is not worth the effort and I'm better off
>>> letting the professionals do it. It's quite amazing how autonomous
>>> Communists are when the only other option is starvation.
>>>
>>>> A friend set up a little sandwich operation for a bar where the
>>>> kitchen was only open for the lunch crowd. Being cheap, he roasted his
>>>> own beef -- once. After he did the before and after weighing he found
>>>> the roast beef from a restaurant supply was a better deal. If you
>>>> bought a 10 pound roast, you would get 40 1/4 pound sandwiches.
>>>>
>>>> The guy was a real entrepreneur. He opened a pizza place and I stopped
>>>> by the night before it opened. He was sitting on the floor with a
>>>> bottle of beer in his hand and many more had preceded that one. 'I
>>>> made a pizza and it was so bad the dog wouldn't eat it. What am I
>>>> going to do?'  His wife, who was an excellent cook, came to the rescue
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> I can't imagine how one would screw up pizza; it's literally the easiest
>>> thing to make. The difference in pizza places comes down to the sauce
>>> and the quality of the crust. I notice that Americans chains use the
>>> absolute worst wheat imaginable and therefore have terrible crust
>>> whereas some of the smaller places have some of the most satisfying
>>> breading I've ever tasted.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You had to know Bob.  He could screw up almost anything but he kept on
>> trying. Sober, he was a competent machinist but he had more
>> brainstorms than Wile E. Coyote.
>
> Did he have a bipolar personality, per chance?
>

I'm not a shrink, but I don't think so. I don't know if he's still 
around but he would be in heaven in social media. He'd mastered the art 
of getting two strangers in a bar arguing over something and quietly 
slipping away after pouring some fuel on the fire. A true IRL troll.

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  Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 23:15 -0500
    Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-15 08:00 -0400
      Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-15 08:01 -0600
        Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-15 10:11 -0400
          Re: I Am Under 18! Stephen Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 08:18 -0700
          Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-15 20:48 -0600
            Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-16 11:10 -0400
              Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-16 21:01 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! "Diesel / Gremlin Crook" <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 20:48 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-17 07:44 -0400
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-17 08:16 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-17 10:29 -0400
                Re: I Am Under 18! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-17 10:06 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-17 10:58 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-17 20:52 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 20:44 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-18 20:46 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 22:03 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! Snit Michael Glasser <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-19 01:26 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! STALKING_TARGET_32 <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-17 11:08 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-17 21:05 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! "Diesel / Gremlin Crook" <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 00:24 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! Stephen Carrolll - fretwizzen <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 06:31 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-18 04:56 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-18 13:08 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-09-21 09:28 -0400
                Re: I Am Under 18! STALKING_TARGET_29 <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 06:46 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-17 20:51 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! RabidHussar <rabid@huss.ar> - 2021-09-18 11:18 -0400
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-18 13:29 -0600
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          Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-15 21:00 -0600
            Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 01:41 -0500
              Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 03:20 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! "Diesel / Gremlin Crook" <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 06:10 -0700
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-19 14:50 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-19 18:45 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-19 21:56 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-19 22:26 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-20 11:07 -0500
                Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-20 21:11 -0600
                Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-21 15:19 -0500
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                Re: I Am Under 18! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-20 11:13 -0700
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      Re: I Am Under 18! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-09-17 01:03 +0200
    Re: I Am Under 18! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-15 10:20 -0500
      Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 12:06 -0500
        Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-15 21:11 -0600
          Re: I Am Under 18! Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 22:58 -0700
      Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-15 21:05 -0600
        Re: I Am Under 18! whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2021-09-15 22:34 -0500
        Re: I Am Under 18! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2021-09-16 08:01 -0500
          Re: I Am Under 18! rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-09-16 08:03 -0600
    Re: I Am Under 18! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-09-17 01:00 +0200
      Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 19:20 -0500
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        Re: I Am Under 18! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-09-18 03:49 +0200
          Re: I Am Under 18! Clutterfreak <clutterfreakincarnate@gmail.com> - 2021-09-18 22:36 -0500
    Re: I Am Under 18! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-09-22 21:59 -0400
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