April 28th, 2008
Tiny cups
It’s not a stereotype and it’s true what they say, that up here we drink coffee but down there it’s latte.
Paul Erdos said something about mathematicians being machines for converting coffee into theorems, but right now I’m managing to fashion it into the new Transplant Comics homepage.
It’s early days, and I’m still ironing things out, but I’d be happy for some feedback. I mean you’re all seasoned webcomic readers, right?
For those of you that use an RSS reader, there’s even a new all-in-one Transplant Comics RSS feed. You’ll be able to get the whole bundle in under three clicks.
And feel free to check out the other comics. They’re really good, and I’m not going to get that jealous…
hmm, can you get rid of the side-to-side scrolling? that always annoys me a little
I agree, I’ll see what I can do.
How the hell did you manage such an accurate portrait of me? I love my espresso-sorry-COFFEE machine very very very … very … much. And now I need one, but not after midday.
On the new comic page layout, I’ve never actually visited it before (I’m a Flowfield man, me) but there’s a certain rightness about its sparse design. You definitely need that frame with the comic portion in it though. That makes one click.
*turns green-ish with envy*
I do wish I had a machine. Right now, I’m still with my grinder and cafitierre…
Since writing this post, I’ve had a long think about things, and I’m convinced we need to lose the gimicky clipboard idea… I know it’s thematically nice, but I just don’t see what it brings to the site.
So, I’ve stripped it right back for the time being.
I’m also planning on replacing the text links in the sidebar with some pretty buttons.
i like to get small mochas with double the standard amount of espresso shots in it. is that wrong?
It is if you want a cup of tea…
That sounds fairly brutal, actually… from zero to wide a wake in about three sips.
Does anyone know if there is a coffee strength rating (not just mild, medium, strong)?
Not sure about specifics, but I think they rate it by how fast it dissolves the spoon.
Extra points if the steam etches the spoon before contact with liquid is made.
There’s nothing to be jealous about.
Those other comics are just physical
attraction, they don’t mean anything.
/slutty webcomics/
mmmm baby, lets
underline the good passages
together.
Dude, it’s as if you’ve been spying on my life … or following me on Twitter, maybe. I bought a stove-top espresso maker about two weeks ago, and I’ve not slept a great deal since then …
Yeah, I’ve been stalking again, what you gonna do? Get a restraining order? Again?
I’m actually just getting into the twitter thing… I can’t use it at work though which seems rather limiting.
I’ve heard if you drink enough and sleep as little as possible, eventually you’ll be able to see through time.
This is true, the time thing that is, see, I knew you were gonna ask what I was talking about, so I decided to tell you before you did ask, thus removing the need for you to ask, which makes me wonder what I was telling you for, cos you were never gonna ask me what I was talking about, cos I explained it in the beginning.
3.5 hours of sleep, two nights in a row. 27hrs of work in the last 48, which leaves me with 14hrs I can’t account for.
Maybe study, tho, I don’t seem to have enough notes for 14hrs of study.
I’ve lost 14hrs, need more coffee and then Ic an see if my future self has found what I did with them.
When I was younger, with alot of time on my hands, I perfected the art of making authentic turkish coffee. I used spices and everything.
I used to drink about 10 per day.
That may explain some things about my mind.
May, may not.
*looks at coffee plunger*
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You’re a bit like the bloke out of Quantum Leap, but with coffee…
Top stuff with the Turkish coffee, it’s something I’ve only had once – as I alluded to in the first line of the post, in the North coffee is served in mugs at greasy-spoon cafes, and you have no choices to make other than whether to add any sugar.
Tesla and Erdos both swore that the only way to make something good was to ‘get inside it’, whether it was a problem or an invention you need to be able to immerse yourself within it to look at it from a unique perspective… they both achieved this mostly via sleep deprivation aided by coffee and occasionally amphetamines.
Hmmmm, Turkish coffee. I once had a hangover the next morning from a night off to much Turkish coffee. That’s how strong it is.
Congrats on that skill Ben, I’m jealous.
Also, I’m going to make the wild guess that your lost 14 hrs were spent lazing on a beach, with a beautiful woman. Doesn’t that sound nice?
Is this finally a self portrait?
Nah, not yet. Though I think I might do a proper self portrait fairly soon for possible inclusion into the book.
One of those author photographs that make me look debonaire and knowing…
…probably not, I might do a portrait of what I look like straight out of bed.
Proper? Straight? Debonaire?
You’ll ruin everything!
If there were a bedhead competition I’d win…
heh heh i thought those bed
curls were called screwballs.
The hint that the smaller cup provides has always eluded me. I just can’t help but drink my own weight in espresso and regret it later.
wow
wow
wow
everyone knows that if you mention coffee in front of me i get really excited
i have a triple shot cappucino most mornings. before school i usually walk down to the coffee shop down the road from my school (i arrive really early)
the people there yell at me everytime i get one because “you’re only 16! that’s terrible! stop drinking coffee, it’ll ruin your brain/heart/general self.”
now i cant go back to instant or plunger or anything. machine coffee only, and although we have one in my house, i much prefer cafe coffee. hence, i frequently befriend cafe owners and as a result, get free coffee. is this the most ive ever talked? possibly, its what you get for mentioning coffee in front of me.
That’s pretty much the sort of response you’d expect from someone that drinks a lot of coffee… a lot of good coffee at that.
I too have a habit of befriending my coffee dealers… though as I stated in my post, the North is well known for its atitude towards coffee. It comes in a mug and the only options you get are whether you want milk and sugar or not.
oh dear. that is terrible. id like to ship you over a cup of excellent coffee (a fellow i know will definitely give it to me free!) or at least my preferred brand of beans and a machine.
i was at my friends place the other day and her family scoffed when i wanted to put milk in my coffee, and said i was weak. i was quite offended! turns out it was the coffee that was weak. i couldnt taste it AT ALL, i might as well have been drinking hot water. i didnt feel so offended after that.
Thanks :¬)
I’m just trying to think of the logistics of transporting warm coffee for those sort of distances… there must be a way.
I am laying it on a bit thick though, I am able to get my own beans to grind… in fact recently I was able to test what are believed to be some of the closest related beans to the original coffee beans that were first used. the coffee tated a bit more fruity than it does now, more like blueberry with a serious kick. Top stuff.
I know some people can be a bit snobbish about milk, and sugar, in coffee… I’ll drink it either way depending on my mood. I say, ‘whatever works for you’. Just don’t ever try to serve me coffee with soya milk in it, that will not go down well at all.
what about coffee with alcohol in it. “whatever works for me” i guess
Ooh, Irishing it up a little?
I’m not sure that’d be a good idea for me… I’d be wide awake AND surly.
it reminds me of a coffee my dad introduced me to,
“catpoo coffee”
somewhere in a jungle somewhere, a special cat is fed beans, and somehow when theyre digested, the coating of the bean is removed and the take the bean out of the poo and make reeally good coffee.
its so special, its only sold in about 10 cafes around the worls and costs around NZ$200 a cup.
Ahh, Civet coffee or Kopi Luwak…
You can also get ‘catpoo’ M&Ms they’re pre-digested to remove the tough outer shell.