Hi. I’m Andy Skelton. Nobody special. I’d like to learn your name and get to know you and I’ll tell you why right now.
It’s often said that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. I just now realized that I have always arrogantly believed my intuition about people based on a [...]
The search, continued
Remember last week’s rant about the Saeco Titan? I promised to try a better burr grinder and here I pick up where I left off. Last night I returned to Williams Sonoma to spend $200 on the Baratza Virtuoso. Three months ago I would not have considered this a worthy expenditure. Today it [...]
The gift of coffee
For Christmas my girlfriend gave me a Bodum French press and a basic coffee grinder. I love the beautiful and functional Bodum glassware but a blade coffee grinder always produces an uneven grind. The large bean chunks steep too slowly and the fine dust clogs the screen or finds its way into [...]
School shootings (Again) offer no explanations.
Gun control lovers fill their tanks on this stuff (State lawmakers push, pull on gun control following NIU shootings).
This time, investigators find a link (Gunman, Virginia Tech shooter used same Web dealer) suggesting that the shootings might have had a third party in common.
Besides well-meaning but misguided Americans, who would [...]