Espresso Cola: Give Your Soda the Coffee Treatment It Deserves
First, start with the Coca-Cola. Haft and Suarez
prefer Mexican Coca-Cola because it's made with real sugar instead of
high fructose corn syrup. All you need next is to top it off with your
espresso—or a makeshift version. Compass uses 17 grams of coffee in the
basket to 34 grams of pulled espresso—a one-to-two ratio. To get the big
coffee taste with delightful and refreshing fizz, make sure to do it in
that order: Pour the soda first, then top it off with the coffee.
But
be warned that the caffeine boost is no joke. Not that we mind.
Espresso Cola is so good that we're willing to sacrifice some sleep to
drink it more often. Except, when we have it after-hours, we're thinking
we'll spike it with a little bit of Fernet-Branca or rum.
(BonAppetit.com)
Monday, May 22, 2017
I Share This Need With The Author
I currently am on a second-generation Toyota MR-2 kick and this cutaway is not helping dismiss it.
(Jalopnik.com)
Did You Know - Rolls-Royce Umbrella Edition
The Incredible Majesty Of A Rolls-Royce Umbrella
Rolls-Royce is so obsessed with its hallmark in-door umbrellas that it actually dedicated an entire room—one that probably has more square feet than the house I plan to buy at a lower price than a Rolls-Royce car—to eight artistically placed umbrellas “fly[ing] the length of the room, furling themselves by stages, until the last one slots neatly into the door of a Rolls-Royce Ghost.”
You can see just how highly regarded the things are in the video below, popping out of the side door that has drainage points for the rainwater and warm air that pumps through it to dry an umbrella before its owner has to get it out again.
Video link (Jalopnik.com)
Rolls-Royce is so obsessed with its hallmark in-door umbrellas that it actually dedicated an entire room—one that probably has more square feet than the house I plan to buy at a lower price than a Rolls-Royce car—to eight artistically placed umbrellas “fly[ing] the length of the room, furling themselves by stages, until the last one slots neatly into the door of a Rolls-Royce Ghost.”
You can see just how highly regarded the things are in the video below, popping out of the side door that has drainage points for the rainwater and warm air that pumps through it to dry an umbrella before its owner has to get it out again.
Video link (Jalopnik.com)
A Very Good Question
What's the deal with comedians and their cars?
And it's been that way with a lot of very, very good comedy guys. Cars seem to round out their lives, to become the yin to their comedy yang. Ernie Kovacs might not have invented visual gags or surreal humor, but he got them both to kill on television in the 1950s, so he's a comedy hero. He died behind the wheel of his beloved Corvair wagon, so he's absolutely some kind of car-guy hero as well.
And, as in lots of things, style counts for a lot. Style tells. And I'm not talking design, but an overall philosophy of life. And there may be no better example of this in the twin worlds of cars and comedy crossover than Jay Leno and David Letterman.
Now, if you don't know the shared history of Letterman and Leno, what with their early friendship spiraling into a crazy rivalry, and that in turn evolving into a pitched battle to take over after Carson, and their wildly divergent legacies after that – it's all fascinating stuff, worth looking up but too much to go into here. Suffice it to say they're pretty much as different as possible, comedically and automotively.
I've always treasured that polarity between Leno and Letterman, for much of my life the Ali-Frazier of comedy, and their two opposing philosophies. One's a guy who wants to be everyone's funny uncle, and who also also wants to have stuff. The other one's a guy who doesn't care if people are laughing at or with him, as long as they're laughing because of him, and who also wants to have cool experiences. Broadly speaking, that's the two major aspects of comedy and the two major sides of car loon in two indispensable people. One's a ten-page sedan comparo, plus a guy-walks-into-a-bar. One's ten-page story about a road trip to the Indy 500, plus The Aristocrats. They're two parts of a great whole. That we have them both is incredibly cool, no matter what makes you laugh or what makes your world make sense.
I mean, if anything can. Jerry Seinfeld may have figured this out as well as anybody. He's sharing his favorite cars, he's sharing his favorite comedy people, he's sharing his life. Or at least the best parts. And that's the whole idea.
(AutoBlog.com)
And it's been that way with a lot of very, very good comedy guys. Cars seem to round out their lives, to become the yin to their comedy yang. Ernie Kovacs might not have invented visual gags or surreal humor, but he got them both to kill on television in the 1950s, so he's a comedy hero. He died behind the wheel of his beloved Corvair wagon, so he's absolutely some kind of car-guy hero as well.
And, as in lots of things, style counts for a lot. Style tells. And I'm not talking design, but an overall philosophy of life. And there may be no better example of this in the twin worlds of cars and comedy crossover than Jay Leno and David Letterman.
Now, if you don't know the shared history of Letterman and Leno, what with their early friendship spiraling into a crazy rivalry, and that in turn evolving into a pitched battle to take over after Carson, and their wildly divergent legacies after that – it's all fascinating stuff, worth looking up but too much to go into here. Suffice it to say they're pretty much as different as possible, comedically and automotively.
I've always treasured that polarity between Leno and Letterman, for much of my life the Ali-Frazier of comedy, and their two opposing philosophies. One's a guy who wants to be everyone's funny uncle, and who also also wants to have stuff. The other one's a guy who doesn't care if people are laughing at or with him, as long as they're laughing because of him, and who also wants to have cool experiences. Broadly speaking, that's the two major aspects of comedy and the two major sides of car loon in two indispensable people. One's a ten-page sedan comparo, plus a guy-walks-into-a-bar. One's ten-page story about a road trip to the Indy 500, plus The Aristocrats. They're two parts of a great whole. That we have them both is incredibly cool, no matter what makes you laugh or what makes your world make sense.
I mean, if anything can. Jerry Seinfeld may have figured this out as well as anybody. He's sharing his favorite cars, he's sharing his favorite comedy people, he's sharing his life. Or at least the best parts. And that's the whole idea.
(AutoBlog.com)
A Thought To Ponder
Why are higher levels of intelligence in humans associated with lack of emotion?
The thing is, the more intelligent we are, the more we can reason about our actions, and therefore, the less we need to rely on simple emotion to make our choices. If we’re intelligent, we understand consequences better, too. For example, a 3-year-old will suffer negative emotion when his ice cream falls to the floor and will begin to cry. A more intelligent adult, on the other hand, will only be mildly annoyed at this, because he understands that there will be more ice cream in the future, that he’s fortunate to have been able to get ice cream in the first place, that the ice cream just doesn’t matter that much compared to other aspects of his life like the fact that he has a loving family and steady income, etc. (How do you make a 3-year-old cry? Throw his ice cream on the ground. How do you make an adult cry? Kill his family. Don’t try this at home!) Intelligence gives us a larger set of concerns to worry about, and this makes emotion less important.
Intelligent people still have emotion. They just have enough perspective to be affected by it less.
(CavemanCircus.com)
The thing is, the more intelligent we are, the more we can reason about our actions, and therefore, the less we need to rely on simple emotion to make our choices. If we’re intelligent, we understand consequences better, too. For example, a 3-year-old will suffer negative emotion when his ice cream falls to the floor and will begin to cry. A more intelligent adult, on the other hand, will only be mildly annoyed at this, because he understands that there will be more ice cream in the future, that he’s fortunate to have been able to get ice cream in the first place, that the ice cream just doesn’t matter that much compared to other aspects of his life like the fact that he has a loving family and steady income, etc. (How do you make a 3-year-old cry? Throw his ice cream on the ground. How do you make an adult cry? Kill his family. Don’t try this at home!) Intelligence gives us a larger set of concerns to worry about, and this makes emotion less important.
Intelligent people still have emotion. They just have enough perspective to be affected by it less.
(CavemanCircus.com)
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