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User Input: Personal Percolation Preferences

Yesterday, on engineerd’s post about the coffee-bags he’s discovered — which look brilliant, if you ask me — commenter Plecostomus noted that, while that was some kinda cool, it was missing out on a certain level of technology that should appeal to all of us. After all, there are dozens of ways of [...]

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Startup: When Do We Want It?

Today’s startup is NSFW. Now click “continue” to violate corporate policy.

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User Input: Startup Routine

Image source: TheDogHouseDiaries.com

It was a gorgeous morning outside when I woke up today. This is a good portion of the reason why User Input is late this morning. As the first really beautiful fall morning I’ve experienced — not the first we’ve had, mind you, just the first one that I was [...]

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User Input: Strange Obsessions

Not my travel mug, but I'm thinking it might have to become mine.

There are a very few things about which I tend to be stubbornly particular. My Canadian spelling is one, but this is likely due to my History degree, and my knowledge that the now-prevalent “American” spellings were due entirely to an arbitrary decision by Noah Webster to change certain words. But I digress.

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Startup: Need More Coffee

So… where does the coffee go? Or, more importantly, where does the coffee come out?

The major flaw I can perceive in this stunning vintage espresso machine is that I have no idea how it works. It looks nothing like any espresso machine I’m used to, and I can’t really figure out what [...]