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Tea Anemone

December 5, 2006

I have to say that Ada­gio, the com­pany that sup­plies me with tea, impresses me more and more all the time.  Today, I received for no appar­ent rea­son, a box of the Jas­mine Bloom tea–the jas­mine flow­ers sewn into a wrap­per of green tea leaves that open like a sea anemone.  It came with a […]

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Eugene and Pictures

May 22, 2006

Kim and I took a road trip to Eugene for the week­end.  It’s a pretty col­lege town and (around this time of year) very much feels like Santa Cruz, but with­out the beach.  We stayed with Karen and James, some friends of Kim’s from back in the day.  I had met James before; he is […]

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Photoblog

April 22, 2006

TEA!  Lots of it!  Lots of dif­fer­ent fla­vors!  This was my most recent order and does not include any of the tins from the pre­vi­ous order.  I really love Ada­gio!  It tuns out that 8oz of pep­per­mint is about three times as much as 10oz of any other tea.  Silly den­sity dif­fer­ences!  Pic­tured: cit­ron green, […]

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Elvis needs boats! Elvis needs boats!

April 21, 2006

This is going to be the typ­i­cal “LJ Catchup” post in which I com­plain that I have not updated this thing with con­tent of any great depth for a very long time.
First off, I have had a few Per­plex City puz­zle cards pub­lished.  They are:

Catcher
Cir­cu­lar
Con­found­ing Cube
NAND
Primer

Other than say­ing that yes, they are out there and avail­able in the […]

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Holy crap! There's a bustle in my hedgerow!

April 2, 2006

So about half of the females on my LJ friends-list seem to go crazy at var­i­ous points on time over the per­fumes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.  I did not quite get it, but I now think I know how they feel, only in the realm of tea.
Today my sam­plers and infusers came from Ada­gio.  Mainly, […]

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