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Caffe marco, burwood
Piazza d’oro coffee. Italian decore throughout, with the staff wearing soccer uniforms. A widescreen tv softly brings a soccer game to the café, but if you sit facing away from the screen, you can still ignore it, if you choose.
Coffee is smooth: a strong shot for the regulard sized [...]
Mickey potts coffee and tea, burwood
Crave coffee. Another café in burwood westfield, one of the few that’s open before 8am. Lots of comfortable-looking seating, and friendly staff.
A few other items on the menu; cakes and rolls, mostly. Not a bad cup, but I suspect there’s better to be had in burwood: [...]
March 28, 2006 – 10:41 am
Café è vero, mount st, nth sydney
Grinders coffee. In the foyer of the MLC building.High energy music is piped in loudly enough to drown out the sound of voices in the ample seating, and of people talking as they walk into the building for work.
Staff are friendly and efficient. There’s not [...]
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Carnival of the Capitalist (March 27) - lots of business-related articles.
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March 27, 2006 – 10:29 am
Wild berry café, north sydney
Lavazza coffee. On berry st, another sandwich bar / cafe; mostly low-lit indoor seating, with a few outdoro tables for the smokers. A big tv plays sky news at a low volume.
The coffee itself is an enigma: starting out as a really bad cup on first taste, [...]
Magazi espresso, north sydney
Grinders coffee. On the staion end of walker st - 53 - is this buzzing espresso and sandwich bar. Well prepared for the morning rush, the breads, bagels, condiments, even rows of 2L milk bottles are arranged ready to go.
Staff are friendly and efficient, giving me a delay [...]
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Book: If I were God, I’d end all the pain
John Dickson on a topic he has experienced firsthand: if God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is there pain in the world. A helpful (and short!) book that I’m planning to pass on to a friend.
Will we stick our necks out for his faith?
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Coffee philosophy, strand arcade sydney
Moccopan coffee. Rancilio espresso machine. As you’d expect from the strand arcade, a range of cakes, pastries, pies and sausage rolls: nothing venturing too far from aussie traditional fare.
The barista works away steadily, serving the in-shop and arcade customers with a minute or two lag between ordering [...]
March 25, 2006 – 12:54 pm
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March 25, 2006 – 11:53 am
roasting - experiment one
Originally uploaded by cafedave.
Way back on Valentine’s day, kel gave me a popcorn popping machine: I’d read that it was possible to use them as inexpensive coffee roasters.
A few weeks later, I finally have some green beans (courtesy of Gav and Martine at single [...]
Why you check your email so often is similar to why people play on poker machines - intermittent variable reinforcement.
Café vicino, north sydney
Vittoria coffee. Tucked away under the clocktower building, in what can best be described as the zorro district of north sydney, is this traditional australian style café. Small tables, indoor and outdoor seating, and polite staff.
Coffee is served hot, and despite the choice of blend, and the giant [...]
March 24, 2006 – 11:29 am
Origin of Red-Letter Bibles