> I knew a guy Sidney who was an engineer working
> on a joint project with I think Philips and Sony,
> and back in the '80s, before the birth of Wikitruth
> he was at some conference or other: someone was
> introduced to him and exclaimed, why, you're S.P.
> Woodsum, you invented the floppy disk! That being
> well before the eminent self-promoter Dr. Nakamats 
> appropriated the distinction. Sidney was one of the
> several names on the patent, and it's not quite 
> clear what or how great his role was, and he just
> stammered and allowed as how he'd helped set up that
> original technology. I actually looked this up
> eventually, and it appeared to me that what his
> group invented (with the royalties going to the
> company) was closer to magnetic drum technology, but
> what would I know.
>  
The one probably led to the other. OTOH it's always cool when you're
recognized for something only a true fellow geek would know. 

> > Yick.  I've had their blonde roast and it wasn't 
> > horrible. I much prefer Pierce Brothers Dark Roast 
> > to just about anything else, but it's not always
> > easy to find and can cost more than Starbuck's.  
> 
> Lighter-colored roasts are my coffee preference.

I tend to like both; the blonde roasts have more caffeine, I'm told. The
more the merrier!

> medium roast with a lot of flavor to Peet's Major 
> Dickason's, still tasty but with a bit of that
> burned-oil aspect that I dislike in most *$ products,
> which Nicholas and other friends referred to
> unfriendlily but without much hyperbole as 
> Charbuck's. The Peet's is okay for my use, which is
> stealing a couple ounces to make a mocha using 
> Hershey's Special Dark cocoa, whose intrinsic 
> bitterness is minimal.

Sounds like food.  If you really want burnt beans, go for the Dunkin.  I
made that mistake once, it was free, but free was all it was worth. Yuch. 
Never again.  
 

Also never again, I hope, is the power going out for days on end.  The
tropical storm knocked mine out.  Drank some milk that should have gone down the
sink I think. 
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