You may recall that a while back artist Molly Crabapple was overwhelmed by caffeination, the muse slide tackled her, and she politely demanded to be allowed to make a label for Black Blood of the Earth. Far be it from me to argue with her and the “Ineffable Mustachio’d Goat of SCIENCE” resulted. More or …
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Your Radiation Safety Conundrum
I have returned from Adventures in Radiation in eastern Washington and a fresh round of pre-order slots have gone up in the store as I finish up the last of the previous lots. I have discovered that I have quite a few emails with questions that aren’t related to enhancing my maxxxximum manprow. Sorry for …
Where’s Phil Now & How To Get To Antarctica
If you’ve been poking at the store side of things lately, you may have noticed that the inventories of most everything has dwindled down to zero. This is intentional as I want to clear everything out before I put up the next round of pre-orders. “Why?” you ask. Because I am off to beautiful, scenic …
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Alright, Game On But New Rules
I have completely cleared the orders spike due to the TWiT Army and turned ordering back on for most items, as some of you have already noticed. However, there has been a significant change. Once upon a time, there was unlimited ordering of the standard six varieties (Ethiopia, Kenya, Kona, Malabar, Panama, Sumatra) and limited …
Dude, Why Can’t I Order?
Because I don’t want to lengthen the backlog any longer than it already is. Running maximum production since March 21st and recruiting some help to actually get BBotE & steins out the door *AND* have the luxury of sleep has been no small feat, ye tstill hasn’t obliterated the backlog in a satisfactory manner. The …
The Black Resume
Been quiet here for a bit as I’ve been running at maximum BBotE production capacity, non-stop, since March 21st and still have quite a way left to go yet. But I want to take a moment to have you meditate upon a thought I had several years back that came back up again today: The …
An Admission Of Defeat
A few days ago, a visitor made a post that said, “Looks like the TWiT Army takes down another site.” Not quite, as the back-end migration that was successfully completed the week prior to last Tuesday’s Mac Break Weekly has proven up to tackling the full and blistering attention of Mr. Leo Laporte’s audience. Funranium Labs survived …
Why, Hello There!
Courtesy of some recent kind words by Test Subject Siegel on Mac Break Weekly, just a few of people have decided they might want to try some BBotE. Did I say some? I meant to say a lot. As in, well exceeding my 9L per day production capacity. So, there’s going to be a titch of …
Can I Possibly Be More Of A Nerd?
This is Brian Clevinger’s fault. I thought I’d take moment at the outset to blame him. In addition to having a physics degree, having been nominated Eternal DM For Life amongst my gaming circle all the way back to elementary school, and a truly compendious amount of knowledge about Frank Herbert’s Dune, I am a …
A Shift of Terminology
In the dark and unforgiving dawn of the Black Blood of the Earth production and distribution, after bringing an entire ice chest of BBotE labeled only with lab tape to her wedding, my friend Natara asked if she could be the local dealer for BBotE based upon how well it had gone over with the …
An Antarctic Recipe: Enhanced Sangria
In the interest of sharing important slices of life from my time as Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station’s bartender, I give you the recipe for “Enhanced” Sangria, AKA Mechanics’ Juice. Accidentally freeze an entire airdrop pallet of wine so that you have enough broken bottles that need to be consumed NOW so that this recipe’s portions make sense. …
Peruvian Salkanty and the State of the BBotE Address
In my continuing efforts to find new and interesting things, I decided to head a little further in South America to try a new distinctive dark roast. Brazil has generally been a bit of a let down for roast consistency but I hadn’t had a lot of opportunity to play with the coffees of Peru. …
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International Shipping Is ON Again
Error has been fixed in the sense that my “helping” has been undone. Remind me the next time that I try to fix something on The Internets that it isn’t as simple as building an x-ray fluorescence unit. The next time I get that urge, I will resist it and go have a cocktail instead. This is …
International Shipping Error
Right, the back end migration has not been without casualties. It appears that I’ve lost the ability to ship internationally for the moment until I & my trusty webminion can get home to sort this out. In the meantime, you nice folks in Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Norway, enjoy this nice video of a singing …
Further Q&A – The Ego Feeding Edition
A reminder: over the last weekend there was a swap of back end for the store which means, unfortunately, you cannot access your old pre-February 24th, 2012 orders to chat with me. The database should remember who you are but you’ll have to drop me a line the conventional way. Alas. I get some personal …