Nalgene Hygene

I've learned how to keep my nalgene (distinguishing mark of we from small liberal arts schools) from getting all skunky. According to lifehacker, keep it in the freezer. I was surprised to find out it worked. If it's already smelling foul, I have found that much better than just constantly trying to scrub it out with soap, boiling water almost immediately kills whatever it is in there making the stink. This has been a public service announcement.

First Roast!

See, it's funny, because it rhymes with "first post".

On the advice of a coffee expert at work, I have decided to try and roast my on beans at home under the slogan "Massive Quality of Life Improvements for Minimal Expenditure of Effort". Which is not to say that I'm actually expending minimal effort. But it took about 15 minutes start-to-finish to make this batch, and it tastes pretty damn good. My friend Paul tried this in a pan, and it worked, but I went for specialty equipment.