baptnz

baptnz, 2 days ago to tea

TIL ITD – Today is International Tea Day

so I started with an English Breakfast for exoticism's sake.
The camera refused to focus for a while

@tea

in-focus tea cup and pot next to milk jug

baptnz, 4 days ago to tea

TIL mōji, the tiny hair of @tea leaves floating in sencha liquor

e-mōji, the pixel version of tea dust

baptnz, 11 days ago to tea

Really enjoying this 'Wildwood Gold' black @tea

Gushu Dianhong from Mei Leaf

It's sold out unfortunately, might try to get some elsewhere but that's usually a terrible idea: “A teapet cannot steep into the same tea twice, because it is not the same tea, and he is not same teapet.“

baptnz, 13 days ago to random

Top 5 countries exporting latex

Thailand
Vietnam
Cote d'Ivoire
Guatemala
Malaysia

Institutions who can afford Overleaf

baptnz, 1 month ago to tea

New to dancong but this Duck sh*t one is growing on me

@tea

baptnz, 1 month ago to tea

Feeling lazy this Sunday morning so just tried this 'topping' method on yesterday's Dianhong leaves , and a "dry" session with this local pottery to catch spills

@tea

baptnz, 1 month ago to random

"Sorry I'm late for the meeting.

I was thinking about the BRDF of my teapot"

¯_(ツ)_/¯cÓ~

zoom in on the clay near specular peak

baptnz, 1 month ago to random

YAML as a custom chunk "engine" in quarto, fed to typst and processed with a custom template

https://gist.github.com/baptiste/13214e4cc77a7143fb7be2d5ac1a5a20

baptnz, 1 month ago to random

Netflix: "We're sorry to see you go. Can you tell us why you're leaving?"

"I have decided that I don't need a Netflix subscription, since I can save the money and put it toward a new teapot and then just stare at it all evening every day"

baptnz, 2 months ago to random

lesser-known aversion control

git comet – requires a periodic push, leaves a trail behind
git hush – turns off the fans on all remote servers
git statue – 3D prints the repo
git clown – trains a nosy LLM to laugh and weep at your why-so-serious code
git debase – commit to low standards
git tranche – best thing since sliced read
git innit – but is it, though?
git urge – DO IT!
git joy – Marie Kondo your codebase

baptnz, 2 months ago to random

Infinite canvas à la excalidatw/tldraw/drawio sync'ed with R i/o -- graphics, networks, trees, flowcharts, mindmap, formatted text snippets, (interactive widgets?)... with a computational backend and reproducible steps, version diff, etc.

https://jsoncanvas.org/

baptnz, 2 months ago to random

"I'll work from home this morning"

Little did I consider The Distraction

clay teapot on wooden tray, lid next to it

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

Backpackers feels more like home when you bring @tea and teaware

Glass teaware against window, Hanmer springs mountainside in the background

baptnz, 3 months ago to random

How do you insert a thin (1/6em) space between number and unit in #QuartoPub?

U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
or
, inside a math formula (noting that siunitx isn't available in mathjax)
or something else?
(I am almost tempted to insert a visible symbol with a keyboard shortcut, such as ␣, and have a lua filter replace it on the fly with U+202F before rendering.

baptnz, 3 months ago to random

Any observable-plot (/d3js) enthusiast here? Do you think this custom block matrix display would be straight-forward to re-create? (it's currently in ggplot2)

The basic idea is easy, but the custom grid lines and axis breaks take a bit of effort, so I'm not sure how deep I would have to dig with Plot?

#datavis

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

Today being a public holiday, I thought I'd make some @tea

My first Gyokuro, so I followed these instructions:

3g leaf

1st infusion

heat up teaware with 60º water
50mL room temperature
14 mins

2nd infusion

50º
2:30 mins

3d

50º
3 mins

4th
70º
2:30 mins

5th
80º
2:30 mins

Then eat leaves on rice with soy sauce

tea brewing in kyūsu
first brew
leaves on rice

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

walking among the trees today, and thinking about Perfect Days for the past week

I went home and made matcha @tea

trunk in the forest
matcha in new pottery
leaves in the sunlight

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

Any idea what kind of @tea this might be?

A colleague gave it to me, but she got it from someone else with no information…

baptnz, 4 months ago to tea

today feels like a Longjing @tea day

"Longjing is a relatively common tea and is often consumed by regular people daily" – wikipedia

baptnz, 4 months ago to tea

First attempt at making matcha @tea today
(a bit of a fail – it's hard work!)

matcha in container
teaware on table

baptnz, 4 months ago to tea

Late afternoon oolong @tea session back at home, unpacking the tetsubin and trying it with a hotplate

close up on tetsubin and hotplate
oolong tea in pitcher
crowded tea table with teaware

baptnz, 4 months ago to tea

Tried this Castleton muscatel Darjeeling @tea in new gaiwan + matching set from Mei Leaf. Probably a bit too big for solo sessions, but will be handy if I have company

baptnz, 5 months ago to tea

Did I need one more @tea pot? No.
Does it fit in my suitcase? Also no
¯_(ツ)/¯C()~

baptnz, 5 months ago to tea

Uh oh, I found a tetsubin on Sennichimae Doguyasuji st in Osaka. The seller tried his best to put me off - but to no avail.

I asked if it could be used with a hotplate - apparently not :/ any idea why, @tea ? The bottom is flat, I wonder what the problem would be

baptnz, 6 months ago to tea

• "Beautiful cup you have here"
• "It is a sake cup"
• "Oh. Can it be used for @tea , also?"
• "No, this is for sake."
  [awkward silence]
• [strong disapproving vibe] "… but, I mean, you can do what you want"
• "I'll take it!"
  [Narrator] one did in fact poured oolong in it at the first opportunity

😈 🍵

"tea" cup from Kanazawa, filled with oolong