baptnz

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Someone kindly brought me milk @tea from HK so I had to try (trying to unsee the Lipton label)

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

uh oh, I feel like tetsubin is trying to tell me it wants to taste some green @tea

is it best to treat rust spots as soon they appear, or wait until it gets quite bad?

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

dave_heumann, 2 months ago to tea

@tea Wtf, why did you boost that very very racist post?

I'm not reposting it, because I blocked the account, but sheesh

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Mid-morning I often reach for a darjeeling @tea – here trying t-leaf's Steinthal SFTGFOP1 organic

tea tray with white porcelain teapot filled with leaves, cup, pitcher with brewed tea

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Tried this sample gift that came with my @tea order: 2013 Zheng Pin Gu Cha "Purple Impression" Raw Pu-erh

I quite like it, but I'm still uncertain of what kinds of Pu-erh I appreciate most

top view of tea liquor in glass pitcher next to 2 small white cups
moody photograph of tea boat with bright liquor next to cups, pot, teapet, and bright windowsill in the background

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

rolled/unrolled oolong @tea

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Starting a quarto blog about @tea for myself, collecting brewing instructions and good memories

https://tinyurl.com/baptnz-tea

blog index page (*typo corrected)

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Slow saturday afternoon, trying this newly arrived Tie Guan Yin Oolong @tea and porcelain teapot
— pairs well with pastéis de nata

baptnz, 2 months ago to tea

Any @tea followers on teaforum.org?
I've been trying to register for the past several days, but never receive a confirmation email, and my attempt at contacting admins has also received no response so far. Wondering if existing users could raise this/help out?

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

was reminded of this while browsing old photos with fond memories

”To be honest, the best @tea tastes delicious whether it comes in a porcelain pot or a tin cup.“ – Iroh

refugio Laguna Negra, Bariloche, mate and cups closeup, two people exchanging a metal mater

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

小青柑 @tea tasting

thanks for the tips, @yutannihilation !

tea tasting with tarte abricot-amandine
close-up of citrus shell & tea in gaiwan
dry 小青柑 before brew

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, 3 months ago to tea

Bitter-sweet Sunday morning Oolong @tea f

glass teapot with oolong

baptnz, 3 months ago to tea

Saturday's walk in the park and madeleines + matcha @tea experiment with the milk frother

(it went much better after we figured out that a Minimal Amount of Matcha is needed in the bowl, lest we sprayed our faces and the whole room with fine green dots from Uji)

matcha bowl with foam
madeleines, 1 lemon, 1 earl grey

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