Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Chemists Explain Crucial Difference Between Cold Brew and Hot Coffee

Chemists Explain Crucial Difference Between Cold Brew and Hot Coffee



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Estonia Already Lives Online—Why Can’t America? - The Atlantic

Estonia Already Lives Online—Why Can’t America? - The Atlantic



Advertising in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2002

Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network | WIRED

Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network | WIRED

A collage of phone book pages and an image of Edward Snowden

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed | The New Yorker

Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed | The New Yorker



A virtual office space with each participant in separate locations

My Baby Amber

Green Bones, what I am reading now.

In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.

On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years.

Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich - or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals.

Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival - and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon.

Jade War is the second book of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.
 

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Long week of Boredom

It's been about a week since I last posted here.  Time passes here without too much change.  I do feel pretty good, however and am very positive.  It's going to be a tough next couple weeks.  I have to move out of my house and live in a hotel.  Atleast when all the damage done by the flood is repaired it will be better than before, new carpet, wood laminate, baseboards and paint inside. My children wanted to go to see my Mom up in Humboldt county, but until this Covid 19 thing is over we won't be going.  That means no surf camp.  Just keeping them busy is tough.