My first cup was an americano made with Blue Bottle Hayes Valley Espresso coffee. I had a cup of drip from the Blue Bottle cafe this morning (because of my accident with the siphon) and I have to say that the results from the Aeropress were extremely similar. - Robin Barooah
It came with a carrying bag which is useful since I'll need it at home while I wait for the new siphon funnel. - Robin Barooah
I used it again yesterday - had 3 cups during the course of the day. I have to say the results were consistently very good. It is very easy to control the amount of coffee you make and how strong it is, and it is as quick and easy to clean as they say. It also produced great results every time with no real practice - which is not true of hand dripping or siphoning. The only drawback, if you can call it that, is that it has no romance to it at all - it's almost like using a medical appliance. - Robin Barooah
LOL @ syringe... it goes PERFECTLY with the IV ;) - Mona N.
Tried this with the Jamaican Blue Mountain. Surprisingly, FAIL. It tasted good, but had none of the richness I got from dripping. The Aeropress seem to do a very good job of extracting the sweeter notes but doesn't handle the body well, so it will make an average coffee taste sweeter, but do violence to something that's already well balanced. - Robin Barooah
I think I'm going to relegate this for coffees that are past their prime. - Robin Barooah
(note: that last comment doesn't mean that I have stopped thinking this is great - I'll be using the siphon or hand dripping instead) - Robin Barooah
So you're having good luck with Blue Bottle beans, generally? That's what I'd typically be using. - Veronica
You'll come around eventually. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't some motherboards or Linux distributions allow you to bypass the OS and boot to a browser? - Mitch
Whatever is on the proposed TechCrunch internet tablet is supposedly a boot straight to browser Linux. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@Mitch - that still doesn't make it an OS. It's still a browser, or at best, a runtime environment. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Firefox is my OS. I can see Chrome definitely replacing it as it continue to improve. - Sam Harrelson via twhirl
@Tina: even for TC's example, that means the browser is a service or process of the OS, not the actual OS. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Sam: I promise you, it isn't. To say it is indicates you don't understand what an OS is, or are at the very least misusing the term. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I think it's because they don't know what an OS does. it's become so invisible for a lot of people. I'm glad that you took the time to set them straight. - ~C4Chaos
not at all. I operate fully within Firefox nowacross computers and traditional "OS's like this Macbook Pro on Leopord or Ubuntu or on the Asus eee. Firefox is the system in which I operate, not on the actual desktops. - Sam Harrelson via twhirl
@Sam: The term you may be looking for, then is "meta-desktop" or "cross-platform runtime environment." Operating systems deal with hooking hardware to software. Your browser sits in the application layer, and doesn't have any direct hooks into your input, output, storage or network devices. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
i know the technical definition, but it's just splitting hairs at this point and going forwards as web apps continue to eclipse the hardware-software paradigm. "Runtime environment" is too clunky for non-geeks and those of us existing mostly in the browser at this point. - Sam Harrelson via twhirl
What? Splitting hairs? Look, if your soundcard malfunctions and stops working, do you troubleshoot that from your browser, or your operating system utilities? Do you click on the little wrench in Chrome to troubleshoot that? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Browsers are the operating systems for webapps. It's perfectly analogous. A runtime environment is also an operating system. It provides services and environment for hosting applications. If you're limiting your definition of "operating system" to GNU/Linux, OS X and Windows, look at the words themselves: "operating" "system". It's a very generic term. - ·[•_•]·
Maybe the biggest misconception would be the multiprocess approach chrome adopts when handling tabs. But still yeah, I do not call it an OS. :) - Ron
Browsers are operating systems for webapps only if you don't understand what an OS does. Words mean things, and the definition of an OS goes back to before I was born. I could say: "It's limiting to only call the sky the sky since if you go into a cave, there's air above your head and stuff can fly through that air like bats." I'd also be wrong. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Google Chrome is an interface between users and web-centric applications, utilities. Maybe the first browser designed for Web computing http://bit.ly/DwgE3 - Yung-Hui Lim
People call Chrome an OS...because they're stupid. - Art Lindsey III
Most people insist the web and the Internet are the same thing. You gonna correct them? Nah. - Andrew Warner
@Andrew: You obviously don't know me well enough. :-p I'm a guy who thinks words mean things. If a pundit who thinks themselves qualified to pontificate on technology issues on a regular basis, or even for profit, there's no way I'm going to let them get away with mixing up the difference between the Web and the Internet, much less the difference between the desktop, a window manager, a runtime environment and an OS. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
They are only doing it to get on your nerves, Mark. It's a conspiracy. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
bwahaha. That's fine. I correct them to get on their nerves. It's a symbiotic relationship. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Agreed, not an OS. People being overzealous in the service of Google? :) - Mo Kargas
I think a lot of them mean "Desktop" or "application environment," which is a valid argument, I think (though not one I agree with). A little bit of fanboi-ism, mixed with some definition confusion. I think Google may be going for the "web is a platform" thing, just not with Chrome. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
True it's not an 'Operating System' on paper but then again cloud computing doesn't mean we are accessing our data in the skies above - Joe Dawson
True but it's as you put it a definition of ignorance for the ignorant. It makes it easier for people to understand and relate to the terminology used. If I were to sell the average person an apparatus providing combustion for substance consumption they would scrath their heads but a cooker is much easier to digest! - Joe Dawson
@Joe true, but the cooker doesn't make the meal or does not include the chef or the supermarket access. you still have to go to the (super)market and do the meal before using the cooker. - Olivier
Saying Chrome is an OS is a metaphor I think. People are saying that they don't care what actual OS they are using - if they can use webapps through chrome then they can do their work. - Richard Bradshaw
"Words mean things." I love it. Chrome is an OS because Arrington says it is and what Arrington spake is writ large upon the sky. - Carla Thompson
Carla, never thought I'd read something so poetic written about Chrome :) - Patricia Hanrahan
Thank you, Rizzn. Earth to everyone who disagrees with Rizzn: this is not a matter of debate. The operating system only ever refers to something like Windows, MacOS, or Ubuntu, something that talks directly to all the hardware in/attached to your computer. Period. - j1m
"Earth to everyone who disagrees with Rizzn: this is not a matter of debate" - Appreciate the agreement! Can I just get you to comment that on all my blog posts now? :-p - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
He's hoping it'll be a matter of *months*??? Shameful. - Kevin Hessel
At least they have one of the creators of Camino on board, so hopefully the wait will be worth it. - Guillermo Esteves
What he should be embarrassed by is the fact that it does not work with an ISA proxy server. Who wants to use one (cool, hyped up, slim, fast) browser at home and another at work? - Alexei Tolkachev
no suprise there, there is no official Google Talk client on Mac either. And It sucks we have to wait this long for stuff. - Edgar Rodríguez
I thought they were moving it again; they're trashing it? - Vincent Ferrari
Yes, according to one of the managers there stated a couple of weeks ago that it will be discarded. But I suspect certain elements will find their way to auctions I bet. - Louis Trapani
yup, no diggity Lindsay - plus, I've yet to see a really slick windows app anyway... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Wait, why is everyone freaking out (other than the Google fandom)? Opera's had tabs over the address bar forever now. - Akiva Moskovitz
Based on that alone, I don't like it at all. It looks great kid learning to use the Internet, though. - Rochelle
Akiva - it has JIT-compiled Javascript! It' s a mini-.Net! You should be excited! - Lindsay Donaghe
Akiva: it's because this is from Google. Who outside of the tech echo chamber knows Opera? Very few. But who knows Google? Everyone. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble: My mother knew of Opera! Without me even telling her about it, and she's as far away from computer literate as you can get. I'm still not sure how that happened. :p - Daniel Bruce
JIT compiled javascript is incredible. it's omgwtf awesome - Tad - just Tad
it's the first thing in a while that made me think about getting a dinky little slimline windows laptop... - Zee at WeDoCreative
Daniel, I installed Opera for my mom a year or so ago. She uses both Opera and IE (not sure why she flips between the two) but she calls Opera "The O" and IE "The E". - Rochelle
Lindsay, but I'm not a Javascript programmer! Robert, I'm not sure that matters enough. The people outside of the tech echo chamber are the ones who don't see what the fuss about browsers even is; they're the ones perfectly happy with IE. - Akiva Moskovitz
Rochelle, think about it like this: your mother predicted the Google browser. A week or so ago she was having problems with a website but then said that if she opened it up in Google, it worked. 'What do you mean you opened it in Google?' 'Don't worry about it! I opened it in Google and now it works!' 'Okaaay...' - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, you keep talking about eventually needing to become more of a UI guy, and I need to as well. Part of that process includes learning Javascript. - Tad - just Tad
skeptical: there's no search box. There has to be a search box, this is a Google Browser! - Duncan Riley
Tad, you are depressing me. But it's true: as much as I enjoy programming .NET software, I do want to get into more cross-platform technologies as long as that cross-platform technology is not Java. - Akiva Moskovitz
Duncan, it's probably combined into the address bar. Most every modern browser on the planet supports this. - Akiva Moskovitz
That's okay, Brandon. We're here to feel for you. - Akiva Moskovitz
If its fast and doesnt crash/freeze it will be my favorite browser :) - d e f c o n
Just please make it look better than Opera does on the Mac. Opera's good, but the interface on the Mac OS is so bad (and non-intuitive) that I can't bear to use it. - Cecily Walker
not the ui but more importantly separating processes, it is in this case what's up there tomorrow. - [ zu ]-eBailey
if that's really it, i'll stick with flock - faboo mama
Just finished the McCloud comic on Chrome - looks very, very exciting. Can't wait for the Mac version! I'm never one to blindly "stick with ____" until I try the new thing. The early adopter gene I have has always treated me well. If it sucks, back to Firefox 3, which I love, but I will FOR SURE be trying Chrome out on OSX launch day. Google has been way way too good to me so far... - Steve Isaacs
I think so, almost every google app is still in beta. lol - Ron
@Zu: That's the bit I'm really looking forward to - separated processes. The comic (or somewhere else) mentioned something about plugins - if I didn't misread, I hope there'll be some third-party plugins. - Cyvros/fyc
Yung-Hui Lim: Not at all, I say, pointing to the Big Picture - Kevin Cearns
doesn't the name "chrome" doom them to always have a chrome front end on the thing? the name needs work. - robert steburg
Robert, I agree. The comic explains why they called it this, but I think it has bad connotations. - Rafe Needleman via twhirl
Veronica, that's why I see no big deal of this, as it's more evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Definitely, not 'blue ocean' ;) Maybe that's Google's operating principles. Taking existing product ideas and make them 'awesomely' better. They definitely succeed with search engine. They're using the same principles with Knol and web browser. - Yung-Hui Lim
Will Google Chrome have any kind of plug-in architecture? Last thing I want to see is hundreds of forks of the Chrome code just because it's open source... - Jonathan Wong via twhirl
Yes, there's a section in the comic about plugins and security - Rafe Needleman via twhirl
do Batman and Robin feature? Wonder where the comic concept came from - weblivz via twhirl
Re: Google's originality. Search? er no. Web Based Mail? Web Based Maps? er no. They have however mostly jumped into a market already dominated by others and made something which has better than the rest. I'm interested to see what is new with this browser. - Stuart Woodward
Michael: Claim? Dude, it was EVERYWHERE. and Jeff: Priorities? Above relatively meaningless things like the Olympics and the Oscars - and CERTAINLY football (!), then this metric of viewership is a wonderful indication. - Steve Isaacs
This gets me to thinking...how likely is it that the "polls" that show a close race are complete bullshit promoted to keep ratings high? Why do I get the feeling that racists and crazed feminists aside that Obama is still running away with it? 36M is a big number. - JonathanJoseph
JonathanJoseph, I hope you are not saying only racists and crazed feminists are not in favor of Obama as President. That certainly is not the case. There are a good number of people who simply disagree with his vision for America. - Charles LePage
Flickr should give me this view natively. I love to see which of my photos have made it to Interesting or Explore. Cool little web app! - Josh Bancroft
I've used this before to check out some of my stats. It's unfortunate that Simon Blint is staring back at us in your "Most viewed from the past 30 days" section, but I guess it's good to keep bringing notice to the story. What a tool. ;) - Chris Luckhardt
Like the "ego surf" part at the bottom. :) Been a while since I checked it, kinda cool to see some of my photos being used by people. - Jason R. Hunter
Matt! I remember that cartoon! Believe it or not, this Gummi Bear video was mentioned on TwitLive.tv on Jumping Monkeys. I'm hooked on the song.. ? lol - Daynah
Matt, I'm sitting here laughing... can't wait til someone calls me. LOL - Daynah
I have to stop listening to it. I hated it at first, but the more I hear it I want to use it as my ring tone. Gummi Crack more like it! - Matt Musgrave
The old school version from Matt M. is like Care Bears on acid. - AJ Kohn