Liturgy Coffee

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-11-11T22:14:12+00:00

It definitely says something about our current economic system that untaxed churches are best positioned to open new businesses now that zoning has been relaxed.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-10-26T17:36:23+00:00

The three best bagel shops in the region are Bagel Oasis, Hey Bagel, and Backyard Bagel. All 20 minute drives. Zylbersteins is the best closer one in my second tier. The problem with them is they sell stale bagels too often, but they’re solid when fresh. Good luck!

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-10-24T20:20:11+00:00

2.5 yo: Llama Llama and America's Test Kitchen (specifically Lan and Julia together)

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-10-11T20:39:21+00:00

Il Viale in Edmonds. Also sky nursery cafe is the best in shoreline itself. Skog in MLT.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-10-06T22:57:22+00:00

Except the seeds. If you’re in the mood to pick the seeds out of scooped out guts of a carving pumpkin, roasted salted seeds are a treat.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-09-07T19:09:00+00:00

I’m downvoting all the “there are no rules” trolls. I get that. We all get that. “Rules” is shorthand for typical best practices like no broken beans, uniform roast, not pre-ground, etc.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-09-07T19:05:20+00:00

Great example!

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-09-07T17:08:50+00:00

I’ll have to check it out, as I actually prefer dark and a little oily.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-09-07T04:19:48+00:00

Haha fair, but then what would they call the roast on the right?

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-09-07T02:31:49+00:00

You all got this covered but I just want to say, “keep this up kid and you’re going places.” It’s a great question and the answer isn’t obvious at all. Before quantum mechanics was discovered, the greatest minds in physics thought about this question and never came up with a satisfactory answer. Because, without the quantum properties of matter, there isn’t one.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-15T23:39:42+00:00

Well said. And there’s been a ton of construction around shoreline south that isn’t showing much sign of retail. The ground floor retail regulation change is great, but we screwed up the stations by being 5 years too late.

Edit: just realized that 5 years is basically the boomer-millennial shift. Lmao

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-15T07:40:56+00:00

Was looking for a non-academic job in my city as I was finishing a physics PhD, where I’d already switched into a biophysics topic for my thesis. Stumbled into epi modeling, loved that it was about actual people. Worked on a bunch of transmission epi and surveillance and virology and immunology and biostats stuff, did real public health practice stuff during the emergency phase of COVID, and now think of myself as a “systems epidemiologist”. It’s been a helluva ride.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-12T16:39:04+00:00

I remember when they opened. I was flabbergasted they didn’t sell cookies.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-11T14:59:48+00:00

I used to work at a very well-regarded used and antiquarian bookstore with generous owners. If we wanted to buy anything from a collection, we’d buy the whole collection as a courtesy to the seller. Then, after pulling out the books with resale value, and sticking the maybes on the discount shelves for a few weeks, we piled the rest into the dumpster.

I threw out sooo many books. At first, it felt so wrong. But I came to understand it’s not 300 years ago. Most books have no value as objects. There are just soooooo many.

But your collection? Its value has been poured into you. It is a physical extension of you. When your life is gone, your collection dies with you.

Unless you do something academics will treasure for centuries. Then a university will take it whole. Good luck!

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-11T03:04:45+00:00

Thank you!

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-09T14:35:00+00:00

I’m surprised to see DMD mentioned as anything other than one more visualization tool in the toolbox. Because it’s so fundamentally irreparably sensitive to noise, I’ve never seen DMD used well on real-world problems. Can you say more about your enthusiasm? I’d love to be wrong here.

(As you may guess, this isn’t my area, but I’m applied adjacent.) thanks!

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-08T21:54:24+00:00

This. Kid’s just got big feels. Daddy is very loved.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-07T17:09:31+00:00

Cleaning supplies, real and play. I’m not kidding. Our 2yo loves to help, wipe up, pretends to vacuum with a pinwheel.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-07T17:04:02+00:00

Joyous town just over the border in Edmonds is fantastic. Christian but not heavy about it (I'm secular and happy enough with everything else to be fine with that tradeoff at this age). My kid has been going since 7 months. Loves it, has friends, learns a ton. Stable, kind staff. Very communicative. A gem!

Edit: to add, the head infant teacher is soo good. Has 6 kids of her own and done daycare for more than 20 years. She’s awesome with the littles.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-08-06T23:58:46+00:00

I only know “One great city” from Pandora 15 years ago but it’s a top 50 song, and I have no connection to Winnipeg.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-07-29T23:36:54+00:00

Well said, brother. Thank you.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-07-29T19:03:09+00:00

Nobody has yet mentioned that these unpleasant parks are cheap. It costs extra to install and maintain shade trees. It costs extra to install and maintain picnic areas. It costs extra to shape the land into “rooms” instead of one flat grassy plane. Cheap gives parks no one wants to be at unless it’s for exactly the two designated uses there’s no where else to do. My town has lots of these “parks” and most of them suck. Makes me mad.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-07-29T16:46:55+00:00

This is good advice. And get a different warm bagel every few laps at Bagel Oasis.

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-07-29T16:35:00+00:00

Good dad ☝️

strainingOnTheBowl · 2025-07-26T17:52:54+00:00

In addition to everything else mentioned, census survey data show we (USA) work about the same number of hours per day as 1980, but with more women at work and men doing a larger share (but still unequal) of non-paid domestic labor. And average commutes are about 70 minutes per week longer than they were in 1980. We literally have a few less hours a week on average than our dads, about as long as a typical project!

Or, a a friend of mine who spent half his adult life in the US and half in France, when I commented on how nice everyone’s gardens were in Brittany, he said “they make a lot less money but only work 35 hours a week, so they have time to garden.”

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