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Earlier, celebrating Pi Day by eating a delicious Shepherd's Pie at Dogfish Head Alehouse.

By far my favorite March Madness bracket each year:

Mark Archer with Derrick May in Detroit, MI 1990. Mulholland Dam, 1930.

Bought myself a FreshRoast SR500. Hopefully, I don't ruin too much beans before I get the hang of roasting them.

It's heeeeeeere...

That's the McLaren "Factory" / Technology and Production Centre - not a "Showroom"

Like the grotesque Mrs Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit. An alcoholic and abusive nurse/midwife/undertaker who kept gin in her teapot, and was permanently sozzled. "Mrs Gamp stored all her household matters in a little cupboard by the fire-place; beginning below the surface (as in nature) with the coals, and mounting gradually upwards to the spirits, which, from motives of delicacy, she kept in a teapot"

Still baking, a lot - sharing mostly at work (and a few locally). Had a little bit of a strange very long fermentation week (last week), normally it takes about 24 hours to make a loaf, this was a lot longer. Had very interesting super fermented outcome - also very tasty. ----- Wed morning - start fermentation of Oat Porridge 300g oat flakes - 600g water - 30g starter Thursday Morning start Levain (100g flour - 100g water - 25g Starter) (I didn't make loaf on Thursday night for Friday bake like normal) Friday cook Oat Porridge - was getting pretty sour. Sunday Morning - Feed Levain (after 5 days of fermentation) with 200g flour 200g water. Sunday evening - Add: 200g Rye Flour 200g Spelt Flour 300g Whole Wheat flour 300g All purpose flour 760g water +30 min, Then: 30g salt 30g water 600g oat porridge 3 hours of lift and turning every 30 minutes - formed final loaves - proofed overnight in fridge - baked at 6am.

Pancakes!

Just a seven-string acoustic player playing an instrumental arrangement of Royals (Facebook link): https://www.facebook.com/taylorandkatherine.roberts.3/videos/1666896613526468/

Relevant lyrical content.

In my above post I mentioned Aspen. Anyone who listened to the entirety of last week's Test Tone heard me talk over the song that got me into Bevan Smith's work. "This Is Why Only Teenagers Can Really Love Music" sums his output up pretty well. A fairly lengthy track with a weird, pretentious title. It's minimal (dubby) techno, a genre which is more often boring and pretentious that it isn't. All of this said, the song is bloody brilliant. When Bevan is/was good, he is the absolute master of doing a great deal with very little. He evokes so much emotion out of a few drum hits, some frosty ambience and some fairly simple melodies. This Is Why Only Teenagers Can Really Love Music is probably not his best work, but it's certainly up there. I liked it enough to pay obscene amounts for his entire catalog (it averaged out to $25 a CD), shipped from the other corner of the globe (New Zealand). That was a dozen or so years ago, when the Information Age was a lot less information-y.

https://youtu.be/ekq4ZMgMa1Q

Always liked this one. Then I saw the video.

http://soundcloud.com/ohdaughter/daughter-home

Great idea, Stretch. Sorry no video with this one...hell, I don't even know if it will embed. Cool. It worked.