Showing posts with label engineer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineer. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Senior Clover Engineer

As an owner of a Pavoni (I got it years ago when coffee machines were still affordable) coffee has always been at the center of my interest. Though I prefer cappuccino and espresso over more normal blends I appreciate a good French pressed kind.

However making the perfect cup with a French press quick becomes cumbersome, so some Stanford engineers invented and hand build a new kind of coffee maker - the Clover (see video here). Essentially you can control the temperature and some other brewing cycle parameters and given it's price tag it makes only sense to use it with high quality beans.

From the video I learned that you turn yourself into a Senior Clover Engineer and brew the coffee at your liking. I think you need to be senior because at $8 a cup you better know what you are doing...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Baby Engineer

Check out http://xkcd.com/441/ and you will see what I mean.

Everything can be engineered and everybody can be an engineer but baby engineer is kind of a novelty. But if you look closely what a reproductive specialist does you will find many parallels to the engineering discipline -- and baby engineer is one of the titles which tells you what the person does holding the title.