Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:56:18 -0700
Reply-To:     "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Coffee brewing and cleanup
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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On 9/12/2006 12:35 PM Joy Hecht wrote:
> Clearly you're not one of those vanagonauts who travels with a French press,
> the freshest roasted beans available anywhere near you, a coffee grinder,
> and an inverter to power the coffee grinder!  Plus real cream (well, only in
> Newfoundland, where they don't seem to sell half-and-half), and the fridge
> working all the time to keep the cream fresh...  :-)
The basic necessities of life. Those who are satisfied with less deserve
only scorn, or if one is feeling generous, pity.
> Now why is this labeled NVC?  Coffee is IMPORTANT in the life of the
> vanagonaut!
>
>
Some consider the Vanagon itself, the /ding an sich/, rather than what
the ding can do, to be the point of this exercise. They may argue that
unlike some fascinating little bit like a fan resistor or CV joint,
which by virtue of being a part of the mechanism is required for the
operation of that mechanism, a Vanagon will operate fine without coffee,
so this thread does not pertain to Vanagons. An interesting argument,
but not compelling. If a tree makes no sound when it falls in the forest
with no one standing idly about to hear it, a Vanagon cannot operate at
its best when the driver has had nothing but Circle-U-Tote-'m-Eleven
coffee to fire up the synapses.  Life is duller, grayer, one feels a
pervading sense of pessimism and irritation. The Vanagon senses this. It
knows, o yes it does.

Now, if there were some "silver socket" in the kitchen into which a
coffee mill was meant to be plugged then I would never have put the
"NVC" disclaimer in the header.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
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