Ridge View Coffee

Over the weekend, I got the chance to drive up to Uniontown to meet an old college friend. Josh and I shared a lot of the same programming courses at Cal. He currently has an IT gig up that way and has recently began acquiring, roasting, and packaging coffee. At lunch he presented me with a sample of his product, Ridge View Coffee:

Ridge View Coffee is a little side project of his. This coffee gets it's start in Ethiopia and is yirgacheffe. This was the sample packet that he gave me that he had just roasted and packaged that very morning. Ridge View Coffee will also (hopefully) be used to aid in funding for his church and the many mission projects that him and his family are so passionate about.

Last night, I made a cup as it was suggested that after roasting, to wait at least a day before brewing. I opened the packet and the aroma hit me. It smelled so fresh and good:

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I just added a tiny bit of whole milk after snapping this photo and jumped in. This is good coffee. If you looked at the packaging photo above, you'll see that it has tasting notes of: blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate. I picked up on the blueberry right away and the chocolate. It was light, but packed full of flavor. It was a nice cup to have right after I had finished my dinner.

Josh is still currently streamlining his sources, processes, packaging, and marketing. When he gets his site up, I'll be sure to let everyone know. In the meantime, if you would like to reach out to Josh about buying a sample or you think his product might be a good fit in your shop, you can reach him at: ridgeviewcoffee@gmail.com and know that it would be benefiting a worthy cause.

Printing the HTML of a Web Page Using Python & Beautiful Soup 4

Below is some code I wrote today in Python to quickly parse in a web page and then print out the HTML found in the page.

Feel free to use/modify/share the code as needed. Was getting Beautiful Soup 4 on my new computer and doing a couple little things to make sure it is working correctly. More code to come!

New Laptop Day! Lenovo IdeaPad

Hi all,

Just got a slick new laptop for work today. A Lenovo IdeaPad:

It's a pretty slick machine with the following specs:

Win 10 Pro
Intel i7 @ 1.80GHz
512GB SSD
16GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce MX150
14-inch screen
back-lit keyboard

Still getting all of my software setup, but my first impressions are good. Really liking the keyboard and the display is beautiful. Hope to be posting lots of content in 2018 so keep a look out!


~ Michael

Silly YouTube Tricks

I've got a few silly tricks to share when using YouTube.

The 1st is 'Quiet YouTube.'

First, find the video you want to watch in quiet mode. Then in the address bar, put quiet in front of youtube.com.

Example: http://www.quietyoutube.com/watch?xkjfdfkdf

Then hit enter and this will take you to a "quiet" page of the video you want. There will be no advertisements to other videos on the side. Great for classroom environments.


The 2nd silly trick is 'copy URL at current time.'

Say you want to share a video with somehow to show them a specific part in the clip. There would be two options really....give them the time they should jump to or make them watch the entire clip. With copy URL at current time, we can skip doing both of those.

To do this, got the time spot in the video you want and pause the video at that time. Go gown to the red bar and highlight over the red line with your cursor on the time you would like to start with. Then right-click and chose copy video URL at current time.

Now you can share this link or put it online and whoever watches it will see the video start at the exact moment you picked. Nice!

Those were just a couple quick silly YouTube tricks. I picked them up at a Google educator training this week and wanted to jot them down here for notes and to help other people as well. Hope everyone has been doing well!



~Michael