Redartz: Good day, folks! This edition of "Follow the Leader" finds your humble host traveling, so the onus (and honor) is yours to bring into existence a subject for the week! The BitBA assembled awaits the first noble commenter to put forward a titanic topic. Soooooo, take it away. Fear not, I'll be checking in...
19 comments:
What are your favourite hot drinks? Do you insist on a particular brand or certain requirements, for example do you only drink Earl Grey tea or coffee produced in Costa Rica?
Well, I swore off caffeine about 18 years ago, and I've never been a hot chocolate fan, so I don't drink any hot beverages these days. When I did, it was pretty much just black coffee (or tea) with no sugar. I wasn't too bothered about fair trade and all that stuff either, although back then it wasn't as big a deal as it is now.
Although I was born and raised in the coffee-loving US, and now live in the even-more coffee-loving Croatia (they like jet-fuel espresso in the tiny cups, like Italians), tea is my preferred hot beverage. I like many different types, but my favorites, which I drink every day, are the black teas like Assam, Darjeeling, Orange Pekoe and the various 'breakfast' blends (English, Irish, etc.). I prefer loose leaf to tea bags, and I sweeten it, usually with honey.
I used to really like Earl Grey, but then at some point I got really tired of it and pretty much can't stand it.
My coffee habit leans WAY towards the "Cafe Ole'" end of the scale-- not actually hot; very sweet; a LOT of milk (or these days, chocolate almond milk). So that probably doesn't count.
I'll simply go with hot chocolate, I suppose-- although again, I never like it so hot that I can't fill my mouth with it. . .
(Also a fan of a nice seasonal hot apple cider--)
HB
This is way off topic... I typed in the URL for this site. I got something very Biblical about how I was going to hell and the world was going to end. I thought... I've typed this in 1000 times, it's correct.
I tried again. Same thing.
I googled and copy/pasted the URL out of google. Oddly you cannot google this site; you only get a twitter link.
I tried a 3rd time and finally this site came up. But it was what I had been typing before because the URL auto-populates in google as soon as I start typing.
Ummm… anyone else getting this weirdness?
Oh yes... I equivocate between coffee and tea.
At times, when I want to quite all remnants of caffeine, e.g., flying over seas or during Lent I just drink hot water with a squirt of lemon. IT does the job quite well, actually!
Colin- hot tea is always a winner. Often with some honey or sugar. Herbal, black or green, I enjoy them all. Also love hot chocolate, easy on the marshmallows. In winter, hot spiced tea is pleasing. As for coffee, I only started drinking it about a year ago. Like HB, only moderately hot, with plenty of cream and sugar.
Charlie- yes, I've encountered that problem occasionally. It stems from some tiny variation in the url, the specifics of which escape me at the moment. But yes, it drove me nuts until I carefully reentered the address...
Like Charlie, I've often wondered why BitBA doesn't ever show up in a Google search? At best, BABs comes up, and you'd have to hope you can find your way over from there. . .
Th' interwebs is lettin' us down. . .
HB
I don't understand either HB.
Also, Red figured out how I ended up at a Christian "The World is ending" www site.
Their site is something like "back in the bronze age . blogsopt.com" but it is hard to see the switch of the o and the p.
But then I have to wonder did these nutjobs actually buy the full URL with the o and p switched? I mean they knew that us guys going to this www site might make a mistake and come to their site? How many URLs have they bought with slightly altered spellings? And do they also own "blosgpot" or other mis-spellings of this site?
Why target guys talking about comics? DO they target guys talking about records or cartoons?
(MY own theory is that they figure anyone crazy enough to "believe in" superheroes might also be willing to believe in God / Jesus?)
Thanks for the comments :)
I've recently stopped drinking tea (gasp!) and switched to coffee. The brand I buy is Kenco Millicano Americano Intense (not Intenso?). My local supermarket has a bewildering choice of coffees and teas including such baffling items as coffee pods - what the heck is a coffee pod?
Charlie's mention of crazy Christian fundamentalists is very timely because I'm currently reading Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" (sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale") which is set in a future America after a right-wing Christian coup.
Back in the Bronze Age never shows up in search results for me either. Red, in, "Settings," under, "Basics," have you got the Privacy settings ticked to let search engines find the site?
I should have mentioned that I too have noticed that BiTBA doesn't show up in Google searches (there's a trend developing here...)
But another Google search has revealed what a coffee pod is :D
Thanks for lighting a fire under me, guys! And thanks, Steve, for illuminating the solution. I have now adjusted the settings, so we should show up on searches now...obviously this blogging thing is a continuous learning process...
Red - I just tried typing in "Back in the Bronze Age" into a google search on google chrome. NOthing... not even reference to your twitter feed. About 5 hits down is "Bronze Age Babies"
IF I type in "Back in the bronze age blogspot" about 7 hits down is reference to your twitter feed. 9 hits down is reference to Steve does comics. But no reference on page one to this site.
But at least all the hits are on related to bronze age comics.
Charlie, it can take a couple of weeks after Google's alerted to a site's presence before it starts to show up in search results. Hopefully, now that Redartz has changed the site's settings, it'll appear in the not-too-distant future.
Oh, this is gonna be huge--- HUGE!
We are gonna hit BIG, Fellow Citizens!
It's the beginning of a whole NEW ERA for the BitBA faithfuls!
Wow-- maybe, maybe we'll pull in a contingent of thoughtful female representatives as well (and at last--!). I always feel kinda sad that we're so heavily male-centric, much as I love this gang. Maybe an upcoming topic, though, might be about the overwhelming (and welcome) wave of young women out there now who are unabashedly immersed in superhero geekdom, eh? Yeah? (I happened to drift into a conversation with a FIERCE and talented young woman in the theater company I'm currently a part of as she passionately voiced her desire to see either a She-Hulk film or, better yet, on-going television series. I nearly wept. . . )
HB
PS-- Red, kudos and thanks for getting us back in contact with Planet Cyber-Earth!
Hot drinks? Yikes!
I live in a tropical country (Trinidad & Tobago) so my preference is actually for cold drinks, my favourites being Coca Cola and iced teas. If I have to drink hot drinks it's usually either unsweetened green tea in the morning, Milo or Ovaltine. I used to drink coffee too but gave it up a few months back.
- Mike 'iced lemon ginger tea is da bomb!' from Trinidad & Tobago.
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