dfphil
@dfphil.bsky.social
Scientist, jazz-lover and New Englander.
Tonight’s drink is “Sunset at Gowanus” - a Death & Co variant on the Daiquiri. It has rum, apple brandy yellow chartreuse, lime juice, and maple syrup.
They called for Santa Teresa 1796 Rum. I used Flor de Cana which is tasty but I don’t know how it compares
They called for Santa Teresa 1796 Rum. I used Flor de Cana which is tasty but I don’t know how it compares
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tonight’s drink is “Sunset at Gowanus” - a Death & Co variant on the Daiquiri. It has rum, apple brandy yellow chartreuse, lime juice, and maple syrup.
They called for Santa Teresa 1796 Rum. I used Flor de Cana which is tasty but I don’t know how it compares
They called for Santa Teresa 1796 Rum. I used Flor de Cana which is tasty but I don’t know how it compares
I didn’t take a picture but tonight’s drink was the Arnaud Martini thanks to Anders Erickson. It’s equal parts gin, blanco vermouth, and crème de cassis. Tasty, though next time I might cut back on the cassis.
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
How to Make the Arnaud Martini
YouTube video by Anders Erickson
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I didn’t take a picture but tonight’s drink was the Arnaud Martini thanks to Anders Erickson. It’s equal parts gin, blanco vermouth, and crème de cassis. Tasty, though next time I might cut back on the cassis.
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
youtu.be/FI4wUOzJvUE?...
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
I'm reading 8 month old @dwallacewells.bsky.social piece in the NYer on "abundance" It's an aside, but that Russian Oligarchs were buying up property in Brooklyn ca 2005 "was very clearly true" needs support. Russian oligarchs are the great boogie men of real estate; what does this really mean?
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I'm reading 8 month old @dwallacewells.bsky.social piece in the NYer on "abundance" It's an aside, but that Russian Oligarchs were buying up property in Brooklyn ca 2005 "was very clearly true" needs support. Russian oligarchs are the great boogie men of real estate; what does this really mean?
Tonight’s drink is the Bijou. Equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and green chartreuse and a dash of orange bitters. It’s tasty but overbalanced on the chartreuse side
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Tonight’s drink is the Bijou. Equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and green chartreuse and a dash of orange bitters. It’s tasty but overbalanced on the chartreuse side
The Harvey Milk terminal at SFO has a micro-museum whose exhibit yesterday was on Women of Afrofuturism. Note the Alice Coltrane discs in the image along with Octavia Butler and Nettrice Gaskins.
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Harvey Milk terminal at SFO has a micro-museum whose exhibit yesterday was on Women of Afrofuturism. Note the Alice Coltrane discs in the image along with Octavia Butler and Nettrice Gaskins.
I’m back from a trip to CA. It’s weird going from 80 degree weather to 35 degree weather.
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I’m back from a trip to CA. It’s weird going from 80 degree weather to 35 degree weather.
Alice Coltrane! This is nominally a review of the exhibit at the Hammer Museum in LA that closed 6 months ago but it is really an opportunity to wax poetic about her music. I’m going to listen to Ptah the El Daoud
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
www.nybooks.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Alice Coltrane! This is nominally a review of the exhibit at the Hammer Museum in LA that closed 6 months ago but it is really an opportunity to wax poetic about her music. I’m going to listen to Ptah the El Daoud
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”
do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.
October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@dfphil.bsky.social and I once went to a restaurant that prided itself on its wine pairings. We asked the server for his recommendation based on what we ordered and he said, “Well, halibut just *screams* Chardonnay.”
Tonight’s cocktail with @carlamiriam.bsky.social is the Alaska thanks to the Mixel app: 1.5 oz gin, 0.5 oz yellow chartreuse and orange bitters. It’s nice but it has a simple taste. We might try it with old tom gin or perhaps with some Maraschino Liqueur. Good enough to experiment!
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Tonight’s cocktail with @carlamiriam.bsky.social is the Alaska thanks to the Mixel app: 1.5 oz gin, 0.5 oz yellow chartreuse and orange bitters. It’s nice but it has a simple taste. We might try it with old tom gin or perhaps with some Maraschino Liqueur. Good enough to experiment!
Tonight’s drink is the Greta Garbo: rum, maraschino, lime, simple syrup and a rinse of absinthe. Next time I make this: less simple syrup more maraschino but it’s yummy
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Tonight’s drink is the Greta Garbo: rum, maraschino, lime, simple syrup and a rinse of absinthe. Next time I make this: less simple syrup more maraschino but it’s yummy
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Unusual drink. Wouldn’t want it too often, but I liked it. The drink also has an absinthe rinse (I used Pernod because I was out of absinthe)
Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love
YouTube video by Robb Report
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Unusual drink. Wouldn’t want it too often, but I liked it. The drink also has an absinthe rinse (I used Pernod because I was out of absinthe)
Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
How to Make a Growing Old, the Rule-Breaking Cocktail That Negroni Fans Will Love
YouTube video by Robb Report
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Via Robb Report we made the Growing Old with 2 oz Cynar, 1 oz rye, 1 pinch of salt, and 5 lemon peels in the mixing glass plus one expressed on the glass. Very different and tasty.
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
youtu.be/fd0Tkmqthq4?...
I was listening to @natedimeo.bsky.social on the Memory Palace episode 133 “Antidisestablishmentarianism” when I couldn’t sleep this morning. Nate’s voice is so soothing. The crux of this story was not helping me sleep. I waited until I was awake to finish. Go listen to Nate. His stories are amazing
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was listening to @natedimeo.bsky.social on the Memory Palace episode 133 “Antidisestablishmentarianism” when I couldn’t sleep this morning. Nate’s voice is so soothing. The crux of this story was not helping me sleep. I waited until I was awake to finish. Go listen to Nate. His stories are amazing
I was on Great Barrington (MA) yesterday. Here’s a little color. The Berkshires are definitely in peak color now. Peep some leaves!
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I was on Great Barrington (MA) yesterday. Here’s a little color. The Berkshires are definitely in peak color now. Peep some leaves!
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
Diamond dropped on floor
www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage...
Diamond dropped on floor
www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage...
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
Diamond dropped on floor
www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage...
Diamond dropped on floor
www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage...
Billerica
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Billerica
Tonight’s cocktail is a house speciality: the Avernaville. That’s 2 oz gin, 3/4 oz sweet vermouth and 1/2 oz Averna.
It’s modeled on the Cynartown. We’ve switched the Cynar for Averna
It’s modeled on the Cynartown. We’ve switched the Cynar for Averna
September 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tonight’s cocktail is a house speciality: the Avernaville. That’s 2 oz gin, 3/4 oz sweet vermouth and 1/2 oz Averna.
It’s modeled on the Cynartown. We’ve switched the Cynar for Averna
It’s modeled on the Cynartown. We’ve switched the Cynar for Averna
Now we can talk about the Chinese Room for a week without worrying that we don’t understand it. I definitely don’t though I thought it was obvious when I read it in “The Mind’s I”
John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now we can talk about the Chinese Room for a week without worrying that we don’t understand it. I definitely don’t though I thought it was obvious when I read it in “The Mind’s I”
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Happy birthday to Léon Foucault, who demonstrated the motion of the Earth not only through his eponymous pendulum but through more precisely designed gyroscopes that would later become crucial components of numerous devices for navigation: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM
September 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Happy birthday to Léon Foucault, who demonstrated the motion of the Earth not only through his eponymous pendulum but through more precisely designed gyroscopes that would later become crucial components of numerous devices for navigation: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM
Tonight’s drink is the Barbados Cocktail: rum, lime, and Falernum. It’s a lot like a daiquiri but the falernum adds an interesting finish
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Tonight’s drink is the Barbados Cocktail: rum, lime, and Falernum. It’s a lot like a daiquiri but the falernum adds an interesting finish
Our morning glory is finally blooming. It’s such a late season flower
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Our morning glory is finally blooming. It’s such a late season flower
Tonight’s drink is an attempt to imitate a cocktail we had at Giusto’s in Newport RI. We only got the ingredients from the menu so I guessed the proportions. It came out good (if small):
1.5 oz Pisco
0.5 oz Strega
0.5 oz Cynar
I served it up in a cocktail glass may have been served on the rocks
1.5 oz Pisco
0.5 oz Strega
0.5 oz Cynar
I served it up in a cocktail glass may have been served on the rocks
September 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Tonight’s drink is an attempt to imitate a cocktail we had at Giusto’s in Newport RI. We only got the ingredients from the menu so I guessed the proportions. It came out good (if small):
1.5 oz Pisco
0.5 oz Strega
0.5 oz Cynar
I served it up in a cocktail glass may have been served on the rocks
1.5 oz Pisco
0.5 oz Strega
0.5 oz Cynar
I served it up in a cocktail glass may have been served on the rocks