It’s funny how when nightly sleep deprivation over the course of five months catches up to you, you realize that you’ve been functioning entirely on auto pilot.
The brain simply refuses to learn or remember anything new, its decision and solution making capability becomes nonexistent, and I cannot understand anything but the simplest of abstractions.
To do anything, I have to first write it down – every step of the way, and then mechanically follow my own instructions.
If I’m going down, might as well do it with super fancy complicated blue bottle coffee.

really, I just want three nights (and maybe days) of blissful, uninterrupted sleep.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

The International Space Station resupply mission launched yesterday included a long-awaited fluid dynamics experiment that offers astronauts a taste of home: the ISSpresso espresso machine. Built by two Italian companies, the specially-designed espresso maker contains a non-convectional heating system and high-pressure piping to safely enable proper brewing using real coffee while in microgravity. The machine is also ruggedized to withstand launch forces; prototypes were even dropped in drop towers to simulate microgravity brewing conditions. The machine dispenses the brewed espresso into plastic packets, but another experiment aboard the ISS, Capillary Effects of Drinking in Microgravity, includes 3D-printed cups designed to allow orbiting astronauts to sip their beverages from open containers without spilling. They’re an improvement on a design created by astronaut Don Pettit in 2008 while in orbit. The cup’s sharp interior angle causes surface tension and capillary action to wick liquid upward to the spout. (Image credits: Lavazza; NASA/Portland State University/A. Wollman)

Had to reblog it because I’m a coffee geek.