I just opened a new pack of coffee. I like that – that first whiff of fresh coffee when you open, and then the first few extra fresh cups. One of those things that are, when you think of it, quite nice. But I guess that from a more practical viewpoint it means that I should get that coffee grinder I’ve been thinking about, so I can get my brew as fresh as possible all the time.

Another nice thing is new CDs, especially if they are not only really good, but also just what you’re in the mood for. I wrote about Ane Brun in an earlier entry, and I got the new release Duets in the mail yesterday. I’ll return with a review in a couple of days.

Oh, and relating to the fever dreams I mentioned in the last post, check out Dreamlines. Enter a few keywords, and see the web dream about it. Here’s the “flesh and blog” dream. The creator, Leonardo Solaas, explains the work:

“Who is dreaming? The user, or the Internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken form the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms.”

The abstract image is a snapshot of a dream (click for full view, I didn’t want to lose detail by resizing it)