The company that made my titanium wedding ring now makes tungsten rings. Very cool.

The Deadprogrammer Drinking Game.

Drink one shot when:
* There is a picture with a blurry yellow cab in the background
* There is a picture of a NYC landmark
* I obsess about titanium
* I post a poll and it's filled out by 5 and a half people (out of a hundred + "friends")
* I write about Nathan's Famous, iXL or working as an elevator operator
* There is a Simpsons reference
* I make a list (drink now)
* The article is recursive (ditto)
* I post a "howto" article about something that is probably useful, but too weird to try
* I recommend a book
* I recommend a livejournal user or community
* I mention
* There is a spelling or grammar error
* I write about NYPD
* There is an absolete technology article

Drink two shots when:
* I am pissed off (or piss off) very smart people from
* I gripe about espresso quality in NYC
* There is a post with more than 5 comments

Drink three shots when:
* It's an article written during lunchtime

Chug when:
* The lunchtime article is written around 5PM

My Titanium fetish is well documented in my journal. Well, here's more titanium stuff:

There's this guy on an island off the coast of Canada who makes the best espresso machine tampers. A tamper is a little plunger that is used to pack coffee ground into a portafilter. Tamping is one of the most critical stages in making espresso. It's almost impossible to get good espresso without proper tamping. In fact, I've never seen a barrista in New York do a proper tamp. The one reason why Starbucks coffee became more drinkable is because they use automatic machines these days that tamp the grounds themselves.

I don't own a Reg Barber tamper because I already had and Ergo Packer, which is also very finely made and instead of having a flat bottom like all other professional tampers or rounded bottom like all the crappy ones, it has a very slightly curved one. "Very scientific!" would cry characters from this novel.

Anyway. Reg finally made a small batch of titanium tampers. Gotta get one.

Moving on. In the book "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed", Ben Rich mentioned a special set of titanium shot glasses that his boss used for drinking with the generals. You see, the awesom SR-71 Blackbird was the first plane made entirely out of titanium. I wonder who has those glasses now.

But these guys have excruciatingly pretty titanium stuff. Sake cups, mugs, beer glasses - all made out of titanium. Jewelry is also very nice.

They can even make a street sign out of titanium for ya.

You know, I don't want a 1958 Plymouth Fury anymore. I don't even want a 1948 Tucker Torpedo. All I want is a 1956 GM Firebird II, the first titanium body car with a gas turbine engine. Is that too much to ask for?