I enjoying drinking tea, lots of tea every day. I have been adding milk or more recently soy to my tea for longer than I can remember. I also enjoyed Espresso Lattes from time to time and then realized why not combine my two favorites for well you guessed it… A TEA LATTE.

Tea lattes can be made from any kind of tea; black, green, rioboos… and with any kind of milk; cows’, soy, rise, almond… Just experiment a little and you will soon have a new favorite tea beverage.

My instructions for making a tea latte are super easy and do not require any special milk steamer or other expensive equipment. Although making a tea latte with a espresso machine with a good steamer would be great. I think the slight difference in overall taste is negligible considering the cost and convenience difference when making this at home vs. buying out at a coffee/tea place.

Ingredients

1 Tall Glass
2 Tea Bags or enough tea for 2 servings if using loose leaf *I like a good english breakfast tea
Enough Milk to fill 2/3 of your cup
Optionally, any sweetener or flavor syrup if desired

Directions

Hot water – bring your water to a boil, you will need just about a 1/3 of the size of the cup you are using full of hot water.

Tea squared – take your two tea bags/2 tea servings and add them to your hot water. Steep for 3 minutes to allow both tea bags to concentrate. Note you are just taking the normal amount of tea and multiplying by 2 to concentrate the strength.

Milk It – Warm your milk to a temperature that you are comfortable drinking it at. I use a microwave to reheat my drink after I have filled the mug. This saves me having to wash an extra glass. Fill the remaining 2/3 of your glass with your warm milk. Optionally if you have access to a milk steamer you could steam and froth your milk before adding it to the tea.

Enjoy- Ok I guess you really only need 3 steps, but I like the way 4 steps sounds.

Yes, I do like to drink my tea naked. Its’ my house, I do as I want.

My inner geek is showing! A big bad ass bag of updates is coming for the iPhone with this latest OS for the phone. Many of which I have found myself scratching my head wondering why they didn’t offer these to begin with? Well my questions now have answers, below are a couple of highlights that I have been waiting for.

Highlights from iPhone OS 3

• Tethering – been wanting this for ever since that stupid app on iTunes was released then unreleased.
• copy/paste – I’m on my iPhone constantly, writing emails, writing docs, calendar stuff, etc… needed this along time ago.
• video – currently only available for iPhone 3G S, a feature that is much overdue
• landscape keyboard – doesn’t seem that important but it so much more comfortable, feels more natural to hold and type this way
• link opens in new tab – not that big of a deal, but I like to have control of even the smallest most useless feature. Besides I usually have a zillion tabs open in Firefox so this is just natural for me.
• you tube – not really a productivity improvement but I always wanted these improvements; accessing favorites, commenting, rate, etc…
• search – search your email, notes
• stereo bluetooth – another one of those ‘how did this get left out’
• turn by turn directions – I own a Tom Tom GPS, but can’t recall the last time I used. Oh yea, not since I had a map in my pocket in the form of google maps. This makes great sense and is a welcome improvement. Although not an update to the OS I think, more like an App update/feature.

For more on the update for iPhone OS 3, checkout the list over at iSmashphone.com. How to use best 40 features of iphone 3

I wouldn’t mind having something like this at the studio. I might want to upgrade my toilet seat at home too.

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A Japanese coffee company, Georgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. This is probably the most exciting bathroom I’ve ever seen!

found here: divine caroline

NO! Not nude model photography. Nude photographer photography.

These are two videos/scenes that I think of when I am working as a photographer. Note sure why these two scenes always come to mind, but they make me laugh every time.