I hope you aren't referring to that Starbucks piddle. Barely strong enough to leave a ring on the cup. Like making love in a canoe.izzarina wrote:Spoken like a true Seattlite...
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Charbucks... yuck. No, I buy from the Firehouse Coffee Company of Tacoma, WA. My favorite is the Peruvian Café Femenino they sell.djm wrote:I hope you aren't referring to that Starbucks piddle. Barely strong enough to leave a ring on the cup. Like making love in a canoe.izzarina wrote:Spoken like a true Seattlite...
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Well since I live in a virtual coffee wasteland, Charbucks is really the only thing that even remotely good. I used to love to stop at Piccolo's when I would go grocery shopping (that was the one that was outside all of the stores in Olympia at least...they did have a bigger one on a corner in Seattle too. Wow do I miss that!). Although I do get Green Mountain Coffee from time to time from our local co-op. That's pretty good too.jsluder wrote:Charbucks... yuck. No, I buy from the Firehouse Coffee Company of Tacoma, WA. My favorite is the Peruvian Café Femenino they sell.djm wrote:I hope you aren't referring to that Starbucks piddle. Barely strong enough to leave a ring on the cup. Like making love in a canoe.izzarina wrote:Spoken like a true Seattlite...
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You guys going on about coffee. I just can't hack the stuff at all. One cup of coffee and I'm piddling all morning. Maybe after a really good, big meal in a restaurant, a drop of good stuff...but instant coffee? Rat poison!
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
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Speaking of Starbucks and coffee....60 Minutes did an interesting interview with the founder and CEO of Starbucks. A truly interesting fellow. Howard Schultz is his name. Among other fun facts:
They have about 11,000 stores in 37 countries.
They open an average of 5 stores per day.
He also said that Starbucks, worldwide, brews 227 million gallons of beverage per day. I thought about that and wondered if I might have misheard it and so I checked the CBS 60 minutes website and looked at the transcript. Here's the relevant part:
40,000,000 customers a week. Let's say that's evenly distributed across 7 days a week, which it probably isn't. But, let's say.
40,000,000 divided by seven is about 5,700,000 customers per day. I can believe that. BUT....
227,000,000 gallons of beverage per day divided by 5,700,000 customers per day = 40 gallons of coffee per customer per day.
I suspect they misspoke. What if he meant 227,000,000 gallons per week? That would be 227,000,000 gallons per WEEK divided by 40,000,000 cusotmers per week and THAT would be...(click, click, tap, tap)....5.6 gallons of beverage per customer per week. A little less than a gallon a day. Hmmm.
Maybe I forgot to carry the 2 or something.
They have about 11,000 stores in 37 countries.
They open an average of 5 stores per day.
He also said that Starbucks, worldwide, brews 227 million gallons of beverage per day. I thought about that and wondered if I might have misheard it and so I checked the CBS 60 minutes website and looked at the transcript. Here's the relevant part:
Hm. Let's do some math.The company, Schultz says, currently has about 11,000 stores in 37 countries and they are opening an average of five stores per day.
"It's an unbelievable number to me to be honest with you," he says.
There really are Starbucks across the street from each other. They do that to cut down on the lines. Starbucks says it has 40 million customers a week and the company brews 227 million gallons of coffee a day.
40,000,000 customers a week. Let's say that's evenly distributed across 7 days a week, which it probably isn't. But, let's say.
40,000,000 divided by seven is about 5,700,000 customers per day. I can believe that. BUT....
227,000,000 gallons of beverage per day divided by 5,700,000 customers per day = 40 gallons of coffee per customer per day.
I suspect they misspoke. What if he meant 227,000,000 gallons per week? That would be 227,000,000 gallons per WEEK divided by 40,000,000 cusotmers per week and THAT would be...(click, click, tap, tap)....5.6 gallons of beverage per customer per week. A little less than a gallon a day. Hmmm.
Maybe I forgot to carry the 2 or something.
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I saw this (or something like it) in a Shoe cartoon, but it's not far off from what I do.
Cafe au lait from the bachelor chef
1. Punch alarm; get up; start brushing teeth.
2. Get coffee cup out of sink; rinse with hot water from tap; then fill with hot tap water.
3. Open instant coffee and tap some into cup.
4. Stir with end of toothbrush (not the brush end).
5. Get milk out; sniff carton. If it doesn't make you gag, pour some in coffee.
6. If milk comes out in chunks, dump out cup and start over, omitting milk this time.
7. Bon appetit.
Cafe au lait from the bachelor chef
1. Punch alarm; get up; start brushing teeth.
2. Get coffee cup out of sink; rinse with hot water from tap; then fill with hot tap water.
3. Open instant coffee and tap some into cup.
4. Stir with end of toothbrush (not the brush end).
5. Get milk out; sniff carton. If it doesn't make you gag, pour some in coffee.
6. If milk comes out in chunks, dump out cup and start over, omitting milk this time.
7. Bon appetit.
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Did she say it was her own bra or did she say "I'm wearing me shells bra"....? 
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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Here's the last word on dangerous microwave experiments. It contains a long description of the science behind superheated water, etc. Be sure to see the photos of generating a glowing plasma ball and flames from a grape.
UNWISE MICROWAVE OVEN EXPERIMENTS
http://amasci.com/weird/microwave/voltage2.html#map
A look into this guy's mind: (quoted from the site)
During WEIRD GENIUS REAL SCIENCE I tried some extremely pure argon in a spherical glass flask with a tiny piece of aluminum foil as an igniter inside. (The argon used previously had quite a bit of air mixed in.) Hit the button. WAAAA! THE WHOLE GLASS FLASK FILLS WITH BLUE WHITE LIGHTNING! Tiny bright lightning filaments! And afterwards the flask was full of transparent orange gas.
So next, I put a little bit of argon in a white kitchen trash bag, threw in a piece of carbon fiber, then squeezed out the argon (to flush any nitrogen totally out.) Then I filled half the bag with argon, tied it off with a plastic tie, and stuffed it into the oven. Close the door. Hit the start button. Ten seconds of stunning noise, lights, and patterns, and the small audience broke into spontaneous applause, because...
* First the ENTIRE OVEN FILLED WITH JITTERING LIGHTING BOLTS
* Next the bag started melting and collapsing, holes appeared
* The lightning spewed right into the air through the holes as the bag shrunk
* The lightning remaining in the bag turned into bright turquoise plasma
* As the bag entirely collapsed, brilliant plasma amoebas crawled frantically around, burning the bag and finding every last bit of remaining argon.
* Silence. Darkness. The stunned crowd cheers.
UNWISE MICROWAVE OVEN EXPERIMENTS
http://amasci.com/weird/microwave/voltage2.html#map
A look into this guy's mind: (quoted from the site)
During WEIRD GENIUS REAL SCIENCE I tried some extremely pure argon in a spherical glass flask with a tiny piece of aluminum foil as an igniter inside. (The argon used previously had quite a bit of air mixed in.) Hit the button. WAAAA! THE WHOLE GLASS FLASK FILLS WITH BLUE WHITE LIGHTNING! Tiny bright lightning filaments! And afterwards the flask was full of transparent orange gas.
So next, I put a little bit of argon in a white kitchen trash bag, threw in a piece of carbon fiber, then squeezed out the argon (to flush any nitrogen totally out.) Then I filled half the bag with argon, tied it off with a plastic tie, and stuffed it into the oven. Close the door. Hit the start button. Ten seconds of stunning noise, lights, and patterns, and the small audience broke into spontaneous applause, because...
* First the ENTIRE OVEN FILLED WITH JITTERING LIGHTING BOLTS
* Next the bag started melting and collapsing, holes appeared
* The lightning spewed right into the air through the holes as the bag shrunk
* The lightning remaining in the bag turned into bright turquoise plasma
* As the bag entirely collapsed, brilliant plasma amoebas crawled frantically around, burning the bag and finding every last bit of remaining argon.
* Silence. Darkness. The stunned crowd cheers.
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”