Okay has anybody else increased their caffeine intake since Trump was elected, or is that just me?
I had weened myself down to about two cups a day, and now I am back up to four, sometimes five.
So hard to type when the words on the page are doing jumping jacks.
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Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
I'm going to need this mug.
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coffee,
Donald Trump,
Presidency,
Reddit
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Alaskans are rarely on the cutting edge of anything, except coffee consumption apparently.
Courtesy of The Guardian:
You think your Starbucks cold-brew coffee is trendy? People in Anchorage were buying bottled cold brew five years ago. As for your pour-over black cup made with single-origin beans from a small farm in Africa? Yawn. Fairbanks has been doing that since the 1990s.
Little-known fact: Alaska is among the most coffee-obsessed states in the nation. Some years, the coffee-shop-to-human ratio in Anchorage has been higher than Seattle, making it the most caffeinated place in the America (at last count, in 2011, it dropped to number two, with about one coffee shop for every 2,000 souls.)
You cannot escape the coffee carts here, common as roadside moose, each with its unique brand: The Sugar Shack, Java the Hut, Fred’s Bail Bonding and Coffee Cabana. And then, there are the local coffee shops.
Anchorage-based Kaladi Brothers Coffee, the largest among half a dozen serious coffee roasters in the state, roasts 1.2m pounds of beans per year, enough for every man, woman and child in the state to brew at least five pots of strong coffee each. One of the biggest share goes to the oil fields on Alaska’s North Slope, where workers are on 24 hours a day, says Dale Tran, the company’s chief operating officer. Kaladi has 15 stores in Alaska and one in Seattle.
You know I am just happy with any story about Alaska that does not involve a gun death, a serial killer, or somebody being killed and eaten by a bear.
But I am especially happy to read that we were on the cutting edge of something.
And yes the coffee shops in Anchorage started popping up about 40 years ago, and these days you literally cannot travel half a mile in the city without passing at least half a dozen.
Sometimes in the winter the lines outside a coffee hut can be seven to ten cars deep, with another down the road with a line just as long.
Of course what can you expect in state where the winter nights are long and cold?
I am a little sad to say that I personally am not one of the Alaska coffee connoisseurs.
I am just a little too cheap to buy my coffee in a fancy shop, or kiosk along the road.
No I am a home brew man, who typically drinks about two to three cups of regular Folgers blend with a little Truvia and vanilla flavored non-dairy creamer added to fancy it up a bit.
But once in a while I do splurge and treat myself to a large Cafe Mocha.
Because after all, the winter nights are long and cold.
You think your Starbucks cold-brew coffee is trendy? People in Anchorage were buying bottled cold brew five years ago. As for your pour-over black cup made with single-origin beans from a small farm in Africa? Yawn. Fairbanks has been doing that since the 1990s.
Little-known fact: Alaska is among the most coffee-obsessed states in the nation. Some years, the coffee-shop-to-human ratio in Anchorage has been higher than Seattle, making it the most caffeinated place in the America (at last count, in 2011, it dropped to number two, with about one coffee shop for every 2,000 souls.)
You cannot escape the coffee carts here, common as roadside moose, each with its unique brand: The Sugar Shack, Java the Hut, Fred’s Bail Bonding and Coffee Cabana. And then, there are the local coffee shops.
Anchorage-based Kaladi Brothers Coffee, the largest among half a dozen serious coffee roasters in the state, roasts 1.2m pounds of beans per year, enough for every man, woman and child in the state to brew at least five pots of strong coffee each. One of the biggest share goes to the oil fields on Alaska’s North Slope, where workers are on 24 hours a day, says Dale Tran, the company’s chief operating officer. Kaladi has 15 stores in Alaska and one in Seattle.
You know I am just happy with any story about Alaska that does not involve a gun death, a serial killer, or somebody being killed and eaten by a bear.
But I am especially happy to read that we were on the cutting edge of something.
And yes the coffee shops in Anchorage started popping up about 40 years ago, and these days you literally cannot travel half a mile in the city without passing at least half a dozen.
Sometimes in the winter the lines outside a coffee hut can be seven to ten cars deep, with another down the road with a line just as long.
Of course what can you expect in state where the winter nights are long and cold?
I am a little sad to say that I personally am not one of the Alaska coffee connoisseurs.
I am just a little too cheap to buy my coffee in a fancy shop, or kiosk along the road.
No I am a home brew man, who typically drinks about two to three cups of regular Folgers blend with a little Truvia and vanilla flavored non-dairy creamer added to fancy it up a bit.
But once in a while I do splurge and treat myself to a large Cafe Mocha.
Because after all, the winter nights are long and cold.
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Alaska,
Anchorage,
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Starbucks
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Just a selfie with a bunch of baristas.
Our first selfie President strikes again.
For those wanting to know this was apparently taken at a place called Charmington's in Baltimore.
Gee, it's just too bad that Obama is so aloof and unfriendly right?
Well that's how the Right Wing media describes him at least.
For those wanting to know this was apparently taken at a place called Charmington's in Baltimore.
Gee, it's just too bad that Obama is so aloof and unfriendly right?
Well that's how the Right Wing media describes him at least.
Labels:
coffee,
Maryland,
people,
President Obama,
selfies
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
How I start every morning.
Labels:
coffee,
comics,
iinspiration,
work
Thursday, September 18, 2014
A little behind the scenes info for visitors to IM.
The other day somebody was asking if there was an alert to let people know when I am about to put up a new post.
Simply put, nuh uh.
However I am nothing if not a creature of habit. And if you have been paying attention you should have recognized a rather obvious pattern.
I almost always put up seven posts a day. (Occasionally that number drops by one or two, but that is the exception to the rule.)
Before I go to bed at night I write three robo-posts that will publish while I am in La La Land. One at 2 AM, one at 4 AM, and one around 6 AM. (Though I am usually awake before this last one hits the internet.)
I also have my I-Pad on the bed next to me, like a totally non-cuddly teddy bear, so if you see that comments have been published in the middle of the night that is often because I had to get up and pee, or had that nightmare where a hairless, floppy breasted, Sarah Palin tries to seduce me again. ("Oh God, oh God, make it stop!")
When I finally do wake up, which is usually around five, I immediately stumble into my office and fire up the old computer and then continue upstairs to start my morning coffee. (It's a bitch when I get these two confused.)
After that I come back downstairs, where I sit at my desk and peer through my bleary bloodshot eyes at the monitor to start sorting through the comments that I did not get through the night before.
After I have finished that I stumble back upstairs, often tripping over my daughter's dog, and then get a cup of piping hot inspiration juice.
Back downstairs and the day officially begins.
I also have an actual job so that is often what I work on for the majority of the morning, but I do like to type another post before 9:00 AM my time. (I also fit in an hour and a half or two hour workout in there as well at least five days a week.)
My usual modus operandi is to put up a post every two, two and half, or three hours.
Usually that goes something like this:
2 AM Alaska time (6:00 AM EST)
4 AM Alaska time (8:00 AM EST)
6:15 AM Alaska time (10:15 EST)
9 AM Alaska time ( 1:00 PM EST)
12 PM Alaska time (4:00 PM EST)
2:30 PM Alaska time (6:30 PM EST)
4:30 PM Alaska time (8:30 PM EST)
If you go back several days you will see that I adhere to this schedule almost religiously.
Now what this does not take into account are stories that break during the day which require an immediate response, updates to posted stories as new information becomes available, and of course comments that arrive any damn time they want which add interesting details or clarification to a post.
So hopefully this will be of some use for those who are worried that they are going to miss anything earth shattering.
However this does NOT mean you should stop obsessively checking IM every five minutes. Because then I'll start to miss you, and that's not good.
Simply put, nuh uh.
However I am nothing if not a creature of habit. And if you have been paying attention you should have recognized a rather obvious pattern.
I almost always put up seven posts a day. (Occasionally that number drops by one or two, but that is the exception to the rule.)
Before I go to bed at night I write three robo-posts that will publish while I am in La La Land. One at 2 AM, one at 4 AM, and one around 6 AM. (Though I am usually awake before this last one hits the internet.)
I also have my I-Pad on the bed next to me, like a totally non-cuddly teddy bear, so if you see that comments have been published in the middle of the night that is often because I had to get up and pee, or had that nightmare where a hairless, floppy breasted, Sarah Palin tries to seduce me again. ("Oh God, oh God, make it stop!")
When I finally do wake up, which is usually around five, I immediately stumble into my office and fire up the old computer and then continue upstairs to start my morning coffee. (It's a bitch when I get these two confused.)
After that I come back downstairs, where I sit at my desk and peer through my bleary bloodshot eyes at the monitor to start sorting through the comments that I did not get through the night before.
After I have finished that I stumble back upstairs, often tripping over my daughter's dog, and then get a cup of piping hot inspiration juice.
Back downstairs and the day officially begins.
I also have an actual job so that is often what I work on for the majority of the morning, but I do like to type another post before 9:00 AM my time. (I also fit in an hour and a half or two hour workout in there as well at least five days a week.)
My usual modus operandi is to put up a post every two, two and half, or three hours.
Usually that goes something like this:
2 AM Alaska time (6:00 AM EST)
4 AM Alaska time (8:00 AM EST)
6:15 AM Alaska time (10:15 EST)
9 AM Alaska time ( 1:00 PM EST)
12 PM Alaska time (4:00 PM EST)
2:30 PM Alaska time (6:30 PM EST)
4:30 PM Alaska time (8:30 PM EST)
If you go back several days you will see that I adhere to this schedule almost religiously.
Now what this does not take into account are stories that break during the day which require an immediate response, updates to posted stories as new information becomes available, and of course comments that arrive any damn time they want which add interesting details or clarification to a post.
So hopefully this will be of some use for those who are worried that they are going to miss anything earth shattering.
However this does NOT mean you should stop obsessively checking IM every five minutes. Because then I'll start to miss you, and that's not good.
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Now for something completely different. Tell me, how many of you would NOT be freaked out by this.
This video has been everywhere on the internet the last couple of days, and I have to admit I have watched it more than a few times.
I pride myself on being a born skeptic who is hard to fool, but I would be lying if I did not say that if I was in the coffee shop and saw this happen I would not, at least temporarily, be convinced that it was real.
By the way I am huge Stephen King fan and loved "Carrie," both the book and movie, and will probably watch the new one as well.
Still seeing that in person would certainly have raised my heart rate more than any silly movie.
I pride myself on being a born skeptic who is hard to fool, but I would be lying if I did not say that if I was in the coffee shop and saw this happen I would not, at least temporarily, be convinced that it was real.
By the way I am huge Stephen King fan and loved "Carrie," both the book and movie, and will probably watch the new one as well.
Still seeing that in person would certainly have raised my heart rate more than any silly movie.
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Friday, August 09, 2013
Gun nuts to celebrate their insecurities by strapping on handguns and going out for coffee for a national “Starbucks Appreciation Day.” Highly caffeinated armed cowards crowded into a tiny coffee shop, what could possibly go wrong?
Courtesy of The Washington Times:
Starbucks seems an unlikely dueling ground in the national debate over guns, but the ubiquitous coffee chain Friday will once again find itself squarely in the cross hairs in the battle between gun control and gun rights advocates.
More than 2,000 gun rights activists plan to visit their local Starbucks with their sidearms for a national “Starbucks Appreciation Day.”
The Seattle-based chain takes no formal position on guns but has a corporate policy of following applicable state gun laws — including “open carry” laws in more than 40 states that allow permit-holding patrons to bring their loaded weapons into the shop while they sip their lattes and caramel macchiatos.
Gun owners began staging the appreciation days a few years ago when the company faced pressure from gun control advocates to ban firearms from his stores.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz resisted the move, saying in one interview, “I’m not a politician. I run a coffee company and we’re trying to abide by the laws in which we do business.”
Seriously why don't these assholes just where t-shirts that declare "I am afraid of everything?" After all what else can it mean to walk around the streets of a city with a weapon strapped to your hip all of the time?
Then of course there is the blatant insensitivity to other people who might want to enjoy a coffee as well.
Plans for a pro-gun display at the Newtown Starbucks has added another layer of tension to the day.
“Our community is still healing and we find it reprehensible that they are picking Newtown to rally,” David Ackert, spokesman for the Newtown Action Alliance, said in a statement. “It is disturbing to think that tomorrow night you and your children may be sitting in Starbucks when people carrying guns walk through the door.”
Personally I avoid Starbucks, as I make a fine cup of joe all by myself, but I have to say that if I did want an espresso and entered a store full of Rambo cos players I would walk out and never set foot in the place again.
But hey that's just me. You know, a sane person.
Gee I wonder if this guy will show up?
Seems like he would fit right in.
Starbucks seems an unlikely dueling ground in the national debate over guns, but the ubiquitous coffee chain Friday will once again find itself squarely in the cross hairs in the battle between gun control and gun rights advocates.
More than 2,000 gun rights activists plan to visit their local Starbucks with their sidearms for a national “Starbucks Appreciation Day.”
The Seattle-based chain takes no formal position on guns but has a corporate policy of following applicable state gun laws — including “open carry” laws in more than 40 states that allow permit-holding patrons to bring their loaded weapons into the shop while they sip their lattes and caramel macchiatos.
Gun owners began staging the appreciation days a few years ago when the company faced pressure from gun control advocates to ban firearms from his stores.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz resisted the move, saying in one interview, “I’m not a politician. I run a coffee company and we’re trying to abide by the laws in which we do business.”
Seriously why don't these assholes just where t-shirts that declare "I am afraid of everything?" After all what else can it mean to walk around the streets of a city with a weapon strapped to your hip all of the time?
Then of course there is the blatant insensitivity to other people who might want to enjoy a coffee as well.
Plans for a pro-gun display at the Newtown Starbucks has added another layer of tension to the day.
“Our community is still healing and we find it reprehensible that they are picking Newtown to rally,” David Ackert, spokesman for the Newtown Action Alliance, said in a statement. “It is disturbing to think that tomorrow night you and your children may be sitting in Starbucks when people carrying guns walk through the door.”
Personally I avoid Starbucks, as I make a fine cup of joe all by myself, but I have to say that if I did want an espresso and entered a store full of Rambo cos players I would walk out and never set foot in the place again.
But hey that's just me. You know, a sane person.
Gee I wonder if this guy will show up?
Seems like he would fit right in.
Labels:
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coffee,
compensating,
gun nuts,
protesters,
Seattle,
Starbucks
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Something you should keep in mind if you wish to engage me in morning conversation.
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coffee,
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picture
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Good news for my skin and I.
The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation, according to a team of researchers at Rutgers University.
Those of you who frequent this site might remember that I had an ugly mole removed to have it tested for skin cancer. It turned out to be nothing but an ugly mole.
However if I would have read this article I might have been able to just skip that doctor's visit.
I have just two compulsions. One is working out, which I do at least four to five days a week, and the other is drinking coffee, which I do pretty much all day.
So my chances of getting skin cancer are pretty damn slim.
P.S. Actually I probably would have had that mole removed anyhow, it was after all pretty ugly.
P.S.S. Other things for which I have a compulsion but which did not fit with the spirit of this post are:
Those of you who frequent this site might remember that I had an ugly mole removed to have it tested for skin cancer. It turned out to be nothing but an ugly mole.
However if I would have read this article I might have been able to just skip that doctor's visit.
I have just two compulsions. One is working out, which I do at least four to five days a week, and the other is drinking coffee, which I do pretty much all day.
So my chances of getting skin cancer are pretty damn slim.
P.S. Actually I probably would have had that mole removed anyhow, it was after all pretty ugly.
P.S.S. Other things for which I have a compulsion but which did not fit with the spirit of this post are:
- Surfing the internet for things to blog about.
- Blogging.
- Going to the movies.
- Reading about martial arts history.
- Practicing the Martial Arts.
- Studying the history of various religious beliefs.
- Arguing about religious beliefs.
Just thought I should come clean about things.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
I may have to start drinking Starbucks coffee.
An Ohio woman is steaming after reading an anti-God message published on the side of a Starbucks coffee cup.
The message that got Michelle Incanno's blood boiling reads:
"Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure."
Sounds like a reasonable question to me. Now who would not welcome an opportunity to once again ponder one of the greatest of questions to confront mankind?
Oh yeah, a religious person.
The message that got Michelle Incanno's blood boiling reads:
"Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive beings, why would we ask something that may well be a figment of our imaginations for guidance? Why not search inside ourselves for the power to overcome? After all, we are strong enough to cause most of the catastrophes we need to endure."
Sounds like a reasonable question to me. Now who would not welcome an opportunity to once again ponder one of the greatest of questions to confront mankind?
Oh yeah, a religious person.
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