Often, it's just a matter of perspective ( Read more... )

This has made my morning.

Thanks to wirewalking for the link.

Ever notice that the coffeemaker never breaks on a good morning?

On a related note, I have decided that hell is not fire or ice, but rather, eternity in the constant presence of a leafblower, a lawnmower and a hedge trimmer all on at the same time.

No morning should start with the need to untangle a small furry grey creature from a considerably larger, thornier, half dead orange tree. And alas, although this sounds like a great starting point for a fantasy story, in the real world, this was less a start to a tale of magic and adventure and more an unnecessary delay in the coffee making and ( Read more... )

This tragic tale of one woman, one morning, one coffee, and one....other thing truly speaks for itself.

Making coffee is a considerably more efficient process if you turn the coffee maker on.

So Robin Hobb believes that blogging, and specifically Livejournal, turns writers into vampires. Or something like that.The rant may have a point, but I'd counterargue ( Read more... )

I thoroughly approve of this headline:

At Last, a $20,000 cup of coffee. Please, please do not distract me with your petty complaints about how this typifies once again just how out of touch The New York Times is with the rest of the country. (But although I'm not inclined to give any of the media, and especially The New York Times, a break this ( Read more... )

Now this is holiday eating.I'm not sure what my favorite parts of this are: the literally obscene amounts of different meats served in the 17th century (and what exactly are "Powdered Geese"?), the steady rise in the prominence of coffee as an essential part of Christmas (yay!), the description of the 1960s, or the cheerful instructions included in ( Read more... )

Back when I first started working at an office, a long time ago, the coffee procedure went something like this ( Read more... )