I had a 24oz. (I actually asked for a Venti-sized coffee, and the cashier was all, “you know that's 24 ounces, right?”) iced-coffee this morning, and now everything on the internet seems AWESOME:

This dude tricks a 419 scammer into carving a Commodore 64 out of wood!

These Swedes will insure pirates from RIAA attacks for the low price of $19/ ( Read more... )

When I first started ordering coffee from Starbucks, I refused to go by their “Short*”/“Tall”/“Grande”/“Venti” classifications. I couldn't stand the pretension of having cup sizes in another language. And I was downright offended by “Venti”, which they went so far as to trademark (even though it's just Italian for “twenty” (as in 20oz (except in ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw The Starbucks Challenge: Starbucks promises to brew a cup of Fair Trade coffee when asked... for the same price as their standard cup.

This appeals to me, so today I went in to the store by my office and asked for a cup. Immediately the guy offered to press me one, but said it'd be four minutes. Sure! It's not like I was in any ( Read more... )

On the way back from seeing Casa de Los Babys this afternoon, Leah and I detoured to get a coffee from 71 Irving Place. But we couldn't. Because HBO was filming Sex and the City directly outside it. Neat, huh?

Oh, the movie was okay. I liked it more than Leah, but like many of John Sayles' films, it was kind of unsatisfying ( Read more... )