stupid SFO
Whoever the fucking asshole silly buttons is who changed out the Starbuck’s kiosk out for that Peet’s shite needs to be removed and quite possibly beaten.
I’m sure I looked like I had Tourettes bitching about it to Tex on my bluetooth headset as I walked all the way across Terminal 3 (twice).
tripleventibrevetepidnofoamlatte
I may need more.
hi from bucky’s and my mylo!
promo deal with Tmobile and sony when you buy one before the end of the year… pretty much you get the mylo for free :). (pretty well makes up for the barista who isn’t ready for primetime and botched my drink. grr.)
CHICAGO: Day 00 (!)
I’m here.
Originally uploaded by fredlet.
At the corner of Clinton and Van Buren in Chicago cooling my dogs after flying all night (and surprisingly, *sleeping* on the plane all through the SAN>>ORD leg in the center seat) then taking the CTA to Union Station-ish area where Amy and I ended up last time we passed through here.
I dub thee MY STARBUCKS! They even got my triplebrevetepidnofoamlatte right.
Hell’s bells.
I was kinda sweating it taking the blue line since I didn’t obsessively plan this trip like the last time I was out here… and I have slept since then so the details didn’t stick too well.
In fact, I’m surprised I am not freaking out right now… could be sleep deprivation, since I didn’t put EVERYTHING into my Treo (though having an unlimited wireless connection helps my Asperger’s more than you’ll ever know) such as the station I should get off of to get to Union Station, the exact name of the hotel (but frankly, I googled it earlier and only found one of that general name, and can google it from the Treo – see? Calming effect.)
One would think that I am calming down, but I think its just that I have found a suitable remedy for my neuroses.
I was walking from the plane to the blue line and was thinking about how other cities *in the U.S.* make me nervous, but other countries don’t.
Haven’t figured that one out yet.
Also haven’t figured out what makes me such a nervous nellie at times and yet, some people tell me I’m very brave… I think I just fake it well.
We shall see.
I’m really looking forward to this weekend. (think JournalCon without those pesky conferences and all the food, drink and more shopping with the same crowd. JournalNon if you will)
I was reading TranceJen’s entry about this weekend and was happy to note that it wasn’t just me who is in a state of awe at the friends I’ve found on teh intarweb. Now I kinda groc the whole letter writing culture of old that has been resurrected in a slightly updated form.
Well, there’s your disjointed entry for this weekend. I’m going to have about 3 hours sleep in the next day (added to the distinct lack of sleep I inflicted on myself by leaving getting ready until almost last minute before I left… (Hey, I think I’ve been kidnapped by aliens and my pod person is a slacker.))
It reminds me of going to Paris and the resultant out of body state I usually have getting used to being at home again in my city and th 9 hour time difference between SFO and CDG.
More later…
Things I have learned today
1. I don’t have a lot of patience right now.
2. when you are being good and drink a lot of water, the universe
rewards you by making you pee every 20 seconds.
3. I’m probably feeling self pitying, but it seemed rather devastating that they didn’t have the fruit and cheese plate at Bucky’s.
Self-heating canned lattes
MakeBlog: Cheap Portable Heating for Projects
Posted by Phillip Torrone on May 14, 2005 at 12:14 AM
Wolfgang Puck is releasing self-heating coffee- can’t wait to pick one up and use it for some projects! It took a California company named OnTech seven years and $24 million to create the self-heating cans, which are activated by pushing a plastic button on the bottom. Water flows into a sealed inner cone filled with quicklime, which is mostly calcium oxide. A chemical reaction heats the coffee to a pleasant 145 degrees in six to eight minutes, the amount of time it might take to order, pay for and receive a latte from a barista.
Link
halfcafgrandebrevetepidnofoamlatte
halfcafgrandebrevetepidnofoamlatte
Originally uploaded by fredlet.
The End of The Universe – Lewis Black Skit! The Proof!
The End of The Universe – Lewis Black Skit! The Proof!
“If you know of another “Starbucks across the street form a Starbucks” please let me know. Provide some proof and I will post it on my website!
isaac.gerg (at) adelphia (dot) net“
Starbucks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Starbucks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Starbucks”
COFFEE MOVIE – L.A. Story
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Guy with neck-support: I’ll have a decaf coffee.
Trudi: I’ll have a decaf espresso.
Movie critic: I’ll have a double decaf cappuccino.
Policeman: Give me decaffeinated coffee ice cream.
Harris (Steve Martin): I’ll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon.
Trudi: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Guy with neck-support: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Movie critic: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Cynthia: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
defective yeti – comment highlights
CoffeclatureI dunno about your town, but here in Seattle people have pretty much invented their own language in regards to their espresso selections. It’s like one of those native Indian languages where, instead of constructing sentences, they instead express complex thoughts by taking a base sound and then modifying it with a series of prefixes and suffixes, so the net result is a single, gargantuan word, spoken in single breath. Seattlites take a root like “mocha” and tack on a bunch of qualifiers to the point where, when asked for their order, they spit out some monstrosity like “triplesoyextrahotmochawithwhip.”
My word is “singletalllatte.” That’s relatively new. Until a few weeks ago my word was “singletalldecaflatte.” But I’ve fallen off the non-caffinated wagon, so the “decaf” prefixed has been dropped.
Well, it’s supposed to be dropped. But that’s the catch: now that I’m readdicted to caffeine, anything I do before my singletalllatte is done in a fog. And very once in a while I’ll accidentally get my old word and my new word mixed up and unknowingly blurt out the wrong one.
It’s basically a crapshoot which of the two words I mutter on any given morning. It’s the worst of both worlds: since I’m again dependant on caffeine, accidentally ordering a decaf leaves me lethargic for the remainder of the morning; since I’m drinking decaf every third day, my caffeine tolerance isn’t rising, and a singletalllatte therefore hits me like a jolt of electricity. And since the two drinks taste the same, I don’t even know what I’m drinking as I stumble back to the office, nursing on my coffee lid teat.
In fact, on a typical day I pretty much have no clue as to what I’ve ingested until 40 minutes later, when, during a meeting with management, I either nod off or leap to my feet and cry “BRING ON THE ACTION ITEMS, BABY! BRING … THEM … ON!”
Posted on March 02, 2005
” Yeah, “coffee lid teat” is going to improve my Starbucks experiences from now on.
Miss Weeze, I’d never heard of infix. I thought it was called tmesis.
When in a coffee joint I usually say, “Smalltea, please.”
“Well, two things: singletalllatte is redundant.Talls have only one shot.
…and if you want decaf, say decaf tall latte. Decaf comes first.
Secondly, to make the whipped at Bucky’s you pump 4 pumps of vanilla syrup in the whipping cream and then charge it in the dispenser. It is sweetened.
And for the record I drink: tripleventibrevetepidnofoamlatte.
Posted by: fredlet on March 4, 2005 11:09 AM “
” Tmesis! I love it. This might be my new domain name.
“Tallbrevenowaterchai.
Kudos to fredlet (whom I suspect is a current or former Starbuckian) for knowing that decaf comes first – unless the drink is iced, in which case iced comes first.
Posted by: Lisa on March 4, 2005 02:23 PM“
” I was behind a woman at Starbucks ordering an incredibly long and detailed drink. After finishing she apologized to the counterperson for having such a complicated order. The counterperson who looked like a sasquatch with a shaved head, piercings and tattoos bellows out for the entire room to hear, ‘NEVER apologize for your drink. You are your drink.’
“If you read down the boxes on the side of a starbucks cup they’re pretty much in the order that you would call them. relatively. nobody get a “talllatte” anymore, apperantly it’s passe- the new drink of the week is a “triplegrandebrevenofoamlatte” or possibly an “icedventihazelnutnowaterristrettoamericanowithtwoinchesofheavycream“.
” Wende, re: coffee to milk ratio, even within the U.S., Coca-Cola now changes its recipe for regional tastes. Or so I have heard from an Atlanta native.
What I cannot believe is that nobody has mentioned this from L.A. Story:
Guy with neck-support: I’ll have a decaf coffee.
Trudi: I’ll have a decaf espresso.
Movie critic: I’ll have a double decaf cappuccino.
Policeman: Give me decaffeinated coffee ice cream.
Harris (Steve Martin): I’ll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf, with a twist of lemon.
Trudi: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Guy with neck-support: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Movie critic: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
Cynthia: I’ll have a twist of lemon.
(Thanks to Seattle-based Amazon for keeping imdb.com alive.)
Bingo “triplecrankypantsespresso” Pajama
P.S. That’s no infix, if anything it’s a run-on adjective string. Even from the given example of an infix, if ‘decaf’ were an infix, then the order would be something like “singletalllatdecafte” or, hey, even “latsingletalldecafte”. :)
Posted by: bingo pajama on March 8, 2005 09:56 AM“
