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Don’t really need to explain this, do we?
Via Core77 and LuxuryLaunches
Technorati Tags: Excess,San francisco,Stupidity
I am often chided for my 5-shot, Venti Latte.
Then I saw this.
Yup, it’s a “a 13 shot Venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel”.
Lord help this person when they wake up in the alley behind Starbucks on Christmas Day.
Original image from Core77.
Technorati Tags: Starbucks,Core77,coffee,excess
In: Work
20 Apr 2007I’ll be in Tucson for work next all next week, staying at the supposedly luxurious Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
Tags: Work, Loews Hotels, Ventana Canyon, Tucson
In: Life
25 Dec 2006Have I told you why I love my wife?
For Christmas, she bought me The Complete Calvin and Hobbes.
Swooooonnn!
Oh, and there were some other presents as well.
Technorati Tags: Calvin+and+Hobbes, calvin, hobbes, calvin+hobbes
In: RANTING
24 Dec 2006…at a ski resort in Idaho. [here]
Anyone else see this as ironic?
In: Life
12 Dec 2006Over the last two years, Fisher Space Pans have taken on near iconic status with the leaders (and followers) in the trendy nouveau geek crowd.
Paul Fisher died recently at 93. [via Notebookism]
Having “donated” four space pens to the cosmos through my own absent-minded behaviour, I can say that I have done my bit to help [...]
A little-used or discussed feature of PHP is the ability to compress output from the scripts using GZIP for more efficient transfer to requesting clients. By automatically detecting the ability of the requesting clients to accept and interpret GZIP encoded HTML, PHP4 can decrease the size of files transferred to the client by 60% to [...]
In: Notebook Lust
26 Aug 2006Alan at MREater hit the jackpot when he gave a supply sergeant a lift.
As a bonus he got a Fisher Space Pen. And of course…
It’s the perfect companion to the “Rite in the Rain†All-Weather Field Book the soldier also gave to me. Nothing like a friendly supply sergeant. The Field Book has paper “created [...]
In: Life| Notebook Lust
25 Aug 2006I wandered around the net today, linking random connections together. Richard Thompson, John Martyn, Nick Drake.
When I visited Nick Drake’s official site (sadly out of date) I found this lovely image dominating the front page.
A lovely, weathered, black leather notebook.
Nick Drake strikes me as a person that is a lot like I could have been. [...]
In: Blogging| Life| Notebook Lust| Technology| Work| smp
22 Aug 2006The last 4 weeks have been extremely traumatic for me. It has culminated in an extended period of renewal, reflection and rejuvenation, where I have looked back over the last 15 years of my life and asked, “What next?”.
An interesting note on the word rejuvenation: it means to reclaim your childlike state (ok, I’m playing [...]