Logbook: WTF!?
Just what you’ve always wanted with your coffee, printing! wait.. what?!
This is one of those things that keep you up at night.. how do i print on my coffee? Alrighty than… although the uses can be fun , hand your boss a coffee/latte that has a personalized message. just be sure to have your desk prepacked before you do so.
Anyways Onward to the video…….
Apparently from Oleksiy Pikalo page, he wanted to create a machine to create art on his lattes, hey you cant knock it.. just think of the fun you could have with this…
Long time ago, I saw a great video about “Latte Art”, and figured that I absolutely must build a machine capable of printing the most beautiful art on top of my latte. So I bought a used x-y flatbed plotter (Philips 8155) on eBay and a great book by Matt Gilliland, titled “Inkjet Applications”. I put the two together, to get this nice Latte Art Printing Machine
If your the industrious type you too can make a coffee printer too..
the instructions are listed on the site to make your own… as for me thats definitely something I’d have some fun with.
Logitech G7 reloaded… ftw
looking back I first posted about the logitech G7 mouse in one of the very first posts to this site.
Ever since logitech came out with its first ergonomic keyboards I jumped ship from microsofts Ergo keyboards because they kept shrinking the keys. back in 1997 i had the mouseman pro, ever since than i’ve kinda stuck with logitech.
Well since the MX1000 i’ve had a small problem that crops up after while of using the mouse which the left click decides to start failing, if you read the original post you can see that a left click acts like a double click no matter how tactful you are with the mouse. after getting fully annoyed at the G7 i purchased another one at Circuit City and started to use that one. same problem cropped up . so getting a little sick of going through mice so fast i finally decided to talk to logitech about it.
Finding the receipt for one mouse came about quickly but as for the second mouse , that is more of an issue , so logitech so far has replaced one G7 with short notice and thankfully quickly. because the temp mouse i had was starting to make me go blind. It has a Blue LED you could use to grow plants with.
After searching this page i came up with the date i had bought my original G7 , i dont know if that will help with the RMA , maybe it will maybe it wont
we shall see….
Computing at starbucks..
Gotta love improv everywhere for all the silly weird shit they do,
“For our latest mission, three agents entered a Starbucks one by one with their own giant desktop computer and CRT monitor. They bought coffee and worked at their computers as if they were laptops. One computer even had a Wi-Fi card installed, enabling our agent to surf the web. ”
GooTube test post.
just testing if youtube is embedable.
Supposedly Offensive Coffee…?
Apparently Starbucks coffee has a “new” fat free / sugar free coffee drink. its called “skinny”.. People are calling this “offensive” and “politically incorrect”, wow… just wow… what the hell, we all know starbucks has there made up language with goofy ass coffee names. To me, Offensive coffee is bad coffee.
Anyways from this article at MSN money people are making a shitstorm outta there new coffee type.
it starts out as
| “Shortly after Starbucks (SBUX, news, msgs) launched its new woman-centric “skinny latte” advertising campaign in January, the blogosphere erupted in criticism –- and some praise.” |
personally I cant see how this new coffee or a single word can cause all this. But we live in the fucked up world where christmas lights can be labeled as politically incorrect.
I am not so much a starbucks person, I dont like them, theres just too many intricacies in ordering a regular coffee there. Pseudo language skills should not have a place in ordering a coffee.
I walked into a starbucks once and ordered a coffee – It went like this.
Worker(no I will not call the workers a “barista” (translation: barman barmaid -if Starbucks starts offering beer i will call them that”)):Hi How may I help you today
Me: I would like a large coffee, Milk with extra sugar
W: So you would like a Venti with Milk and sugar ( that half assed helpful tone of voice to correct me as if i had said something wrong)
Me: Large coffee , milk with extra sugar
W: *he goes to correct again*
Me: fuck it im going to dunkin donuts
Anyways enough about the language barrier of starbucks.
I hardly see the offense in calling it a “skinny latte” or whatever. The usage of the word has been around far before starbucks has made use of this term. This who thing about people getting there undies in a knot over this is fucking funny in one way. its the ultra politically correct trying to make something from nothing. if you actually take the time to look skinny has been in use WAAAAAAAAY before they made this that page is from 1999 (Jan 9, 1999 from wayback machine)
I could see it being offending if they called it the “Your a fat hose beast coffee” personally I like that name better.
or the “hey fatty whatcha drinking latte”
I mean really , Are they going to next say extra large shirts are offensive……. now that i think about it , have you ever seen a fat person in a starbucks, I’ve not seen that?
So whats the next step the NBA being offended at starbucks because there “tall” coffee is actually a small?
Man people are so superficial and vain.
As for me I’ll be having my coffee from honey dew donuts.
Dunkin Donuts spreading coffee around the world… scary thought.
Apparently dunkin donuts is going to china, they plan on opening 100 shops in Shanghai. I used to like Dunkin a very long time ago, until they business formula change and they pretty much just hired robot tending zombies and could not get a coffee right to save there lives. Many nights of getting coffees from Dunkin Donuts that just have gone wrong with coffee that you could either run in terror from or made so wrong that carrot top looks normal. they have gone the way of mcdonalds, Serving warmed shit(although mcdonalds gets an exception- you need to goto Sweden to actually get a burger that is edible compared to its US counterpart). Mostly my friends and I goto honey dew donuts, there you get people who know what you want before asking rather than the blank look you’d get going into a DD. So who knows.. MAYBE just maybe good coffee is out of the country but the judge is out on this one.
buwahahaha .. Dunkin Donuts recall.
Last year Honey dew had a promotion with glow sticks. dunkin donuts decided to copy honey dew and fucked up in the process.
| Dunkin’ Donuts Announces Withdrawal of Glow Sticks
CANTON, Mass. (October 5, 2007) Dunkin’ Donuts distributed the glow sticks free with every purchase Consumers who have received a glow stick should take them away from ### Contact: |
wow What a promotion .. honey dew gives out the stick for FREE
Social Security …my take on it…
| Bush Admin. Urges Social Security Fix
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER – 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said in a new report A report issued by the Treasury Department said that some |
ahhh social security, How do i know thee. since the 2nd term of George W., He’s had his eye on this issue, but was not able to mess with the system *yet* for the people who stand to make money off it. And right off in starting with this article they are already messing with average joe. “the Shortfall in the coming years.” ? coming years? well fuck whens that? did someone contact the physic network on this one? Maybe next leap year on a full moon with bill clinton playing the sax to the great pumpkin. Magic 8-ball, *Reply hazy, ask again later* (which means yes to certain people.) anyways…
From the department of oh noes
Just an article from Dslreports other news sources are reporting this as well but i figures i’d work from this one.
Wi-Fi Health Weirdness Continues
The German Wi-Fi ban that wasn’t…
06:30PM Monday Sep 10 2007 by Karl
tags: wireless·Oddities
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There’s been no solid scientific evidence that Wi-Fi is a health hazard, but that hasn’t stopped a parade of people from trying to stop Wi-Fi deployment, usually based on absolutely no evidence of any kind. In the U.S., teachers have sued schools to derail installs, while angel guidance consultants have launched campaigns against Wi-Fi in their free time.
3 days in French hell… A multi-country epic tale (part 3)
Paris International Airport – 12:20am
Heading back to the hotel no food, no place to stay , i head to where the US airways desk will open up in 8 hours, and just sit there, nothing i can do , at this point anger is over me. panic is over me. nothing i can do .
Total Delay so far – 18 hours
Total time spent awake – 47 hours
Amount of Euros on my person – 105€
Amount of Euros able to be spent – 0€
Tempature on day 1 – 93f
Tempature on day 2 – 91f
Tempature on day 3 – 85f high humidity