Tag Archives: coffee

Jun28

coffee talk.

Posted on June 28, 2018 by beth

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nothing like waking up early

sipping a warm cup of strong coffee

chewing on something that seems like a berry

your brain catching up

and wondering

why there is a berry in your cup

because you don’t normally

add berries to your coffee

and you spit it out

only to discover

that it was really a random giant ant not a berry

who climbed into your cup

in the time it took you to walk out of the room and back

and you have unwittingly shared your coffee with him

and he, with you.

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“it is not enough to be busy. so are the ants. the question is: what are we busy about?”

-henry david thoreau

Mar21

lukewarm.

Posted on March 21, 2017 by beth

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how excited was i

when i discovered

that my local mcdonald’s

chose to give me this special cup?!

what a statement this was

what a compliment

they must have been waiting

for just the right customer to come along

this lid was like a badge of honor

clearly written in two languages

for all the world to see

i carried it with pride

as i went to add my cream

and it was then

that i noticed

that it had come from

a huge sleeve of coffee cup lids

all carrying the exact same message.

clearly written

in two languages.

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“when you’re hot, you’re hot; when you’re not, you’re not.”

-flip wilson

Oct11

a watched pot.

Posted on October 11, 2016 by beth

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the trojan room coffee pot – action shot

the trojan room coffee pot was a coffee machine located next to the old computer lab of the university of cambridge, england, which in 1991 provided the inspiration for the world’s first webcam.

to save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty, after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up, providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network. after the camera was connected to the internet, a few years later, the coffee pot gained international notoriety as a feature of the fledging world wide web, until it was retired in 2001.

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“a watched pot never boils…. but it does develop paranoia”

― josh stern

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credits: cambridge university

Nov10

woke up and didn’t smell the coffee.

Posted on November 10, 2015 by beth

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“when things go wrong don’t go with them”
– elvis presley

Nov3

life is too short for traffic. ~dan bellack

Posted on November 3, 2015 by beth

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there is something wrong with this.

it’s like starting out your journey

by surrendering to the inevitable traffic jam,

knowing you’ll be frustrated and angry.

what about making

a tiny carry-out espresso cup

instead

that reads:

“just a quick shot to enjoy

as we’re sure you will

soon be arriving

at your destination?”

i could really go for that.

Oct27

i like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. – lewis black

Posted on October 27, 2015 by beth

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young dick cheney, it seems, did not look kindly upon coffee addictions. when he was deputy chief of staff in gerald ford’s white house, the future vice president sent a terse memo regarding donald rumsfeld’s coffee consumption. in september 1975, the then-chief of staff had spent more than $100 on coffee in a month—adjusted for inflation, about $450 in 2015 dollars. and it appears this wasn’t the first time.

“can you please tell me what’s going on?” a 34-year-old cheney wrote to staff secretary jim connor. rumsfeld’s nine-person staff (and their guests) had consumed a whopping 200 pots of coffee—about 50 pots per week. in a handwritten note, connor laid out the facts: “they are drinking too much coffee and have too many people drinking it!”

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credits: gerald ford presidential library, mental floss magazine