celebrate national coffee day with a big cup of joe.
i celebrate each and every day
at least once.
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‘coffee is a language in itself.’
-jackie chan
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image credit: glam o rama
Sep29
Tag Archives: coffee
Jun28
coffee talk.
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.
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.
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.
“when things go wrong don’t go with them”
– elvis presley
Nov3
life is too short for traffic. ~dan bellack
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
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
Nov28
what do you get when an apple and cup of coffee cross paths?
when you mix these
two wonderful things
in a way
they weren’t meant to
sometimes you get this
or sometimes
your computer
doesn’t
work quite right
and you hope
for a miraculous
apple recovery
Nov22
black hawk down.
if you see mt. fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on new year’s day,
you will be forever blessed.
-japanese proverb
or
if you go
to your middle daughter’s house
(one of the infamous h’s)
for coffee
and see a
beautiful and wounded
black hawk
walking around the back yard
and it turns into
a
rescue adventure
and the
emergency animal squad
shows up
within minutes
to help save him
and
restore him to good health
then your new proverb would be
‘if you see a pond, a hawk with a broken wing and a cappucino
on a random sunday,
you will be forever blessed.’
and then
you will have your coffee
and wonder
if that just really happened
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image credit: coyotehills.com
Sep30
i have measured out my life with coffee spoons. – t. s. eliot
found out
i missed
national coffee day
yesterday
this
calls for
a
double celebration
today
I didn't have my glasses on.... 