Awesome Monday Therapy: Coffee-Glazed Doughnuts

Yes, you read that right!

Nerd News: I'd Like a Tall Mocha Frappuccino, No Whip, With a Shot of Arizona State University

Here's the news blurb:

Starbucks Corp. will provide a free, online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University, the company and the university will announce Monday. 

The program is open to any of the company’s 135,000 US employees who work at least 20 hours a week and have the grades and test scores to gain admission to Arizona State. For a barista with at least two years of college credit, the company will pay full tuition; for those with fewer credits it will pay part of the cost. But even for many of them, courses will be free when government and university aid is included.

I expect ed bloggers and commentators to start a firestorm in 3 ... 2... 1 ...

Friday Fun Video: Do You Wanna Go To Starbucks?

Here's a Frozen parody fit for final exam time, fellow coffee addicts!

Monday Therapy: Coffee Plumbing

Worse Than $7 Coffee at Starbucks

Thanks, but no thanks.  And yes, I know all about that civet cat coffee too, and I'm not going for that either.  Ugh.

Monday Therapy: Office Coffee

Ugh, it's Monday. Time to chug a potful of coffee so we can get our work done ... We might as well have some fun with the whole idea of coffee at the office!

Forgotten History: Forbidden Coffee

Did you know that one ruler of 17th century Turkey (Sultan Murad IV) made drinking coffee a capital offense?  Oh, come on.  Coffee is the greatest addiction ever!

 

It's A Good Thing I Love Coffee Because ...

Everything in the future will be a coffee shop.

Breakfast Around the World!

Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day!  Here's a gorgeous photo essay of 50 different delicious breakfasts from around the world.  Add a big steaming cup of coffee or tea, and we are all set.

MM in the Kitchen: Pumpkin Spice Latte

Try a homemade version of Starbucks' fall seasonal drink!

Monday Therapy: Coffee: Greatest Addiction Ever!

Enjoy, gentle reader!  I'm on my second cup of coffee right now as I do research for Nerdpocalypse Now.

I Got Your Apocalypse Right Here: Coffee Prices Hit 34-Year High

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

20 Things More Expensive in 2011

Well, that's just freaking fantastic.  Both coffee and chocolate?  Ugh.  Don't even get me started on the rising costs of health insurance and college tuition. 

What Fresh Hell Is This? Quick! Hide your Irish Coffee! The FDA Is Coming!

Oh, for crying out loud.  Really?   OK, OK, I exaggerate.  But only by a little.

Nerd News: Silly Starbucks Jargon Vs. Picky English Professor

It's hard to pick a "winner" in this smackdown of Who Is More Annoying.  I have to say, though, if you go into a Starbucks, you know that you'll have to use Starbucks jargon for ordering  ... so I have little sympathy for people who go into a Starbucks, refuse to speak Starbucks-ese, and then verbally abuse the barista.  If you don't want to speak the Starbucks lingo, then don't go to a Starbucks, for goodness sake.  Ugh, PEOPLE!

Quote of the Day: Linguistic Lunacy at Starbucks

From Neatorama comes this hilarious observation about the sizes of coffee cups at Satan Coffee:

"Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages."

~ Paul Rudd as Danny Donahue in "Role Models" (2008)

HA!

Killjoy Thermomaniac Watermelons Vs. Coffee

Oh, for crying out loud! My jokes about "Satan Coffee" are JOKES. Of course, Greenies have no sense of humor. Some of them honestly seem to think that coffee is an enviro-sin. A blurb:

Dr Dave Reay, a world-renowned expert on carbon emissions, has calculated that filter coffees pump 50 per cent more carbon into the atmosphere than cheaper instant coffees.

And he says that ditching expensive filter coffees could help reduce your carbon footprint by the same amount as a gas-guzzling flight across Europe.

Dr Reay, a senior lecturer in carbon management at Edinburgh University, claims that the average cup of black filter coffee is responsible for 125 grams of carbon emissions. But the figure for a regular cup of black instant coffee is around 80g.

I have a reply: "YOU FIRST."

As awesome Aussie Tim Blair sarcastically comments about this in context with a bunch of other "do this or the Earth will die!" directives from the enviro-fringe: "Dull lights, slow cars, no meat … and rubbish coffee. Greentopia will be such a fun place to live."

So far this morning, I've already added 250 grams of coffee carbon to the earth, and I'M JUST GETTING STARTED. If loving coffee is wrong, then I don't want to be right. Sure, Greenies, you can have my good coffee ... when you pry it out of my cold, dead hand!

Never gonna give you up,
. . .
Never gonna say goodbye!

Kitchen Notes: 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

Ah, coffee, the Elixir of Life! Take a look at this. The bright, colorful, cartoony graphics alone would be fun.

Coffee Art!

It's fun to see some famous paintings re-created in coffee by artist Karen Eland (her official website). I kind of want to see a coffee version of Munch's "Scream," though! I do give you my favorite selection from the online gallery:

OMG, fresh coffee!

Best Blog Post Title of the Day: "Don't Bring a Knife to a Coffee Fight"

See, coffee IS good for you!