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Category: Coffee

Tweets from 2010-10-06

  • Felt off at karate last night – stiff, more flailing than fighting. I did learn half of my next kata, though, so that was good. #
  • Today, comic books, BP check, pick out new glasses, and school dinner at Pasquini's (yum). Wow, that sounds very pedestrian. #
  • In honor of this afternoon's blood pressure check, I'm seeing how things go today sans caffeine. #
  • Long, tired Wednesday. Wonder what the chances are I'll get to bed at a decent hour tonight? #
  • Bother. BP still highish. #
  • Pasqini's Lone Tree is as good as I remember the 17th St shop as being, but the service was hectic, slow. We'll give it another chance, tho. #

Tweets from 2010-09-16

  • Daytime temps may still be a toasty mid-80s, but morning standing-on-breezy-rail-platfom temps are actually … chilly? #autumn #
  • Upon consideration, perhaps we do actually need education. The thought control thing is still a bit dodgy, though. #rockretractions #
  • Tried to go back to the USSR, but the travel agent just looked at me blankly. #rockretractions #
  • Unfortunately, the sure lady overextended her credit and defaulted on the stairway to heaven. Bank owns it now. #rockretractions #
  • Whew! Fever has dropped from 103 to only 99.2. Thank God for ibuprofin. Back to being only warm-blooded. #rockretractions #
  • And now (as a non-spoof post) to take some aspirin for this sinus headache. #
  • Significant amounts of caffeine seem to have eased the sinus headache some, thankfully. #
  • Wow. Really getting tired of force-reboot downloads IT is pushing to desktop overnight and at lunch. Really tired. #
  • Sinuses still playing merry hob with my skull. No karate for me tonight, dagnabbit. #
  • Kitten finally finished "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." She seems equal parts pleased and relieved. #

Unblogged Bits (Tue. 29-Jun-10 2000)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. 8 Countries With Fascinating Baby Naming Laws – There are times when I look at these restrictions and say, “That really seems like an unreasonable restriction on personal liberty.” Then I look at some of the names that were rejected and realize there are likely kids in the US who are saddled with those monikers.
  2. 5 Exciting Changes Coming to Firefox 4 | Geek Technica
  3. California lawmakers consider license plates that flash ads | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times – This is such an awful, dangerous, and goofy idea from so many angles, it’s hard to think of just one to point out — except to say that if you believe the state’s wireless license plate network will not be frequently (let alone never) hacked, you are living in someplace even zanier than California.
  4. McDonald’s Wants You To Come In For A Drink – To quote George: “By God, this is exactly what America needs: a more convenient way to gain weight and abuse our livers by combining High Fructose Corn Syrup with caffeine into a nice disposable plastic cup.”
  5. Why does the Sun shine? The scientific vs the religious view.: TLP
  6. Do Not Date a Mathematician – SMBC June 28, 2010
  7. slacktivist: Rendering unto Krugman – And, yes, I’m sure at the same time there are plenty of folks who want to change whose face is on the dime …
  8. Mario live wallpaper for Android: better than a Tanooki Suit in the summer — Engadget – A clever idea — but, really, I have no desire to spend time watching my phone’s home screen. Nor to further drain the battery.
  9. Oklahoma police tase an 86-year-old bedridden grandmother – Holy crap. And that’s not the worst of the treatment. I hope someone sues their asses off.
  10. Why Does The UK Get Healthier McNuggets Than We Do? – We’d all be healthier if we had to wait up to travel to the UK to visit McDonald’s …
  11. Grocery “Embiggen” Ray Hits Safeway Ice Cream – Bravo, Safeway. Not that I eat a lot of ice cream, certainly not as much as I’d love to, but it’s the principle of the thing. And, yes, I’m sure the price went back up — but think of it: Safeway now clearly thinks this is a competitive advantage, and when you look at their 2Q ice cream on the shelf next to the sad little 1.75Q or 1.5Q cartons, it will be. (Safeway Select ice cream is also pretty darned good.)
  12. Watch Out For Tiny Fraudulent Charges On Your Accounts – Need to look into this more for myself.
  13. If You’re Looking For An Outdated, Barely Usable MP3 Player, Walmart’s Got You Covered – This is one reason why I don’t ask people to buy me electronics as a general category.
  14. Number of childless American women in their 40s has risen sharply since 1970s – I find the whole “Oh, these people are leading empty lives” stuff to be … condescending and aggravating. And I say that as someone who has a daughter who has, in fact, added a lot to my life.

BP Coffee Spills

Yes. Yes I am the last person on Earth to link to this. Still worth doing.

Unblogged Bits (Sat. 5-Jun-10 2007)

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. 12 Important Financial Concepts You Didn’t Learn in School – I think I need to add this to the list of stuff that Kay really needs to know in life.
  2. Why Some Of Us Crave Caffeine : NPR – Actually, I’ve cut down quite a bit on the caffeine the past few years. Maybe one cup at the office, some (far less strong) caffeinated sodas at lunch.
  3. What Seven Million Tires Look Like – A bizarre, morbid beauty.
  4. Jean M. Auel To Complete The Earth Children Series | RT Book Reviews – Thank God — it will be a pleasure to once again intentionally not read one, but poke fun at the “Clan of the Cave Sex” series with friends.
  5. Tree lover’s idea for vanity plate offensive? – I speak for the trees! Let them grow!

Unblogged Bits for Tue, 20 Apr 2010, 2:00PM

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. Finally, a vote for Lael Brainard – “A mature, functioning democracy simply can’t operate this way and expect to thrive.” Maybe that’s the idea.
  2. Jukebox John keeps changing his tune – A sad, downward spiral of ideological integrity for a man whom many people used to admire.
  3. Sputtering Start to Religious Right’s Rebranding – It sounds like the meeting could have used some Prozac in the drinking water. Sure, the numbers were small, but the rhetoric was zany.
  4. Traditional Values Coalition Tells Senators To Block Judicial Nominee Because She’s A ‘Radical Lesbian’ – I guess she’s a “radical lesbian” because she’s (a) not closeted and (b) thinks gays shouldn’t be discriminated against. I guess that makes the TVC “radical conservatives” and Jim DeMint a “radical Republican.”
  5. How Medical Technetium Was Sabotaged By a Volcano [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess] – Sometimes we have no idea how much things are interconnected — and how fragile some of those connections are.
  6. The BeetleCam Project – Damned clever!
  7. That would indeed freak me out. (via lissomlights) – Yikes.
  8. Drink coffee to persuade people – Health – ibnlive – Interesting — a good dose of caffeine helps someone concentrate on your message and be more easily persuaded … but too much serves as a jittery distraction.
  9. Iceland’s volcano – Very cool time-lapse graphic of the ash cloud.
  10. Do liberals read only liberal blogs? – while most of the blogs I read are liberal/progressive, there are some more centrist ones on my regular read list, and I make a point (esp. when I blog on a point) to drill down through to source material or alternative viewpoints. Granted, the latter is often to mock, but I do try to read more than just the snippets that others have quoted.

Unblogged Bits for Mon, 29 Mar 2010, 4:40PM

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

  1. mental_floss Blog » 10 Things You Don’t Know About Starbucks (But Should!) – I will drink coffee from Starbucks. Given a choice with another coffee shop, though, I’ll choose the competition, just because.
  2. Russia bans Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ over fears it fuels rise of far-Right – Telegraph – Because banning books always makes them less attractive, less influential, and keeps them out of the hands of those who might be poorly influenced by them.
  3. 6 Things Men Do To Get Laid That Science Says Turn Women Off | Cracked.com – Heh …
  4. RNC “Investigating” Party Funds Spent On Bondage-Themed Nightclub – Not to mention, who approved the expense report.
  5. The effects of an extraordinary con – When you offer people a life preserver, and they think it’s made of poison, what do you do next?
  6. Suspected terrorists charged after Midwest raids – Money graf: “Will the Cheneys demand that they not be tried in civilian courts? Will Rudy Giuliani insist that it’s too dangerous to detain the suspects on American soil? With a ninth member of the radical group still at large, will various Fox News personalities call on the president to torture the other eight for information before he/she can do something dangerous?” And if not, why not? Certainly not because these are white, ostensibly Christian, terrorists, right?
  7. Denver 1961 « DenverInfill Blog – Great picture of downtown Denver back around when I was born, and before the dark years when Denver became a “Redevelop at All Costs” town.
  8. Let’s Ask Again, Is The Right Still “Proud To Be a Right-Wing Extremist”? – I wonder if the militia folks arrested will be calling the Liberty Counsel …
  9. Public School Choir Sings Overtly Religious Song and Pays the Price For it – I applaud the parents involved in this. The settlement is quite reasonable, and the message has certainly been sent that this is not appropriate material for school. For church, fine — but school is not (really, truly) church.
  10. Netflix streaming on the Wii = WIN – Hmmmmm …
  11. Yesterland Presents an Urban Legend: Swan and Dolphin Reversed? – To be honest, I’d never heard this, nor thought of it. But I will take a much closer look when I’m there next time.
  12. Science! – SMBC March 29, 2010
  13. AFA’s Fischer Hopes Americans Will Violently Revolt Against the “Tyranny of a Repressive Central Government” – Today’s THRILLING installment of HYPERBOLE-WATCH 2010!
  14. RNC raises money for Hannity – Fox News and the GOP get ever more into each others’ pants.
  15. Recess appointments and the economy – I’m sure there are all these wonderful reasons for letting Senators obstruct nominations, and I’m pretty sure none of them were to let the Senators blackmail the President over matters unrelated to the nominees at hand. These folks weren’t held back because they were radicals or unqualified or something — they were held back to coerce the Obama Administration to do something. Truly statesmanlike, Senator Kyl.
  16. Unaware of the contradiction – More on “Get the government off my back, except for that money they keep sending me each month” Tea Party movement …
  17. Crocodile tears – “Recess appointments for me, but not for thee.” So say the GOP.
  18. RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood. – I’m not surprised by the spending per se (the GOP leadership certainly has no market on sexual purity, for all their rhetoric), but that it actually got expensed and thus filed with the FEC. Yeesh.
  19. DeMint Claims That Republican Senators Just Wanted ‘Some Debate And A Vote’ On Obama’s Nominees – Jim DeMint, lying about GOP obstruction of appointees? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

Tweets from 2010-03-25

Tweets from 2010-03-24

  • Watched "Prisoner of Azkhaban" last night w/ K. Typical HP flick: a lot of decent scenes barely mortared w/ enough plot to be mediocre. #
  • Someday someone will redo Harry Potter movies as UK TV series, 1 season/book. I look forward to it. #
  • Appears we're getting an INK! Coffee at former Peaberry across the street fr the office. Yay! #
  • Winter storm warning announced by NWS for Denver from 3pm today to 6pm tomorrow — 8-16 inches? Yikes. Good excuse to work fr home Wed. #
  • IM chatting with wife, also with staffer, writing a critical email to boss, during conference call. Think I just kissed the wrong person. #
  • Snow is coming down hot (metaphorically speaking), heavy, thick, windy. Crikey. #

Tweets from 2010-01-22

  • Started watching my Farscape collection. Much frelling spiffiness. #
  • Note: The coffee maker works much better (and cleaner) if you actually put the coffee pot back into the damn thing before pressing "start." #
  • RT @DaphneUn, @quotesnack: Anyone who writes *down* to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. -EB White [Yup!] #
  • RT @lesjenkins, @allanbrocka: If Mass. speaks for all of America, I'd like my public health insurance and marriage equality now, thanks. #
  • At Mac Grill, family tablecloth drawings fr Dr Horrible, Doctor Who, Farscape, Avatar, Phineas, LotR, Pokemon, Girl Genius, Batman, Tick … #

Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 13 December 2009

Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….

Some drifting thoughts for next year’s Blogathon

This week is “Drowsy Driving Prevention Week” in the US (in case you hadn’t marked your calendars), so we’ve gotten some interesting safety info here at the office on the subject — some of which is applicable to the Blogathon.

  • “A study by researchers in Australia showed that being awake for 18 hours produced an impairment equal to a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .05, and .10 after 24 hours; .08 is considered legally drunk.” So, yes, you do feel a drunk through the last quarter of the ‘Thon — plan cogitational needs accordingly.
  • “Take a 15 to 20-minute nap. More than 20 minutes can make you groggy for at least five minutes after awakening.” I’ve never done this during the ‘Thon, but it’s worth noting.
  • “Remember, caffeine takes about 30 minutes to enter the blood stream.” Don’t expect an instant bump, esp. if you’re a regular caffeine guzzler. It does mean, though, for the ‘Thon you can down a Coke, then take your 15-20 minute cat nap, then be up and at it. And that applies to driving, too.

I’ve driven while drowsy, and not only is it no fun, but it’s been a marvel the next day I made it safe. It’s not worth it. On the other hand, getting loopy during the Blogathon is kind of part of the fun and not nearly so dangerous, unless you’re going wardriving during the ‘Thon, or unless your topic is “Making delicate hints about secrets of mine that I really don’t want you to know about.”

 

Tweets from 2009-09-14

  • Ugh. Up too late, up too early. Operative status "up" vs "sleeping." With, of course, a busy week ahead. At least I made the early train. #
  • Went to ex-Peaberry on County Line yesterday. They're doing OK; fave us a discount on our old coffee cards. Good repl coffee source, too. #
  • Always nice to get the Boss to LOL with you (vs. at you) first thing on a Monday. #
  • RT @Kyrion: 195 years ago, today, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." (1814, for those who suck at math.) #
  • Sir, why is it okay for you to feel the sun and wind on your arms, your ears, your neck … but not for your wife? #

Coffee Latched, Part 3

I had no sooner written a comment saying that they must be out of business, hence the utter lack of communication, when I finally saw:

Denver’s Peaberry Coffee chain closes shop – The Denver Post 

Owners of five remaining franchise stores received letters Monday from Peaberry saying the company had closed. Some remain open, though not as Peaberry.

Deliveries were halted and access to the company’s computer system cut off, leaving operators with no way to ring up beverage sales.

Peaberry also closed five stores it owns outright. A sign on the downtown Denver store at 621 17th St. read: “Unfortunately, we are no longer able to serve you.”

And the reasons?

The decision came from a combination of factors: underperforming stores, the economic downturn and “the burden of the lawsuit” brought by franchisees.

In 2003 and 2004, Peaberry — a Denver-based coffee wholesaler and retailer that Tointin started in 1990 — sold franchises. Franchise owners in 2006 filed suit against Peaberry, alleging the company gave misleading and inaccurate financial information in the franchising process.

As a result, franchisees quit paying the company royalties — a percentage of the stores’ profits — in February 2008, Gottschalk said. However, the stores continued to pay for Peaberry products.

A Denver district judge last year ruled against the franchisees and said they owed the company the unpaid royalties. An appeal is pending.

Peaberry “went out of business and left the franchisees twisting in the wind,” franchisees attorney Rick Podoll said. He called the company’s closing “the most egregious case of aggravated fraud that I’ve seen in 30 years of handling fraud cases.”

So either Peaberry screwed its franchisees for all they’re worth and once the last bit of fraudulent money was squeezed out closed things down, or Peaberry was hounded to death by franchisees what wanted a bigger profit but only ended up killing the bird that laid the lightly roasted egg, or varying factors of both.

In either case, it’s sad, both for customers, for the folks who lost their jobs, and for the folks who are struggling to hang on in renamed ex-franchises.

Coffee Latched, Part 2

After getting back some comments on the picture below, I did some Googling. Ruh-roh …

Some of the remaining Peaberry Coffee Inc. stores in metro Denver appear to have closed.

Signs at the store at 621 17th St. in downtown Denver read: “Peaberry Coffee is now closed” and “Unfortunately, we are no longer able to serve you. We have appreciated you[r] patronage over the years. Thank you.”

I think that one was mine.

The phone wasn’t answered today at the Peaberry store at 3031 E. Second Ave. in Denver’s Cherry Creek North retail district.

A call to Peaberry Denver headquarters today was not returned, and the “Locations” page of the coffee company’s website — www.peaberrycoffee.com — was not available.

Yeah, that’s overall not a good sign. And the page is still down — in fact, it no longer shows up on the site menu.

Denver-based Peaberry Coffee is a coffee wholesaler and retailer. In 2006, the company shut down 11 metro-area stores and re-leased the space to Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX). The stores were located in Broomfield, Centennial, Denver, Glendale, Lakewood, Littleton, Parker and Wheat Ridge.

Ten franchise stores along the Front Range were to remain open.

At the time, the company said it was closing the corporate locations to focus on franchising and on retail bean sales.

Peaberry Coffee was started in Denver by Bill Tointon in 1990. In addition to selling its coffee at stores, the company also sells them online. Peaberry coffees include 58th Avenue Coffee and Office Coffee.

I wonder if the Peaberry card is good for online sales.

Darn — and I have a “free coffee” receipt in my wallet, too.

Coffee Latched

This sucks. The Peaberry Coffee across the street from my office (and right at the end of my walking route and right where I step off the train) has closed. No doubt having two Starbucks within rock-throwing distance didn’t help. Bummer. Now I have to figure out where besides Starbucks is most convenient for me for a big cup of iced coffee.

BT09 – Hey, Kids! More Comics! (#Blogathon)

kidscomics

Okay, it is now officially past the time that I usually get up on weekday mornings. That makes it way too late for me not to have gone to bed, and my body is chiding me soundly for it. I’m risking a bit more caffeine — it’s got a half-life in the body of 90 minutes, so I should be okay in two hours …

 

Batman #688 (DC) Winick/Bagley: So, with Bruce Wayne dead, Robin’s decided to become the Bat. Ho-hum. More meaningful if I thought any of it was going to stick. As it is, not thrilled — though there’s an amusing note here about how Dick’s unused to acrobatics wearing a heavy cape.

Black Panther #6 (Marvel) Hudlin/Lashley: So is Shuri the Panther now or what? Goodish stuff, but a trifle confusing.

Booster Gold #22 (DC) Jurgens/Rapmund: I’m really enjoying the time-bopping / time-fixing / learning to be a selfless hero BG series. The execution isn’t always perfect, but  the ideas are a lot of fun, like someone setting thing things up so the Ravager killed Robin in the Teen Titans early days, so that now there’d be no Batman.

The Boys #32 (Dynamite) Ennis/Robertson: The Boys are ambushed at the Female’s hospital. But that just means the Boys’ opponents are coming to them …

The Brave and the Bold #24 (DC) Wayne/Porter:  Black Lightning and Static Shock meet. Hmmm. Okay.

Captain America #601 (Marvel) Brubaker/Colan: Great to see Ernie Colan’s work again. Odd flashback tale to WWII. 

Captain Britain and MI13 #15 (Marvel) Cornell/Kirk: Dracula and his Moon Vampires defeated! Brian and Megan together! Um … was this the final issue?

Castle Waiting #15 (Fantagraphics) Medley: I love this book. Even if the story doesn’t seem to go anywhere, it’s just pleasant to visit. Recommended.

 

 

Tweets from 2009-06-12

  • Note to self: coffee maker makes much more robust coffee when you actually put water *and* coffee into it. Wakey-wakey! #
  • RT @lesjenkins: New Post: Tonight brings the end of Analog Television broadcasts. http://twurl.nl/g7474t [I’m sure GOP will blame Obama.] #
  • I don’t mind downloading software, but downloading music – not having that tangible CD – still feels weird. Music should have dust jackets. #

More! Great! Coffee! News!

A summary on recent positive studies about coffee / caffeine has some promsing info. Pour me another cup o’ Joe! 

Diabetes: Twenty studies worldwide show that coffee, both regular and decaf, lowers the risk for Type 2 diabetes, in some studies by as much as 50%. Researchers say that is probably because chlorogenic acid, one of the many ingredients in coffee, slows uptake of glucose (sugar) from the intestines. (Excess sugar in the blood is a hallmark of diabetes.) Chlorogenic acid may also stimulate GLP-1, a chemical that boosts insulin, the hormone that escorts sugar from the blood into cells. Yet another ingredient, trigonelline, a precursor to vitamin B3, may help slow glucose absorption.

Heart disease and stroke: Recent studies suggest that frequent coffee consumption does not increase the risk of either condition. In fact, coffee might — repeat, might — slightly reduce the risk of stroke. A study published in March in the journal Circulation looked at data on more than 83,000 women older than 24. It showed that those who drank two to three cups of coffee a day had a 19% lower risk of stroke than those who drank almost none. A Finnish study found similar results for men.

For cardiovascular diseases other than stroke, there doesn’t appear to be a preventive benefit from drinking coffee, but there is also no clearly documented harm; the studies looked at the effect of drinking up to six cups of regular coffee a day.

Cancer: Coffee research has come up empty here — with one big exception: liver cancer. Research consistently shows a drop in liver cancer risk with coffee consumption, and there is some, albeit weaker, evidence that it may lower colon cancer risk as well.

Cirrhosis: Coffee seems to protect the liver against cirrhosis, especially that caused by alcoholism. It’s not clear, either for cancer or cirrhosis, whether it’s coffee or caffeine that may be protective.

Parkinson’s disease: With this progressive, neurological illness, it’s the caffeine, not coffee, that carries the benefit. No one knows for sure why caffeine protects. Several studies show that coffee drinkers, men especially, appear to have half the risk of Parkinson’s compared with nondrinkers. Women also get a benefit, but only those who do not use post-menopausal hormones, said Dr. Alberto Ascherio, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. All it takes for a measurable reduction in Parkinson’s risk, he said, is about 150 milligrams a day, the amount in an average cup of coffee.

Athletic performance: It’s clear that caffeine, not coffee per se, delivers the big boost here, said Graham, the researcher from Ontario. In fact, caffeine was once deemed a controlled substance by the International Olympic Committee. Caffeine is a powerful “ergogenic agent,” meaning it promotes the ability of muscles to work. Studies show that caffeine boosts performance in both very short and very long athletic events, said Graham. It used to be thought that caffeine worked by stimulating the release of sugar (glycogen) in muscles, but recent research suggests it helps muscles release calcium, allowing muscles to contract with more force. It takes only a medium cup of regular coffee for a 130-pound athlete to see a measurable improvement in performance, Graham added.

Time for more coffee!

Continue reading “More! Great! Coffee! News!”

Tweets on 2009-04-16

  • It would be far too easy to slip fully into the Twitterverse and never … come … out. #
  • Lovely morning, light breeze, Venus on the horizon. Time for some coffee, I think. #
  • A nice caramel macchiato fr Starbucks for starters. Only froofroo coffee for today, I fear. #
  • And a nice Big Jo of Mocha Java from the Peaberry across the street. Mmmmm, coffee! #
  • Late heading home. Could use some more coffee, but will settle for Kahlua & Cream. #
  • It’s the time of year it can get uncomfortably hot standing in the sun, but the trees haven’t leafed out yet for shade. #