Coffee was actually illegal in some middle-Eastern country hundreds of years ago. They feared people would drink coffee in cafes and then forment revolution.
Instead, there was Starbucks.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 22, 2009 6:06:16 am PDT #20702 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
juliana - May 22, 2009 6:06:24 am PDT #20703 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And get back to my city stairway walks.
Have you gone up to Alta Plaza Park yet? The view of the City from there is amazing, and there's plenty of sidewalk-stairs leading down into the Marina.
§ ita § - May 22, 2009 6:13:19 am PDT #20704 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have started inching back into the world of caffeine after a few months of giving it up entirely to see if it helped my insomnia. No luck. So now I'm allowing myself one cup of tea before noon. That can't possibly hurt, can it?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 22, 2009 6:16:56 am PDT #20705 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
So now I'm allowing myself one cup of tea before noon. That can't possibly hurt, can it?
If you have to limit yourself to one, have some fun with it. [link]
I love my tea machine so very much.
Jesse - May 22, 2009 6:17:46 am PDT #20706 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sweet -- we are closing at 2 today!
tommyrot - May 22, 2009 6:18:36 am PDT #20707 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you have to limit yourself to one, have some fun with it. [link]
All that thing needs to be the Perfect Device is a laser that fires into the teapot to warm the tea....
Tom Scola - May 22, 2009 6:21:35 am PDT #20708 of 30000
hwæt
I couldn't justify buying a tea machine. It didn't seem to make things much less complicated than boiling water in a kettle.
Sue - May 22, 2009 6:21:47 am PDT #20709 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I may have launched a kerfluffle at work. I told someone to do something and she ran with it. (Her first language is not English and I think something got lost in translation.) So she wrote to someone else saying that I refused to approve something, and "insisted" it remain the same, when I really have no power to do anything more than "strongly advise." I have to smooth this over somehow, but I am not sure how I won't step on toes.
Can I blame Tino for this?
msbelle - May 22, 2009 6:21:51 am PDT #20710 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well I was leaving early anyway, but school nurse just called. mac has a low-grade fever. ugh.
Sue - May 22, 2009 6:23:17 am PDT #20711 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Oh msbelle! I hope it's nothing.