flippin Frappuccino

I learned that most of the product names the great star of bucks displays and then trains their customers to use are made up. However according to the wizard wikipedia site - not so with Frappuccino (not made up by them).

no waffle house nearby, I put Starbucks in my cup at home

From the wikipedia site -
Frappuccino is a portmanteau of frappé and cappuccino, an espresso coffee with frothed milk. The word was coined and trademarked in Boston, Massachusetts.  In the Boston area, a "frappe" is a term for a thick milkshake with ice cream, derived from the French word frappé. The original Frappuccino beverage was developed, named, trademarked and sold by George Howell's Eastern Massachusetts coffee shop chain, The Coffee Connection. When Starbucks purchased The Coffee Connection in 1994, they also gained the rights to use, make, market, and sell the Frappuccino beverage.

Boston? I would have never guessed.

I do enjoy Starbucks coffee but most often at home, poured out of my french press. I drink my hot coffee black. However, if the coffee is iced then the creme and sweetness of their coffee Frappuccino makes a great blend of taste.

Did you know it’s a better deal to drink the coffee at their coffee shop. Not only do you get the free wi-fi, you can get free refills on coffee (don’t think the fancy drinks are included in this).

After getting my engineering degree, I thought all college graduates would be coffee drinkers. Those crazy energy drinks didn’t exist when I was in school.

The mention of caffeine reminds of my caffeinated little gadget. (an excuse to show you a youtube clip I made years ago)





Please note this post was not sponsored by Starbucks. However, if the nice people there would like to pass a few gift cards my way that would be flippin Frappuccino!

cup of cedary

Starbucks Christmas Blend coffee - It tastes great and I like the gift wrapping style package - 

BUT

What’s with the description on the written on the side?

Maybe I’m taste bud challenged but I just don’t buy into the weird descriptions given to various beverages. People do have different taste and tasting abilities.

Remember the movie, “Sideways”?

Miles character -- [while tasting wine] “ It tastes like the back of a fucking L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit. Fuckin' Raid.”

Jack character -- “ Tastes pretty good to me. “

I’m Jack.

But when I read words like the ones on this package, I believe they are written by a-few-clowns-short-of-a-circus marketing team.

Words from the side of Christmas Blend coffee:

• spicy
• cedary (growing up our family had a cedar closet and the smell of that wood is interesting but I don’t want it in my coffee)
• syrupy (what should I pour it on my waffles?)
• earthy (dirt?)
• lively coffee (does that mean it has an extra caffeine kick?)

Well if any Starbucks marketing clown reads this, please drop the hype and just tell me what types of coffees are in the blend.  I like your coffee not your marketing.

spin a scratchy record

what's worst than spinning that?

Over at the spin cycle control the assignment this time is reposting your worst post from the past.


I accept the challenge and I hope you'll read on.

I've had this blog since 2006 so there are plethora of posts (now that phrase should grab the reader in you, right?) available for selection. It was hard to pick the worst one.

The biggest loser is (oh BTW I don't care for that show):
from Oct. 2008





Another study on our food and health. Has anyone done a study on how studies on food have been done?

Well some Swedish study reports that drinking coffee reduces women's breast size.

So Hooters and Starbucks don't mix. I'm sure there are some women that worked in both places.

I don't know anything about these Swedes but I heard that back in 2003 a popular mens magazine did a feature called the "Women of Starbucks". Maybe those women just sold the coffee and didn't drink it.

Well if you are a coffee drinking woman flirting for some attention - don't worry - beer has the opposite effect - just give the guy enough beer and he can't tell the difference.



Other ones under consideration were:
supermodels and virgins
greasy butt fast
naked question

Please let me know in the comments if I selected the worst one.

reason for wi-fi on flights

Two of my favorite things in the above picture - Apple (Steve Jobs show) and Starbucks.
(oh thanks to the blogger at wired.com I found out about the news and got this nice picture)

So the news - Ipod blah blah blah

No really besides the expected updates to the I-pod product line, Apple announced a music store that is accessible via Wi-Fi and Starbucks. Walk into a Starbucks with the new Wi-Fi equipped I-pod and you will be connected to the special I-tunes store and be able to order music. This access is FREE unlike the normal wi-fi access at Starbucks. Like most press releases, this still needs to be rolled out to the stores so don't try it today or even tomorrow. Chicago Starbucks are not scheduled until March of 2008. I don't know what special things they need to do but I would guess it's a matter of some configuration changes that I wouldn't think would take so long. Who knows, maybe they need new access points.

I believe this I-tunes store should work via laptops too. So although they have a very cool wi-fi I-pod, you could use your laptop with I-tunes setup on it. At least, I think so.

So now the I-pod nation just needs Apple to partner-up with an Airline that has Wi-Fi equipped aircraft. The Wi-Fi aircraft have been done - Airfone trials, Boeing's Connexion, Aeromobile. Of course, Aircell is planning this too.

I'm just wondering if Apple and their Wi-Fi I-pod marketers know about the possible wi-fi future in aircraft.

Picture this - you fill some of that idle flight time with selecting some new tunes for your listening pleasure. Last I checked United served Starbucks.