This may be a little over the top. This guy needs an honorary Starbucks Doctorate of Coffee Drinking …
A 34-year-old programmer named Winter (he legally changed his name from Rafael Antonio Lozano this year) has made it his life’s mission to drink a cup of coffee at every Starbucks on the planet. There are over 12,000 Starbucks - new ones open daily - and he has visited over 6,000 so far. He’s worn a Starbucks shirt every day since October 2001.
His side effects - nausea, headaches and feeling jittery. My goodness, it’ll take years for him to get that caffeine out of his blood system. He’ll probably have major withdrawals if he does stop. He did once hit 29 stores in succession, drinking a total of one hundred and four (104) ounces and three shots of espresso.
So if I do the math, that’s 6000 stores spending a total of $24,000 if he just had an average of one $4 drink a store. If he does succeed, he would have spent close to $50,000 on Starbucks coffee (counting the max. of 12,000 stores only and not the new stores opening up). You can buy a nice car for that much! I don’t even want to start figuring out how much his Starbucks wardrobe is. I bet he is just loving the fact that Starbucks are raising their prices.
And here I thought I was a little extreme on my Starbucks binge.
(Via Boing Boing)
Just launched a site called Buy My Stuff! It is basically a little store for selling things from around the house that we don’t need anymore. Yes, it is going to be cheaply priced - think about it like an online garage sale and somewhat cheaper than Ebay. You may have noticed a little teaser page curl I made on the top left hand corner of this blog’s home page - that is where it leads to. Here is a direct link.
Sorry for the lack of items on the site. I’ll be slowly updating my inventory and will post updated news about it here. So be sure to check back regularly!
Recently Added: Due to browser incompatibility, I have taken off the flash teaser.
Miles (my cat) graphic made completely with ascii characters from RedKid.net. A-ma-zing!
I was curious to see what all the hype was about at eMoms, so I decided to poke around the site a little. Glad I did, as I found a valuable resource there: A Guide to Blogging Platforms and Hosting Companies. Even though I am set on my blogging platform i.e. Wordpress, it was interesting to see a breakdown and the various differences between all the available ones out there. Wish I had this when I was looking for one 6 months ago!
The compared platforms are Wordpress.org, Movable Type, TypePad, Wordpress.com, Blogger, Expression Engine and Squarespace. The comparison chart also included Hosting company support, Costs, User help features, Ability to add/customize advertising, Statistics, Sidebar features, Domain mapping, Static page creation and more!
Link to the full article here.
Link to the comparison chart here.
Saw this on The Food Network and considering that J’s parents live near Philadelphia - I might just have to take a trip to the famous 76 year old establishment called Pat’s King of the Steaks. Being a man that just loves his cheesesteaks - I think I’ll be in heaven - or almost anyway.
Finally, something that allows you to surf at work without getting noticed. ;-) Enter Ghostzilla - the invisible browser …
Ghostzilla is a free open source Web browser like Firefox, but it shows up and disappears instantly, discreetly, blended with your application — any application — so the Web pages look like part of it and not like the Web at all. (Read here how)
What would you use it for? Continue Reading »
Should you or shouldn’t you put periods (or full stops) in titles? That’s a good question asked by Darren Rowse of Problogger.
I have never really put much thought to it until now. As my titles are in essense incomplete sentences, I have always thought that it just shouldn’t be there. Plus the fact that it somehow just doesn’t look right.
Darren has a very interesting viewpoint on it. He says that it is
… more about the signal that it sends to your reader. Full stops (or periods), like their name suggests, are something that halts the eye of your reader. This isn’t something you want at this point in your post. Titles are all about leading your reader into your post and so anyway that you can help this flow is a bonus. It is a pretty established copy writing principle that is universally practised (next time you pick up a newspaper see how many periods in titles you can find).
Amazing what a diverse audience The Foo Logs has ;-)! Miles (my cat) insisted on being in all the pictures - can you spot him and another “hidden” object”? i.e. An apple for J (my wife) who is a teacher. (Thanks to Stik for doing the cartoons for me)
Being a big John Grisham fan, I can’t wait to get a copy of his first non-fiction book - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. It goes onsale October 10th, 2006.
About the Book
I have always wanted to look up the origins of why someone says “God Bless you” after you sneeze - so I decided to do a little poking around. Here is what I found …
The custom of saying “God bless you” after a sneeze was begun literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory the Great (540-604 AD) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the plague (his successor succumbed to it). Gregory (who also invented the ever-popular Gregorian chant) called for litanies, processions and unceasing prayer for God’s help and intercession. Columns marched through the streets chanting, “Kyrie Eleison” (Greek for “Lord have mercy”). When someone sneezed, they were immediately blessed (”God bless you!”) in the hope that they would not subsequently develop the plague. All that prayer apparently worked, judging by how quickly the plague of 590 AD diminished.
Most people think “Gesundheit” is synonymous with “God Bless You”. The confusion over the real meaning of the word Gesundheit, which means simply “health,” probably dates back to the time of the Bubonic Plague, where sneezing was a symptom of the disease. Sneezing was supposedly the person’s soul making a break for it! It was believed that sickness arose due to the lack of a soul. And so “soullessness” and ill-health became synonymous during the middle ages.
Some other explanations to saying “God Bless you”:
