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Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts® are just about the world’s most perfect food. Everybody and their damn mother went to see that pirate movie. We did not. Sung Kang has charisma. I am about to get insanely busy again. Wonderfalls should be saved. And yes, the PLM14000e review is [...]

We had the choice of watching the fireworks at Tempe Town Lake or at Stormwind. Guess which one we chose. Enjoy our freedoms, respect its cost, and fight every effort to diminish them. Presh and I wish you a happy and safe adventure. Oh, look.. a yellow dot. Tags: Coffee, Cup, Blog, [...]

A year ago over the cup of coffee that appears above I wrote the following: I am at my happiest sitting in a coffee shop solving problems with the coolest people I can find. And that in the past years I have sat in many coffee shops and encountered the coolest of cools. And together we [...]

Presh’s coffee order shipped yesterday. A day after we drank the last bit. I decide to pass up TJ’s fair trade organic Ethiopian for a bag of Tony’s favorite brew. What a fricking surprise. Eight O’Clock Coffee totally does not suck. This is really good coffee, yo…. Tags: Coffee, Cup, Blog

I do not know where or when I first “met” jozjozjoz. I think it was on a friend’s Flickr buddy list, maybe it was because we both Metblog. I am not sure. We are not friends, not hi/bye, not MySpaceish, not really. But, I am a fan. She is smart [...]

In which I attempt to evaluate the Amcor PLM14000E, practice the art of Unboxing and find that I really am easily distracted. The “portable” Amcor PLM14000E arrived the other day battered and bruised by Brown but intact, mostly. I clear a section of the office. It is bigger than I thought it would be, [...]

I thought this was cool. Thank you to Quark for the link. What do the colors mean? blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for images (the IMG tag) yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags) orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE [...]

Photo from the Tim & Tony Show website. I thought of my dear friend, Tony today as I heard the news that Eight O’Clock Coffee was sold for 220M USD to India’s Tata Coffee. Eight O’Clock is his preferred brew or at least that is what I recall him saying. I then spent a [...]

Presh has never been to a geek event. No conventions, no fan meet-ups, not even a Creatures of the Night show in Berkely. These, of course, are my people though I stay away from cosplay. Except for that one time in college. I think she enjoyed the event. It was [...]

I love this theater. I had dreams of buying the Fairfax theater and turning into a place like this. Great movies, amazing community support, beer, and RHPS every Saturday night. It seats 500 and still the Best Damn Joss Whedon Double Feature Ever! event sold out. I cannot wait for Talk [...]

We just pulled into Tucson and there is free broadband at this hotel. The ride down was interesting. Saw a big rig push a pick-up truck off the road and had late afternoon waffles from Waffle House. An hour to freshen up then off to The Loft. And as promised, here [...]

The convoy is heading south. If you want to hitch a ride the meatup begins at the Sonic then on to Krispy Kreme. Would have preferred to get there in time for The Loft’s Scream-O-Rama but there is mining to do. Remember there are prizes for best cosplay. Obey the feed! Tags: [...]

Yesterday morning as I settled in at my desk I hear screams and shouts coming from the parking lot below. I get up and look down and see a bunch of SWAT guys running around the parking lot. I takes a beat, but I eventually see the yellow tape and our police instructors [...]

So, I have to spend the longest day of the year in temperatures over 107 degrees. They are predicting 113 this weekend. Luckily that thing from Stacie has arrived. More on that tonight… Tags: Coffee, Cup, Blog

112 degrees is not that bad. I thought that I would burst into flames, collapse on the ground and be unable to breathe. It actually tickles a little bit. No, not really. But, I thought it would be worse. Yes, I understand that worse is coming. But so far, [...]

Am I the only one heading to TFatF:TD tonight? Anyone wanna carpool? I will pay the tolls. Tags: Coffee, Cup, Blog,

For most of my life salsa was salsa. Kind of like ketchup. Yes, there was catsup and the various brandings, but you asks and you got. I asked for salsa the other day and the response was, “what kind”? Hmmm… Okay, now, I know that what I wanted was pico [...]

I get a lot of requests to shill this thing or that stuff. Most of the time it is some other blogger or a new coffee shop. I am happy to oblige. The best way to get a plug for your site, shop, or service is to send me a Guest Cup [...]