Clarissa Blag

This is pretty funny just for being so damn ridiculous…

• Random blogger gets annoyed because a coffeeshop barista lectures him about his way of drinking coffee (iced espresso is bad mkay?) and blogs about it.
• Story (?) gets picked up by Metafilter and BoingBoing.
• Coffeeshop owner gets pissed off and writes open letter to blogger offering to kick him in the nuts.
• Consumerist posts about the whole affair as well. Oh and DCist too.

And most threads/blog posts with comments above are still going strong. (except the murky coffee one cuz he won’t approve any the twit). As so many people have said all over said comments - “it’s only coffee” - but it’s very entertaining to see how people can get so passionate worked up about something so trivial.

(Incidentally I had coffee at the weekend cuz I had one of my caffeine headaches again and tho I still found it unpleasant, I didn’t think it quite so strongly repulsive as previously)

PS Oh and thanks to this I learnt what a ghetto latte is.
PPS From the later explanatory comment added by the coffeeshop dude:

Thanks for all the comments and emails (for the record, about 40% supportive, 20% critical, and about 40% ignorant and ridiculous… but that’s the nature of the sandbox that we blog in, no?).

*lmao* I’ll bet the “ignorant and ridiculous” comments weren’t supportive.

I don’t think I have previously mentioned her on here, so let me do so now: her Livejournal is a really great read and you should give it a try.

(she’s a model currently working mainly in Asia - HK, China, Korea… she’s really smart and cool and adventurous and a little bit crazy and has a great writing style and comes up with fun stuff and… well just go and see for yourself. no really! [wiki])

I know I know, a good theme shouldn’t need instructions and this one doesn’t really, either, but just a few notes maybe. And a few acknowledgments. *hehe* >>Read more

That Anonymous vs Co$ war (previously) is becoming more and more bizarre. (I don’t think I really believe the Co$ is behind this. it’s just too… random. probably some bored script kiddies. but then again - the Co$ would be crazy enough lol.)

Oh and btw read Rick Astley on the phenomenon of rickrolling - he doesn’t say anything deep but it’s kinda cool.

I’m back with new Windows btw. Still need more RAM tho so will get to that next.
I’m also back from Southampton where I had a good time and bought a number of things. And now I’m off to bed.

Summer-summer-summer-TIME!!!!

(for some reason I wanna write colour American-style there. probably cuz of Color Me Badd)

Uploading a 4.5MB pdf of today’s NYT to your own server… accessing it via iPhone.. bingo! I totally expected Safari to crash. And contrary to my expectations I can close the browser and return to it without Safari insisting on reloading it. So I can even take it on the bus on my way to Homebase. Apparently emailing them to yourself is also a good way to do this.

(tho of course it would be even better if I could just upload pdfs to the iPhone directly, just like mp3s and photos. and yes yes I know Tobias, your HTC probably does all that. but it ain’t half as sexy as my iPhone!)