Pete's Ubercoffee

Weird Wide Web

OK. I'm not a cat person, but I know a good website when I see one:

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

They have T-Shirts. I want one. Help me.

:o)

Weebl n' Bob ... in huggable form!

I think we need these for the office :o)

http://www.weebls-shop.co.uk/toys.asp?siteid=100&prodcatid=143

Erm, yeah. Coffee, muffins n' all that.

Today IMDB, Tomorrow ... Hollywood!

Hey, check me out. I did a Google search for myself (You know ... as we all do from time to time to make sure we don't have a stalker), and look what I found:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399408/

How cool is that?

Well, I'm impressed ... and I'm having a muffin to celebrate :o)

Where's Wolley?

Ok, a quick apology to Tom for spelling his surname wrong not just once, but twice. His real name is, of course Woolley ... and not Wolley. Sorry mate!

Missing Claire

Claire couldn't be with us today ... hence the choice of Starbucks. We did, however, find the time to send her this scary photo:

The Great Lake of Mocha

Isn't coffee great ... Especially when it's free? And that's exactly what you see here: Two free coffees: A thankyou from Costa for our loyalty. Phil went for a particularly gruesome hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows ... where as I favoured the GIANT LAKE OF MOCHA (see below).

Cake or death?

We went to Starbucks on Friday instead of Costa. We've been frequenting Costa a great deal recently and poor old 'Bucks isn't getting much of a look in. I attribute this to the large amount of influence exerted by one of our number and her insistence that Costa is better.

I have been debating the pros and cons of each over the last couple of days, and - as I said at the time - I can't really see any clear leader.

COSTA:

FOR
1) Plenty of space
2) Brand new shop
3) Comfy sofas
4) STRONG coffee (a good thing if you're not wired enough)

AGAINST
1) Crappy cups and saucers that hold a thimblefull of beverage and overbalance
2) Slow/ugly baristas
3) STRONG coffee (a bad thing if you're already wired)

STARBUCKS:

FOR
1) The lovely baristas :o)
2) Fast service
3) Proper mugs
4) Located in a bookshop

AGAINST
1) Always busy
2) Coffee not as strong as Costa
3) Catweasel & Lurch

The quality of the coffee at either venue is not in doubt. They are different for sure, but I can't say one is necessarily better than the other. The prices are pretty much exactly the same too.

All of which draws me to the conclusion that we should spend equal amounts of time in each. Perhaps we should have a meeting to discuss this?

Mensa Shmensa

I took this photo in the front lift at work. I think it's fairly self explanatory :o)


... the exams are on floor 4a, no wait ... 7 ... ah, no 6 ... yeah, must be 6 ... maybe?

And guess what: the exams were on floor 7, so they still got it wrong. Jesus, if MENSA can't figure out the floor numbering what hope have we got?!