Posts tagged with "coffee"
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The curious case of the Starbucks look-alike insulated cup

By Carsten Knoch on January 26, 2009 in Life

Starbucks has had these for a few months now: insulated cups that are made to look just like their regular disposable paper cups. The only thing it’s missing is a brown cardboard sleeve. I’m not completely sure what attracted me to this, but when I was in the market for another insulated cup and found [...]

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Starbucks card = 2h free wireless

By Carsten Knoch on September 23, 2008 in Life, Technology

  I’m sure everyone else knows about this already, but I’m so delighted that I just had to ‘report’ on it anyway :) Starbucks Canada is offering 2 hours of free wireless on their Bell Hotspots for Starbucks Card customers who have registered their Starbucks Cards. So not only do you get free soy milk [...]

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Coffee bean ruminations

By Carsten Knoch on December 23, 2007 in Food

While I’m typically a big Starbucks fan, a devoted (some might say slavish) follower of the McDonalds of internationally standardized, excellent coffee-to-go, I never buy their beans or ground coffee for home. I get my home supplies from Whole Foods Market, in keeping with my objective to consume more organic things – and also, quite [...]

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Laptops, laptops everywhere

By Carsten Knoch on December 18, 2007 in Life, Technology

Recently observed at a Starbucks inside a Chapters (sorry for the crappy Blackberrycam pic). There’s practically nobody in this picture who’s not using a laptop. It’s a little puzzling and disorienting: there used to be a time when I would have thought this was really cool. You know, wireless network access, everybody collaborating or telecommuting [...]

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