food/drink

Why Starbucks is cooling down.

July 7, 2008

When news exploded about Starbucks shutting down 600 stores in the near future, we weren’t particularly surprised. That’s because since our patronage of Starbucks some five years ago, we’ve seen a general lack of consistency in the brand. Even in the same city, albeit the considerable city of San Francisco, consistency among Starbucks stores has [...]

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Carbonating water at home.

May 2, 2008

We’ve had an article from MAKE Magazine starred in Google Reader forever, and only recently got around to seriously looking into building a home carbonation system ourselves. The Cool Tools article linked to by MAKE describes a simple system for carbonating beverages at home, and is pretty dead on in regards to its description of [...]

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Starbucks dumps T-Mobile… kind of.

February 11, 2008

When I read on Daring Fireball that Starbucks was dropping T-Mobile as the carrier behind their hotspot service, I was overcome with annoyance, as this meant that the bundled hotspot service I get with my T-Mobile data plan would be next-to-worthless, and put me squarely back in a position of having to pay $20 per [...]

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Manchu Wok gives you food poisoning.

March 7, 2006

There is a little franchise you’ve likely seen but may not remember, for it blends in so well with the dozens of other fast food asian cuisine outlets throughout the country. I am no foreigner to these establishments, for I have been known to seek out a Panda Express from time to time (if only [...]

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