is my friend James Dennis?
[...]is my friend James Dennis?
[...]I need a new direction to take this website in. Since I am overwhelmingly happy, blogging is no longer as interesting. Ideas?
[...]i am sure that everyone has been busy playing desktop tower defense. it is truly amazing, how it turns your average internet-obsessed professional time-waster into an amateur military strategist. i seriously wake up in the middle of the night thinking of new mazes to create, of when to upgrade [...]
i’ve spent most of my adult life making coffee. and serving pastries and assorted baked goods. with the random cup of tea. i can launch into lectures about organic shade-grown hand-picked wet processed peaberries in my sleep. years ago, i attained the rank of ‘Master.’ so what else is there [...]
so i like tab energy drink. it’s lo-cal energy, in a tiny can, and it really works. my better half, however, is convinced that it is solely for women. she asserts that tab energy gives you boobs, just like red bull gives you wings. i just think it’s tasty. so [...]
Since writing this initial post, I’ve been approached by these people three more times. I did more research, and went to one of these workshops. Through further research, I met someone who was once involved in Quixtar, and who left when he found out more about it because he [...]
so yes, i am returning to my blog after months of non-posting. i’ve been busy.
i guess the thing that has been keeping me from blogging the most has been my running routine. i just don’t find myself in front of the computer as much, except for those hours every night [...]
there are some changes that i am considering making in my life. they include:
1. joining a gym.
2. abstaining from drinking soda (effective june 1)
3. becoming jewish.
4. getting lots of tattoos.
they are pretty straightforward. in fact, three of the four are part of my quest to be super-hot, [...]
A favorite barista passtime is to describe ways in which one could die in an espresso related accident. Usually it has something to do with a steam-wand puncturing your lung (and then set to full steam), or grinding to death. A coworker recently threatened to drown me in the bucket [...]
“Goddamnit Chaz, stop eating my coupons!”
–Elizabeth, my thrifty and adorable better half, to our cat.
[...]Constantly grinding coffee has left my hearing stunted and boring. I mis-hear things A LOT. for example, when taking the shop’s deposit to the bank the other day:
teller: ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCK WITH ME?
me: EXCUSE ME?
teller: DO YOU DO YOUR BANKING WITH US?
me: OH,UMM, OF COURSE.
yes, i am a man who wears an apron for upwards of fifty hours a week, and i have for years, and i am done feeling ashamed for that. moving on…
and yes, as a disclaimer, i have put on a little weight, but that isn’t the point, and not nearly [...]
so i want to make myself some one-of-a-kind t-shirts with some of the life lessons i’ve learned as of late, but i need some input on the wording. the first one i want to make deals with graphic designers, and goes something like this:
helvetica ≠design.
in helvetica, of course. and [...]
i am in love with twitter. it’s like IM and a blog and public and integrates IM, mobile phones, and everything else all at once, rolled into an awesome web 2.0 app. frak, it’s web 3.0, with the extra one-point-zero simply because i love it that much.
here’s the only problem [...]
as of late, i’ve become the closest thing to a mercenary i’ve ever been in my career as a coffee shop manager, as my own shop has been cancelled by the company, and i am whored out to whatever store needs me on a day to day basis. as such, [...]
ladies and gentlemen of the interweb, i present to you the greatest discovery of the month of february of the year 2007.
what time is it?
[...]the buy-one get-one coupon.
this coffee shop horror story is a classic one: customers are completely ungrateful.
exhibit a: two women enter coffee shop, order sugar-free, skim, extra-hot, double-cupped, pain-in-the-ass NOT-TOO-MUCH-FOAM ARE-YOU-SURE-THIS-IS-SKIM? lattes. they abandon and ignore the child that was clutching to one of them, and go about talking about how [...]
one of my most favorite things in the world is cherry coke. and one of my most favorite hip-hop artists in the world is jay-z. i have a jay-z ringtone, for serious. so what could be better than the two of these together?
apparently, jay-z has redesigned the cherry coca [...]
why can’t we do everything online? why can’t we deposit checks online? and pet kittens? sigh.
[...]there is something about being a barista that you probably just won’t understand unless you’ve been one: you are allowed to flirt with anyone while preparing their drink. it is almost expected. i personally reseve my sexiest looks for women that drink americanos. or that are really cute. i don’t [...]
so over the course of my day off, i did some code-housekeeping over at Save the Assistants, the official world-wide support group for those unfortunate enough to be personal assistants, the site that I babysit for my dear friend Lilit and her friend Ashley. And the site is [...]
i don’t think that it is really any secret that i am a mac nerd. MWSF is my favorite day of the year, followed closely by WWDC, followed closely by any tuesday. and on today, a tuesday, i should be joyous, as there are more iPod things that i am [...]
so, doing the barista thing the other day, when this asian-american bodybuilder came in.
i said hello.
he asked what kinds of energy drinks we had.
i told him that we are a coffee shop, that we serve coffee drinks.
he asked if they have any kick to them.
i [...]
let me preface this by saying that i haven’t been sleeping much lately. i think that will help you understand what i am going through.
so, last week was mike roth’s birthday gathering at his parents’ house. in a way that was totally comforting, we drove there as much to see [...]
so, as always, i am looking for more ways to publicize my online presence. i mean, yeah, i write this blog, and i have my flickr, and i am on myspace, and always signed onto IM, and i have my last.fm, and i think i signed up for other things [...]
i will honestly admit that i do have some suspiscions that my girlfriend may secretly be a robot, or a robot ninja, or some other awesome being disguised as an adorable southern young lady. i have evidence to suspect such:
1. a fascination with bizarre short ‘comedic’ films on YouTube. recently, [...]
so Elizabeth and Mandy had both told me how amazingly funny John Hodgman is, and I have enjoyed his work on the Daily Show and his reading of 700 Hobo Names, but I didn’t know how consistently and awesomely funny he was until I saw his book, Areas of My [...]
making coffee comes naturally to me, so i guess that i found myself in the right line of work. i am not so good at math, which also comes up a lot at work. i mean, sure, i can count how many shots of espresso go in a latte, but [...]
one of the things that i decided that i wanted to do with 2007 was to get into shape. i have successfully gone 32 days without a cigarette, so i am making a further step. the plan was to start running a few nights a week, and then buy a [...]
so i had something of a brilliant idea the other day. it was brilliant enough that elizabeth actually commented on it’s brilliance, and did not grimace at all, as she is frequently doing upon hearing my brilliant ideas.
it’s all because of our kitten, chaz. and also because of 80s family [...]
(* in an effort to further express my hatred for retail during the holidays, all instanxes of the letter between B and D, which i assoxiate with xmas, will be replaced with an X.)
so, reasons that i haven’t written:
1. i manage a busy coffee (i love coffee… this usage [...]
(taking a break from wii to eat some pizza from 8 1/2 and watch deal or no deal)
so, when i make my millions, this is what i am going to do. i am going to decorate a giant christmas tree with real iPods, and then throw them all away at [...]
