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[magid]

On a coffee mug: Instant human, just add coffee!

A new mural on the Cambridge Rindge and Latin building showing teens doing a variety of activities. It's not signed or labeled, so I'm not sure who painted it, or why.

Two men with their beards in braids. A new fashion?

Some kind of black mushrooms, trumpet shaped, at the farmer's market. Foraged, far too expensive to buy, but interesting to see.


Also, I've discovered what's more frustrating than seeing the train pull out as you get to the platform: the train then stopping just before the end of the platform and sitting there in great humidity while five trains go by in the other direction.

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[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Two men with their beards in braids. A new fashion?

Maybe they're pirates?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Both were at the library. Book pirates?

Oh, and

[magid.livejournal.com]

One of them had two braids side by side, which made me think of inverted devil horns coming out of his chin.

[jarel.livejournal.com]

The coffee mug amuses me :)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a coffee mug ensuring continued employment :-)

[jarel.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I have one at work that says "What evil shall I do today?". (But, okay, the other I have at work says "Caffeine addict. Please refill!")

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

>> On a coffee mug: Instant human, just add coffee!

Years ago, I saw a comic strip that went like this:

First panel, two small children sit at the kitchen table across from their scruffy, rumpled, groggy, bleary-eyed father.

Second panel, children watch as father lifts cup to his lips.

Third panel, father is no longer rumple, looks alert. One child asks, "What's Daddy's drinking?" Second child answers, "That's coffee. It turns grown-ups into people."

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only (nominal) grown-up who doesn't drink coffee!
(or any other caffeinated beverages with any regularity)

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Well, you can't be the only one -- I generally don't drink coffee. Not because I don't like it, but because I do. Several years ago, I fell into a bad pattern of drinking about a pot of coffee each day. I liked it so much I went a teensy bit overboard. It messed up my sleep pattern badly enough that I just made myself stop drinking it. I've been off caffeine ever since, though I did make the occasional pot of decaf before pregnancy began doing odd things to my stomach.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I remember my mom realizing how hooked she'd gotten on coffee, with the cup at breakfast, and the cup each time the coffee wagon came around at work, morning and afternoon. Except that the route came by her cube twice each time, so she was averaging at least 5 cups a day....

I never developed a taste for coffee (though the smell is pleasant, when not industrial strength).

I think it's Mark Helprin who wrote a novel about one guy who doesn't drink coffee, and his unshakeable belief that people were being controlled by their coffee habits, that there was some kind of big coffee conspiracy or something.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I think it was Memoir from Antproof Case.

I like coffee. I used to drink a lot more. But I'm still addicted, which is sad.

Memoir from Antproof Case

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes, that it. Thanks. I kept thinking I should like it a bit more than I did, if only for the coffee thing. Perhaps I should reread it...

I tried coffee a couple of times, but it never tasted good. The last time I remember trying it since 'everyone' drinks coffee was espresso on la Tour Eiffel. I didn't like it (and didn't think about how espresso was probably not the ideal starter coffee :-), and decided not to bother again. Probably I'm too old now to develop a taste for it.

Re: Memoir from Antproof Case

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

I tried coffee several times over the years and didn't like it. Then I tried it without sugar. (I'd always used cream and sugar on my previous attempts.) And without sugar, I discovered I adore it!

PS

[magid.livejournal.com]

Are coffee-flavored things enough coffee-like to give you some of the taste without the side effect? Or is it merely travesty?

Re: PS

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

It's not travesty, but it is different. I'm very fond of coffee-flavored yogurt, for example, but it doesn't taste much like actual coffee to me. When I really get a hankering for coffee, decaf fills the hole just fine.

[fj.livejournal.com]

Even the tea I drink is decaf.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Now I have to wonder what you'd be like on caffeine...