On the way back from lunch the other day we were discussing places to get coffee. The place we had just been, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, had refreshingly clear names for things like Small, Medium, and Large for sizes.
We soon launched into assigning geekness to coffee places. Here's what we came up with.
Starbucks is Windows
Peets is Mac OS
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is Linux
Doughnut shops & gas stations are DOS
Work coffee is AS400 mainframe
Wrong? Right? Better suggestions?
So you home coffee pot coffee would be? CPM-80??
Posted by: Doc [http://www.seadoc.net] on May 21, 2003 06:03 PMummm.....I don't want to be the nitpicker here...but....I thought you were off of caffeine?
Posted by: gesikah [http://www.lifewithageek.com] on May 21, 2003 08:20 PMHome coffee is and embedded hardware OS like VXWorks
I am off the caffiene. For the most part.
I tried a Morrocan Mint Latte, which I was assured had a minimal amount of caffiene from the tea.
Posted by: Michael [http://cruftbox.com] on May 21, 2003 11:59 PMIt is late, so I am probably missing something obvious, but why is Pete's Mac OS?
Posted by: jmv [http://www.octopushat.com] on May 22, 2003 12:26 AMPeet's is Mac OS because Peet's drinkers hate Starbucks like Mac people hate Microsoft.
Posted by: Michael [http://cruftbox.com] on May 22, 2003 12:28 AMStarbucks is very, very good but is overpriced. In that sense, Starbucks is Apple. (I realize that's a company, not an OS, but the analogy holds)
Posted by: Mister P. [http://misterp.blogspot.com] on May 22, 2003 10:07 AM