Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 18, 2014 15:47:06 GMT -5
So, I've been using the same coffee cup for four years now. I felt that I've needed a new cup. So...Recently, we went to the Natural History Museum ( a fave place to go, namely the dinosaur area) and I found a new cup that does a really cool thing when you add hot liquid to it:  It just...It just makes me happy! Thought I'd share and maybe make someone else happy! It has a Brachiosaurus on the other side, and on this side it has a Tyrannosaurus and a Deinonychus! (At least I THINK it's a Deinonychus - it looks like one anyway!) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 15:53:21 GMT -5
i was using it for my nicotine habit. :-) Snuff/dip/smokeless tobacco is what I would imagine shooting heroin is like. Unlike smoking (and why it's got no real hold on me) dip gets right to your bloodstream via saliva. It's an instant nicotine fix. And if out find something with good flavor like Copenhagen was to me, it's enjoyable and exhilarating. And after that description I realize just how hooked I was. I've always assumed dip would burn, because I remember getting tobacco in my mouth rolling sweets and it was the worst taste/feeling. I know it's different, but I just can't shake it. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 19, 2014 2:04:37 GMT -5
I have a very nice Hulk and Iron Man mug, but they're far too small to satisfy my ravenous love of Dunkin' Donuts coffee, so they're relegated to collectors item status. I've been hunting for a good comic themed mug for some time, and I've always enjoyed risking impalement while drinking hot beverages, so I might go with this keen Loki mug if I can find one:  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 19, 2014 8:06:23 GMT -5
So, I've been using the same coffee cup for four years now. I felt that I've needed a new cup. So...Recently, we went to the Natural History Museum ( a fave place to go, namely the dinosaur area) and I found a new cup that does a really cool thing when you add hot liquid to it: It just...It just makes me happy! Thought I'd share and maybe make someone else happy! It has a Brachiosaurus on the other side, and on this side it has a Tyrannosaurus and a Deinonychus! (At least I THINK it's a Deinonychus - it looks like one anyway!) That mug is cool. I'm gonna have to look at the Museum here when I take the boys. It's a frequent stop for them in the winter a lot since the zoo isn't as fun when it's cold. In comparison to the Tyrannosaurus, it certainly looks like a deinonychus. They were one of the larger, if not the largest of the carnivorous Dromaeosauridae. The popularized Velociraptor was much smaller, not what Speilburg trumped up for his movie. As the kid said in the movie "looks like a six foot turkey to me". If I remember correctly that's a bout the size of a Velociraptor, a turkey. |
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Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 19, 2014 12:36:18 GMT -5
So, I've been using the same coffee cup for four years now. I felt that I've needed a new cup. So...Recently, we went to the Natural History Museum ( a fave place to go, namely the dinosaur area) and I found a new cup that does a really cool thing when you add hot liquid to it: It just...It just makes me happy! Thought I'd share and maybe make someone else happy! It has a Brachiosaurus on the other side, and on this side it has a Tyrannosaurus and a Deinonychus! (At least I THINK it's a Deinonychus - it looks like one anyway!) That mug is cool. I'm gonna have to look at the Museum here when I take the boys. It's a frequent stop for them in the winter a lot since the zoo isn't as fun when it's cold. In comparison to the Tyrannosaurus, it certainly looks like a deinonychus. They were one of the larger, if not the largest of the carnivorous Dromaeosauridae. The popularized Velociraptor was much smaller, not what Speilburg trumped up for his movie. As the kid said in the movie "looks like a six foot turkey to me". If I remember correctly that's a bout the size of a Velociraptor, a turkey. Definitely should! It's a cool investment! I'm glad it is for them! Personally, I adore Museums and Zoos, and it makes me happy when I hear that other people love going! And, yeah you're right. When I was little, Jurassic Park didn't fool me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the "movie-ization" of the Velociraptor and I get the reasoning behind making them so large, but...It wasn't realistic, and that sort of disappointed me. I love the feathers they added in the third movie. It is my favorite dinosaur, next to the Utahraptor and the Plesiosaurs. And, yeah, size of a turkey:  The Utahraptor is just...huge. But, cool! I take it you like dinosaurs, too? |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 19, 2014 14:12:21 GMT -5
Oh yeah I was heavy into dinosaurs for as young as I can remember. Between the normal fascination with nature and animals coupled with the old science fiction I watched like Beast From 20000 Fathoms by the time Jurassic Park came out I knew better too. An enjoyable film , but even aside the scientific inaccuracies, very different from the source material in characterizations.
I still have assorted collections of dinosaur books I've accumulated in times past. I got them out once not too long ago when one of my boys was quizzing me and I realized how even from then in the 80s and into the early 90s how the science has changed. I still keep mj eyes open for documentaries on Netflix and subscribe to National Geographic on YouTube. The internet makes it a lot easier to keep up on new discoveries and theories that I haven't bought and new books on dinosaurs. But I still enjoy reading about them. Spinosaurus seems to be getting a lot of attention academically and in entertainment. But Baryonx will always be my #1 pick.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 14:59:51 GMT -5
Love novelty mugs...interesting piece of symbolism n'est ce pas? Darth Vader comes with a helmet lid to keep the brew steaming hot quite a bit longer. I got this as a birthday pressie   |
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Post by impulse on Oct 19, 2014 16:22:59 GMT -5
Having the Veranda blend, which is a lighter roast and much more suitable to my palate than their usual Pike Place. Wouldn't normally spend $2.25 on a cup of coffee, but someone gave me a $25 gift card, so, hey, free coffee for me! I agree. The blonde roast is the way to go at Starbucks. I actually really dislike the Pike. If I recall what I read correctly, it was their "middle of the road" roast they released a few years ago to address people who thought their regular stuff was too bitter. Rather than making a balanced cup, I felt they stripped away the good and left the bad qualities of their regular stuff. Worst of both worlds. At least before, you knew Starbucks was an intense flavor, but it had its own distinct appeal. For the Pike they filtered out any of the rest of the flavor and just left the blah and the bitter. That Veranda, though, good stuff. Or as close to good stuff as Starbucks does.  And yes, gift cards are great. I always seem to get a Starbucks gift card several times throughout the year. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 19:14:50 GMT -5
We stopped at a Tim Horton's this morning on the way out to a family function because I wanted a cup of coffee. I ordered a large decaf light and sweet and my wife got some pumpkin spice Timbits, we get out to the car and I take a sip, and the coffee is straight black. I go back in and look around thinking, maybe there was a station to add what you wanted to your coffee that I missed. Nope. So I go back to the counter and have to wait in line again, get up to the front and I tell the same girl-I ordered this light and sweet, but it's black. She looks at me without any comprehension and asks, oh did that mean you wanted a little sugar in it?
Gah! How can you serve coffee and not know what to do when a customer asks for light and sweet? Really? I mean there aren't a lot of requirements to work serving coffee in a Tim Horton's but knowing what to add to the coffee to meet the customer's order should be one of them.
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Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 8:29:04 GMT -5
Oh yeah I was heavy into dinosaurs for as young as I can remember. Between the normal fascination with nature and animals coupled with the old science fiction I watched like Beast From 20000 Fathoms by the time Jurassic Park came out I knew better too. An enjoyable film , but even aside the scientific inaccuracies, very different from the source material in characterizations. I still have assorted collections of dinosaur books I've accumulated in times past. I got them out once not too long ago when one of my boys was quizzing me and I realized how even from then in the 80s and into the early 90s how the science has changed. I still keep mj eyes open for documentaries on Netflix and subscribe to National Geographic on YouTube. The internet makes it a lot easier to keep up on new discoveries and theories that I haven't bought and new books on dinosaurs. But I still enjoy reading about them. Spinosaurus seems to be getting a lot of attention academically and in entertainment. But Baryonx will always be my #1 pick. I am extremely excited to have found a fellow dinosaur enthusiast! I can't find many people who share that trait with me. I've always loved dinosaurs from a young age, too. Mine was coupled with cryptozoology as well. And, I agree! I love watching the Trilogy, despite inaccuracies. Which one is your favorite? Same here! I love books on dinosaurs. Even though it's different now, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker is a personal favorite! Have you read that? And, too, a thankful for the Internet in this aspect. I can keep up so much better nowadays! I think the Spinosaurus is really cool! I admit that I wasn't as familiar with it until Jurassic Park III! And, the Baronyx is super cool!! A good one to have as a favorite! I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 8:39:46 GMT -5
I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! Don't. Par for the course, IMHO, with any dynamic community in which everyone isn't forced into lockstep. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 8:43:46 GMT -5
I still have fond memories of at least two of the dinosaur books from the town library that I pored over as a child. One was for kids just learning to read (which I was), judging from the book's physical specs, the other for probably kids around 10 or so, which I would've been at the time I discovered it. Yet another reason I hope someday -- maybe this year? -- to time my annual December trip to & from the Shreveport area & my SW Arkansas hometown to include an extra weekday (it's not open on weekends) so I can visit the library (now in a glitzy newish building maybe 20 yards away from the little WPA-built log-cabin style structure I read so many books out of growing up) & see what fondly remembered books from childhood might still be on the shelves ...
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2014 9:54:41 GMT -5
Oh yeah I was heavy into dinosaurs for as young as I can remember. Between the normal fascination with nature and animals coupled with the old science fiction I watched like Beast From 20000 Fathoms by the time Jurassic Park came out I knew better too. An enjoyable film , but even aside the scientific inaccuracies, very different from the source material in characterizations. I still have assorted collections of dinosaur books I've accumulated in times past. I got them out once not too long ago when one of my boys was quizzing me and I realized how even from then in the 80s and into the early 90s how the science has changed. I still keep mj eyes open for documentaries on Netflix and subscribe to National Geographic on YouTube. The internet makes it a lot easier to keep up on new discoveries and theories that I haven't bought and new books on dinosaurs. But I still enjoy reading about them. Spinosaurus seems to be getting a lot of attention academically and in entertainment. But Baryonx will always be my #1 pick. I am extremely excited to have found a fellow dinosaur enthusiast! I can't find many people who share that trait with me. I've always loved dinosaurs from a young age, too. Mine was coupled with cryptozoology as well. And, I agree! I love watching the Trilogy, despite inaccuracies. Which one is your favorite? Same here! I love books on dinosaurs. Even though it's different now, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker is a personal favorite! Have you read that? And, too, a thankful for the Internet in this aspect. I can keep up so much better nowadays! I think the Spinosaurus is really cool! I admit that I wasn't as familiar with it until Jurassic Park III! And, the Baronyx is super cool!! A good one to have as a favorite! I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! I drank three cups for black Folgers with sugar and may have another. There now that I have contributed to the thread subject .... It's interesting you mention crytozoology, as I am not vastly educated in it, I do enjoy pursuing the subject. As most know here, as far as similar subject to that, I more pour over UFOs and alien abductions. (I read more than I post, but The Black Vault is one of the few other message boards I participate in, which has many similar subjects as UFOs and cryptozoology.) As far as the JP movies, I like the original a lot just because of it being the first "modern" dinosaur movie with some incredible special effects. But as I mentioned, having read the book long after I watched the movie, it actually deflated my enthusiasm for the movie. I like the characterizations in the book far more than the movie. And of course was isn't kick ass about almost everything in III? Tyrannosaurus vs Spinosaurus ... Pteranodons ... Ceratosaurus ... the patented over sized Velociraptors out smarting humans to protect their young ... it's like the ALIENS of JP movies. I have not read that. I'll have to give it a look at the library to see if they have it. Is it a non-fiction or fictional book? Another favorite, mostly from one of the first pictures I remember seeing in a book, is Drytosaurus. This painting of Charles Knight always sticks in my mind as cool, since at the time, still, dinosaurs were still consider huge lethargic creatures. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 20, 2014 11:23:18 GMT -5
I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a kid, so much so that I was going to be an archaeologist when I grew up!!! I mean, I didn't become one, but what did that kid know? And, um, I brewed my own columbian coffee before work. It was nice.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 20, 2014 15:46:58 GMT -5
Sitting at Starbucks at 6:30 AM on a Saturday because I woke up two hours ago and couldn't get back to sleep. I've already done my grocery shopping for the week, and now I'm killing time to let my wife and daughters sleep longer before I go home with the bags of food and start making noise while putting them away. Having the Veranda blend, which is a lighter roast and much more suitable to my palate than their usual Pike Place. Wouldn't normally spend $2.25 on a cup of coffee, but someone gave me a $25 gift card, so, hey, free coffee for me! Hey, thanks. You just reminded me I got a Starbucks e-gift card last year as a thanks from a user whose computer I fixed. As I recall, it should still have a few bucks on it. I'll have to check to see if my wife still has it. (Obviously I don't go there very often either) |
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And yes, gift cards are great. I always seem to get a Starbucks gift card several times throughout the year.
