Showing posts with label Kiran's latte art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiran's latte art. Show all posts
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The paws that refreshes![/caption]
The Kermode bear is best known as a "spirit bear" for it's white or cream-coloured coat. This rare subspecies of the North American Black Bear is found in the central and north coast of British Columbia -- if you can find it at all. You shouldn't expect to see it very often in Fairview coffee houses.
The paws that refreshes![/caption]The Kermode bear is best known as a "spirit bear" for it's white or cream-coloured coat. This rare subspecies of the North American Black Bear is found in the central and north coast of British Columbia -- if you can find it at all. You shouldn't expect to see it very often in Fairview coffee houses.
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I guess they did promise their child at least a flower garden. Promise kept.[/caption]
I watched a mother and father help their young daughter plant this very small garden patch. It's very small, and haphazard, and bumps right up against the dumpster in the lane. I've enjoyed watching it grow. Like they say, flowers never disappoint. And speaking of leafy natural goodness, here;s today's latte art from Waves Coffee barista Kiran -- something from her flowery, Paisley period.
I guess they did promise their child at least a flower garden. Promise kept.[/caption]
I watched a mother and father help their young daughter plant this very small garden patch. It's very small, and haphazard, and bumps right up against the dumpster in the lane. I've enjoyed watching it grow. Like they say, flowers never disappoint. And speaking of leafy natural goodness, here;s today's latte art from Waves Coffee barista Kiran -- something from her flowery, Paisley period.
No llama loaf to be had at Waves coffee today, barista Kiran served up plain old banana loaf, but she more than made her "cute" quota by brew'in up one of her whimsical bruin-topped dark mochas. I'm spoiled.
What was brewin' at Waves Coffee? Another bruin-topped Mocha, of course. I think Kiran, the un-bear-ably clever barista, has all but perfected her latte art technique on this one. How quickly the extraordinary can become ordinary. I'm already pining for a panda. Don't forget, it's always delicious, no matter what it looks like. Click the top image to see it larger.
Waves barista Kiran has outdone herself! Usually, when I post a photo of a coffee I've had at Waves coffee, on West Broadway and Spruce, I tag it as a secondary item at the end of some other post, but today Kiran's dark mocha creation takes first place.
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Scofflaw Dell in all it's shiny, 64-bit glory. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]
After cashing out bottles today, I stopped in to see a friend. He was having a problem with his shiny Dell laptop. I asking him why he was on a Microsoft page describing something called the "Windows Genuine Advantage." He closed the page to reveal the black desktop of non-genuineness, with the little white text in the bottom right-hand corner: "This copy of Windows is not genuine." I knew he'd had to recently replace his hard drive, so it was easy to guess what had happened -- His original hard drive failed, taking with it, the Windows 7 restore partition. The company he took the laptop to, installed a new hard drive, and installed a pirated copy of Windows 7, a week-or-three went by, and the inevitable black screen appeared.
It's a trivial fix (Google "remove WAT"), but it was a needlessly unethical thing the company did to him. if he hadn't happened to have a similarly unethical friend, He might have taken the black screen problem back to the same company, who I expect, would've charged him to fix the problem. They should have told him straight up, about the choice between buying or pirating Windows 7. He would have likely asked how much to switch to Windows 8 -- Ka-ching!
This also illustrates my dislike for restore partitions -- if they're useless in a hard drive failure, they're useless period; how many people take the time to make backup DVDs off the restore partition? And, I see Apple has gone over to restore partitions. Good for them -- bad for their customers.
My beautifully decorated, and delicious dark mocha, at Waves, was instrumental in restoring my general sang froid. Click the mocha to enlarge it. ►
Scofflaw Dell in all it's shiny, 64-bit glory. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]After cashing out bottles today, I stopped in to see a friend. He was having a problem with his shiny Dell laptop. I asking him why he was on a Microsoft page describing something called the "Windows Genuine Advantage." He closed the page to reveal the black desktop of non-genuineness, with the little white text in the bottom right-hand corner: "This copy of Windows is not genuine." I knew he'd had to recently replace his hard drive, so it was easy to guess what had happened -- His original hard drive failed, taking with it, the Windows 7 restore partition. The company he took the laptop to, installed a new hard drive, and installed a pirated copy of Windows 7, a week-or-three went by, and the inevitable black screen appeared.
It's a trivial fix (Google "remove WAT"), but it was a needlessly unethical thing the company did to him. if he hadn't happened to have a similarly unethical friend, He might have taken the black screen problem back to the same company, who I expect, would've charged him to fix the problem. They should have told him straight up, about the choice between buying or pirating Windows 7. He would have likely asked how much to switch to Windows 8 -- Ka-ching!
This also illustrates my dislike for restore partitions -- if they're useless in a hard drive failure, they're useless period; how many people take the time to make backup DVDs off the restore partition? And, I see Apple has gone over to restore partitions. Good for them -- bad for their customers.My beautifully decorated, and delicious dark mocha, at Waves, was instrumental in restoring my general sang froid. Click the mocha to enlarge it. ►
Earlier I posted that the new space-themed Canadian $5 bills looked like Jetsons money. On second though, I think they look a lot more like scratch-and-win tickets.
I wrote this on a beautiful, sunny, Spring day, sitting in the Waves coffee house at West Broadway and Spruce while I enjoyed one of barista Kiran's artistic, and delicious dark mochas.
After cashing in bottles, I rode back Westward, my trailer flaunting it's Creamsicle-orange butt in the bright spring sunshine, to the Waves coffee house at West Broadway and Spruce. My coffee order is too predictable: Large dark mocha, extra-hot, with a slice of banana loaf. The owner punches it in, then laughs, "Ha ha! It came out as 'extra-hoot.'"
That is funny. It's Welfare cheque day in the big city, and a lot of my binning brethren get said government cheese, and will be downtown today getting just that -- an extra hoot. Enjoy yourselves boys and girls. Don't hurry back.
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