The "results" are IN. OBAMA's the 44th President of the United States of America... Which also means, the whole world zooms in on him for the next few years -- or so. He just finished his acceptance speech. I was having goosebumps as I hear his eloquence. One thing I really admire about this g...

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Grande Hot Mocha for Hazel! I used to hear this DAILY when I was still working for my former company. I'm not exactly a starbucks shmuck, but it's open 24 hours on our building and I don't really have the patience to keep brewing coffee :p Besides, I love mocha and if I don't have patience brewin...

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Hello there! haven't seen you in MONTHS! I hope you still recognize me though :p It's gonna be a very long story if I tell you where I've been and quite a lot of cups of coffee(or maybe just an extremely huge cup :p) Care for a little bit of a chit chat while I open up shop? With a cup of coff...

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Oh darn, here it is, half past Sunday and neigh on to Monday. Geez, where did the weekend go? It was here just a minute ago. I have a piping hot mug of green tea, spiced with ginseng and dash of genuine artificial non-carcinogenic sweetener ~ Im nearly ready to trudge off to the Coffee Quip and ...

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Hey, welcome fellow caffeine sots. Sometimes a hot beverage and a snack can't help soothe the savage beast we know as the political pundit, so, here's some pointers gleaned from the sages that frequent the Coffee Quip served up fresh and warm. The art of personality begins when you can appreciat...

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Hey, gmorning and welcome. Here in Alaska, coffee reigns supreme as the hot drink of choice among city dwelling merchants and bush bear trappers. But this isnt always the case, many of the tundra dwellers of the arctic interior and coastal regions prefer the following beverage, brace yourself f...

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Gmorning, and welcome. Finally, life moves onward and upward. Tishas burns are improving and healing, but remain ever so painful for her. Fish have been caught, prepared and await their final fate in a freezer, the cycle of life continues on. The last few weeks have put me at odds with many fo...

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Hi, have you ever had a well intentioned act go horribly wrong and injure someone you love? Up early a few days ago and working away on a project, smoking fish caught earlier in the week, inspiration laid me low. Missing my wife, Tisha, I decided to wake her up with some fresh hot coffee, ready ...

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Hey, welcome to the Coffee Quip. One of the things that educators know that employers seem to ignore is the value of a break from the dreadful pressure and god awful tedium of most jobs. Most jobs defined: Those fields which arent even close to the cutting edge of career opportunities. While i...

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Friends, my much vaunted French Coffee Press, pal and steadfast bastion of friendship and dependability, suffered a terminal fracture this AM at the hands of yours truly. And sadly, has since translated to that Coffee Quip in the sky. Simple funeral services were held at home for this dear old f...

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Hey, welcome to the Coffee Quip, c'mon in and get comfortable. The only way to start your day is with cup in hand. One of the many things I love about early mornings with Tisha is our coffee ritual and quiet time, most often spent starring out of our window and sipping at our very hot beverages...

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Hello everyone, cmon in and order up some Bombe Alaska, and something exotic in a hot beverage. Ive got some extra time on my hands today, but cant figure out why. Odd that, Ive probably forgotten something urgent that I need to do, but I guess itll have to wait until the memory muse returns....

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Hey guys, good to see you. Ive been watching the news and following that upstart coffee shop wannabe, Starbucks. They can open more stores, hire more employees and serve more java, but they will never surpass the quirky raw sexiness of the Coffee Quip. Heres my take on their hapless situatio...

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Wow, this has been quite the week already fellow caffeine addled friends. I am resting here at my computer station with a giant mug, which is filled with a delightful Japanese green tea and Ginseng with a tiny spoonful of sweetener. Yup, here I sit, savoring, sipping and gritching to myself. ...

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Wow, when I muse about coffee, and its import to my mornings, its always with a mug filled to the brim with the hot, freshly brewed elixir of the Gods in hand, perfectly flavored, with my cream stirred in ever so gently that there isnt a chance in the world of it bruising. Tisha wi...

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