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melting hot!

Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , on September 29, 2015 by xi'an

Despite majoring in her Physics class last year, my daughter forgot that microwaves are not very friendly to metal objects. Like this coffee tumbler I had brought back from Seattle, albeit not from Starbucks. The plastic part melted really well, even though the microwave oven resisted the experiment… And the coffee inside as well.

At Starbucks

Posted in Travel with tags , , , on August 4, 2010 by xi'an

Heard in the queue while waiting for a chai tea latte at Starbucks on the Vancouver waterfront: “…again going to Berlin, Paris, Geneva and London, all for work… Google has a problem in Europe, first it is not a European company, second they are worried about privacy, intellectual property, monopolies, all that…“