New Home

Check out my new home: www.jimsthirdspace.com

 

I drink coffee for the caffeine

I never could figure out decaf coffee. Whenever I’m at a friend’s house for dinner or a party or just hanging out and they say, “we only have decaf, I hope that’s OK”, I want to scream, NO, NO, it’s not OK, I drink coffee for the caffeine.   Arrgh!

Well my decaf friends, guess what? Don’t go to Starbucks in the afternoon anymore.

Starbucks will no longer have decaf waiting on you in the afternoons. AND, by not having decaf for you, they are saving $400 million dollars a year.

How does that sound for a caffeinated stimulus plan!

 

Moving Over

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Come check me out

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Go vote, get caffine

Starbucks is giving out free coffee today to everyone that votes.

Do your civic duty, get caffinated!

 

it's Friday

I need another cup….

 

Moved to a new site

Jim’s Third Space has moved to www.jimsthirdspace.com.

 

Thirdspace in Nicaragua

Yes, Nicaragua does have third space venues, but they are definitely not what you find in North America. I went in a cyber-cafe and found a world of old pcs, older monitors (that the owners would beat on the back to keep the picture flickering on for you), temperatures that were in the mid 90’s, no door, and a steady stream of people coming in to get copies made on a fax machine. One of the best things I saw were power strips that were duct taped together then to a metal rack, that were completely loaded up.

While I was dripping in sweat watching the action, I started talking to one of the locals, Pablo Blanco. I asked him if it was always like this, and he said it was a great winter day in Nicaragua. Just another day in paradise.

Check out my latest light hearted looks at Mission Nicaragua in my Scrapbook.

 

Who's number one?

Heard some new numbers this week about coffee sales. It must be the “dog days of summer” when coffee sales are news worthy. (ever wonder where the dog days of summer came from) ?

In 2006, Starbucks was the place where more Americans bought cups of coffee than any other place. Then in 2007, a new number one took over, Dunkin Donuts, shoving Starbucks to number two. Then, in 2008, Dunkin Donuts was a repeat at number one, but McDonalds came in at number two pushing Starbucks down to number three. Does anyone see a trend here?

No wonder Starbucks is taking a long hard look at themselves. It’ll be interesting to see how they come out of this time of testing. I think the long term outlook is great with some short term inconveniences.

Maybe the other players (coffee sellers) have shoved them down in sells, but I don’t see a surge in groups of people building community at Dunkin Donuts (except for Cops and Firemen), or other people rushing to McDonalds to surf the net, and talk to a Barrister, who can actually be engaged in a conversation.

Yes the coffee costs more, but it’s all about the presentation, the atmosphere, the community.

Do you want to wipe up Happy Meal residue or listen to McCartney, JT, or Bono?

What do you want, a Walkman or an Ipod?

 

I stole this post from Maria's blog

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