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Pet Peeve #367: People on Laptops at Starbucks

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Okay, listen, I have nothing against whipping out your iPhone or your BlackBerry and checking sports, weather, stocks, email, whatever when you’re in Starbucks. But who are these assholes who sit there for hours on end typing away on their Mac Airbooks? Always Macs, by the way. I mean, give me a break. What, you need to be seen out in the open writing to prove that you’re actually writing? Or do you just need to justify the $3k your parents spent on your laptop for college for you?

I would love to tip these jerks’ drinks onto their Airbooks and fry the circuitry.

The funniest thing is, if you go to Dunkin’ Donuts, you never see anybody “fake”-typing away at a laptop. I once saw a guy use one in DD’s, but he was actually working, believe it or not. And the reason people don’t generally use laptops in Dunkin’ Donuts is not, give me a break, because they do not have WiFi service available. It’s because their coffee is actually reasonably priced and tastes good, not just overpriced swill.

And yes, I do drink Starbuck’s coffee, but only one variety: I have an iced caramel machiatto. Those things are damn good. And I make them put like half the bottle of caramel in. For $4.55 a pop, they better put half the bottle of caramel in.

Added a picture to the About page

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Now you can look at my ugly mug any time you want to. I added a picture to the About page.

Grok on.

Blu atomizers now longer

Friday, March 12th, 2010

The people over at http://www.blucigs.com are now making their atomizers slightly differently. The ones I just got in the mail are significantly longer than the ones I received in my starter kit, meaning they produce more vapor, or at least one would hope so. Anyway, if you haven’t ordered an atomizer from them lately, you might want to get a couple new ones and see if they work better for you.

Boiling your atomizer

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Yes, it works, believe it or not. If you want to save a few bucks, and the atomizer on your e-cig isn’t pulling like it used to, drop it in boiling water for about 30 seconds, take it out with a spoon, dry it thoroughly, and then replace it back in the e-cig. Works pretty damn well. I have two new atomizers coming in the mail but I figured I’d try this out and it does indeed work.

Grok on.

Link to my twitter feed posted

Monday, March 8th, 2010

In the links column, now, you should see a link to my twitter updates, if you want to subscribe to those. You can also subscribe by following the link in this post: http://twitter.com/Kipstah.

Live long and prosper.

Open Call for Guest Bloggers

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

I’m interested in anyone who’d like to post a guest piece, on anything, really, if they want. Of course the best-case scenario would be someone with a differing political viewpont from mine. :-)

Reply to this post if you feel like contributing to kiplange.com! Any and all posts welcome! I’ll even edit them for you.

Saving money on Electronic Cigarettes by using your own “E-Juice”

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

I’ve learned, since starting use of my Blu e-cig, that it’s a lot cheaper to refill your own cartridges with liquid nicotine juice than to continue to buy the refill cartridges over and over again.

I have not tried this method myself yet, but I just ordered some E-Juice today from: http://www.electriccigarettestop.com/index.php?cPath=4

I’m hoping to be able to follow this step-by-step guide to refilling Blu cartridges in order to save some money on cartridge refill orders (scroll down the page to a bit to find the step-by-step guide).

I’ll keep you updated in the next month or so, when the E-Juice comes, as to how it works out, if it works out at all.

Orangutans or Chimpanzees poll back up…

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The all-important Orangutans or Chimpanzees poll has been put back up at the very bottom of the page (only place I could really think of putting it). Get your vote in now!

RSS feed should be up and running

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

After a little fiddling, you should be able to subscribe to my RSS feed again. Happy hunting!

It’s available at: http://kiplange.com/feed/

Kip out.

Timestamp and QOTD back up

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I put the quote of the day and the timestamp back up at the very top of the page. Enjoy.