Ok, the wait is over. This will be the last post for this (old) blog, so you’ll have to update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to the new Zoinger. The new blog is located here (http://www.zoinger.com/words/) and the new RSS feed is located here (http://www.zoinger.com/words/feed/).

The index page for this (old) blog will now be located here (http://www.zoinger.com/old_blog.html) if you are interested in reading any of my old posts. I’ll also have this linked to from the sidebar of the new blog.

The lines at Starbucks are so annoyingly long at times. You wait, and wait, and wait and just before you get to the register, the person in front of you proceeds to order some super-complex six-adjective custom drink from hell that has all of the staff stumped. After five minutes of back-and-forth, they’re finally ready to take your order.

Are you tired of this? Well, now you can fight back! You too can annoy everyone in the store by dreaming up the most verbose custom coffee order possible.

How might you do this you ask? Well, lucky for you I picked up this little gem of a booklet called Make It Your Drink (sort of like this site, but much more detailed) at Starbucks recently. It’s got tons of really obscure coffee adjectives sure to puzzle even longtime Starbucks baristi. Like, what the heck is “Con Panna” anyway? Well, it’s it’s Italian for “with whipped cream,” of course!

For your first installment of Starbucks annoyance ammunition, I’ve included the first two pages from the Learning the Lingo section (the image is linked to a larger shot you can actually read).

So get out there and start doing your part to make those Starbucks queues move even slower.

P.S. This post is really all about testing my new Canon MultiPASS MP390 scanner/faxer/printer all-in-one thingamajig.

Here’s a photo taken with my Audiovox SMT5600 going about 60mph through the passenger window, so it’s not the best photo.

However, you can see that the reservoir is chalk-a-block full.

I remember someone telling me how the local kids used to jump off the pipeline that you can barely see in this photo. I thought he was kidding, since the pipeline is usually over dry land. Not this year however.

Yippie! I’ve finally made the switch to WordPress for my blogging software! It took a while to accomplish, because I wanted to get familiar with how WordPress works. In addition, I had to install the Text Control WordPress plugin to make posting easier and change the look-and-feel a bit by downloading and modifying a WordPress theme.

If you are interested in finding a post from my old MovableType blog, I’ve include links to the old home page in the sidebar on the left (the search box for the old blog is located on the old home page). In addition, I’ve added links to the monthly archives of the old blog.