>>>I will usually nurse a cup of coffee all day. I kind of like it cold.

Real programmer's coffee starts as hot and ends up as cold... because you sip as you work and usually forget about it.

Test question: once your cup is empty, how many times you still reach for it before you do something about it?

>>Thats another thing I've always wondered. How many people here are actually hard core coffee drinkers? I've never gotten into it, which is surprising considering everywhere I go there are three or four coffee stands in view.
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>>Will cheap gourmet coffee be the ciggerettes of this millenia?

Mike, it's coffee and cigarettes, at least where I come from. To offer a smoker a coffee in a no-smoking place is, well, like offering someone to test-drive a 400W stereo in a library. While I had the chance, I took my coffee outside so I could have a smoke with it. But then, I say it's coming from a different culture, where coffee is something you take a break for, and is usually a pretext for a little chit-chat over it; you don't drink it alone and surely don't take it for a walk.

Keyboard-side coffee is actually a completely different beast from the social-side coffee. In situations where these were mixed like working at user's site and having a coffee with the staff at the same time, someone would usually tell me to "stop working a little and drink that coffee with us".

>You must not drink it. Gourmet coffee isn't cheap! Starbucks is a billion+ dollar venture.

De gustibus non est disputandum - but then Starbucks isn't bad at all. You know, had I not tried coffee in Russia and Romania, I would have thought Hungarians made the worst. American coffee (including Starbucks) is rated somewhere like fourth-worst I tried. Us Yugos are really spoiled with coffee; we can import lowest-end computers, drive junk cars 13 years old (average from roadside checks), but we must have top quality coffee. And it's not the way you make it - I've drank filter coffee in Germany and Netherlands and it was quite OK - it's the choice of what you accept as good, meaning "you" as the whole market here. I once had a pack of coffee imported here from Bosnia, and guess what - I recognized by smell that it was different, and it did taste like home (so it's not the water either).
All those special tastes added (almonds, hazel, whatever) are just coverups - and that's why I drink NesCafe. It's exactly the same as in Europe.

I am a spoiled coffee brat.