Tuesday, March 05, 2002


what's that stuff you put in your coffee?

i mean, we usually call it "milk." but nowadays people are foaming up soy, almond, all kinds of vegetable products and adding to the world's favorite beverage.

in this big world of coffee whiteners, as the jargon has it, cow's milk still rules in my little red book. the problem is how to keep it cold safely if you're in a public situation.

as long-time readers may recall, i've been making coffee in office for my little workgroup. we pretty much all take milk, and for that end, i've got a an off-the-harware-store-shelf cheapo thermos that i put the milk in. but i have to confess that by about 2pm, that milk's warm. and warm milk isn't always good-tasting, pleasant-smelling, or even the safest milk.

thus when this little gadget came to my attention, it did catch my eye. i'm talking about the cool moo. it's a little box that holds a carton of milk. freeze the box, slip the milk into it, and the milk stays cold for hours and hours.

sure it's obvious, a little expensive, and maybe you don't like web sites that moo at you. but boy howdy could i use one in my office.

well, i could have. lately we've had a shortage of space and i now lack an electrical outlet for heating the water in my kettle. it's a crisis, i tell you, a crisis!

can you imagine -- a small band of desperate people, deprived of their french-press illy? so far our spirits are high, but how much longer can we realistically hold out on that cheap robusta the office coffee service is pushing through a clogged machine whose water temperature no way comes near the requisite 195 degrees?

watch this space, people. it could get grim. . .

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