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Coffee break: Come on and stir it up

One of the big dilemma I often face when I drink a cup of coffee  is to know what to do with the spoon I use to stir it (I like it with milk and sugar). This wouldn’t be an issue if I drank my coffee in a regular coffee-cup and its saucer where I could drop my spoon once I used it. But I am more of a mug-man than a granny-like-styled coffee drinker. Damn! Why can’t I do things like normal people do?!

Until today I then just had the choice between spoiling my desk with a dirty and sticky spoon or stick it in my eye every time I had a sip of my coffee.

Fortunately for me (and my ophthalmologist) there’s now a solution. Two young French designers created quite a clever “self-stirring cup” than can be used either for tea or coffee (I say). It’s a glass, actually, and it has a ceramic ball at the bottom that moves around and mixes the tea (or coffee!) as you lift the cup or swirl it gently. For those of you, who like me, hate or can’t afford losing time stirring their coffee with their two hands, this cup is revolutionary.

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Last but not least, the base of the glass protrudes enough so that when you lift the glass to drink, the ball never falls out and hits you in the teeth or end up in your stomach. Clever.

Who said that drinking coffee was a safe activity? Even George seems to have issues when it comes to resupplying in his nearest Nespresso shop.

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My advice: You should try and order online next time.

Coffee break

I just realized that in one of my last posts featuring the necessary tools a digital nomad per se should always carry with him (10 useful tools and tips to help you (better) work remotely!), I irresponsibly forgot one essential element we NEED wherever we work from. It is not exactly what I’d call a tool, nor a gear, or a working strategy. It is more than that. It is a habit for some people, and a deeply rooted daily ceremony for others. It is part of our (working) lives, just as much as the action of breathing.

I guess I could survive a day or two without it, but my productivity and mood would probably be affected by the lack of it. Just the idea of having one now, seems to have released some sparks in my brain. But I guess this is just a psychological Pavlovian side-effect.

There’s not a single blog which talks about digital nomads, mobile workers or telecommuters that hasn’t at least dedicated a post to that thing or made a reference to it.

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That’s right! Coffee is THE thing of mobile workers. THE thing that makes us enjoy working from home or a coffee shop, because we know that whatever we get, it will always be better than this dark, tepid and bitter “juice” we get at the office.

Hey, what do you expect from an engine which runs with cheap fuel? For sure, it won’t be NASCAR in your office (anyway, I’m not sure that even with a heavy dose of magic, the girls from HR or Finance will ever turn into into this)

Anyway. Just to say that coffee rules the days of million of mobile workers, coffee lovers or addicts. So why wouldn’t there be something about coffee on 52nd & West? Something that would feature the best news around coffee, coffee recipies & tips, the best coffee shops where to actually have a good coffee while surfing the web. Just the best tips from the best coffee lovers. FOR YOU!

And maybe George will be happy to share his own experience here some day…

But the best of all: it’s now time for a well deserved (coffee)break!!

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esPRESSivo. What else?

George who elseWhat I often miss, when I’m travelling the world Europe, is the taste of a Nespresso-like coffee wherever I have one (I mean a coffee). Every time I’m sitting in a restaurant, the decision to try or not to try their “local” coffee turns into a real dilemma. So I often end-up drinking a coke or something I know that will always more or less have the same taste should I be in in Beijing, Vienna, Paris or a small village in Himancham Pradesh. Continue Reading →

Design, wifi and café latte…

cafe-moebel-viennaIf you’re planning to spend some days in Vienna and if you’re tired of reading your emails or working out your next powerpoint presentation from an impersonal hotel lobby, the cafe Moebel is just the perfect place for you: this cute little café is central, quiet, the food is good (they make a delicious café latte!), they have a free broadband Internet wifi access, waiters and waitress are nice and last but not least, its interior is 100% design! All the furniture, seats, tables, lamps, etc. come directly from the famous design shop Das Moebel located a few blocks from the café itself. The shop showcases design creations by WerK, franz maurer, moor&moor, moca, mm interier, ellips and more others!

So if you fall in love with anything here in particular, you can just satisfy your need for design and good taste a few hundred meters down the street…

Personally I could not afford one single piece of furniture which is displayed here in this living showroom; but I can at least spend the day sitting on one of those €800 seats and spoil this beautiful €1,500 table I’m working on…

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Get there: http://www.dasmoebel.at/kontakt