Author Archive for dcdotnerd

Maximize Your Coffee: the ‘bucks

Let me start by saying this: support your local coffee shops. Let me also say that the worst decision Starbucks has ever made was to stop selling gingerbread lattes during red cup season. I LOVE GINGERBREAD LATTES. That said, Starbucks…

Maximize Your Coffee: Wawa

Here’s the thing about Wawa: Free Coffee Tuesdays. Wawa isn’t in the half mile radius around my house, but on the lazy-to-cost spectrum, I’m definitely willing to be less lazy in order to get free coffee. On Tuesdays*, that’s Wawa.…

Maximize Your Coffee: McDonald’s

I wrote a rantlet about McDonald’s coffee pricing on Facebook the other day, before starting this blog series. I am rewriting the rantlet here. As a connoisseur of cheap coffee, I have a fair amount of experience with McDonald’s coffee.…

Maximize Your Coffee: 7-eleven

I fell in love with 7-eleven coffee at some point shortly after moving to my current home. 7-eleven is extremely close to my house (not as close as ThreeFifty Bakery, which opened after I moved here, or as close as…

Thoughts on FOIA, Part 1

By the title of this post, I’m implying that my thoughts on FOIA will be a series. You know me. The next post in the series might not happen for a month or eleven. They are on my to-do list,…