Just been forwarded an excellent comparative analysis of various Internet Institutes’ coffee mugs as blogged by Christian Sandvig: Institutional Dynamics of Internet Studies as Revealed by Coffee Mugs. And we actually come out fine, I think? In his photograph our mug does look about the size of a thimble, but that might be the perspective.
Soooo … the subject of coffee being newly placed in my mind I asked Tim (who has access to STATS for the OII library’s coffee machine) for an update on what’s hot and what’s not. And thanks to Excel, there is a graph. (No time component however; therefore no trending or sense of how much is actually being drunk: that’s apparently beyond a coffee machine’s data handling capacity.)
A nice graph of fairly meaningless data
So, my favourite (the ‘cappuchinochoco’) is not actually amazingly popular. And 22 people asked for ‘hot water’ (or maybe one persistent user). Tim assures me that it might actually be the coffee machine man skewing the data by running hot water through when he repairs it. But maybe there are people out there who just happen to like hot water. Also, picking up on the ‘effete / European’ theme … ‘cafe au lait’ seems vastly more popular than ‘white coffee’?
According to the OII library page: ‘All members of the University are invited to use our library for research and study’, and I guess it should add ‘and access a range of hot beverages including cafe au lait and hot water’. The library is open Monday to Friday (09.00-16.50) during Term and Vacation. Bodleian card holders can take out books. All the books are catalogued on OLIS. The coffee is FairTrade.
And those are all my coffee thoughts for this month.
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1 response so far ↓
1 niftyc // Nov 3, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Nope I’m afraid I have your mug right here. It is actually the size of a thimble. Everything is larger in the USA, my friend!
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