Starbucks Gossip has the list. Here’s the damage Nebraska will be suffering:
11527 HWY 370 & 36TH 3811 TWIN CREEK DR BELLEVUE NE
13626 23RD & CLARKSON 610 E 23RD ST FREMONT NE
11270 2ND & W 42 ST 4116 2ND AVE KEARNEY NE
9883 120TH & BLONDO 2012 N 117TH AVE OMAHA NE
11528 CENTER & 63RD 6303 CENTER ST OMAHA NE
11529 HWY 370 & 72ND 1423 PAPILLION DR PAPILLION NE
11805 72ND & GILES 8440 S 72ND ST PAPILLION NE
Wondering if your local Starbucks is on the chopping block? Wonder no more. Consumerist has the list. For those of us in Nebraska, the only one closing so far is the one in Bellevue.
#11527 – hwy 370 & 36th
3811 Twin Creek DR
Bellevue, NE
Mary and the girls showed up from CO this morning at 2:45am. I just got back from Starbucks to find this gem from Unshelved:
Karen Hyman, South Jersey Library Cooperative
Columbus Public Library, Columbus, NE
Breakout groups: Five things your library can do to surprise your customers
Just send a text message of your zipcode to MYSBUX (697289) and you’ll get back the phone numbers and addresses of the local Starbucks. Caffeine here I come!
I remembered earlier today that I previously posted a list of the “professional” podcasts I listened to and promised a list of “personal” podcasts. Well here it is.
I’m giving a workshop next week in Utah titled “Setting up Wireless Access in Your Library” and of course, one of the topics covered will be security issues. In preparation I’m playing with some very interesting software including Ethereal. To keep it non-technical, Ethereal allows anyone to sniff, trap, and save network data, including data being transmitted over the air via WiFi connections. As a test, I connected to an open WiFi access point, started a capture, and logged into my flickr account. I then stopped the capture and saved 2.25MB worth of data (about 45 seconds worth of surfing). Look what I found when I searched the data for the word “password”:
I’ve obscured my password for obvious reasons but I’m sure you still get the point. So, who wants to log into their bank account from a Starbucks?
Bring in this Starbucks coupon to your local Caribou coffee this Friday and they’ll honor it. No, I’m not kidding. Here’s the story.
I’m requesting your opinion. I was in Starbucks this morning and bought a coffee an iced venti non-fat light ice caramel machiato for $3.95. I paid with four singles which was all the cash I had on me. What should I have done with the nickle? Should I have kept it and not given a tip or put it in the tip jar? Does one of the options insult the barista’s less or more? What to you think?
As I write this I’m sitting in seat 10C on a United flight from Reno, NV to Denver, CO after aproximately 24 hours in Nevada. I think Murphy came with me on this one…
It started yesterday morning with my leaving my bag at my house instead of bringing it with me to the office so I could go straight to the airport for my 3pm flight. That created the necessity to go back home to get my bag.
After checking into my hotel in Reno I was off to Sparks, NV (a Reno subburb) to find the Sparks branch of the Washoe County Public Library. This short trip was to make sure where I needed to be the next morning to teach my class. I went in, introduced myself to the librarian at the reference desk and said that I was confirming this was the branch I was looking for. She confirmed as such and even pointed me to their meeting room as that’s where training was generally held. I thanked her and headed back to my rental car. A few feet short of the car I reached into my pants pocket for the keys and found only lint. I’d locked the keys in the car.
Luckily I have a AAA membership so I pulled the card out of my wallet, and, since I was in Nevada, and not Colorado, figured it would be better to call the national 800 number instead of the local 303 number. I dialed and was immediately put through to AAA Colorado. It seems that their system is “smart” and figured out that I must be calling from Colorado due to the caller ID on my phone. I informed the person on the phone that I was not in Colorado but in Nevada and his response was to ask me if there was a land line I could call back from as that would be “faster” than him putting me through to AAA Nevada. (Look, I understand how the system works, but in an age of cell phones, what’s the point of having both local and “national” numbers when, if you’re calling from a cell phone, your actual physical location becomes irrelevant to the system?) I was eventually promised that someone would be around to help me “within the hour” and 1:15 later, someone did arrive. It took the lock guy exactly five seconds (I timed him) to get into the rental car.
That’s the end Thursday for me and I ended up having dinner at the hotel as I didn’t want anything else to go wrong.
This morning I awake early, find a Starbucks, have some java, and arrive back at the Sparks branch at 7:00 in anticipation of my contact person showing up to let me in at 7:45 for my 8am class. At 8am, I’m starting to get nervous as no one else has shown up yet. The phone calls to both BCR and my contact’s office number start at this point. I leave a voicemail for my contact and the folks at BCR confirm that I’m in the right place as far as they know. At 8:30 I get a phone call from one of the students (who got my cell number from BCR) wondering where I am. Well, I’m at the Sparks branch but all the students are at the Spanish Springs branch, which, by the way, is also in Sparks. (At this point, I’m sure the total confusion was my fault.) Off to the right branch I head to start class 45 minutes late. (This is the first time in nine years I’ve not started a class on time.)
After class, a wonderful lunch with some systems folks, and a much needed bananna frappaccino at the same Starbucks from the morning, then off to the Reno airport for my 4:30 flight home. The flight home by the way, is going through San Francisco (no need to draw you a map I’m sure) and gets me into Denver at 11:50pm. At about 4:00 I head to the mens room and notice that at the next gate over is a direct flight to Denver leaving at 5:00pm, getting me home about 8:00pm. I ask if I can switch flights (I’ve only got carry-on) and I’m granted not only a seat on the dirct flight but an exit-row seat in economy plus. (Mondo leg room here I come!)
So, I’m in that seat. The seat that doesn’t want to stay in it’s “full upright and locked position” (real fun during takeoff,) and a reading lamp that won’t stay on, or off, for anylength of time.
I need a vacation…
