I have just come across the perfect solution for putting a coffee shop in our library. I was thinking perhaps we could replace the entire lounge area with one of these. A Javabot. An automated walk-in coffee maker the size of a coffee shop where you can create your own blend, set your own roasting level, and even dictate the temperature of the water. Gizmag (click for pictures) writes:
The system is part of the experience because the coffee system runs throughout the shop It’s the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine. Customers can choose from any blend of seven different beans and every aspect of the process is controlled.
HT: Slashdot: The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee
Popularity: 18% [?]
As an committed coffee-teetotaler, let me offer my formal opposition to any such notion of devoting perfectly good library space to hosting a coffee shop!
In the past, I have taken classes where the professor meets with a small group of students in a coffee house, only to have our conversation and study unmercifully interrupting by the loud roar of a coffee making machine. Founders’ Cafe has already caved in to the coffee shop craze, so good Christian men must stand against it!
The Library is a place where coffee-addict and coffee teetotaler alike can put aside their differences to read and study in blissful silence! The installation of a noisy machine that will possibly encourage coffee talk around the JavaBot will further provoke discontent among the various constituencies.
Still, that JavaBot is pretty cool for the sake of coolness. I guess I could live with it, I would just be crying inside the whole time.
I’m just joking, of course…
maybe…
:=)
Left by Adam Winters on April 17th, 2008