Kudos to Starbucks

The coffee "you cant order black, it's all frapaccino or vente et al gee, I don't understand grande at Starbucks" riff is our generation's "my parent's can't program the time on the VCR." Congratulations, we did it. Can we move on?  - XMASTIME

I have no idea if ASU's online program is worth a shit, but this is pretty cool of Starbucks:

Starbucks employees nationwide will be eligible for a free college education through Arizona State University's online program beginning this fall.

The new initiative, touted as the first of its kind, will allow many of Starbucks' 135,000 workers to graduate debt free from ASU with no requirement to repay or stay on with the company. The funding will come from a partnership between ASU and Starbucks.

Be ncie if other mega-corporations followed suit.

Ah, an Xmastime Starbucks memory:

Some woman who from what I can tell is about 334 years old just had some complete stranger behind me politely explain Twitter to her for about 15 minutes before exlaiming "oh, it's on a computer? Oh, I don't know computers!" Followed of course by "wondering" if Obama has joined forces with Putin to destory the United States. Finished up by saying she can't wait to see him get on a plane for  Chicago one last time, after which he will, and I quote, "never amount to anything."