Practicalmadness

Completing the "coffee trilogy" of the last 12 hours, starting on Wednesday (I swear, this isn't a plug!) my employers at the Starbucks Coffee Corporation will prove they have less mercy than they do sense and put all their coffeemakers on sale, including the Barista Utopia after which I have lusted for all these seven months I have been a Starbucks Partner.The Utopia -- also known as the Bodum Electric Santos -- is an electric vacuum brewer, notable for two things:It's an automatic coffeemaker that yet makes some damn fine coffee a la a french press.It looks like an evil science experiment while doing it.So at least this way I'll be well-caffeinated in the poor house.(Incidentally, this is the first bit on the site to recieve the highest possible Pointlessness rating of 5.)