Left Lane

I was very pleasantly surprised when I went to check out new neighborhood hotspot Caffe Intermezzo, located in a cozy little spot on Smallman Street in Pittsburgh right off its intersection at 21st Street.

Luke welcomed me in, and after ordering a cappuccino I was presented with the many in-house offerings of such a drink. After […]

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Tuesday night I ventured down to Aldo Coffee to try the Brazil Santa Inês coffee that Rich had hyped on his blog. Local coffee enthusiasts came to taste the award winner and raved. I had to sample it for myself.

Two words: coffee heaven.

My coffee palate is at an amateur level, but the excellence of this […]

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It’s hard to imagine a life without coffee. Its rich aromas awaken the bodies and minds of billions of people each day. It has been highly regarded for centuries, including by yours truly.

Which is precisely why I’m going without it for a while.

Through some sort of twisted, masochistic logic, I’ve decided to go without coffee, […]

Posted in Personal, Caffeine.

Many of you may not know the tagline of this web site if you do not subscribe to the feed: “Life, web, and caffeine. By Pat Collins.” If you know me then you know that is really in the wrong order: caffeine, then life, then web, because my productivity cycle is almost exclusively driven by […]

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