Electricity Consumption in Your Local Coffee Shop

It's more and more common these days for folks to have laptops. It is also very likely that many laptops will need charging if any processor-intensive work is being done, such as a power point presentation or an excel file... or worse yet a power point presentation which uses information from an excel file. That sort of business is likely to make my poor little Toshiba notebook crash into itself.

Outlets line the baseboards in the Starbucks I sit; right now only a handful are being utilized. It makes me wonder about the additional costs to the company. Not only are they providing a bunch of ungrateful caffeinated bastards with free wifi and place to sit, all for the price of a cup of joe, but they also are funneling us as much electricity as we need to maintain this level of connected-ness to the great interspace. And I still manage to find the chutzpah to complain about a $4 cup of coffee.

Boy, we are a spoiled society.... whoops almost wrote "soiled" rather than "spoiled". Well, I guess that would have worked too.