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Comment on Starbucks: Dry… by MoHoyt.com » Blog Archive » Drinking these days…

MoHoyt.com » Blog Archive » Drinking these days… — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:29:34 +0000

[...] Essentially this is just a filter coffee with two shots of espresso, a little almond syrup and some hot milk. But there is oh-so-much-more to it than that. To get it tasting good, a few principles have to be observed. 1) Assuming you’re ordering this in Starbucks, don’t get Estima (whatever you do!), get whatever else is going (even if it’s the morally questionable (don’t ask me why) House Blend), I find Sumatra, or something fairly bold is best. 2) Only get one or two pumps of almond syrup. If it’s a tall, then it’s gonna have 3 pumps normally, which is a tad too sweet. 3) Espresso is espresso, at least at Starbucks it is. Regular or decaf is fine. 4) Only get a little hot milk (a quarter/half inch will do). Even better if it’s dry. [...]

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Mo

Mo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:48:42 +0000

Heya,

I’m not sure whether the poppers on the Abercrombie coats have writing on them (they could say A&F etc…) so I don’t know if it’s possible to verify its authenticity that way. However there are a few other ways like I mentioned. What about the seller on eBay, did they have a lot of Abercrombie items for sale? That wouldn’t be a good sign. Did the coat smell of Fierce (their cologne that’s sprayed in all of the stores) when it arrived? Did it come with a bag/receipt etc? Are the labels on the coat mis-spelled? Any of these little things can help determine authenticity.

Also, I have a few newish Abercrombie things that are from China, so no need to worry about its country of origin as a deciding factor.

Cheers,

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:20:30 +0000

Hi, I bought an Abercrombie coat on eBay and everything feels like its good quality etc…I am just worried because the label on the inside says ’small- made in china’ and the poppers that attach the fur to the hood don’t have any writting on them. Do you think it’s genuine? I asked the seller before buying and they confirmed it was, but I just don’t know…I paid £100 for it :-s

Please get back to me if you can, Nicole

Comment on Testing of my Arduino drum kit… by andy

andy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:28:22 +0000

hello this is an awesome idea i really like it. I heard you were having problems with the skins vibrating too much. I have seen a few examples of people using mouse mats to dampen the vibration between the piezo and a metal plate. Perhaps you could try this technique of using a mouse mat disc. cut it to the same size as the piezo or slightly larger and place between the sounder and drum skin/cymbol?? i hope this idea would work as im going to be trying it soon!!

You should also be able to specify the cut off frequency in software so that it only recognises a hit at a particular peak voltage from the sounder. Using this idea you could also specify minimum voltages to recognise and assign a lower volume/different drum sound.

hope this helps!

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Luiz

Luiz — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:30:29 +0000

Hey Mo,
Actually I didn’t have any concrete info about this, it was more like a general opinion based in what I knew about ’sweatshops’ and in ‘Made in’ tags of Abercrombie clothes I have. Gosh, if it is so, they have factories all over the world…

Good to know that, maybe I’ll try to discover where is their factory in Brazil and buy second-hand stuff, since it’s almost impossible to find Abercrombie over there and people at auction websites are so out of their mind.

Anyway, thanks for info you too =)

Back to spotting fake clothes, thanks, they is going to be really helpful from now on!

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Mo

Mo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:48:59 +0000

Luiz,

That might be true, but the shirt that I’m wearing at the moment (an authentic one—I bought it in Edmonton) says ‘Made in Brazil’. But most of the other clothes that I have are from all over; Northern Mariana Islands, Peru, Vietnam, Macau. So I’m not really sure if origin of clothing is really a deciding point when spotting fakes… Perhaps there’s a list of factories somewhere to be found.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Luiz

Luiz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:40:39 +0000

Nice guide. Thanks for the information.
Just one thing. I’m a brazilian and I’m living in Mexico right now. I’m almost 100% sure that there is no Abercrombie clothes made neither in Brazil nor in Mexico…I think all their production comes from south-east asia.

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by Mo

Mo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:28:56 +0000

@ Kate — I would have to agree with Ari in that A&F products could be made anywhere in the world and so it is not really a telltale sign as to whether an item is authentic or not.

@ Paulina — After having a look at the item, it doesn’t seem to have a typical A&F thick cardboard tag, and it also isn’t in the Abercrombie online store at the moment (it may be an older item) and the seller has lots of designer items for sale (all new) which indicates to me that it is not authentic. Tho I can’t be 100% sure. Good luck.

Comment on (A Quick Guide to Spotting) Fake Abercrombie and Fitch… by paulina

paulina — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:07:00 +0000

hello:) I’m from Poland. I dont know too well English, so sorry for mistakes:) please let me know if this shirt is authentic? http://www.allegro.pl/show_item.php?item=726440877&msg=Tw%C3%B3j+e-mail+zosta%C5%82+wys%C5%82any.

Comment on Yikes! Bikes! by hambo

hambo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:52 +0000

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