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What is in your mug?

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I generally don't use mugs for drinking and I don't actively collect them, yet I seem to have acquired a bunch of mugs that I did not buy - as you can see...

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They all have significant meaning for me, except the Chicago mug - my memory fails me as to how I got that one. Did element14 ever give away Chicago mugs?

The computer mug is pretty geeky and the Tardis mug is pretty fancy - the Tardis disappears from the scene when a hot liquid is in the mug.

I was going to call this blog "The Unsung Toolbox" because that is what I use some of these mugs for. Here are the contents of the Dad mug:

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As you can see it is an odd assortment of skinny tools, some of which are a bit unusual, although that doesn't come across well in the picture.

Brownie points if you can spot the 3D printed part on a tool and why it is needed.

I also have mugs and jam jars full of fancy pens (mostly trade show swag), but this blog is about how useful mugs are as toolboxes with sentimental value.

So:

  • What kind of beverage is in your mug?
  • What other use do you put your mug to?
  • What is you favorite mug?
  • What is your weirdest mug?
  • What unusual places do you store your mug?
  • What is the most sentimental mug you own?
  • What is your funniest mug?
  • What mug do you covet?
  • What category am I missing?
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  • Mugs are most useful for coffee, and even though I have plenty of mugs, the only two in the active rotation are the center two (my wive and mine - Grandma and Grandpa mugs).

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    From left to right here are the top six mugs in the collection (which was greatly thinned out when we packed up and moved to Texas about four years ago:

     

    1) This is our daughters coffee mug for when she visits.  This is a highly appropriate mug for her as she is a color designer for a shoe company, HOKA (previously with New Balance).

     

    2) This is a gift mug that my last (and best) boss brought back for the crew after he and his family were off on a 6-month immersion visit to Spain.

     

    3 & 4) The Grandma and Grandpa mugs.

     

    5) Another gift mug, based on my dislike for the squirrels that are constantly emptying (or, now trying to empty) our bird feeders.

     

    6) An old work mug, "Hard Work Cafe", is a inside joke (and a blatant ripoff of the Hard Rock Cafe) about a long and busy project launch where we worked many weekends in exchange for food (mostly pizza).  I was the software manager and chief architect for the development for the Zehntel 1800 In-circuit tester (later Teradyne).

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  • Mugs are most useful for coffee, and even though I have plenty of mugs, the only two in the active rotation are the center two (my wive and mine - Grandma and Grandpa mugs).

    image

    From left to right here are the top six mugs in the collection (which was greatly thinned out when we packed up and moved to Texas about four years ago:

     

    1) This is our daughters coffee mug for when she visits.  This is a highly appropriate mug for her as she is a color designer for a shoe company, HOKA (previously with New Balance).

     

    2) This is a gift mug that my last (and best) boss brought back for the crew after he and his family were off on a 6-month immersion visit to Spain.

     

    3 & 4) The Grandma and Grandpa mugs.

     

    5) Another gift mug, based on my dislike for the squirrels that are constantly emptying (or, now trying to empty) our bird feeders.

     

    6) An old work mug, "Hard Work Cafe", is a inside joke (and a blatant ripoff of the Hard Rock Cafe) about a long and busy project launch where we worked many weekends in exchange for food (mostly pizza).  I was the software manager and chief architect for the development for the Zehntel 1800 In-circuit tester (later Teradyne).

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