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The Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Starbucks
Call Me Black Cloud writes "John 'Winter' Smith, a contract computer programmer, is living the traveling salesman problem. His personal quest is to visit every company-owned Starbucks and he's not doing too badly. After 7 years he's hit over 4,000 locations in the United States and 167 in Britain and Japan. What motivates him? That's one for the professionals to answer, but since Starbucks opens an average of 10 stores per week it doesn't look like Winter will be stopping any time soon. His website offers insight into why he does this ('to be different') and has pictures of the 4000+ Starbucks he's visited."
how nice of someone to create an account post in this crap, and claim (don't care if rightly) that they are the infamously stupid "winter." If its you, thanks for contributing to the gas shortage, to the brown air, and to the stereotype of programmers being geeks with no common sense or social skills.
I grew up in the United States.
It's apparent.
What is this "real news" you speak of?
Corrected:
"What is this 'real news' of which you speak?"
Perhaps your primary statement excuses your poor grammar. (no, I'm not referring to an indigent ancestor)
http://xkcd.com/386/