Early evening, the laptops arrive and several stay till closing at 9 p.m. Chris Johnson, 33, a freelance Web designer, orders a tea and nurses it at a table for the next five hours while he works.
When Captain Picard orders a "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot," at the Oracle replicator, he's using a kind of API: "Object.
Yet the entire piece, choreographed by Sakiko Oshima and led by the spectacular Naoko Shirakawa, has the ritualized order of a tea ceremony.
His skill as a chemist had led to the introduction of his pearly "creamware", which caught the attention of the local aristocracy, and in early 1765, to his stunned delight, he received an order for a tea set for Queen Charlotte, with candlesticks and fruit baskets, "with a gold ground and raised flowers upon it in green".
They will lead you to a tea-house (or some such thing), order a full tea ceremony and then feign shock when the bill arrives, insisting it doesn't cost nearly as much in their province and they're truly surprised before demanding that you pay as they cannot afford it.
When you get there, order a green tea.
He stood at the truck's gate wearing a bright yellow sweater and loudly ordered us a tea from Osman when we stepped into the truck.
A court ordered that a tea set, paintings and furniture owned by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Madikizela-Mandela, Mr. Mandelauctioned off next week to pay a $2,150 debt she owes to a private school for tuition and boarding for a relative, according to news reports.
If you are an average citizen, it is no problem: when you've been shopping a few hours, you can walk into a coffee shop and sit down and order an iced tea and drink it and pay the bill and leave a tip and get up and go home.
