How To Get A Blacknight Mug

To be honest, I probably don’t deserve a Blacknight Mug. I don’t drink coffee, and it would likely end up on my desk holding pens and business cards.
But I am a decent guy, and have always been helpful to my pals at Blacknight. For example, last year I was traveling in Asia with some really great folks. My mobile provider (Verizon) uses CDMA, which many know as a US-only technology, the rest of the world using GSM.
Unfortunately for my iPhone-equipped pals, South Korea is one of those few countries that has also standardized on CDMA. So, while they couldn’t get a signal, my phone wasn’t even roaming. I became fairly popular in the bar, as everyone wanted to use my phone to check in with home.
Is this story mug-worthy? Probably not. But since the US catches so much hell for not having a GSM standard, I thought I wanted to get this story in to the public record nonetheless.
Happy St. Patrick’s day!
J.

Well, my blog is rather not about coffee nor mugs, it is about Apples 🙂 however I think I deserve one 😉
I remember when in february in 2006 I was looking for Irish ISP in Carlow and the only one I found was Blacknight. Since then I drank a lot of coffee with my friends at Blacknight in Carlow 🙂 I don’t need to mention that I am addicted to coffee, and since I am a “Big Pole” I need such kind of a mug 🙂
If I win one I will probably come over and get it by myself 😀 They know what it means!
Happy St. Patrick’s day

How about a sympathy vote…
the M$ mug you sent out to me least never made it as I moved jobs before it appeared at work. Of course no one claimed to have seen it, but I’m pretty sure someone kept it 🙂

Michael
They’re not available in any shop.
Michele

First of all – I tweeted about how beautiful Your mugs are.
Second – as first one in here I would drink tea from it – finest black tea + 5 slices of fresh ginger + 2 table spoons of bee honey + 2-3 table spoons of best Jamaican rum – perfect for long cold nights in front of your Mac 🙂
I’m not your client… maybe yet, but I promise to put your mug on every photo of my working desk. Let’s call it a small/local advertising.
And for the last. I deserve this mug 🙂 I collect handmade mugs 🙂
Thanks in advance for your positive decision 🙂

Perhaps my tale is not as deserving as others above. Perhaps I’m not even the best BlackKnight customer, deserving of free swag (though a few domains and hosting for the last 2 years later, I am at the very least somewhat loyal!). Perhaps, even, I’m not even the most likable person in the world – entirely undeserving of such free gifts.
But here’s my tale…
Ever since I was a young kid I remember not caring too much about football. In fact, it’s only in recent years I’ve taken up an interest in the sport. Bayern Munich are my team of choice. Why? Well, I dislike the premier league. It’s marred in my mind as it gets represented rather poorly by its fans both in the UK itself and here. All of my friends love the EPL. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal. My friends are a split bunch with no clue who they like most of the time, or why. I like Munich for a simple reason, I’ve family from there and I like their classy style of play and wonderful stadium.
But that’s an aside. As a kid, I didn’t like Bayern Munich. I couldn’t really name footballers, except the really famous ones like Eric Cantona, Robbie Fowler or Roy Keane. Nope, I was hooked on another sport altogether. Formula 1.
The first race I ever saw on TV was the German GP at Hokenheim. Sweeping, long and fast straights leading to tight, winding chicanes. Ripe for overtaking, action and an event not to be missed. The first car that zipped past the camera as I watched was a Ferrari. Brilliant red of the scuderia lighting up the pixels on the TV. So, from here on in I was a lifelong Ferrari fan.
A few years of loyalty (like my loyalty to Blacknight!) later and one Christmas my uncle, who stays with us over the Christmas period every year – a nice tradition we’ve kept up over the years (probably the only tradition my entire family keeps, too) bought me a nice present. I don’t remember what the “big” gift was, that’s how significant the stocking filler was. Yes, it was a two-part gift. No doubt the big gift was lego, or a high-value voucher for HMV. But I don’t recall… all I recall is my lovely black and red Ferrari mug. I only drank warm milk before bed. It wasn’t until I hit my teens that I succumbed to a crippling tea addiction, which has more recently morphed into a full blown coffee ‘problem’.
All those years, with my tastes changing consistently from hot milk to coffee every morning and evening. All those hot drinks poured, spilled and drank. Even though my tastes changed, my mug didn’t. Nope. I still had that Ferrari mug. Hell, it survived the birth of my youngest brother.
Then, a few years ago, as I trapsed back into the kitchen to get a refill of my preferred hot beverage, I went to the end of the hall from the front room I had procured a seat in, one door in my way to get to our back room which leads into the big, extended kitchen on the back of our house, where upon disaster struck. As I reached for the door, clasping the handle with steely determination and using the correct amount of force to pry the door from it’s spring-locked position – my youngest brother popped the door open from the other side, with far more force then he needed to. He was too young to understand the forces required to open doors at that point. He was either too ginger or too hard. This time he was too hard. He yanked the door away from me, but me, still grasping it, fell forward slightly. In the act of re-balancing myself, I lost my footing a little. I needed to get balance, and quick. I needed to reach out and stop myself from falling. I did. But in the act I forgot my precious mug. It crashed to the ground as I saved myself. I tried to pull my leg forward to ease the blow and potentially save it, but it was too late.
My mug was dead. Smashed. Not even into a million pieces. Just large chunks torn from it’s ceramic flesh with surgical precision.
I put up with the typical house mugs bought from Dunnes or whatever pottery shop you get them from. You know the type: shiny, with unoffensive colours strafing the edges in a “hooped” fashion.
A year or two ago my loving girlfriend went ahead and took the plunge to buy me a new mug that caught my eye. It’s not a Ferrari mug. It’s an “F1” branded mug. It’s a decent substitute. Not as big as my old mug. Not as nice to hold. It also tears a lump from my soul knowing I benefited the pocket of Bernie Ecclestone. It serves coffee as well as a mug can.
I have thought about stealing a large Starbucks mug several times over. But shame and guilt always rear their ugly heads when I attempt to slip my empty (except for left-over foam from my Cappucino), grande-sized mug into my bag in one of their outlets. I just can’t do it.
And so, I write this as a plea. Not as a good example of a person who loves Blacknight (though loyal as I am), but as a person in need. I may not deserve the mug as much as others, but giving me a nice, big, lovingly made Blacknight mug will fill me with the same joy as my old Ferrari one. It’ll also fill me with adequate amounts of caffeine to support my crippling addiction. It will also save Starbucks a few euro on replacing one solitary, but stolen none-the-less, mug.
And yes, that was a true story, written out of sheer boredom.
(cross-posted on my blog, too)

I think I should get a mug because I drink tea for breakfast, dinner, supper, when I’m thirsty, and when Im hungry and am eating a bite.
Problem is I usually have to go back for another cup or 2, as my mugs aren’t that big and I’ve the tea all drunk before I get through a decent amount of Rich Tea’s. Or I run out of tea before I have a bunch of code sorted out right.
I’ve been told I drink tea like a heifer, not far off a horse right? 😛
Good Luck to everyone!
Right I’m away for another cuppa, or 2 as my Mug is but a small one.

I deserve to get my hands on that mug because I too love coffee and it would look great on my desk.
However, I bring something to the fore for all you coffee lovers, even those at blacknight! If you drink coffee then you know you need to be drinking ground coffee, preferably from one of the coffee producing regions in Ethiopia. Instant coffee simply does not give you those full flavours.
Want to make amazing coffee in 30 seconds from ground with a start up cost of circa 30 euro?
Check out Aeropress coffee maker.
http://www.firebox.com/product/1320/AeroPress-Coffee-Maker?via=ser
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aerobie-80R08-AeroPress-Coffee-Maker/dp/B000GXZ2GS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1268938445&sr=8-1
It really is amazing. I’m a convert, and I have spent quite a bit on different coffee machines in the past.
Don’t forget. Buy fairtrade coffee and check out the DVD, ‘Black Gold’, a really eye opening DVD on the coffee trade. (Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Gold-Nick-Francis-Mark/dp/B000RWDXVE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1268938699&sr=1-1)
All the best,
George

As the only boozy narcissistic mug in the office, I’ve become rather lonely. Another mug with my name on it full o’ booze is just the remedy.
Gimme gimme gimme…

I am SO tired…..
My deserving blog post (*cough*) is at http://www.queenofpots.com.
(http://queenofpots.com/?p=211)
Just let me know where and when I can collect the merchandise…..*clunk*….zzzZZzzzzZZZzzzzz…..

Its not up to me to say if I deserve the mug or not.
If I do “Great”. If I don’t “Ah Well”
Just wondering though. Where did you get them made ?

Short and sweet: to help me through our late night sessions … working hard for the community … oh come on, Scotland NEEDS one!

I deserve a mug because I’ll pay for the shipping. 🙂 It would be nice to be one of the cool kids on the block with a Blacknight mug. I will fill it with good coffee on a daily basis and speak fondly of it whenever someone asks me how I came to posses such a prize. No good stories, no witty remarks, but definitely a shared good time and perhaps in Brussels (our Nairobi meet was moved to then) I will return the favor with a drink or four.
Cheers!
Marty

So why do I deserve the mug?
As my infant so succinctly states why asked why?
THATS THE WHY!

I would like a mug, it would find a new home as a pen holder.

And the results are… ? 🙂

my entry is in ! Phew, almost forgot to publish it.

I have the feeling that the results are going to be announced on April 1st. And no one is going to believe it! 🙂

Luke, ye can’t use the mug as a flipping PEN holder?? Who’s going to see it? Unless you work in the bank or something…no wait…..
Anyway, I already have a small backpack with the Blacknight Mug’s name on it. I’m taking it travelling with me! It’ll be photographed, brimming with strong, milky, coffeerly goodness, beside (me) outside and inside the most amazing sights in the world!!
We’re starting with The Clonmel Well! 🙂

Alright, as a Professional Photographer here in Kilkenny for 44 years, if you send me a mug I will do a professional photograph of it, that you can use, here in my Dominic Street Studio !
Anyway I need someone to tidy up my Yola site and sort it out with an .ie domain – you have the job !
Cheers,
Michael .

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I deserve to get my hands on that mug because I too love coffee and it would look great on my desk. Though I would probably sell it in ebay after few months :op