Apologies for double post, but new subject for the coffee junkies amongst us: I the AeroPress. Damn, this thing is simple as can be and actually makes pretty damned good (read: strong as hell) coffee.
I could never get my fauxKeurig (which I had already chosen since it produced a stronger brew than the real one on strong) to do this after the good espresso machine died (rest in peace, Bliss the coffeebot, your service will forever be remembered with the utmost fondness), but I can now get plain hot water from said fauxKeurig and with about another minute of time, voila, good strong coffee.
This thing is desk-friendly, folks, and cubicle small (about the size of two standard mugs stacked on each other, a little smaller and frankly a fuckton more effective than a traditional french press), and it's plastic so you needn't be paranoid of thin glass being around•. Also easy to clean and whatnot. Most excellent, do recommend, and I found this one at Bloodbath&Beyond for $30 before one of their ever-present coupons.
Worth it. Cheap, works, and will not explode into shards of glass that could injure or cause someone anal-retentive in management to give you a case of the glares about safety concerns. (Friend of mine ran into this one at a few places, since I work from home it's not a thing, so I have no idea how common this is.)
• Thermal shock is no joke, either. With glass, not only do you need to worry about knocking the thing over, but thermal shock. Thermal shock is the quasi-technical name for that phenomena we're all used to re: putting ice cubes in a glass fresh from the dishwasher and still warm. It cracks all over. Pyrex, which is what most coffee pots and french presses are made from, is borosilicate glass and was engineered to be more resistant to thermal shock. (It also is used to make some seriously incredible beads that are unusually light-reactive. (GUESS WHICH WAY I LEARNED ABOUT THIS GUYS, IT'S COFFEE OR ART SUPPLIES, THIS ONE COULD ACTUALLY BE HARD! <cough>) It still does it, though. It just doesn't always do it right away, and will only happen if lightly nudged/etc. I found this out the hard way when the upstairs coffeemaker died once, and I meandered down to get the one from the kitchen we hadn't used in a year, and so help me gods, the moment I reached toward the old machine, the coffee pot exploded in what I can only assume was pure, huffy spite (and stored thermal shock).
(Exploding glass is no joke, even when it's incredibly funny in hindsight.)