Regarding coffee snobery, I know what you are saying. My friends think I'm nuts because of my machines and that I get beans mailed to me, but I am far from being a coffee snob. When I was in Kona last fall, I went to many farms and coffee roasters. Love that Kona coffee, but there's no freeking way I'm spending $40-80 for a pound of beans. And as hard as I tried to taste a diff between peabody beans and regular, I could not.