In my previous rant about taking shifts, I made a veiled criticism to the quality of coffee served in the nearby vending area.  After all, with this being the heart of the Franco-Swiss megaplex, one would expect there to be good coffee just about anywhere you go.  As it stands, CERN is actually quite well known for its high-grade coffee outlets in Restaurant 1, Restaurant 2, and various other cafes around the lab (some popular ones are in Building 40 and Building 30).  However, as is the case at Point 1 (where ATLAS physicists take shifts), people are reduced to paying for coffee to come out of something like this:

Real coffee bean selection on the left, instant coffee selection on the right. I'm serious.

I hesitate to actually call that coffee.  I mean, considering the depths of the abysmal sorrow, lonliness, and despair felt by a shifter on a cold Saturday morning around 04am, couldn’t the powers that be grace us with something a little more…legitimate?

Well, ATLAS be praised.  They have.  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the invention which make shifts tolerable — meet our new Nespresso machine:

Things are looking up.