Home coffee-making technology continues to progress at an astonishing pace, allowing average citizens to be amateur baristas in the comfort of their own homes. But at what cost to the human soul? Isn’t part of the fun of coffee the process of going out and buying it, just as an excuse to hang out somewhere cozy that isn’t home for a while? As Roger Ebert once put it, “Starbucks doesn’t really sell coffee—it sells escape from the office.” No K-cup in the world can compensate for that. Or maybe it can, with just a little help from the internet. Specifically, a useful site called Hipster Sound provides a very authentic coffee shop ambiance from a web browser with its storehouse of ever-available, prerecorded chatter. Just click the large play button on the homepage, and the low-level conversation noise begins. Conceivably, one could just leave this playing in the background for hours. Nothing wrong with that, theoretically.