It looks like a camera lens, but ...
It's actually a coffee mug. Specifically, a mug that has the shape of a Canon 24-105mm image stabilizer lens but with a stainless steel liner.
And I want it!
I saw this item in a Facebook post about two weeks ago, and it keeps popping up on my wall. I'd want to use it instead of putting it on display.
I have quite a collection of coffee mugs. Wherever we go I'll get one, or sometimes two. Some we use and others will be put on display. Those I've bought from Texas State during our trips for Mass Comm Week I've put on display -- all eight of them.
Right now I'm drinking some coffee from a mug I bought at Arizona State University when I was there for my journalism fellowship in 2009. It's black with white lettering. There's a photo of it elsewhere on this blog.
I have another with a photo of me with my grandchildren that I received almost two years ago, on Father's Day. Grandma had to brew some coffee for me, and the grandchildren wanted to see me drink from it. They clapped and cheered when I took the first sip.
And, there are others.
But the one I want now is the camera lens coffee mug! Just because it's so different, I guess. Plus, it's at a much cheaper price on the website that's selling it than on other websites which offer it.
It's hard to tell how much it will hold, though. There is no indication of how many ounces of coffee it will hold on the mug itself or on the box that is pictured on the website. Plus, the mug/lens seems much larger than the real 24-105mm lens that Canon offers on its website.
The item is photographed at an angle that seems to make it appear much larger than it actually is, or at least that's what I think. On the website, the model holding the cup seems to give it some proportion, but then compare it with the real lens for use on Canon cameras, and then it's hard to know how much coffee (or hot chocolate) it will hold. Maybe 12 or 16 ounces?
Maybe I'll get it and maybe not. The missus doesn't seem interested in me getting one. (You young ladies know that you're the boss!)
Perhaps if I offer to get her one, maybe she'll change her mind. Who knows? What do you think?
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