Au contraire, mon fagits. A good relationship with one of nature's best human-consumable sources of liquid brainpower is essential.
I wouldn't say I'm a maniac on the dancefloor, but if I were, I'd probably enjoy better espresso every morning. It's still pretty good, and it better be. For my birthday last year, I recieved a ridiculously expensive (and I do mean ridiculously) espresso machine. Much better than the department store garbage I was using previously. Some of these factoids are new to me, but I suspect I still don't have the technology to make use of them.
Is Starbucks a little pretentious-fruity around the edges? Absolutely -- but I still give their stockcharts the hard daddy eyeball from time to time.