This may be a little over the top. This guy needs an honorary Starbucks Doctorate of Coffee Drinking …

A 34-year-old programmer named Winter (he legally changed his name from Rafael Antonio Lozano this year) has made it his life’s mission to drink a cup of coffee at every Starbucks on the planet. There are over 12,000 Starbucks – new ones open daily – and he has visited over 6,000 so far. He’s worn a Starbucks shirt every day since October 2001.

His side effects – nausea, headaches and feeling jittery. My goodness, it’ll take years for him to get that caffeine out of his blood system. He’ll probably have major withdrawals if he does stop. He did once hit 29 stores in succession, drinking a total of one hundred and four (104) ounces and three shots of espresso.

So if I do the math, that’s 6000 stores spending a total of $24,000 if he just had an average of one $4 drink a store. If he does succeed, he would have spent close to $50,000 on Starbucks coffee (counting the max. of 12,000 stores only and not the new stores opening up). You can buy a nice car for that much! I don’t even want to start figuring out how much his Starbucks wardrobe is. I bet he is just loving the fact that Starbucks are raising their prices.

And here I thought I was a little extreme on my Starbucks binge.

(Via Boing Boing)