This is the very, very near future. You ready?
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So tired. Got back from the junket with Intel and Microsoft at about 10:30, making it a nice clean 12 hour commitment. Tired. Haven’t been sleeping well with redmed away. Maybe the regular beeping of the pager, and her quiet profanity as she answers it are soothing and help speed me into REM sleep. . . . → Read More: Junket There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Good times watching the state of the union address. The only really unfortunate bit was the part where Bush specifically mentioned “coal” forcing me to finish my drink on the spot. Earlier in the evening, I had gone off on one of my favorite energy rants: The short version is that it’s just freakishly pathetic . . . → Read More: State of the union redmed has been keeping winter at bay with her presence. She is off in Miami, and so it is snowing here. Actually it’s not even really snow … it’s more like very, very small hail. Up in Boston at casa technolope for this evening’s imbolc party. Actually, we’re going to watch the state of . . . → Read More: Snow Wikipedia has determined that congressional staffers are a bunch of lying twerps. The short form is that they have observed that any edits to any articles coming from the IP range of the US senate or the US house should simply be deleted in the interest of accuracy. They say goldfish have no memory I guess their lives are much like mine And the little plastic castle Is a surprise every time And it’s hard to say if they’re happy But they don’t seem much to mind Ani DiFranco “Little Plastic Castle” Bottled the brews that technolope and capital_l helped out with two weeks ago. The Tongue Splitter ran to 43 12oz bottles, and the Cherry Stout (dubbed “Stout Maiden” for lack of a better term) filled 48 12oz bottles. Setting aside the sampler pack that the two abovementioned helpers earned for their efforts, this brings the . . . → Read More: Beers This one is for technolope, who asked “why would the wort boil over after the addition of hops?” In staring at my dangerously over-full boiI pot, I believe that I have found the answer: The hops foam up as they expand and dissolve. This foam covers the surface of the wort, and insulates it just . . . → Read More: Brewing observation |
