Oh, and I got more birthday presents a couple of weekend’s ago, and one of them was from my In-Law’s who had made a trip up to a home-brew place and bought a bunch of supplies, including a brew pail with spigot, racking cane and tubing, some Gnome extracts, and a case of bottles! Quite [...]

Logged into the Northern Brewer Forum’s for the first time in too long and ran across a Root Beer thread! Hopefully something comes of my replies to it. In the meantime, I haven’t gotten around to the yeast test yet. Busy, and lack of motivation. Possibly mixed with some fear of more failure. Hopefully this weekend though. In [...]

What a weekend! The party on Saturday went really well and we drank a LOT of good soda and it seemed like everyone got a nice sugar buzz going for most of the evening. Thankfully there were only a couple of flavors that were, er, unpalatable. Unfortunately among them was one of the Journey Foods [...]

So I’m having a little party thing on Saturday night (5/24/2003) and I’m putting together a bunch of odd and interesting soda’s to get. The list so far: Vernor’s Ginger Soda (6 cans) Mountain Dew Live-Wire (2 bottles) Sprite Remix (2 bottles) dn-l (2 bottles) Cock-n-Bull Ginger Beer (4 bottles) FrosTop Root Beer (2 bottles) [...]

Listening to the Empire Brass album Braggin’ In Brass it’s really obvious what the difference between technically well executed jazz, and really good jazz is. Unfortunately, this is only an example of technically well executed jazz. It’s good to listen to, but it just sounds so clean and sterile. Good jazz to me is anything [...]

There’s another update coming to the Lindows.com unsubscribe saga, but first this: I actually used the word “practical” in the same sentence as “Religous Studies” and “Philosophy”, and I was not under any outside influence, nor was I being sarcastic. What an odd experience. The specific context was in reference to Huston Smith as follows: [...]

Oh, this is just so…. well, after sending off that last message I got a reply back fairly quickly: From: feedback@lindows.com Subject: Lindows.com Autoresponse We’re sorry, but your email has not reached anyone at Lindows.com (this is an automated message). It appears you are trying to contact our support team. For support issues, please visit [...]

I read the most recent Michael’s Minutes from Lindows.com this morning. What a complete load of tripe. I have now unsubscribed from all of their mailings, and when I got the cancellation confirmation it mentioned that if I was unsubscribing because I was dissatisfied I should send them some feedback. So I did: The cancellation [...]