Well, the laptop on the trip has been useful, except at the new hotel. We had been at the Holiday Inn on King in Toronto where they had really nice and quick wired network access in the room. The new hotel, while beautiful for various reasons is rather lacking in the networking in the room [...]

Ah….. The couch is a nice place to run a laptop from! The wireless is running, the new Dell Inspiron 1100 is humming away downloading critical updates and such. Almost ready for the trip to Toronto. Life is good. No tag for this post.

Just in case any body else is keeping track, but the Twin Cities has reached critical mass as far as high end ice cream shops go. The latest to open is PumpHouse Creamery, which I’m thinking I might try and drop by tomorrow afternoon to give a try. One of the reasons is that I’m [...]

I saw the LRT running tests on Monday night! The car is a bit shorter than I had thought it would be, but makes sense given they will be running every 15min. Things are still on target for opening the line early next year, and from the visible progress being made I don’t doubt that [...]

I brought a sample bottle into work and shared it around a bit. A friend decided to try an experiment and just added more sugar directly to his sample and stirred it up and the result was great! I still think there’s a bit too much yeast, but sugar is definitely the next problem to [...]

I opened up the first bottle at 6pm last night (8/5/2003) and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was drinkable! Well, there are some caveats there and this is measured against the past attempts, but is basically a success. Unfortunately, I think I would have to qualify it as “drinkable” at best. The Nottingham [...]

I think the really funny part of all those monster bits is that my sweetie Kal can beat me most of the time with any of the permutations I can come up with for her. Darn. No tag for this post.

Ah, I have found the best: Nathan is a Giant Blob that seeks Nuclear Power Stations, spits Jets of Water, and has a Swirly Hypnotic Gaze, Suckers on its Feet, a Computer for a Brain and four Extra Limbs. Strength: 9 Agility: 1 Intelligence: 5 To see if your Giant Battle Monster candefeat Nathan, enter [...]

The plastic test bottle was pretty solid this morning so I put a random glass bottle from the case into the fridge so I can open it tonight and see how things are doing. Can I just say that I really hope this batch turns out? No tag for this post.

Or, even better: Glyph_mn is a Tiny Blob that is Easily Confused, swallows Aeroplanes Whole, carries a Samurai Sword, moves at Great Speed, and looks like a Man in a Rubber Suit. Strength: 1 Agility: 6 Intelligence: 1 To see if your Giant Battle Monster candefeat Glyph_mn, enter your name and choose an attack: fights [...]