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It’s that time of year where I find myself idly clicking over to the fantasy baseball team’s league site in the event there is news. Random moments of considering draft strategies fill my commutes. I’m even considering adding fantasy baseball podcasts back into the commuting rotation.
Pitchers and catchers report soon, no?
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I see what you tried to do there, business person.
It pleases me greatly that the vending machine at work’s row arrays have zero-based indexing.
Worth it for the Winnie the Pooh line if nothing else: Twin Bed.
This actually sounds like fun: Regex golf [1]. From xkcd, natch.
Five inoculated vials of Wyeast 1099. All ready for bedtime in the fridge. Thanks, Santa, the presents worked great!
This is eerily great and horrible all at the same time. Conference call ambiance [1]. I’ve listened to it for a few hours and it totally enhanced my flow since working felt like I was ducking a horribly long meeting.
It came to my attention that Mr. Malty (generally awesome) [1] has compiled|published|what-have-you a number of charts (2) that identify the brewery source for various strains sold commercially. I’m a Wyeast man myself so the Wyeast Strains Chart [2] is where I’m at. There’s a separate chart for the White Labs [3] folks too.
Some of the names used for strains pretty much give it away, but others are shrouded in mystery. Well….no longer!
[1] http://www.mrmalty.com
[2] http://www.mrmalty.com/wyeast.php
[3] http://www.mrmalty.com/white-labs.php
I pretty much failed at 2013’s goal of tasting and grading 50 beers. I did pretty good at the front part of that goal, mind you, but it’s the second half of the process that proved difficult. I did a reasonably good job of exploring the world of Trappist abbey ales and found an IPA that I can tolerate [1]. I tried an oaked beer (bleh), a sour beer (double bleh), and a chili beer (could have been better). I found an awesome session beer in Stone’s Levitation [2]. I never found a roggenbier to try—it’s all Rye-P-A here in the states. I brewed a few beers and tasted the heck out of those too.
Again…just lacking documentation.
Looking forward, perhaps the commitment to try and document fifty beers was a little much for one year. This year I’m pledging to follow through on 25 beers. They don’t need to be new ones. They don’t need to be commercial beers. I just need to drink and document them. I’m going to do this using BeerAdvocate [3] and you can track me there.
To take up the slack I’m also pledging to read 25 books in 2014. You can track my progress on Goodreads [4] which seems to be a place where people I know who read books hang out. It just isn’t any fun unless someone is tracking all the data I’m generating. 😉
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