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Consider me disabused. Hot/cold/hot/cold does not affect the flavor profile of beer. It’s all about UV exposure.
I mean, I knew about UV exposure dorking things up, but also worried about the old warm/cold/warm/cold cycle. Guess it’s cool to leave my beer in the warm car…so long as I put up the windshield shade.
So I’ve stopped using my mac laptop to remote to the work-provided workstation sitting under my desk—mostly because the corporate proxy has become too painful to work around without using a domain-sanctioned machine on the LAN. Having grown into my poweruser self while mostly using *nix/Mac, this leaves a lot to be desired.
Here’s a list of things that make the experience a bit more uniform across platforms:
All of this to say, I’m certain there are better Windows-specific tools for handling all of the above tasks. They are probably even more functional, hip, and speedy. These are the tools that have made my own transition to a Windows workstation smoother. Not only that, but I’m still keeping my Mac/*nix workstations outside of my job so uniformity in environment is key.
The primary reason for publishing this? I’m getting a new workstation in the next month or so at work and so want to inventory all of the crap I’m going to have to reinstall once the transition happens. The funny thing? The workstation they are replacing is more than adequate for my daily needs in every way except one—it isn’t portable. I sort of wish I could trade them my aging MacBook for the workstation under my desk. It would make a great *nix tower at home! I believe it is also Hackintosh-able.
Is this an effective and efficient way to ensure robust communication? Or is it a facile way of demonstrating how busy one is?
Because, seriously, the two in the example I’m working off can take their “I’m doing FOO know. You should do BAR”, “I’m almost done with BAR, you should be able to start BAZ” minutia off-list any time you’d like. My inbox thanks you.
In the past week, I’ve had more than 2K spam comments submitted against this post of mine from way back in March, 2008. Crazypants.
Anyway, the volume does not slacken and moderating those at 20 posts at a time is kind of a suck. I’ve turned off comments for any post older than 60 days. This won’t mean a whole lot because there’s just over 40 comments total for this blog over the course of its entire run of five years come September. Most of these are me updating the original post even.
Lots to say, little time in which to say it. I hope to catch up brew blogging some time this weekend…perhaps with a homebrew or two. 🙂
If you were upset by wasting 3 minutes of your life with the Slinky video, prepare to be absolutely pissed with this one. Hunch hunch. Wha whaaa? Buh ho.
It’s been a bit of a slog lately so I’ve failed to report on the last two beers to hit the fridge.
The Squirrel is the first repeat brew we’ve tried. The first batch was quickly consumed and highly regarded. The second time around things are equally good. I did cut down on the CO2 volumes because the last go round was a little over-carbed for the style.
It pours smoothly with a slight head that sticks around for just a bit. The flavor has nice malty tones up front that mellow to a nutty finish. The lower carbonation leaves this one with a fairly toothless bite. If the mouth feel was thicker, this would be a dry stout. Very quaff-able and low enough ABV to not smack you upside the head after having a few. I’m interested in trying to port this to an all-grain recipe but am hesitant just because the extract kit is so tasty.
I’ve tried this one Wednesday evening and am quite pleased overall. The heavy citrus smell that came out of the fermenter was not as prominent as I thought it would be in the final product. I was also expecting a heavier clove kick to it since we pitched Belgian yeast strain. More Hoegaarden than Blue Moon. I think the cooler fermentation temps kept the ester formation to minimum. In the end, we got pretty close to Blue Moon.
Pours a cloudy light blonde with well-formed head that persisted for as long as I had it in a glass. Quite effervescent and highly carbed–almost more a wheat ale than a wit. Next time around I’d carb to 2.5 vols instead of the 3.5 BeerAlchemy suggested. The flavor was not as citrus/clove as I had expected and might be more subtle than the beer I tried to clone. I think I’d consider racking on top of zest in a secondary next time around. The coriander is noticeable and helps boost the fruit flavors. At 6% ABV, she packs a little more wallop than previous brews. Also mostly bottled in half liter flippies so care will be required when drinking these.
I really think I’m going to like this one. Definitely have some tweaks to the recipe and process in mind.
It’s not religion, but it is close. My attachment to vi has only grown since I first really gave it a shot little over two years ago. Getting vi keybindings in a Java editor pushed me to finally scrap Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.
At work I’m a little more heavily tied down in terms of IDEs. Ditching VisualStudio is not easy at $EMPLOYER. Imagine the joy I just experienced when I discovered VsVim. Happy days!
It’s mean and irreverent and an earlier version of me would be mortally offended, but, man, loving the snark at Regretsy. Sample of what one can find inside: 
Not stealing this, just hosting on my own web server so I’m not leaching bandwidth
Rest assured, the $200 “handicraft” this image is attached to deserves the mocking.
I wish I could do destructive things filmed with high-speed film for a living.