just brew it! wrote:...Judges need to be able to recognize and diagnose off flavors and out-of-style beers...
Okay, you're pulling our leg now, I'm sure of it. How does a beer go "out of style," hmmmmm?
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just brew it! wrote:...Judges need to be able to recognize and diagnose off flavors and out-of-style beers...
BIF wrote:just brew it! wrote:...Judges need to be able to recognize and diagnose off flavors and out-of-style beers...
Okay, you're pulling our leg now, I'm sure of it. How does a beer go "out of style," hmmmmm?
BIF wrote:Okay, I'll give you that. But why wouldn't that just be called "mis-categorized" beer?
I mean, "out of style beer" just sounds so...judgmental!
BIF wrote:So you're saying, with judges, entrants, scoring, categorizing, and all this trouble you go to, it's ... well it's like a "sport".
Man, I've been missing out!
just brew it! wrote:From the "crazy things discovered while on a Wikipedia tangent" file: chlorine trifluoride. It's not every day you read about a compound which "ignites glass on contact".
Ignition! wrote:It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.
Ignition! wrote:It happened at their Shreveport, Louisiana, installation, while they were preparing to ship out, for the first time, a one-ton steel cylinder of CTF. The cylinder had been cooled with dry ice to make it easier to load the material into it, and the cold had apparently embrittled the steel. For as they were maneuvering the cylinder onto a dolly, it split and dumped one ton of chlorine trifluoride onto the floor. It chewed its way through twelve inches of concrete and dug a threefoot hole in the gravel underneath, filled the place with fumes which corroded everything in sight, and, in general, made one hell of a mess. Civil Defense turned out, and started to evacuate the neighborhood, and to put it mildly, there was quite a brouhaha before things quieted down. Miraculously, nobody was killed, but there was one casualty — the man who had been steadying the cylinder when it split. He was found some five hundred feet away, where he had reached Mach 2 and was still picking up speed when he was stopped by a heart attack.
paulWTAMU wrote:My mouse is dying; the track wheel is working erratically, the left button is kind of mushing rather than clicking, and something managed to chew a bit of the right handle off. So I went to Target and Best Buy to look for mice yesterday.
WTF? 2 wired mice available and they were both the ultra cheap crappy store brand. Whatever happened? I've got one from Amazon coming in now.
paulWTAMU wrote:Also, Oh man, they have done horrible things to the PC selection at Best Buy.
just brew it! wrote:Apparently nobody buys decent wired mice any more. I had a similar experience at Staples recently; fortunately "crappy store brand" was adequate for the intended use (wife wanted a basic corded mouse to use with her laptop at a training she was attending).
Best Buy has been basically worthless for computer stuff for several years now. IIRC the only computer gear I've bought there in the past ~5 years was a pair of hard drives at the height of the hard drive shortage (Thailand floods). It took Best Buy a long time to adjust their pricing to reflect market conditions, so they were still selling drives at pre-flood prices for several weeks.
Pretty much the only thing Best Buy is any good for these days is kitchen appliances. Need a new Kitchenaid mixer? They've got those in all the colors!
paulWTAMU wrote:I bought the Anker gaming mouse from amazon after my RAT Cyborg crapped the bed after just a little over a year. The Anket was $40, feels fantastic in hand, has all the bells and whistles I want, and I feel like it's a very high quality device. The software for it is nice too. Lots of easy to record macros, buttons, even change the light color with it. I really like this mouse.Also, Oh man, they have done horrible things to the PC selection at Best Buy.
just brew it! wrote:Epic XKCD...
I posted about this a few months ago, and it's still going. XKCD #1190 has been changing every hour, on the hour (every half-hour initially), since late March.
This site lets you watch the entire sequence -- with pause/forward/back capability -- in its entirety.
Note: The current frame, as of 9:47 CDT, is all black... a "fade to black" between scenes of sorts. You can hit the second link above and use the left-arrow key to move back through the last few hours/days worth of frames (it wraps around) if you want to get a feel for the recent history... or just let the aubronwood site load and free-run to get the whole sequence from the start.
paulWTAMU wrote:bleeeeeeeeeech. He and are going to have a talk about what exactly I'm going to feed him to if I see him near my kid.
paulWTAMU wrote:Sex offender moved into the neighborhood. Aggravated sexual assault on a 7 year old.
bleeeeeeeeeech. He and are going to have a talk about what exactly I'm going to feed him to if I see him near my kid.
paulWTAMU wrote:Pretty much blowing off steam. I mean, we all hear about people on the registries for stuff like public urination and crap like that, but UGH, aggravated sexual assault of a minor and you're out after apparently 1-2 years?