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Tuesday
Jan242012

Let's Brew Beer: Part 3

After a disturbingly long period has elapsed, it is finally time to put my potentially delicious brew into bottles. Here the yeast will give its last gift: delicious carbonation.

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Wednesday
Jan182012

Vital Knowledge: Tipping

(BY-NC-ND Joel Motylinski)Tipping, like rollerskating, cheesemaking, and pipe smoking, is a dying male art form. Gone are the days of old when large groups of burgeoning mathematicians and economists went to restaraunts for the sole purpose of attempting to equitably split the bill. In this computer age with its slide rules and its included gratuity few know how to properly leave a tip. After doing much research in ancient ettiquite tomes I have compiled the following list of tipping guidelines, from common to esoteric.

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Tuesday
Jan172012

Vital Knowledge: Trivia




(BY-NC-ND by Amy Groark)

  • The creature in the Taco Bueno symbol is none other than Cthulhu, taken out of an ancient Aztec version of the Necronomicon.
  • Wolves will not chase you across moving water.
  • Yosemite Sam's original name was Anti-Semitic Sam.
  • If a frog egg hatches on land, it will be a frog instead of a tadpole.
  • Ginger Ale does not contain Ginger, nor is it Ale.
  • Mister Spock from Star Trek was originally supposed to wear red face paint, but it caused Leonard Nimoy to break out in a face-paint-like rash.

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Monday
Jan092012

Let's Brew Beer: Part 2

It's been two weeks a while since we boiled the wort and set it to ferment, so now we'll take hydrometer readings to see if the initial fermentation process has ended. We have here our testing column with hydrometer, and of course, our fermenting beer.

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Tuesday
Jan032012

Catch-22

Catch 22 is the most accurate depiction of military life ever written. No, I take that back. Catch-22 is the most accurate depiction of life ever written.

You may think I'm as crazy as the eclectic cast it boasts, but I can't be crazy, since anyone with good taste enough to enjoy this book is surely in their right mind. When I say it's the most accurate depiction of life ever written I mean that it takes all the minor absurdities, illogic, and bureaucratic nonsense of life and distillates it down to a thick delicious liquor of dry humor and witty irony. You feel like a newcomer trying to catch up with a long-established group as you hear tantalizing hints of events that are revealed later on. It draws you in with its humorous scenarios and scenes driven by the eccentric cast's interactions, then draws you slowly, inexorably to the darkly logical conclusions of these scenarios and lives.

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