Archive for September, 2008

I’ve had a flash of inspiration

I’ve decided I want to go into politics.
I knew a guy, way back when, you’re talking 20 years since I’ve even heard of him, who lived on the block behind my parents. He was otherwise unremarkable aside of being a total asshole. He was adopted, and his parents promptly put him on ritalin. For whatever [...]

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This Blows Me Away

It blows this guy away too. Chalk it up to computer arcanum, but someone found a lost disk that works on both C64 and IBM floppy drives using a disk formatted by hand. I can only wonder if they formatted it by hand or actually copied the files out there by hand also. It’s very [...]

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PA liKKer Kontrol Board

Yes, the PLCB puts the KKK in liquor control. I’ve been entertaining the idea of opening either a brew your own place or a beer-garden. I feel like with the exception of Keystone Homebrew, the vast majority of homebrew shops are understocked. If the answer is “we can order it for you”, you might as [...]

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Hop Harvest

Sweet Goldings hops!

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I Suppose I’m Neglecting This…

Happy 2nd anniversary to me and my wife!
Also check out this blast from the past: The Official DOOM Comic Book. Some lucky geek owns this.

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The Spoils of Wort: Corks and Bottles

We finally got our first batch of wine done.
Since this was my wife who wanted to make the wine, it’s fruity bullshit. Unlike Arbor Mist, however, it doesn’t seem to give me a hangover and it doesn’t taste like disgusting fruit syrup despite me knowing that there was disgusting fruit syrup added of the watermelon [...]

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