“We are trying to explore the outer edges of what beer can be,” Calagione says. But the idea makes even some craft brewers nervous. “I find the term ‘extreme beer’ irredeemably pejorative,” Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, told me recently. “When a brewer says, ‘This has more hops in it than anything you’ve [...]
Archive for January, 2009
26 Jan
Howto: Smoke a Cigar
After having a romance with cigars on and off for a year, I finally figured it out.
The one that busted my cigar cherry was la aurora barrel aged.
Fantastic stuff.
For all I wrote about smoking hookah, cigars were more macho and had the added ability of being portable. I had smoked a pipe on [...]
22 Jan
How Does Trueskill Work?
Or “Why Can’t I Rank Up In Gears of War 2?”
Please let me present the summary, which has some good links at the bottom, and the FAQ. The FAQ actually answers more of the questions about hows and whys than the summary did for me.
22 Jan
Gears of War 2 Update
The GoW2 update is out and I’ve got mixed feelings about it.
The shotgun feels more solid. If you’re shooting someone and they’re in the crosshairs, you’ll hit them, especially on particularly laggy matches. The effect is occasionally disorienting – you will be shooting at someone while they’re running and they’ll run right past you, only [...]
19 Jan
I am Proud of my Wife
I am proud of my wife, she just passed her NCLEX!
Wooo, congrats Kelly!
12 Jan
Post Deer Season Wrapup and One Year Homebrew
The last day of flintlock hunting and I’m empty handed. Not from lack of effort, mind you, but more from the weather. There’s a reason they didn’t fight battles in the civil war when it was the middle of a snowstorm.
My brother and I had been hunting the farm all day. I was using the [...]
7 Jan
FreeBSD 7.1 is FailBSD 7.1
Good fucking god. Do you think the FreeBSD folks would, at some point, think “gee if we used Linux UIs, we might attract more than two users!”
For the most part it’s a fairly standard affair. It installs in VMWare, it works with VMWare tools, and nothing from previous FreeBSD releases is broken. Unlike Solaris in [...]
