First, it was Sam Adams with their special pint glass. While it claims to help you better taste their beer, I suspect the real reason for it is to try to please the Sir Chugsalot crowd. There are some people, myself included on occaision, who simply drink beer too quickly. For something like Sam Adams [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Things are Getting Silly: Beer Glasses
November 30, 2009XBOX 360 – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review
November 24, 2009 HALF out of FIVE stars. Where 5 is good and 1 is “managed to get all the textures right”.
Actually this game would deserve a 2.5 star rating except that the developers have conducted themselves in a completely reprehesible way.
What we were promised: Accurate damage models, simulations of vehicles, simulations of weapons, killer AI and [...]
Amazon Screws Up – Again
November 20, 2009This time it’s not wholly their fault, but it did put a damper on thanksgiving. I got a King Kooker as I had posted about before. The King Kooker is nice and it puts out a stupid amount of heat. Heating four gallons of oil takes only a half hour or so and this is [...]
Turkey Fryer
November 16, 2009For my birthday and Christmas, people usually give me gift cards to either Cabelas or Northern Brewer. In the spirit of “people have to come to my house because I’ve got a baby”, I bought a turkey fryer with the gift cards this year. I ended up paying only $22 (I had the oil and [...]
hh, too many forks, PIDs got reused, we’re confused
November 13, 2009I’m not entirely sure I’m in love with EXT4. I’ve installed OpenSuSE 11.2 on my laptop (64bit, SMP) and I said “WOW EXT4 IS OUT LETS USE BLEEDING EDGE FILESYSTEMS WHAT COULD POSSIBLE GO WRONG?”
Everything.
This laptop has a slow, slow harddrive, so I figured any filesystem doing bleeding edge fast stuff might help. My previous [...]
Happy 0th Birthday Alex!
November 3, 2009Well I haven’t been blogging because… I haven’t been at work or really interacting with anyone. In fact I’ve been spending almost all my time looking after Kelly and Alex because Alex came almost three weeks early. Although he’s healthy, we ended up doing an emergency C section at Phoenixville Hospital.
Needless to say, don’t go [...]
