Burble

I could (and probably will before this is all over with) watch the CO2 burble out of the airlock on the fermenter for hours. I think we’re well on our way to some glorious Riesling. The dining room smells like one hell of a party too.

Stella’s Christmas Groove

Too early for Christmas music, but not too early to appreciate downloading a fine Christmas album put out by the folks at Stella Atrois. I warn you it is lots o’ Flash but I was also tell you that this is one of the few times that lots o’ Flash is a good thing. A…

2011W01

Happy birthday, first batch of wine! Today was the day Elizabeth and I took the leap and began making wine at home. What started as an obsession over various homemade fruit brandies at a church auction has borne fruit, as they say. After a quick trip to Cornhusker Beverage & Bridal (no, not the world’s…

Doing it with People Like Us

Do or D-I-Y is a mashup/remix podcast radio show by People Like Us. It is only one of the many entertaining shows in WFMU‘s arsenal of not-in-the-mainstream talent. It is, in a word, phenomenal. It is also going on hiatus for a bit. You can listen to archived shows though, and I highly recommend them.…

11-11-11

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her…

For immediate release

Council Bluffs (AP) – “Cancel your late season skiing plans and give up on your Canucks early this year, ladies and gentlemen, because spring training is back,” was returning GM and owner Nick Hansen’s opening line to the throng of baseball fans in Western Iowa at an early morning press conference. Tens of fans had…

The new phonebook

The new Growl is here! The new Growl is here! Oh, wait, it’s now a paid application? But it’s open source. So now we’re in dependency hell because there’s no Maven-like dependency management widget in Xcode. Also, knowing full well I’m behind the times, I still prefer SVN to either Git or Mercurial. I understand…