Coors High-End Beer Unit: An Oxymoron
Thursday August 30, 2007
Coors Brewing Co will be creating a new line of high-end beers. I'm assuming by "high-end" they mean these beers will be on the level of Blue Moon which is substandard by any definition. Too little too late? I'll have a Green Flash West Coast IPA please.
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Runner Slams Face Into Hurdle
Tuesday August 28, 2007
This is pretty extreme. Doctors said he suffered only some cuts to his lower lip and jaw.
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You Know You're a Beer Geek When...
Monday August 27, 2007
Copied from the MySpace of The Liar's Club, one of San Diego's premiere beer bars.
- You are at someone's house, and all they have is Bud Light - you opt for water.
- You spend up to 5 minutes looking for the alchohol content on the bottle before taking a sip
- a girl invites you home from the bar and before making a decision, you ask her what kind of beer she has. Or, someone calls you an arrogant bastard and you think that you've been offered a beer.
- You go to the grocery or liquor store and spend over 10 minutes looking at all the beer, then leave without getting anything and drive to another location.
- if it doesn't have "ambachtelijk bier driemaal gegist" on the label-you won't drink it.
- if the beer you are drinking doesn't end in "tion" or wasn't made by "The Vinnie", you feel it's it's like sleeping with an English girl-- sure it's sex, but not that special!
- It takes you five minutes to order a beer because you must know EVERYTHING that a bar serves
- You own a company that prints for breweries and you won't do work for them if you don't like their beer.
- When your 3 bedroom apartment has one full room for solely for beer storage. And when you have to come to an agreement about space in the fridge for food.
- When your wife actually picks a fight with you to drink more beer. (Mostly to gain control of the fridge.)
- You want to get drunk but can't because you don't have the proper glass for that new Belgian beer.
- All the lighting in your house consists of Micro/Craft Breweries swag... and your neighbors tell you that holiday season has been over for months now.
- You drive hundreds of miles and spend hundreds of dollars on gas just to get "that special keg" for your bar.
- You bring 5 cases of Riverfront back from Milwaukee in an already packed 8 passenger tour van that has 9 people and 2 bands worth of gear all for free just because the 'brewery tour guide' likes the bar you work at.GOOD TIMES!!
- you won't patronize bars that don't serve local beer. Or if you refer to Vincent Cilurzo as "The Vinnie".
- You travel all the way from Melbourne to San Diego just to get a decent pint......
- you see someone with a Corona and you tell them,"If I was on fire, I wouldn't want you to pour that on me.
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Fox News Prank Caller
Sunday August 26, 2007
People that call live news broadcasts just to say titties are incredible.
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Bike Jump Into Lake
Sunday August 26, 2007
Here's one thing I'm gonna go ahead and say I won't be doing for a long time if ever since I went and busted my back. Riding off a big ass jump into a lake can be filed under awesome.
Posted at 10:19 PM | Comments (1)
Larry Richette Likes Reporters
Saturday August 25, 2007
"That's what I think of TV news."
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The All-In-One Beer Brewing Machine
Saturday August 25, 2007
What if there were a machine—a beautiful shiny machine—and all it did, with almost no work from you, was make you beer? Such was the dream that drove PopSci staff photographer John Carnett to spend weeks building what he simply refers to as the Device: a stainless-steel two-cart brewing system that starts by boiling extract—concentrated wort, or pre-fermented beer—and ends with a chilled pint.
This is a friggin cool machine, even though it won't do All-Grain brewing yet. It's a little odd that you have to pour your pint off the same machine you brew on, but I guess it could be a pretty rad conversation piece in your living room. Now your neighbors can look in the window and think you're running a meth lab!
Video of "The Device":
Related: My own brewery
Posted at 11:32 AM | Comments (0)
China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation
Wednesday August 22, 2007
In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.
I didn't know you could even regulate such a thing.
Posted at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
City Wide Drug Testing
Wednesday August 22, 2007
Pretty sweet way of tracking drug use by testing the waste water of an entire city. I'd love to see my neighborhood tested. Almost guarantee it would be high in crack and meth use.
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Holy Window Washing Hell
Tuesday August 21, 2007
This makes me want to puke. Someone should've died, but supposedly no one did.
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Success With The Database
Thursday August 16, 2007
It's been an incredibly F'ed up interesting month over here but there may finally be some success to report. Allow me to summarize the nightmares experienced.
To start it off I ran out of disk space at my webhost (due to being a cheap ass with a cheap ass package). Well guess what happens when you're writing to a Berkeley Database and you run over your quota? Corrupted everything. There's really no way to recover from this outside of reinstalling and rebuilding everything. So, I figure it would be a great idea to upgrade my movabletype while I'm at it. The newer version looks much better anyway. Oops, with cheap shared hosting your CPU and memory usage is throttled and the new version won't even run. Sweet, more wasted time!
Final decision was to simply use the old version of movabletype, reinstall it, and I'm going to have to do some .htaccess trickery to forward any links to my old pages to the new ones, since the URLs were all based on internal database IDs (terrible decision) and now they're all different. Also, we're now on MySQL so hopefully this nightmare will never happen again. Never allow a Berkeley Database near your data.
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