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Comment on sad wishes (2011-04-24 14:12:22)
It's been making its rounds on the net for a while, this isn't the first time I've seen this.
Comment on Unfortunate translation (2011-04-23 00:04:43)
I came in here to say that but you beat me to it, so I'll just +1 you instead.
Comment on my fucking breakfast (2011-04-14 12:34:19)
snorrrrt
Comment on bioshock 2 (2011-04-13 09:01:56)
Yup, I bought it and Bioshock 1 for $5 each last night. I never got around to playing through the first game on my 360 because I suck at FPS games, but I still want to play them, and this was way too good a deal to pass up.
Comment on maybe you touched your genitals (2011-04-11 17:26:37)
Enough about the genitals thing, check out those fucking magnets!
Comment on Computer hardware chart (2011-03-07 15:23:52)
Beautiful, thanks! The huge-ass jpg doesn't allow direct linking, but when you get the Forbidden error, just click on the URL bar and hit Enter, and the pic will load.
Comment on Computer hardware chart (2011-03-07 10:56:55)
Nice, but whoever chose JPG as a format for this needs to be cockslapped.
Comment on Ink No Flame (2011-03-04 14:52:57)
"Are you done making an art yet? Can I get this fucking wasp OFF MY FACE NOW?"
Comment on Random picture of my lamp (2011-02-23 11:40:42)
I keep looking at it and thinking it's some HR Giger alien lamp, but then I realize it's just a dragon. Nothing wrong with dragons, but a Giger lamp would be far more awesome.
Comment on Twilight FTW ! (2011-02-23 11:20:03)
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like the every intelligent person in country? This woman here obviously is far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like stupid brain, like how to smart but not really! Bah, the stupid want to do look more like burning my IQ points away. I'll miss being the every IQ points in country :(
Comment on Homebrew (2011-02-23 10:50:53)
btw, thanks for all the tips and encouragement. It's nice to see a friendly community of brewers here. I only wish I had more local resources to help -- especially somebody who could take a sample from these bad batches and tell me exactly what went wrong!
Comment on Homebrew (2011-02-23 10:47:08)
I'm going to have to dig out the books I bought for this. I was sure that I read that a certain amount of dissolved oxygen is necessary for the yeast to begin their work, and boiling the wort removes all of the dissolved oxygen, so some has to be re-introduced. Some people use an aquarium aerator for this; I gave the carboy a vigorous shake for five or ten minutes. Once I've got my specific gravity sample, the yeast is pitched, an airlock is in place and the carboy is in the closet, I disturb it as little as possible (including siphoning to the secondary instead of pouring, as you say).
Comment on Homebrew (2011-02-23 10:42:45)
This is in a closet, I only opened it to check on the homemade airlock and to take the photo. The temperature is as steady as it can be in a 3rd-floor apartment with no AC in August; being in the closet kept the temperature fairly steady, though I would have liked it to be cooler.
Comment on Homebrew (2011-02-22 20:38:11)
I used store-bought bottled distilled (not spring or mineral) water for brewing. Boiled 3 gallons of wort, and added the rest to the carboy afterward to make five gallons after the 3 gallons cooled. Our electric stove could barely keep 3 gallons of water at a boil, I had no chance of doing a full boil. We live in a 3rd-floor apartment and are not allowed to have anything like a barbecue, turkey fryer, etc. on the balcony. Our place is generally unsuited to brewing. I sanitized the equipment using the pink chlorine-based powder sanitizer that my local HBS carried, rinsed with tap water. I'm not certain that it was a bacterial contamination issue, it might have been oxidation. After the wort cooled down and I added the remaining water, I would shake the carboy to mix in some oxygen for the yeast (I'm pretty sure Papazian's book told me to do this), but the wort may not have chilled enough. I haven't done this in years, and I don't know anybody else local who brews, so I'm completely out of practice and don't really remember everything I used to do, and why.
Comment on Fuck yo sled (2011-02-22 14:03:10)
"This is a jecking!"