short takes

[cellio]

Cats versus Roomba, from several people on my friends list. Very funny!
Seen at the entrance to an automated car-wash: "Do not enter car wash on foot". Um, yeah. I think I'd be happier living in a world where that's obvious.
I've been listening to Roundworma collection of Bob Kanefsky's filk parodies, in the car recently

Comments

[ealdthryth]

Thanks for the link to the Cats vs. Roomba. That was hilarious!

[eub]

Geuze I believe, if you'd rather try pronouncing it with fewer vowels conspiring against you.

[cellio]

That would be easier to pronounce, yes. However, the spelling I used is what I copied from the label. :-) (I wonder what's going on -- could there be a 72-point typo on the label?)

[eub]

Oh well.

Ah. Gueuze is the French spelling, while geuze is the Flemish spelling.

[cellio]

Ah. Leave it to the French to sprinkle in some extra vowels. :-)

[ichur72]

Ah, lambic. The first time I heard about it, I thought, "Ewwww." Walt convinced me to try some (I picked out a currant-flavored variety), and it was delicious.

[cellio]

The currant one is pretty good, as is the raspberry. The peach is very good. The cherry tastes like cough syrup (IMO).

[eub]

The currant tastes undrinkably of cough syrup to me. Maybe it's a question of which cough syrup one developed a reaction to as a child.

[cellio]

hmm. do beer stores sell lambics or cider now?

Yes, though in the case of lambics the requirement that you buy by the case can cause some economic distress. I'm part of a group of people who get together every now and then to buy mixed cases so we can sample things we wouldn't otherwise buy a case of. We organize in multiples of 8 and get 3 bottles each of 8 different beers.

what beer store do you frequent?

I get all my beer by proxy. :-) But the store Tim uses (and speaks highly of) is Mellinger's in Oakland.

[cellio]

I don't know. Where's D's? I've never been there. (That would be useful.)

[cellio]

Peach and plain are going to be my standards, too.

The first time I had the currant I wasn't too happy with it, but the second time I liked it better. Since I don't know which of those two data points was anomolous, I don't know what would happen with #3. :-)