Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• I posted another Carl & Jerry story as a free PDF right before we left Colorado Springs, and completely forgot to call attention to it here. It's "Trapped in a Chimney" and the MAKE Blog featured it yesterday.
• If you ever wondered how long food lasts unopened

Comments

beer durability

[happy_hacker]

Beer is better fresh, within reason. The brown ale I normally brew wants at least two weeks in the bottle to age, and a month is better. After that, it's at it's flavor peak for 2-3 months, and it's still pretty good for about three additional months. After more than six months total, it's pretty well not worth drinking anymore

OMGPonies

[happy_hacker]

OMG: Oh my God
Ponies: errr. Perhaps a reference to "I always wanted a pony for Christmas!"

My guess would be this phrase is a generic surprise/approval. Kind of like "ooh, shiny!" - which is a generic for distracting and cool stuff, probably derived from ferrets' ability to be distracted and attracted by anything shiny.

-Jim

Re: OMGPonies

[etfb]

Last year's Slashdot April Fool's Day Edition was decked out in shiny pink (they'd just redone their CSS so this was relatively simple to do site-wide) and had "OMG! Ponies!" as the header. It's a silly-teenage-girl-text-messaging sort of feel, presumably to show that /. appeals to more than just the traditional SKUDA (School Kids Using Dad's AOL) demographic...