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Root beer update
This morning the bottle of root beer was hard so I put it in the fridge for a few hours and then, after a lengthy period of bleeding off excess carbon dioxide, gave it a try. I think it turned out quite well!
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Next up: root beer
I was at the grocery store today and noticed they sold root beer extract, so ... here's the recipe.Changes made from that recipe ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in ginger ale part 1
secritcrush posted a link to this ginger ale recipe by an Ohio biology professor (which includes links to the chemical reactions involved in making ginger ale) recently and yesterday I decided to give it a whirl. I made some modifications based on secritcrush's experiences and also based on personal whims, etc ( Read more... ) -
Knitting tutorial: kitchener stitch with ribs
Occasionally when you're knitting you'll run into a situation where you have to graft two ends of, say, a cabled or ribbed band together to make a loop.
Unfortunately most of the tutorials on the web only discuss the situation where you're grafting stockinette to stockinette, so if you have to graft two ribbed edges together and you need the ( Read more... ) -
Lost: A Honkin' Big Post About The Finale
cpr94 sent me this link: http://bit.ly/cG6L7W which discusses the series finale of LOST and I wrote a lengthy response which I'll post here. (Craig hasn't actually seen most of LOST so I tried to keep that in mind when writing my response. Nonetheless: big spoilers ahead.)
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Conversation at Fiddlers & Fishermen
Jon: "So what do you have planned for tonight?"
Me, slightly confused: "After this, nothing."
Jon, amused: "Woah, slow down, big guy!"
(He meant what songs was I planning to sing.)
Posted via LiveJournal.app.
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knitted stegosaurus note
Some of you may remember that I came up with a knitted stegosaurus pattern a couple of years ago and published it in my livejournal ( Read more... ) -
X-Mas: a poll
Poll to use xmas or not to use X-Mas