Went out and cribbed some hop-vine cuttings from a lady's yard in Fremont, feel all naughty about it. :D Don't know what kind they are, but preliminary research suggests it's a Sunbeam Golden Hop, which is apparently a hybrid derived in 1990 from a Saaz hop and whatever the local bees were carrying around. Brewing-wise, it's basically still a Saaz ( Read more... )

SO NICE TODAY

SO FREAKIN NICE

Oh god I can't stand it even a little bit. I'm going to take a bus to some random place and just wander the hell around, all day.

EDIT: Oh wait I'm not, I'm going to work on website code. But with lemonade.

I can't even remember where I got this image, but have a look:


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Dammit, I just had a super-terrific drink at Poquito's (which is brilliant) called a Cornerstone and straightaway I need a bunch of fernet. I mean I know what it -smells- like, I just need a bottle. And swanky bitters. And tiki grenadine. And cachaca, but pfffff, that's everywhere.

Here's the recipe:

• 2 oz. Novo Fogo Aged Cachaça
• 1/2 oz. Trader Tiki’s ( Read more... )

Mourning Market today was super-nifty. I saw a lot of well-made things and more color than I expected, and it was generally dark and there were skulls and octopuses and lace and such, always pleasant. Got to talk to a lot of artisans.

I quickly discovered that I had stumbled upon the No Self-Confidence Warehouse.

Artisans starting out damn near ( Read more... )

God damn it, they;re tearing down Building 619 because of structural concerns over tunnel-boring. GOD DAMN IT. That place is an amazing hub of art and artists and I've gotten really attached to it over a couple years of visiting it on First Thursdays--and now it's going away! What the hell will happen to Dr. Johnny Wow? Brandon Bowman? The fellow ( Read more... )

Right now, fermenting in the laundry room, is BEER. HOMEMADE BEER. seanb  and I spent most of the afternoon farming materials and boiling things and now all that's left to do is wait. It hasn't started fermenting yet, not appreciably--it's been just about three hours, and I'm given to understand that twelve is more customary before the big exciting ( Read more... )

Ooof. Oddly worn-out, though the last few days have actually been pretty much back to normal work-wise. Maybe that's why. Feel kind of like a tidepool fish.

This is me.

(*,){<   ~~ wigu wigu ~~

This was the holidays.

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Saw me some TRON Legacy last night, thought it was great. I heard a guy walking out behind me saying that he thought it would follow the same fandom trajectory as The Phantom Menace: people would walk out liking it and slowly realize that it was actually crap whereupon it would sink into a general consensus as a disappointment. I don't think so. I ( Read more... )

Ugh. I'm chugging the hot lemon and getting my vitamins but I still feel like the bottom of a birdcage. Could be worse, I mean, at least I'm up and functional and I mostly sound like me--unlike Ariel, who sounds like Max. And Max is fine. Because he is a lucky bastard ( Read more... )