And the electricians with Jews in their mouth, so that when they bark they shoot Jews at you.
I was almost ready to start leaving cock jokes on Facebook.
It's just so weird that neb would do this to us.
Waiting for the electrician or someone like him.
Thanks neb, for not screwing up everything.
This was a close call, I almost got some work done.
So, by the absence of a specific clarification, I assume this constitutes an admission by neb that he kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
When this happens, not that it happens often, I go through a horrible time when wonder if I made the whole thing up.
The Protocols of the Electricians of Zion
I assume everyone else also took the opportunity to spend the day playing Splatoon?
I wish--went to a three-year-old's birthday party instead.
Were they turning three or turning four after having very recently been three?
Question: I made the NYT recipe for ginger beer which is a pretty simple yeast-simple syrup-ginger-lemon-water thing. But it's wholly unclear to me whether the finished product (48 hours of fermentation) is alcoholic it doesn't taste boozy, but with all that ginger, that doesn't mean much. Thoughts?
Unless their recipe is really something and the bottle exploded at some point I'd say it's not meaningfully alcoholic. There's going to be some alcohol in there, sure, but probably not enough to be noticeably. It might aspire to something like kombucha, but probably not even make it to that point.
About as alcoholic as bread dough, I assume.
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Not-my-grandfather left a gorgeous collection of plaid and tweed ties, mostly labelled by clan and county respectively. Current width or slightly narrower. Grandsons looked at these dubiously and said "grandpa ties"; I think they'll be bang back in fashion in five years if not tomorrow. Sense of the blog?
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Pictures? Anyway, if you're cool enough, you can wear anything.
28: Sell them to vintage-crazed hipsters online.
You could probably calculate the maximum potential alcohol content based on how much sugar went into to simple syrup.
Cousins remain unconvinced. Aunts packed up ties for us to sell to hipsters in Seattle. Tempted, me, to use all this bias fabric to make a really dashing vest.
Mood Fabrics doorkeeper couldn't point me to wool challis. Liberty probably still makes it?
I assume everyone else also took the opportunity to spend the day playing Splatoon?
Spike, I've been meaning to ask you to take a look at this kickstarter campaign that some friends (and friends-of-friends) of mine are involved with. It's for plug-and-play minecraft server. Not having played the game, it isn't immediately obvious to me what they're trying to achieve (which might explain why it isn't close to being funded) but I know they were excited about it.
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Amazon differential pricing: last week I'm checking out a resource that I'd really like to have and it's out of print but Amazon has a a couple of used copies for about $300 and a new copy for about twice that. Today I go to check it again and that all the copies, used and new are $999. What the hell is going on?
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Yes! And thanks, I'd vaguely remembered reading that post years ago.
Thing is, paranoid me was suspecting Amazon of knowing that I wanted this scarce item when I clicked on it- and from a location awash in petrodollars no less. But if the conjecture in that post bears out then I just have to wait till the algorithm resets itself in a return to sanity and scoop it up.
I've had success with the 'waiting around to see what the prices do' approach on Amazon before, especially with out of print books. I'm never sure if it's because the pricing calculations had a reset/glitch and I got there at just the right time or if it's just that another vender showed up offering the book for $30 instead of $160 or something. There's probably an optimal way to do this, but it's not obvious to me what it would be, because apparently at least one of the larger sellers confirmed to someone in the comments that a book that gets looked at too often goes up in price because people seem interested in it. So just putting the link in your bookmarks and checking it every morning is probably not effective.
Spike, I've been meaning to ask you to take a look at this kickstarter campaign that some friends (and friends-of-friends) of mine are involved with. It's for plug-and-play minecraft server.
Well, first, I think sticking a Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi is really cool. There are lots of kids jealous of my kid for having a server, but the parents don't really have the l33t skillz necessary to support the thing. This plug-n-play thing looks simple enough that the kid could manage a lot of the tech aspect almost on their own - which, from a learning perspective, is huge, and of far more educational value than simply playing the game.
However, hosting Minecraft servers on residential networks is going to have, shall we say, mixed results. Sometimes it will be fine, but sometimes everyone on the server will lag out because one of the neighbors started watching Netflix. And that's assuming you can get through all the various firewalls and crap that your ISP puts in place to make this kind of thing difficult.
Ultimately, if kids want to have their own Minecraft servers, paying a few bucks a month for a hosted server in the cloud will probably get them much better performance with fewer headaches than the Raspberry Pi solution. In fact, there is already something that's now built into Minecraft itself called "Minecraft Realms." So its going to be difficult to compete with that.
Speaking of booze-making, I spent my time away from the broken blog at a winery where my old cob-logger works and lives. He was quizzing us today as he toured us around and asked, "And then we put in the yeast, which breaks down the sugar in the juice, creating three byproducts. Can you name them?"
Confidently, I said, "Alcohol. Carbon Dioxide. And...yeast poop?"
Apparently the last one's heat.
NADH -> NAD. Electrons gotta come from somewhere.
I think yeast poop is the technical name for alcohol.
They pee alcobol, poop co2, and warm the place up.
Relatives. Hide the mountain laurel.
I think they poop alcohol and pee CO2. When there's no solid waste, everything moves one step up the hierarchy.
To the tune of "Holiday in Cambodia" -- I want a holiday in KnifeCrimea:
"A drunk mother sparked a catfight after asking a teenage couple if they wanted a threesome, but then telling another woman she was too fat to join in, a court has heard."
47 doesn't imply fatphobia so much as basic innumeracy. The maximum number of participants in a threesome is three.
I've told this story before, but when I was 17, two middle-aged* women tried to get me to go home with them for a three-some. My then girlfriend, who was with me at the time, and got talking to them, thought I should go as it'd be an interesting/fun experience.**
They bought me a load of drinks but I decided that I believed in various urban legends just enough not to risk it.
Maybe it's a Knifecrimean norm?
* seemed that way to me at the time, they were probably in their 30s.
** we were technically 'on a break' at the time, although we were out drinking together on the night in question.
At least you still have both kidneys.
I like that 47 includes a trailer park, basically.
re: 50
Yes, although the urban legend in question involved one or more husbands in gimp suits bursting out of a cupboard.
One of my other friends, at the same time, got persuaded* to go home with another of the small number of older** women who drank in the local rock bars. He spent a nice 48 hours or so there, including a trip to a local blues festival, and then ended up jumping half-naked out of her window (while tripping, to boot) when her rig-worker husband arrived home a day early.
* for very small values of persuasion.
** as in younger than I currently am now.
48: Don't knock "the fourfold" until you've tried it.
Also, why did they call her a "drunk mother" instead of just a "drunk woman"? There's nothing at all about her kid(s) in the story. Maybe it's to explain why only six glasses of wine left her drunk enough to do all that? Kids might make it hard to keep your tolerance up.
Also, why is the news article a link to Evernote? Future proofing?
Firebugs are awful.
On a scale of 0 to 10 of drunkenness, she was a 6! Mrs Parsons said: 'I am fat so I wasn't bothered by the comment. It is not in my nature to get upset and angry.'
56.1: I assumed because the alternative was to link to the Daily Mail.
As long as we're linking to the local paper, this is a Catholic ritual I had no idea about.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there's no equivalent for men.
There are certainly plenty of ways to take a vow of chastity, but none that require you to have never not been chaste.
Also, why did they call her a "drunk mother" instead of just a "drunk woman"?
Like you've never been called a "drunk mother" before.
Daily Mail house style is to classify all women as Maidens, Mothers or Crones. It's a relic of their days in the 1930s as Britain's leading newspaper of Gardnerian occultism.
I thought it was here that I'd found the link to a young consecrated virgin's blog but it must not have been. Huh.
Maybe it was and I forgot about it. I can't even remember of I was team "Home in on" or not, but I still know I was right.
65: I probably just missed it. I skimmed it but probably won't read deeply because yay memories of Catholic indoctrination, but it does look interesting.
I have to give credit to the woman in the article; she's not young, and only just found out about the ritual. So, a nice atta-girl. You may already be a winner! It doesn't sound like there are many of these, but at 5k in the world and 500m or so Catholic women, that's 1 per 100,000, which is in line with a bunch of population statistical properties.
56: because it was easier to clip it to my evernote account and link from there (one keystroke) than to clip it and then go back to the original and ...
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Based on a reference here* I decided to give Blue Apron a try. I made salmon and barley with spinach. It was very good. Next up is curried chicken. Apart from the amount of wasteful packaging, it's a pretty good setup. It seems like the basic idea is becoming popular given the number of companies getting into the game.
*By Dairy Queen IIRC, but I'm too lazy to google
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Does that have more or less barley than salmon with barley and spinach?
"virgins, or those who have always refrained from voluntarily having sex with another. "
I parse this as including rape victims, which is more generous than I had expected.
I knew someone in college who was planning to be celibate for lefty social-justice reasons, abjuring the consumer dyad for the Work. I should see what she's doing. IIRC she considered being a "political lesbian" in both senses but really wasn't lesbian.