Monday, February 26, 2007

immature at best

"Colon progressing slowly from shoulder surgery" -espn.com

Sounds painful.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Oh snap!

New (improved!) to the blog is snap.com's overhaul of all links to include pop-up window preview of their respective sites. A great idea for search engines but does it translate well into blogdom?

Actual substance gained from seeing a two inch preview of the future site seems minimal, considering any truly interesting link would already have been clicked. Moreover, tiny windows tracing your cursor movement over links can be distracting, especially if all you want to do is truck through text. And yes, linking every other word in a block of blogness has become de rigeur, to the extent of annoyance. I will try not to do it much, nor sing out of tune.

Perhaps the marginal gain is minimal, but it does make the site awfully shiny. That should count for something.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

more brew news

That IPAish's OG turned out to be 1.054, a bit lower than what I hoped for. Primary'd for three weeks, secondary'd for three more weeks before again siphoning off trub. Now on second secondary, tertiary(?) with re-dryhopping of second 1-oz bag of splatz. also DH'd in first secondary with same.

Also ran a winter brew a month ago, don't have the exact recipe with me. Had munich, crystal 90, and others, added honey and maple syrup, hopped with cascade and warrior, then tettnang and splatz for aroma. Split pitched with WLP-german grolsh and nottingham. Will have exacts later.

This might be the only time I decide to let politics drip into this blog thing. I attended a screening of The War Tapes this afternoon. Both the film and the audience were quite interesting, to say the least. Give it a go if you've the time or inclination.

Also, resurrected from the xanga days, a brief linkorama (aka banality):
-FreeBeer
-Daisuke Blogspot
-Spy's Spice

I'll probably add these to the unused link section on the left. Not sure what to think about these and a few other new readings. Anyway, that is all. How are you?