Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 18

This maple mead is flipping delicious, and I'm going to start another batch ASAP 🍁

#homebrewing #fermentation #mead #wine #maple

God dammit Midas!

https://youtu.be/VB_GWz25B3Q

#kurzgesagt #educational #physics #midas #gold

I just found a 9.2T log file. I feel like this event should be commemorated.

-rw-r-----+ 1 root root 9242224558921 Mar 25 2020 /path/to/some/file

My recap of Netflix's Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan in python:

while not shogun:
    if conquer_japan() == False:
        commit_ritual_suicide() and die()
    elif name == "Toyotomi Hideyoshi":
        for i in range(0,1):
            invade_korea()
        die()
    elif name == "Ieyasu Tokugawa":
        shogun = True

#netflix #ageofsamurai #samurai #japan #history #documentary

Maple mead (acerglyn), bottled. This stuff is going to be nice.

#maple #honey #wine #mead #acerglyn #fermentation #homebrewing

Who do you think would win in a duel between Chekhov's Gun and Pachelbel's Canon?

(And before anyone brings up Occam, we all know you don't bring a knife to a gun fight)

I'm re-reading Leviathan Wakes, and not for the first time wishing that the Nauvoo had ended up taking the journey it was built for. That sounds like a great book to itself.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi

I'm re-reading Leviathan Wakes, and. It for the first time wishing that the Nauvoo had ended up taking the journey it was built for. That sounds like a great book to itself.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi

Alcoholic ginger beer, first brew.

#homebrewing #fermentation #gingerbeer #ginger #booze

There's a local brewery (Halyard) that specializes in ginger beers. I like them quite a bit, one of their brews in partiular, so I set out trying to make something similar, mostly by guesswork. My first batch just finished, and it's not bad, but doesn't quite hit the mark. I used ginger, lemon, and dark brown sugar. It tastes close to Halyard's, but it's still missing something, and my palette's not trained well enough to know what it is for sure, but I think it could be star anise. So, for my next batch I threw in a few star anise pods into the boil, as well as an oolong tea bag (just for shits). This stuff has a quick turnaround (2 weeks from start to finish) so it will be easy (and delicious) to iterate.

#homebrewing #fermentation #gingerbeer #ginger #booze #halyardbrewingco #vermont

Fictional cops always threaten to "come back with a warrant". I've never understood how that was a threat, exactly. Sure, dude. Get a warrant.

I started watching Capitani. Guess what? There's a murder in a small European town that the local cops aren't equipped to handle, so an outside investgator is sent in to solve it, but he has some nebulous past connection to this place and also is battling his inner demons, and also everyone in town is hiding a secret that makes them seem guilty. It takes place in Luxembourg this time, though. Refreshing!

#european #television #oddlyfamiliar

Ep. 001 - Alien and The Expanse S1E1

In this first episode, Wes and Ty dig deep into their mutual love of 1979's ALIEN by Ridley Scott and how foundational it was on the creation of The Expanse.

#ty #scott #alien #harry #dean #canterbury #franck #wes #nostromo #stanton #ridley #expanse #chatham #xenomorph #yaphet #kotto #gieger #tyandthatguy #theexpanse #scifi #podcast
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#pod_feeder #pod_feeder_v2 #rss #atom #syndication #feeds #diaspora

The banana wine is quite drinkable after only a month. I started it on Jan 21. 🍌🍷

#banana #wine #homebrewing #fermentation #booze

Is "toxic Christianity" a phrase yet?

https://youtu.be/2XBakI4WZw4

#thatdangdad #politics #radicalization #conspiracies

There's something that really frustrates me as a fan of any particular work of fiction, especially series: the inability to have meaningful conversations due to spoilers.

I'm in a room for fans of The Expanse on Matrix. Unfortunately it's almost exclusively populated with TV-only people (as opposed to book readers) and they're all over the map in terms of how much of the series they've watched. As a result, there is almost no worthwhile discussion of anything, other than people chiming in once in a while to say which episode they're on.

I get that people who haven't caught up with the show, or haven't read the books don't want stuff spoiled. I wouldn't in their position. Surely, there has to be a better way, though? I feel like in any general audience I can never talk about any work of fiction because there's always at least one person who isn't caught up. It's maddening.

#spoilers #fiction #fandom #theexpanse

#rushlimbaugh #trump #darmok #usa

Rush Limbaugh, when Trump Plaza fell

#rushlimbaugh #trump #darmok #usa