Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 23

I got a couple of hydrometers for Christmas, so now I can actually measure the alcohol content of my brews. We also have a quart of Grade A Amber (formerly known as Grade B) maple syrup that my wife doesn't like, so I started a batch of maple mead (AKA "acerglyn") which is a 2:1 ratio of honey to maple syrup. I'm expecting this one to taste pretty good.

#mead #honey #maple #homebrewing #fermentation

Nothing puts me in the Christmas spirit like watching Ralphie slap the shit out of Scut Farkas.

#chistmas

EXPANSE SPOILERS:

Episode 4 was great overall. I have a couple of comments/observations though.

First, is it just me or have they pretty majorly nerfed Inaros' attack on Earth compared to the books? I'm not sure I understand why. They took a giant "holy shit" event from the books and made it, I don't know, less intense. Seems antithetical to TV writing.

Second, I wish they had decided to spend the VFX money they've clearly laid out for season 5 when the shot season 4. One of my big disappointments in season 4 is that the robo-Miller on screen was super lame compared to the books. That droid thing in this episode looked fucking awesome.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi #television

I liked the first stab at tea wine so much I decided to make 5 gallons of it in my new carboy. This is by far the largest cup of tea I've ever brewed.

#tea #wine #homebrewing #fermentation

emperor named...

#emperor #roman #name #poopy #anus #pronounced

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#dogs #humor

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#dogs #humor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_ale

#cock #ale #nope

I watched the first three espisodes of The Expanse season 5, and it has me pretty curious about where Camina Drummer is going. Minor book spoilers ahead.

Drummer is a character in the books, and an important one, but the Drummer on the TV show is sort of an amalgam between book Drummer and another character named Carlos "Bull" de Baca. Book Drummer is indeed Fred Johnson's security chief on Tycho as we see on the show, and she comes back much later in an important role, but she never captains the Nauvoo through the ring (that was always Asheford), and most of what happens to her in season 3 (like breaking her spine) actually happens to de Baca.

I'm not complaining, at all, because I love the character as presented on the show, (and TBH never really missed de Baca) but it's interesting now because they've brought in de Baca in season 5 as Tycho's new security chief (see what they did there?), and seem to have merged Drummer's new trajectory into another book character named Michio Pa. Interestingly, Pa was on the Behemoth as Asheford's XO. In the books, though, she also ends up joining with Marco Inaros' Free Navy. It's an odd change to put Drummer in her place as the way they've set things up, she seems to have a serious hate on for Inaros. Is she going to have a change of heart, or will something completely new happen? I have no idea.

Unlike a lot of adaptations of books, I more or less really enjoy the changes the show has made. For the most part they're good, if not for the better, and they keep things interesting as a viewer because of things like this. It probably helps that the writers of the books have been writing the screenplays all along as well. The only potential change I'm dreading is however they end up wrapping up the story three book too soon when the show ends in season 6.

#theexpanse #scifi #jamessacorey #television #books

I watched the first two episodes of The Expanse. It looks like a movie. They spent a lot of money. No wonder it's been cancelled 🙄

It's great so far though.

#theexpanse #jamessacorey #scifi #television

YAY!

https://trekmovie.com/2020/11/09/exclusive-the-orville-season-3-is-returning-to-production-in-december/

#theorville #scifi #television

There are a billion crime dramas where a someone discovers that their spouse lost their job months ago and was only pretending to go to work. You've seen it. Who the fuck are these people that an entire income could go missing and unnoticed for months?

Migrating from postgresql 11 to 13 seems to have significantly improved the stream loading times on this pod. 👍

#diaspora #postgresql

https://youtu.be/qEfPBt9dU60

#kurzgesagt #science #educational #space #moon #nuclearweapons

Um, what?

https://youtu.be/n8j6P8QtAYw

#nobody #bobodenkirk

I need empty bottles for x-mas.

#homebrewing #mead #cider #wine

I watched a trailer on Amazon and it had Cas Anvar in it. It felt weird instantly. This does not bode well for season 5.

#theexpanse

I don't understand this serving suggestion.

I've been watching the HBO version of His Dark Materials. I don't know anything about the books, but as presented in the show I'm not really sold on the whole daemon thing. It doesn't feel well thought out.

#hisdarkmaterials #fantasy #hbo

Found on an Expanse reddit thread about whether Sadavir Errinwright was really such a bad guy:

You might disagree with some of his decisions, but I personally think he was more of a nationalist than an evil guy as some fans seem to present him as.

Just for context, if you haven't read the books, the character in question who is more of a "nationalist" than an "evil guy" did the following:

• Consented to and abetted the mass murder of thousands of civilians
• Ordered multiple political assassinations
• Personally murdered someone
• Conducted/funded a covert, extra-legal bio-weapons program using unwilling/unwitting human subjects
• Engineered a false-flag operation (which also murdered several hundred civilians) to start a war as a cover/distraction for his illegal bio-weapons program
• Ordered the use of the resultant bio-weapons on a population of millions

So yeah, just a misunderstood patriot. What's the big deal? 🙄

#theexpanse #scifi #fiction #reddit #wtf