Hobbit
To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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I know it was the homebrewing that put me over the top!
Researchers: Hops in Beer May Be Healthy - Yahoo! News
Some beers already have higher levels of flavonids than others. The lager and pilsner beers commonly sold in domestic U.S. brews have fairly low levels of these compounds, but some porter, stout and ale brews have much higher levels.
I’ve lived in Texas since 1993. In my whole life I don’t think I’ve ever
owned a pair of boots.
Two things maintain the status quo
1. I didn’t really want them. I suppose that’s changed since I’ve been
taking dance lessons.
2. I have big feet 15/16 EEEE
I just got a catalog from Casual Male XL (aka Big & Tall) and they had
them on sale. Now I just have to break them in.
I finally finished my Counter Pressure Bottler tonight. For those of
you who don’t brew - basically when you start out - you bottle. It’s a
huge pain. (I’m freshly reminded since I’m going to be bottling a Duvel
clone this week) As soon as you can most home brewers move to Kegging.
It’s easier to clean, setup, and serve.
Then eventually you run into a situation where you want take some of
your keg beer with you. That’s all well and good except taking a long a
keg is often a lot more than you need. Also in my case sometimes I want
to give away some of a batch (since everyone can’t always be camped out
at my house drinking). For example I went to FooCamp and I wanted to
take some of my home brew to share. Since my CP didn’t work I was forced
to buy beer in California.
That’s where this little device comes in. Basically it allows you to
take beer out of the keg (under pressure) and put it into a bottle.
There is some small risk of oxidation when you cap it, but it is pretty
minor all things considered. This means you get to have the best of
bother worlds. The ease of kegging, with the convience of bottling what
you want to have portable.
I started building mine some time ago. It just didn’t work. I was
kicking myself when last month I got the latest issue of BYO (Brew Your
Own) and it actually had a guide to building one. I figured out two
parts of my design that were messed up. First -there is a centra 1/4″
tub running from the top of the apparatus to the bottom. I didn’t
realize this. Because mine tube didn’t run all the way from top to
bottom the filler never filled (because there was no way to release the
pressure). Once I saw the picutres in the magazine I finally understood
what I had done wrong.
That mean a trip off to Lowes for some fittings. I have to admit I’ve
have officially learned more that I care to about metal piping (flare,
compression, and standard). It took me 45 minutes staring at the rack
of parts in Lowes to buy something, which I thought might work but
something seemed wrong. It was a 1/4 -> 3/8″ compression piece.
When I got home I realized what was wrong with the piece. Basically the
whole in the middle of the piece was too small to allow a 1/4″ tube thru
it, which is a problem since as I mentioned the main tube has to go from
the top to the bottom or the thing doesn’t work.
I ended up reading the article to see where I buy this mysterious part
because I couldn’t find it at Lowes. Then on the second page the answer
was provided - no one sells such a part. You just take the compression
piece and drill it out. Which I did - and now it works!
Also the second picture is an addition to the system that makes it even
easier to use. Basically this little device is a CO2 splitter. This way
I can take the co2 tank hook it up to the splitter and get both the
Counter Pressure and keg working at the same time.
I finally finished my Counter Pressure Bottler tonight. For those of
you who don’t brew - basically when you start out - you bottle. It’s a
huge pain. (I’m freshly reminded since I’m going to be bottling a Duvel
clone this week) As soon as you can most home brewers move to Kegging.
It’s easier to clean, setup, and serve.
Then eventually you run into a situation where you want take some of
your keg beer with you. That’s all well and good except taking a long a
keg is often a lot more than you need. Also in my case sometimes I want
to give away some of a batch (since everyone can’t always be camped out
at my house drinking). For example I went to FooCamp and I wanted to
take some of my home brew to share. Since my CP didn’t work I was forced
to buy beer in California.
That’s where this little device comes in. Basically it allows you to
take beer out of the keg (under pressure) and put it into a bottle.
There is some small risk of oxidation when you cap it, but it is pretty
minor all things considered. This means you get to have the best of
bother worlds. The ease of kegging, with the convience of bottling what
you want to have portable.
I started building mine some time ago. It just didn’t work. I was
kicking myself when last month I got the latest issue of BYO (Brew Your
Own) and it actually had a guide to building one. I figured out two
parts of my design that were messed up. First -there is a centra 1/4″
tub running from the top of the apparatus to the bottom. I didn’t
realize this. Because mine tube didn’t run all the way from top to
bottom the filler never filled (because there was no way to release the
pressure). Once I saw the picutres in the magazine I finally understood
what I had done wrong.
That mean a trip off to Lowes for some fittings. I have to admit I’ve
have officially learned more that I care to about metal piping (flare,
compression, and standard). It took me 45 minutes staring at the rack
of parts in Lowes to buy something, which I thought might work but
something seemed wrong. It was a 1/4 -> 3/8″ compression piece.
When I got home I realized what was wrong with the piece. Basically the
whole in the middle of the piece was too small to allow a 1/4″ tube thru
it, which is a problem since as I mentioned the main tube has to go from
the top to the bottom or the thing doesn’t work.
I ended up reading the article to see where I buy this mysterious part
because I couldn’t find it at Lowes. Then on the second page the answer
was provided - no one sells such a part. You just take the compression
piece and drill it out. Which I did - and now it works!
Also the second picture is an addition to the system that makes it even
easier to use. Basically this little device is a CO2 splitter. This way
I can take the co2 tank hook it up to the splitter and get both the
Counter Pressure and keg working at the same time.
Ok so I have already converted my workstation (and my fiancee’s) over to Ubuntu. That leaves my laptop and my home file server.
You may be asking yourself why I’m converting all my boxes. At the moment - it’s really just for sanity. You see I run SID on everything because it’s the only way I can keep up to date. Unfortunately that ends up breaking from time to time (especially if I don’t update all the time). Ubuntu is hopefully going to get me off that crazy train. Dapper Drake is going to be out April 10th. Breezy just came out and they already have the release date set. I guess I just kind of like that.
Some people seem to be nervous about Ubuntu on a “server”. I end up running Gnome on this “server” anyway so I don’t know that it is much differnt from a normal desktop other than the fact that it is running software RAID. Underneath Ubuntu is Debian - so I would think they would have to do something terribly stupid in order to dimish the server component.
I originally tried to do some of the apt-get update tricks to migrate over (Which if you are on sarge you may be able to do that - see the bottom of the article) , but since all my computers were on Sid it turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought. It’s ok because I made backups before I started so I can always go back.
I tried to do a very complicted solution to my probelm involving debootstrap. Which is a pretty cool tool, and FYI it natively supports ubuntu. Well about step 10 of the process I hosed the box. Basically I moved a directory I shouldn’t have and lost even the most basic commands - like ls/mv etc.
So I busted out a cdrom drive and hooked it up to the file server. (Actually it turned out to be a dvd drive which I think I’m leaving in there now that I found it.) Anyway - I fired up the install cd for Breezy. I was really scared about doing the install this way because my files server runs software RAID1. It even boots of of a raided partition. It was a pain to setup in the first place. I didn’t look forward to having to go through that again. But I was prepared.
The screens booted up and I got the most wonderful suprise. The installer could see all of my RAID partitions. It let me work with them just like normal partitions. I was even able to switch to the console, move all the old data on the root partition to a directory called /old and continuing the install.
I can’t tell you how awesome this is - I mean it is so nice to beable to just put in a cd and not have to figure out what to do with 400 GB of backups and data, but at the same time be able to install a new linux distro.
Now I know this feature is probably available now for Debian too - but for me it is just another nice thing about Ubunutu - getting it up and running is dead simple.
Actually when I rebooted I got a kernel panic. I was thinking - damn it - I spoke too soon again! But it turns out that the problem was that I forgot to move all the old kernels out of the way on /boot and the installer defaults to the first kernel it finds when it reboots - which in this case was 2.4.1 which was none too happy about my setup :)
Also in the process of getting every up I found a this site which has some nice grub splash screens for startup. - One piece of advice - download whatever pictures you want - the copy one of them to /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz - then run update-grub. This will automatically link in the image and things will work nicely.
If you need more you can go here
Now I just have to get everything configured the way I like it -but that should be the easy part!
Alternate Solution
If you are using a released version of debian you might be able to do this: (from : Here) It didn’t work for me - but it did for other people.
/etc/apt/sources.list : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse # If you want fresh backports: #deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted #deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted #deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/apt/preferences : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: * Pin: release hoary Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: 200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This downgrade all to "hoary" release ;-) apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade
Ok there are lines and there are lines. This woman has certainly crossed a whole bunch of them.
I’ve read about chili beer, pumpkin beer. I’ve heard about some strange things in beer. Read on to learn about the scariest beer I’ve ever heard of.
I’ve been swamped with work, and knee deep in Ruby lately. That’s made it more than a little difficult to relase changes on Postie. I managed to carve out some time - so here’s an update.
One thing that is still in the experimental stage is the Translation Support. I generated a .pot for Postie. If anyone is interested in helping translate Postie please let me know!
Oh and since so many people are having cronless problems I’m going to be switching over to using cronless myself until I can write up a simple guide to how to make it work.
BUGFIX: onClick changed to onclick
BUGFIX: strolower added to test for iso - thanks daniele
BUGFIX: Added a class to the 3gp video tags
FEATURE: Added the option to put the images before the article
BUGFIX: Added in selection for utf-8 charsets - thanks Psykotik - this may cause problems for other encodings
FEATURE: Added option to turn of quoted printable decoding
FEATURE: :start tag - now postie looks for this tag before looking for you message - handy if your service provider prepends a message
FEATURE: Template for translation now included
depeche mode live at the sbc center - still in fine form
