September 8th 2012
I’ve got a new post on brewing techniques up on “Where’s My Daily Brew?” This week is Extract Brewing
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September 2nd 2012
Is Barack Obama America’s first Hipster President? [✓] has an Instagram account [✓] uses Reddit [✓] sneaks an occasional smoke [ ] seen with a hipster Fedora [✓] keeps bees [✓] home brews beer using grains, not just extracts Yup. I think it’s safe to say our President is a hipster and likely the only [...]
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August 28th 2012
New Orleans isn’t yet walking on sunshine. It’s been a long slow recovery for the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. But the Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June 1 through November 30 each year. That’s 6 months for those of you doing the maths. Hurricane season peaks in late August through September. That’s [...]
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August 25th 2012
So I did this thing. I said “I do” about 1 minute ago. Through the magic of scheduling posts I can say this without being the tool that pulls out his iPhone and tweets about it in the middle of the wedding or reception. And even as much as Annette wants to update her status [...]
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August 24th 2012
I know one thing about Lance Armstrong, and that’s it. I know he said he never took performance enhancing drugs. I also know that I’m going to take him at his word. Nobody has shown any evidence that he took drugs. They claim they have it, but they’ve yet to show that evidence (if it [...]
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August 17th 2012
I have a new post up on Splat On! about prisons being prisons and not holiday vacation spots. There is a call in Australia to not only provide clean needles, but rooms for shooting-up in … IN PRISON. Now, I am sure drugs will always find their way behind prison walls. But if the problem [...]
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August 13th 2012
Tonight Annette and I went to the Queensland Performing Arts Center to see Sir David Attenborough on stage in his first ever event of the kind. Just him and an interviewer, who kindly stayed out of Sir David’s way throughout the whole show. I’ve long been a fan of the man. His documentaries, like Blue [...]
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August 10th 2012
I’m really getting annoyed by the coverage of the Olympics. Every time it’s a women’s event they say “girls” but every time it’s a men’s event they say “men’s” and only occasionally do they say “well done boys” or “good going lads.” But with women’s events it’s continually “girls.” And it’s not just the male [...]
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