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[Doc]

I need to go find some old copies of the stainless steel rat books at an old book store.

[AugustWest]

I need to go find some old copies of the stainless steel rat books at an old book store.

Yeah, because they are basically treasure.

[theinevitable]

last night we walked about 1.5 miles to our friend's apartment. it was fun. we hung out and played Katamari. When we were leaving my roommate loudly said "oh man, (one of the girls) is so goddamn hot!" and then the girls yelled "BYE, BOYS!" out the window, so we are pretty sure they heard him. He was mortified, it was hilarious.

Then we thought a road that goes east-west was going north-south, and we got pretty lost. I just google-mapped our route, and apparently we walked 4 miles instead of the 1.5 we should have walked. It took us an hour to get home.

It wasn't so much that it was a long way as that... the majority of the distance was going in the wrong direction. And then fixing it, and back-tracking.

It was one of those things where... when we finally hit the street we thought we should have hit a long time before, we said "holy HELL how did we get this far west??"

It was fun, anyway.

[jaydub]

Brew up some beer.  For whatever reason, I let the kegs run dry around May or so, and didn't have time to make more.  That's the good thing about long weekends, I guess.  Lets you catch up.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Thats funny because I too started some fermentation. This year's gallons will be brewed for flavor as opposed to last year's which was brewed exclusively for high alcohol content. I also want to try to make some hard cider this fall.

[theinevitable]

my friends are trying to brew moonshine from this recipe they found online.

This seems like an incredibly stupid idea. The way you know you did it right is that it tastes like poison?

I tried moonshine this summer and it isn't something I want again.


In other news:
I am trying to learn Beatles songs on the guitar, and they are ridiculously hard. What the heck?

Happiness is a Warm Gun has parts in such as 5/4, 9/8, 12/8, 10/8, so I tried "I Saw Her Standing There"-- still way too complicated, somehow.

It's good to get some perspective, I guess. The Beatles were basically awesome at taking a song in the most basic rock progression and making it so that somehow I can't play it. Mostly though layering so many dang guitars.

[Arachno-capitalist]

good quality moonshine is great stuff. Making moonshine yourself from something you read on the internet is not a good idea. You have a very good chance of producing the wrong kind of alcohol.

[jaydub]

High alcohol beer is almost universally wretched.  There are yeast strains out there that have been bred to make alcohol for use as a fuel - the beer made using them has the predictable flavor.  Lots of high-molecular weight fusels, powerful esters, tons of yeasty off-flavors.  Hard to drink enough of it to get wasted.

About the only beverage related use for those strains is drying out mead in the last few points.  If you keep it relatively cool they'll eat the free sugars and not make too much nastiness.

It is neat as a stunt to make a 14% beer or something.  I've just never run across one that I'd want to drink much of (let alone 5 gallons worth!).  You'll have fun with the actual brewing yeasts though.  Tons of varieties that make good beer that would still make a commercial beer drinker beg for mercy after three or four.

[smick]

Be seriously confused by all the goddamn lingvo happening, because he checked this thread last.

[theinevitable]

Logic is awesome. Good lord, this class is like... math without numbers? computer programming? I don't know. But I like it.

My Cognitive Science professor continues to be one of my favorite people. He did this awesome research over the summer, and when I asked him about it he said I should schedule a meeting with him so he can tell me all about it. The first day of class he told us to fill out an index card with our name, email address, favorite type of music, and favorite movie. "I can remember people's names better if I can categorize them. Haha!" Our first reading was from The Mismeasure of Man by Steven J Gould, which is about all the unscientific business that went on around Intelligence testing and using it to rank races on standard intelligence (I feel like we talked about this here, once). The book is awesome, and now I want to read the rest of it. Then in class he talked about going to see Slayer when he was in high school as an example of a memory with a lot of aspects, and he said that the brain is like lunchmeat.
Oh, also he is just a really nice guy. And attractive.

Also my anthro class, which is about how cultures interact with their environment, especially through food production, is pretty awesome. And relevant to things in the news. It's cool because he presents evidence that basically says "the environment is going to hell," and then he has us read an article saying that the previous article was a bunch of statistical hocus-pocus.

[littlefallsmets]

Today, I'm gonna realize that "Blitzkreig Bop" is actually titled that because... those words are in the song.

I don't listen to punk very closely, we've covered this, it's not my thing but...

I always thought that in the place where I just realized he says "blitzkreig bop!" instead of what I always thought he said:

"Let's give up!"

That's seriously what I always thought the words were. "Let's give up!"

This may be more of an insight into my psyche than I want to consider.

[jaydub]

Mmmm...bop

[theinevitable]

be-bop.

[Doc]

shop bop a do-wop

[AugustWest]

...realize that last night I committed myself to spending the next four years 'running through the chairs'.

I hope I'm not the only one who has no idea what that means.