Archive | August, 2007

30 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Labels

Last night, after redoing the blog a bit, I worked on the labels for my first two brews. They’ll both be ready in 2.5-3 weeks, and even though I’m not going to put them on the bottles I drink at home (because I’ll just have to scrub the damn things off again), it’ll still be nice to have semi-respectable looking containers to give to my father in law, boss, etc.

As I’m calling my “brewery” (another few brews and I’ll probably take the quotes off) Kallisti, I figured the easiest way to overcome my lack of artistic skill was to shamelessly plunder the Kopylefted material in the Principia Discordia.

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29 August 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Early brewing photos

Hidden behind a cut, as it’s nearly all pictures.

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29 August 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Version 3.0 and nothing to show for it

I think it could really more accurately be described as v0.7 or so, but whatever. This is my blog and I shall number as I damn well please!

I’ve gone back to its original style, Beast Blog 1.0; it had been using Beast Blog 2.0 but I didn’t like the auto “Read more” creation. I’m sure that with minimal code changes I could have disabled it, but I had already spent five minutes or so on image hacks and I’m a busy man! Or lazy, I can never be bothered to remember which.

I think the main reason for the lack of content on the blog, with the exception of the aforementioned laziness, is that I was trying to make something that didn’t come naturally. I registered the domain shortly after I was scared into the “Must be professional, must be intelligent, must be marketable!” mindset that so many people have. Maybe it’s because I have a great job, maybe it’s because I’ve mellowed out or maybe it’s because I’ve been influenced by xkcd, but:

xkcd comic regarding self censorship

Apologies for the slightly compressed text; the original comic doesn’t look like crap.

Of course, having said that, for a while I wasn’t sure what I could talk about. I still maintain a friends-only Livejournal, simply because there are some things I’d like to say that I don’t want everyone to read; they’re mostly things containing the word “fuck,” so you’re not missing much. But recently I’ve gotten into homebrewing my own beer: so recent that I’ve yet to taste any of it apart from hydrometer tests. Still, though, it seems like a rich subjects and so when combined with the various bits of geekery/miscellanea I can come with on my own, it seems like it may actually give me something to talk about.

Here’s hoping, at least.

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