May 2012
7 posts
“A distinctive refreshing Whisky. This very concentrated essence produces a clean...”
– W. T. F. This is now on my to buy list…
Shopping for Spirits
“My father taught school for 35 years. He said he often heard students complain...”
– Mr Tattie Heid putting into words my constant annoyance at a section of the whisky community.
Whisky Whisky Whisky Forum • Scotch and World Whisky Forum • View topic - Altruistic or greedy?
“Of course at this point the damage to their brand will end up being much greater...”
– I suspect it will have the same amount of an effect on sales as the BrewDog thing will for Diageo. None.
Krug Champagne Exploits Burning Man Event With Publicity Stunt Featuring Staged Photoshoot of an Elaborate Dinner Party
“Look, you dicks. There’s already too much social media in the world without...”
– LUV & HAT
April 2012
9 posts
Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that’s already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for? You don’t, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.
“Boris: So will you be voting for me?
Me: No, sorry
Boris: Well, will you at...”
– That’s not something I’ve thought about when it comes to AV systems - campaigning to be at least someone’s number 2 choice…
I met Boris Johnson today - drblack’s posterous
“They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars...”
– Charlie Brooker: Some people are gay in space. Get over it | Comment is free | The Guardian
“In terms of user experience, Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into...”
– Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out — Daily Intel
“Can I play a new song? When it gets to the breakdown, will you bang your small...”
– Andrew W.K. may be a being constructed of pure party but he knows how to work a crowd.
The 5 Best Things Andrew W.K. Said at Monday Night’s Show | NBC New York
“In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was...”
– Most geeky backstory evar.
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March 2012
19 posts
“Strainers: I would advise you to get two types of strainers — a Hawthorne...”
– It’s scary when an incredible simple and obvious bit of advice, which you had been following without having realised it, suddenly clicks home and makes you go ‘Oooooh, I see’. This is one of those times. I am slightly ashamed.
How To Build A Home Cocktail Bar | Food Republic
“Sheri S. Tepper’s The Waters Rising (Gollancz) – how can one describe it? For...”
– Christopher Priest comments on the Clarke Awards. I half agree with some his points about content, but not necessarily that it makes the content bad. That said, I like the above description rather a lot.
Hull 0, Scunthorpe 3 | Christopher Priest, author
“…so what the hell is this ‘first ever’ World Whisky Day...”
– There’s been some contention about World/International Whisky Day within the booze community. That aside, this is my favourite comment on the whole issue. I really hope it was meant sarchastically.
Malt Maniacs & Friends
“I know believing in mutated talking turtles is kinda silly to begin with but am...”
– While I have no love for The Bay and his approach to the TMNT film the above comment does give me some annoying perspective on the issue.
Michael Bay To ‘Ninja Turtles’ Fans: ‘Take A Breath And Chill’
“Comedy stalwart Stewart Lee is currently touring the UK with his latest show;...”
– I may worship Stewart Lee as both a concept and a real person, but this review a) is a nasty handjob of praise and b) contains the above as its first line, a ‘sentence’ that makes me cringe. I like semi-colons as much as the next anal-retentive grammar pedant; but, seriously.
Meeting...
“This piece of crap contains 99 textual divisions which it seems almost a crime...”
– That pretty much describes my view on the way that Brian Anderson divides up his books. I still want to read Sisterhood of Dune though, and I don’t know why.
HAIRY TICKS OF DUNE: Synopsis of Paul of Dune
“All she has had, for aeons, are her memories. She can still recall the day that...”
– This is why people should buy Tom many (2) drinks.
flashboy dot org » The Budget: how will it affect fictional people?
“I personally don’t know why, but he wanted a shark tank,” Pierfrancesco Vago,...”
– I think that shows a distinct lack of imagination.
Gaddafi’s son ordered cruise ship complete with shark tank - Telegraph
“The Empire today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about remote...”
– Required reading beforehand - Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs
The Daily Mash - Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader
“This is why I’m so jealous of Dungeons & Dragons … At its core,...”
– This is, at its heart, why I love the idea of roleplaying games and also love games without strong goals. It’s all about the experience.
Player Creativity, And The Power Of Illusion — The Average Gamer
“Despite all my amazing work with B*Witched, the moobed cursory prick factory...”
– ‘Moobed cursory prick factory’ is my new favourite insult. Hooray for ‘The Gambon’.
Twitter / @TheGambon: Despite all my amazing wor …
Space is closer than you might think
blech:
jkottke:
Space always seems so far away and much of it actually is. But space is actually quite close to where we are all sitting right now. The Kármán line, the commonly accepted boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and space, is only 62 miles above sea level.
Or, as Fred Hoyle put it,
Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight...
“Do also try more whiskies of all sorts (including Irish, US, and Japanese - but...”
– From Peat Sampras - a three paragraph statement of the prejudices of the modern whisky geek and a kicker that so many of them wouldn’t subscribe to. Good work Peat.
Whisky Whisky Whisky Forum • Scotch and World Whisky Forum • View topic - Fill the gap in my education
“…the aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by...”
– bandwidth (tecznotes)
February 2012
11 posts
“Johnson correctly identifies an inaccuracy in the original Comic Book Men...”
– Best. Correction. Evar.
Parting Shot: Bryan ‘Steve-Dave’ Johnson Responds To ComicsAlliance’s Critique of ‘Comic Book Men’ - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
“Cheese is plentiful in all holds of Skyrim, which gave me a first vector to...”
– Games within games: Hoarding - Edge Magazine
“His is that most unfortunate of prose styles: auto-parodic. Let’s lay our...”
– Alex James’s new memoir proves him to be Britain’s premier cheese bore | Life and style | The Guardian
“TL;DR
Egans books enrich and entertain.”
– Best use of TL;DR evar.
The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal 1) eBook: Greg Egan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
“Roger says:
Sku, this is an atrocity! They do not carry this bottle at my local...”
– Sku’s Recent Eats: Sku Awards: Whisky of the Year
“A Sicilian drug dealer who fled to the UK has been extradited after he gave...”
– Stupid people are stupid on the internet. Now sports.
Sicilian fugitive deported after London whereabouts revealed on Facebook | World news | The Guardian
“They came with some kind of tamarind-based dipping sauce that made them taste of...”
– Cheese and Biscuits does Cha Cha Moon
“Out of the sky, a mysterious M appears. Criminals shriek. Women faint. Dogs...”
– This is why you should read @themanwhofell’s twitter stream during Masterchef.
Masterchef 01.02.12 · themanwhofell · Storify
“While I agree that TIMTOWTDI is a Good Thing, many people don’t seem to...”
– Evil Dave on the London.pm list
January 2012
9 posts
“The warrior closed his eyes, summoning the power of his ancestors, long departed...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
“One of Izzy’s first assignments was to bust a Manhattan speakeasy that had a...”
– American Drink: Nice Job, Einstein
SOPA and PROTECT-IP offer hope in returning to the golden age of telecommunications, and to the days before the Information Superhighway polluted the online culture with this domain name nonsense. Let the Domain Name System a natural death and prepare yourself for the Internet Protocol Number (IPN) renaissance. All you need to do is start a notebook that lists electronic resource names and their...