next generation youtube

Here's the link to the videos: http://www.jandrewedits.com/

Watch them all. I promise you won't be disappointed.

porter

Decided to make a porter today. Here's the steps, as usual:

• Got the water up to about 180°F
• Add 1 lb of Black Patent grains
• Steeped at 180°–185°F for 20 minutes
  
• Added 6.6 lbs of Cooper's Dark Malt Extract
• Brought to a boil
• Added 1/2 oz Northern Brewer hops (8.5%)
• Boiled for 30 minutes
• Added 3/4 oz Northern Brewer hops (8.5%)
• Boiled for 30 minutes
• Added 1/4 oz Willamette hops (4.4%)
• Boiled for 5 minutes
• Put in sink to cool
  
• Brewed a pot of french roast coffee
• Added coffee, water, and cooled it down
• Measured original gravity; 1.046%
  
• Added yeast
• Commenced waiting
  

To save time, I ate some dinner and watched an episode of Planet Earth, which is fantastic. If you have an HD setup, you should get this as soon as you can. I sanitized during the steeping of the grains.

Final notes:

• Bottled on February 8, 2009
• Final gravity 1.022
• It's looking/smelling/testing promising
• I had to dump three bottles out due to not having enough caps. Totally stupid move on my part. Lesson learned.
  

hey seriously guys!

I just uncapped one of those cranberry-orange beers I made, and I must say, she is a tart little bastard! And once again I score- it's not that bad!

hey guys!

Remember back when I made my pumpkin ale? I just cracked one open, and... and... it's not that bad!

Merry Christmas, ya scurvy dogs!

mixtapes

Yeah so I hear that people got the CDs, but I totally forgot track listings. Here's the artist/track. If you want the album they are from, drop me an email. Or check wikipedia maybe.

October:
Germs - The Other Newest One
Daft Punk - Human After All
Jets to Brazil - Conrad
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Sarah Mclachlan - Possession
Tagada Jones - Combien de Temps
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Tom Waits - The Pontiac
Superdrag - Señorita

November:
Los Straitjackets - Midnight in Salerno
Prodigyremixed.com - Action Radar (FakeID Mix)
The Airborne Toxic Event - Missy
Okkervil River - A Girl in Port
Cracker - Truckload of Art
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor
Colin Hay - Overkill
Lifetime - Ostichsized
The Sports Inferno - MSU Rant

Hope you enjoyed! If you didn't get one and you want one, let me know.

Merry Christmas!

kubuntu 8.10

I liked KDE on my ubuntu setup, but I decided it was time to upgrade. I did my media machine first, since I really only had to back up movies, and then I did a clean install. KDE 4.1 took a little getting used to (some different paradigms in effect here), but once I figured out what was going on, I loved it. I upgraded the main machine today. It looks great, and seems to be really usable and customizable to my preferences. My preferences basically being the defaults, this was easy.

In short, a couple a snowstorms shutting me into my apartment resulted in me updating the linux on two machines, organizing photos, making backups, and finishing reading "Ender's Game".

It's pretty geeky no matter how you look at it.

networking

My network connection has dropped out twice tonight while uploading pictures. Yeah, it's a lot of data, but still, this is ridiculous. I'm not even really sure what is going wring; my networking skills are weak at best. My router did need an update, but when I tried that (after pausing everything else), it was taking forever, so I killed it. It's firmware, not a new OS.

I need more skills. Girls like guys with skills.

I just want to put vacation photos on the web!