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Damor

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  1. My younger one got a telescope for Christmas, and this was the first time we tried out the attachment which lets you take 'photos' with your cell phone.

    Let's see if Google Photos will link:
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    It got too dark for it to focus well, and we got a little cloud cover for the best part, but I thought this came out kinda cool, with the help of Pixel Night Sight:
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    At about this time, right on cue, all the coyotes started howling.

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  2. Mind if I bombard y'all with some questions?  Okay, then.

    I'd been talking about going all-grain one of these days, and my darling wife went a little nuts at Austin Homebrew for Christmas.  She got me their upgrade kit (igloo cooler mash tun, 8gal brewpot etc.) but also a Brewer's Edge Mash & Boil electric doohickey.  I'm trying to figure out which way to go and I'll return the other system.  The Mash & Boil seems to be pretty well received despite some idiosyncrasies, but do any of y'all have experience with these kind of things?  It kind of weirded me out thinking about brewing inside and not on a propane burner, since I kind of figured that's the way I'd always be doing it.

    I also wanted to ask about wort chilling.  So far, I'd been just using an ice water bath, but that obviously won't work for either full-volume boils or the electric system.  I'd read that it's ideal to chill to just under planned fermentation temp, but I don't see that happening with a tap water immersion chiller in the summer.  How low do y'all find you can get with an immersion chiller, and do you do anything else to drop the temp before pitching?  Or is that not as big a deal as I'm thinking?  I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do this, as I don't have a garden hose attachment on my sink, so I'm going to have to get a little creative one way or another.

    Thanks!

  3. 6 minutes ago, 47Straight said:

    Yes because a safety is of the same importance as a quarterback who knows your offensive playbook and who you might play multiple times.

    Alas, is there no honour amongst landthieves?

  4. When we went to Moab, we stayed at Moab Under Canvas, which was a little north of town.  It was a hit with our crew.  Let me see if I can get Google Photos to work -- we could see the Windows from our porch:
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    Don't miss the Southwestern Eggs Benedict with chorizo at Jailhouse Cafe.
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    Have a great time, it's a really cool town, and like Brew said, it would make a great trip all on its own.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

    I should have definitely mentioned that you should make excellent beer and not diarrhea beer.

    Barrow is aight i guess. Its like 45th on my list of brands to buy at HEB above circle and thirsty planet so they've got that going for em. 

    LOL.  I like Barrow pretty well, but realize it's definitely not the world class stuff you get on the reg in Austin.  That said, it is a pleasant place to visit away from the big city, and I think they've done a pretty good job following that hyperlocal model as you described (and I agree with you completely on that).  I will say that they do some strong seasonals and things that don't make it to cans, but I'm cool with that, and again it gets back to fitting into your locale rather than trying to be something you're not.  We hobbits have to have a place to drink, after all.

    But Kyler can't come.

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  6. I have the Nest x Yale, and I've been pleased with it.

    You can assign individual codes of your choosing, and set restrictions as to what time of day access is allowed, as well as set an expiration date for each.  It can notify you when each code is used if you'd like.

    I don't think you can unlock with voice via Google Assistant (you can lock), but it's easy enough to give your old man access on a phone or tablet if you'd like.

  7. Yeah, that was meant in jest.  I think any public-facing parody of his openness and earnestness to the common clay of social media (you know, morons) would be counterproductive to what's turning out to be a pretty special thing.

    It's enough to excoriate the twatwaffles on Surly.

  8. Love this thread.  I'm missing Colorado today:

    Gunnison, CO:
    High Alpine Brewing:  Kölsch, IMO.  It's exceptionally well done.  Other beers are good, too.  Pizzas are excellent, and not just a lazy brewery add-on.
    Back Country Cafe:  Awesome breakfast spot.  Anything with green chile is good, the San Juan Eggs Benedict are the proverbial shiz.
    Sherpa Cafe:  Displaced refugees stuck around and opened a Nepalese/Indian joint.  Great.

    Crested Butte, CO:
    The Secret Stash:  Very good pizza, good atmosphere, Meat Candy appetizer is awesome.  

    Tincup, CO (glorious middle of nowhere):
    Frenchy's Cafe:  Great lunch stop if you're doing any of the surrounding trails/passes or fishing the area.  Beautiful setting in an old mining town.  Kids can fish in the stocked pond out front.  Great burgers, incredibly good desserts.

    Salida, CO:
    Patio Pancake Place:  Excellent unpretentious breakfast joint in a great town.  Again, anything with green chile is good.

    Buena Vista, CO:
    The Buena Viking:  Good if pricey burgers from a trailer in the outdoor seating area of Deerhammer Distillery.

  9. We actually watched it for the first time a few months ago.  They liked it, but a lot of the Coen stuff was lost on them, so I was actually a bit disappointed in their reaction.

    True to Coen humor, though, it grows on you and they both insisted on watching it last night (when they both usually take every opportunity to disagree) -- we all laughed our asses off, and they even picked up some things I'd never noticed.  It does help that it's one of their wackier and more accessible movies.

    As far as appropriateness goes, nothing worse than some reproductive anatomy, a little l'amour/wife swappin' propositioning, and language no worse they hear a hundred times a day from their mom.

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  10. Got one of these for Christmas, and don't have any real experience with a pressure cooker, so subscribed.

    Any recommendations on black-eyed pea recipes?  I have a ham bone left from Christmas, so I thought that might be a good first attempt with this thing.

  11. 18 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    I’ll take back all my suggestions to put Green Day on the list.

     

     

     

    Green Day is an automatic channel changer for me, unless I'm having a shitty day and want to groom and give focus to my state of offended surliness.

    On a similar but more recent note, critic darlings the War on Drugs.  It's like a modern recycling of the cheesiest over-produced 80s phases of several of the above mentioned (Dead, Springsteen, whatever.).  Quit with the glockenspiel already.

  12. 11 hours ago, XYZ said:

    Peter Jackson fucking sucks, and I hate him.

    I wish they would make a mini-series out of The Talisman by Stephen King. That would be cool, if they can pull it off. They could also do Wolves of the Calla. That’d be cool, too.

    Just reread The Talisman recently and had the same thought.  The advent of the longer-form series brings a lot of great books into play -- I wish they would go back and give World War Z the proper treatment, it's perfect for that.

    I say I'd love Blood Meridian too, but like A Confederacy of Dunces, the only thing it could do would be to disappoint.

    It would be fun to see someone creative with a take on The Phantom Tollbooth these days.  Just not Tim Burton.

  13. Ordered the Meade as well as the HA Rey book, we'll see how it goes.

    Decided against the wifi adapter to connect to the phone/tablet.  I may add it in the future, but it occurred to me that paying another $200 for another screen to distract him kinda undermines the point of this whole thing.

    Thanks, y'all.

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