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Lots of things in the pipe – busted hand keeping it back
Nov 16th
Okay, so first thing is first – there’s a lot of things in the pipe that I haven’t gotten to announcing. Namely, my projects have been moved from their old Redmine-powered site, and they are now being hosted between GitHub and Google Code. They will be posted shortly with each of their individual details. Also in the pipe is another website of mine, followed closely by another project that has yet to catch the wind!
Now, on a rather grim note – what’s been holding most of this back? Well, a few weeks ago I busted up my hand really good. Now, it’s not in a cast, but what I do have is some really awesome damage to the muscles and ligaments. That means that typing is followed by a boatload of pain, almost promptly followed by painkillers, and this process will continue for, what the doctor says, up to three weeks. Lovely.
My Newest Obsessions – iMob Online and Mafia Live!
Jan 26th
Okay, so recently I have found two apps for my iPhone, one free and one paid (but I got it on sale for only 99 cents) that have completely stolen my time – iMob and Mafia Live! They are, as you would assume, persistent, online games all about, you guessed it: making a mafia (or mob if you’re not up with the lingo). If you haven’t checked these apps out, do so. If you’re able to get Mafia Live! on sale still, do so – even if you have to pay full price for it, it’s worth it. They’re both good games, very intriguing, and both very fun to play. While iMob is much more graphical and has much more eye-candy, it crashes a lot and is slow (and at times painfully slow). On the other hand, Mafia Live! is not as graphical and rather plain looking, but it has never crashed for me and although right out of the box it was a little slow, it is never slow enough to make me want to throw -my iPhone to the other end of the room.
So, if you heed my advice and check these two apps out – be sure to add me to your mob. On iMob my friend code is 126-318-276 and on Mafia Live! my family code is 308-700-565. See you in the game!
Last of the Newcastle Clone is gone
Aug 25th
So it just occured to me that there was no follow-up done with the Newcastle Brown Ale Clone that I created way back in April. Well, I should start off by saying that the entire 5.5 gallon batch of beer was drank and gone within a month and a half of opening the first bottle. There was only one bottle of it that managed to sneak past the radar, but that too has matched fate with its brethren. So here we go with the final result of the clone.
First and foremost, the clone did not come out exactly as I anticipated. The ale was darker than I felt it should be, and fermented a lot more than it should have. The flavor, however, was relatively close to that of Newcastle Brown Ale, with the exception that the clone came out a little bit more chocolatey than it should have. All of the above I am going to blame on there being too much fermentables in the beer, and the flavor on there being too much of the darker malts in the beer. As a result, the next time I try this recipe, I am going to cut back on the amount of grain, and definately cut back on the amount of the Crystal and Black Patent malts.
