Well that’s it. End of the week, and end of the month.
This is a level of insane dedication that I can respect.
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I think I know why the Kung Fury sizzle reel leaked…
Some local space news that may be of interest.
Somewhere in the Netherlands, there’s a lot of disappointed people.
I think I may know why… *looks over at HR harpies*
Next they’ll ban mimes, berets, and striped turtlenecks.
Something something… blind leading the blind…
I was personally unaware of the underlying assumption that materialism was THE prime driving motivator in their philosophy.
Wait a second, why did Canada not let them in with open arms?
Today, instead of just providing a recipe and some commentary, I’ll walk you through a bit of the thought process and steps that I would go through to make a new cocktail at home. Most cocktail bars will have seasonal menus, a drink that usually shows up on quite a few locally (if it’s not on the full time menu) goes by many names, but here, I’ll just call it something that everyone will immediately be able to picture in their mind:
S’mores Old Fashioned
- A glass
- Liquor
- Imagination
- Whimsy
- A sense of adventure
- Willingness to make mistakes (and potentially drink them)
Ok, so we’ve got a drink, and two concepts to combine, the Old Fashioned and a s’mores. From one side, we expect whiskey, bitters, a touch of orange, and some sugar. The other side, chocolate, graham cracker, and marshmallow. From those, we’ve got an easy overlap sugar/marshmallow, and one oddball flavor that could work, but we could probably drop (the orange, although orange and chocolate are a pairing). For our base spirit, we will want something bold enough to stand up to everything. For me, this would be a bourbon, potentially cask strength (depending on what we do for the other ingredients). Next, let’s tackle the marshmallow. We could make a marshmallow syrup, but that’s going to be a sticky mess. We could use them as a garnish, which leads us to a next step. Why not skewer a couple of mini marshmallows (faster to roast, and appropriate sized for a garnish), and toast them with a torch? You wind up with the smoke notes, the char, and a garnish that ties the drink together For the chocolate, there’s lots of options here, chocolate bitters, chocolate syrup, chocolate drizzles, chocolate rim, etc. Personally, I lean the chocolate bitters route, covering bitters and chocolate. Another common way to do the chocolate also covers the graham cracker, they will coat either the rim of the glass (or the side of a glass) in melted chocolate, and then roll it in crushed graham cracker to decorate it. I am not a fan of this, as it would require keeping tempered chocolate on hand (and can be a pain to clean off the glass). So how would I do the graham cracker? You could garnish with a finger of one, but that’ll just get soggy. You could do a graham cracker syrup, that will require some trial and error to meet your taste preferences. Or, you could do a graham cracker infused bourbon, and sacrifice a part of a bottle to making this cocktail (and any other you want graham cracker infused bourbon in). Now, if you wanted to, you could decide to punch up some smoke notes by smoking the glass that you’ll be building the cocktail in as well. Regardless, find what combination of ingredients works best for you, and run with it.
Thanks for indulging me in going off the normal simple recipe and commentary (but it’s not like I gave you much of a choice) and I hope you enjoyed it. This came to mind because it was nice enough to have a fire in the backyard last weekend, and the girlfriend and I both noticed that the Hershey bars we were using were flat out not melting or softening at all when we put the marshmallow on them. DAMN YOU HERSHEY!
“The terror that someone… somewhere…. might actually be enjoying their life…”
Or the terror that a coworker will claim unwanted attention or other nonsense.
I read that as HR Herpes. Definitely something to avoid.
Ahh yes. Mandatory “fun”. It was fine when I was young and single and close to the office. Not so much fun with a family and long commute.
Roughly a decade ago I just stopped and nobody said word. My relationship with my coworkers and senior management is unchanged.
Mandatory fun I feel the same — but having started at two different companies where beer bashes on Fridays or actual refrigerators in the offices that were stocked, I do think something has been lost. Closest we get nowadays is sometimes folks go out for a longer lunch — but even that’s pretty rare. Socializing after work does have its place (I’ve never schmoozed with the higher ups… it was much more building camaraderie in the teams…) Now everything must be the same sterile crap… except for Mandatory Corporate Celebrations of Political Cause Du Jour, of course… which is a different variant of sterile crap.
I, too, enjoyed some of the activities when I was young and single. I still grab lunch or drinks with folks on the rare occasion I’m in office, but it’s a couple times per year.
You know what changed? I have better stuff to do. I have friends, I have family, I have responsibilities. A kindergarten style “all are invited to my party” event is a distant second to doing whatever the hell i want with my free time.
The question is does today’s youth have any interest in that stuff? Maybe not.
But yeah, at my age I couldn’t care less.
I think the other question is whether it actually does anything to improve the bottom line. Would anybody even notice if it disappeared?
The young folks who I remember being most invested in that stuff tended to be least invested in providing actual benefit to the company.
But how will the robots focus their chi into fireballs?
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good
blasterflamethrower dog at your side, kid.Why the hell did Canada eventually let them in at all? Slow cargo ship back down to Latin America seems more appropriate.
Oh blow it out your ear. Nobody is buying that lie anymore.
Haribo is recalling packets of sweets in the Netherlands after some were found to contain traces of cannabis.
Most likely a disgruntled employee trying to gummy up the works.
Careful — I don’t know if we can bear Swiss making a surprise appearance.
Of course — it would be even worse if we get Sugar Free.
The whole candy industry is going to pot.
Nah, it was just one dope.
The extra happy world of Haribo.
Even the Japanese think that joke was Haribo.
HAI!
Exactly. I skimmed it twice because I was sure that it had some other point to make.
It seems so evidently wrong to me, how are the Buddhist monks who self mummify being driving by materialism?
They’re becoming One With Everything — therefore they own the material universe…. duh, Neph!
What does the Buddhist monk order at the hot dog stand?
Boo! Boo this man!
I would rather shove a hot poker into each eye than a read a Voxplainer about “the far right”.
JFC, Neph.
Honestly it’s more Vox yelling at progs that they’re making the same mistakes.
Material Marxism. It practically owns South America.
‘Harm’, like racist, hero and spouse have all been hijacked
And? If voting is that important to you, get your documents. I had to do it for work and it took maybe 10 minutes online and a few days to wait for a letter.
Ya know, I have to fly across the country next year, so I need to do some sort of RealID. Just to travel!
They can take care of this.
Those plans? Way to give them to NASA for them to never see the light of day. Should have framed it next to a set photo of the ‘moon’
The article to me read like he still had the plans at the end. I suspect several people reached out to him to make offers. I could see myself throwing $100 or so at those to put up in my house.
Hot Lips died. So sad.
My wife adors M.A.S.H. time marches on
At least she knows you’re not a chicken.
A few years ago, my wife discovered M.A.S.H. and it was her favorite show.
I never got that into it.
She started with season one and was going through it chronologically.
When they killed the first Colonel it made her so angry, she never watched another episode.
If I mention anything about them killing him off, she still gets almost spitting mad.
Too bad they stopped making these… you’d have a perfect Valentine’s Day present lined up.
On the plus side — at least that means you never had to suffer through AfterMASH.
The MASH finale was a big event.
@ron Tell your wife to blame Alan Alda.
Stopping after Blake died misses the best part of Mash. Cpl Klinger, Col Sherman T Gannon, and nurse Keiko before she hooked up with Miles.
The finale was a huge event. When he wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshet, people were so shocked.
Once upon a time I liked the show but then I heard Alan Alda speaking about politics and I couldn’t look at him or hear his voice without thinking “Shoot that fucking commie”
He took over and ran that show to the ground
The way I think of it is that the first three seasons were a great comedy with background & occasional political statements.
The rest of show was a political statement with occasional comedy.
I’ve seen every episode a zillion times but yeah the politics got dumb over the years.
Now that I have my cocktail, it’s time to finalize my BBQ plans.
Trying to make Swiss join X, I see? This should make your plans start to gel.
You will die for that
You can call that dish The Challenger because it’s going to make you blow an O-ring.
Interview seen some time ago:
Interviewer – “Why is it that everything the democrats want to do seem like it makes voter fraud easier?”
Interviewee – “Because they want to commit voter fraud.”
Heard many times over the years from political types who watch elections:
“If the democrats couldn’t cheat they wouldn’t win dogcatcher in Roosterpoot.”
Article claims that no evidence of voter fraud despite republican claims.
Must be a typo, it should read “No matter how many times republicans produce evidence of voter fraud no evidence of voter fraud has been found.”
Fuck them. If you cant produce a driver’s license or an ID you have no business voting.
Cant do any damn thing otherwise without one but a decision that could impact others? Nah, no need to identify itself
And they want the state crawling up your ass with a microscope if you purchase guns or ammunition. See UnCivil’s saga.
*Here the salesman calls the sheriff who then runs a check to see if you are a felon or have been involuntarily committed.
Takes five minutes. If you have an arrest, usually a DWI you get a 3 day wait while they look further.
I walk in the store, choose my gun, do the background check, pay and take the gun out to my car.
The older I get the more I despise the evil fucking left.
With a ccp, I skip the background check and just fill out the form. But I don’t need a permit anymore, unless I’m out of state, so I let it lapse.
With a ccp, I skip the background check and just fill out the for
Man, those chicoms are into every thing now!
Vox won’t let me read that.
Bummer.
I just want to say that I am sparing you folks… I really, really want to rant at someone at work right now (because they can’t seem to follow basic instructions or think about what they’re seeing)… Career Limiting Move to do it to other coworkers (well, I don’t think I have a career… more to the point, ranting might get me canned and I have bills to pay)… so considered typing it out here…. but no one really needs to hear it… so count your blessings that the Angel of Rant has passed you over.
Rant away
See… the advantage of writing up link posts is I can rant away secure in the knowledge that no one will read them, and jump down to the comments. 🙂
Hey, I read the links!
I mean, hovering over them counts as reading, right?
(I do, in fact, click through. On some of them.)
slumbrew:
I know some of you do, and I’m just as guilty for skimming links most of the time. The ones I post, I’ve at least read through however.
You linked to Vox so either you don’t want us to read the links or you hate us and want us to explode from stupidity overload.
I’ll leave y’all unscathed unless the guy comes back on Slack (after the end of my work day, ‘natch) with some other complete disregard for basic instructions and logic.
Had an ultra-shit day. Quit the job I really love because I refuse to work for someone who has actively lost every ounce of respect I had for him. And I don’t mean a “I don’t like this guy” sort of situation. I once held him in high regard, and he proved himself an absolute human piece of garbage. These last 3 weeks have been brutal, and just when you hope things are getting better, a mf shits in your cereal.
Shit, MW. That really does sound awful.
Meh. I’ll get over it. But it’s a real world demonstration on how much chaos can be sown by 1 persons ill will.
Interesting cocktail idea you have there. Not my thing, but interesting.
Recently tried a vodka mojito. Pefer the rum mojitos to the vodka.
Thanks, I was in the mood to talk more theory than execution today, so I indulged myself. And honestly, it’s one that’s fairly popular (if the frequency that I see it on menus is any indication). I’ve had excellent ones, and I’ve had mediocre ones (the places I was going rarely has anything fall below mediocre).
I hope it at least helped knock lose some potential ideas for cocktails you may want to make.
I never liked this trend of changing out any clear liquor for vodka. It’s kind of like taking out flavor and replacing it with nothing.
I was a long-time vodka hater, but last winter I gave it another chance and discovered that it’s actually quite nice on its own with a plate of pickled fish, olives, rye bread with butter, fatty charcuterie meats, cheese, etc – in other words, the closest I can get to a Russian “zakuski” spread with ingredients available to me.
So far I have bought three different holsters for my Sig 1911. I’ve made careful that two of them were made specifically for that brand because of a difference in slide width between Sig and other manufacturers.
I have bought from WalMart, Hidden Hybrid Holsters, and directly from Sig themselves. Of the three – The Shitty WalMart generic “Any 1911” nylon cloth holster is doing the best. Like the Sig holster, it at least holds the pistol upright in a comfortable draw grip. Unlike the Sig holster – I can actually get it back out! I have loostened the tensioning control on the Sig to the point where all the screws are on the verge of falling out and I had to double check that it was in fact meant for my gun, because it would practically take a hydraulic press to get the pistol back out.
The Hidden Hybrid at least lets go of the pistol with a reasonable amount of force (not much at all, but enough to avoid dropping it) but the ergonomics of it are so godawful I had to make sure I hadn’t ordered the wrong handedness. It has a fixed draw angle that is grossly uncomfortable to draw from and impossible to reholster into safely unless the holster is on the other side of my body. I checked their offerings again and the other options want you to have it inside the belt, because even for outside the waistband holders, they put the clip on the outside of the holster. I did cludge a way to get the angle upright with repositioning the clips in a manner most disapproved of, but it looks unsafe and janky, and feels like it will rattle back apart. I could fix it more permanantly if I built a backing plate that bolted to the clip mounts and had its own belt clips at a sane angle, but a retail product should work out of the box.
Oh fer fuck’s sake.
Here’s the sig everybody warned me about: https://www.sigsauer.com/1911-x-stainless.html
Here’s My Sig (different color, same shape): https://www.sigsauer.com/1911-sss-full-size.html
I’ll betcha I can buy a generic 1911 with rail holster and it’ll fit.
Hell, I could probably apply heat to the Sig Kydex holster and make that fit.
🥳
The hot air station I got for soldering once again proves useful for another application. It can adjust all the way down to Kydex-forming temperatures, so in a few minutes I had adjusted the Sig holster from being for 1911XF to fitting a 1911R I retensioned the screws too, so it’s nice and solid again.
I’m getting started building the chicken tractors right now. We have ~35 laying birds coming in 2 weeks and 38 meat birds coming in 3 weeks. All that adds to the 25 chickens and 3 ducks we already have.
Needless to say, they all need somewhere to live, and the coop isn’t fit for that many birds.
Chicken feed is a bit costlier now, isn’t it? How much will that many birds go thorugh?
This time of year? Next to nothing. They’re pastured so they disappear into the woods and reappear in the evening with crops full of bugs and stuff.
In the winter, we were going through 1-2 bags per month. Probably 4 next year. We are planning to cull a few layers (the extra roosters and a few hens that my wife hates), so it won’t be 60 layers when we’re all said and done. Probably 45-50.
I can probably do 30 or so in the main coop if I rejigger the roost bars and add a couple more nest boxes, so I just need a home for 15-20.
How heavy is a bag? 50? 100 lbs?
50
‘The’ Chicken tractor? I typically think of that as a one or two bird shelter.
What are you building?
The base design is a 12’x12’ square, 2 feet high. It can hold up to 75 broilers. I’m downsizing to 8’ or 6’ and may adjust the design to an a-frame.
Turkeys will get a simple weather shelter and will move around in a poultry net.
I’m not 100% sure for the laying hens, I’m still thinking on that one.
I grew up with a friend who’s dad had built a chicken house that was bigger and nicer than the one he built for his family.
It was a true marvel. I always envied that guy for that.
Notice I said ‘house’ not ‘coop’.
IGN headline:
The Internet Reacts to Sydney Sweeney Selling Her Bathwater: ‘That’s Disgusting! Where?’
I chuckled.
EXCUSE ME
I NEED TO TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR
Sure, Karen.
First, what is your problem?
IT’S MA’AM?