Posts by jake

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Re: If only!

"WSL doesn't prevent developers using Linux to develop Linux apps if they want"

Well, THAT's mighty kind of our overlords in Redmond! How magnanimous of them. Makes me want to rush right out and purchase their take on a system that I've already been using for decades for free.

Re: Of course it was going to hit the boat!

I'd recommend more fiber in the diet.

Re: At least the O-ring wasn't frozen this time...

My reply was to Tom 7, not Re: the Austin 7.

Re: At least the O-ring wasn't frozen this time...

I use a test tank, not a dust bin. Less chance of the water pump cavitating and destroying itself with a good amount of water in a properly shaped tank.

Note that in my previous scenario the pisser[0] working isn't necessarily a sign that all is well ... as the tube becomes more and more restricted, it is capable of providing plenty of water to piss, but the amount that actually cools the motor falls off. You can't see the decrease in water flow because the bulk of it exits below the waterline.

[0] I spent several thousand dollars going to OMC school so I would know when and where to use that technical term.

Re: Oops!

If it did a 360 it would carry on in the intended direction. A 180 would send it back to the boat it came from.

Speaking as a sometime rural fisherman ...

... who knows a lot of rural fishermen, he probably didn't get the Navy Memo. And if he did, it obviously didn't apply to him. All he was doin' was goin' fishin', ain't no Navy in this little bit o' fresh water, they hang out in the ocean. Besides, I always go fishing at this hour.

"How do you get full barrels out and maintain social distancing?"

Forklift with a keg/barrel attachment. Some places have dedicated keg lifts, or simple goods lifts that pop up from the sidewalk/pavement. People who do it with manual labo(u)r will find a way, as they always have.

Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

"brewhouses I've been to in the US since the late 90s were never full of chunky-sweatered beer bores."

You've never been to Russian River Brewing when they have Pliny the Younger on tap, then? For an OK beer that is hardly earth-shattering in its ordinariness, it astonishingly draws crowds of the faithful faster than a television preacher on tour.

Don't get me wrong, it's a drinkable beer ... if you are into big, hoppy American IPAs. But is it worth spending between 8 and 24 hours in line for? Not in my opinion. In the same amount of time, you can easily visit several other Northern California breweries in the area, each with equally good beer. And few, if any, beer bores.

Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

The Motörhead one doesn't sound like any American Pale that I've ever sampled/heard of. Doesn't much sound like one I want to sample, either.

The Bastard ... Would you by any chance mean Arrogant Bastard? I've been aging several cases of each iteration of that since it first hit the market. I like it fresh from the brewery; for such a big beer it is extremely well balanced ... but as it ages, it just gets better.

Re: Milk consumption?

Cheese makers (and butter, yoghurt, sour cream, ice cream, etc.) are making as much as they always have. Their production lines, storage/aging, delivery, and what have you are cranking along as fast as they were designed to go. They could probably run double or triple shifts and make more product ... but where do they store it (and/or age it) until it can be delivered to the consumer?

Re: Milk consumption?

I've stored milled "white" flour for up to a year at room temperature and not had any problems. So-called "whole wheat", on the other hand, starts going off in a few months. Gluten doesn't break down in dry flour for the simple reason that gluten doesn't actually exist in dry flour. It is not until you add water to the flour that two proteins (gliadin and glutenin) combine to form gluten.

More likely, the yeast you were using was past it's sell-by date, causing your pizza issues.

Re: Milk consumption?

I've been able to get 50lb (~22.5 kilo) and 100lb (~45 kilo) bags of flour all along. As have bakeries. There is no flour shortage. The shortage is in people, who are not allowed to fill "non-essential" jobs such as filling consumer-sized bags of flour. And bog-roll.

Yeast is free, it's in the air all around everybody reading this. There are plenty of online articles explaining how to catch live yeast for yourself, and how to use it, so I won't re-invent the wheel.

I go out with a jug to get milk twice per day, when I milk my cows. It's a quality control thing. I like cows, they are inherently honest critters.

Re: Milk consumption?

You don't need rennet to make cheese. I often make farmer's cheese with nothing more than milk and either lemon juice of vinegar and a bit of salt.

Re: Unpasteurised milk

::sigh::

Who let the kids in again?

Re: Unpasteurised milk

That's why my cattle are inoculated against brucellosis ... and why they are checked for it by a vet a couple times per year anyway, despite California being brucellosis-free since 1997.

Re: Pasteur is turning over in his grave

I'm not forgetting anything of the sort[0]. Freshly brewed beer is, to all intents and purposes, pasteurized. It is not, however, sterilized. The two have entirely different meanings. And shelf lives.

[0] I made my first vinegar in 1967. From a bit of my Grandfather's mother & some hard cider. It was his grandmother's mother to begin with. The ol' girl is still alive & kicking, and a bit has been passed on to my Granddaughter.

Re: Pigs

When I'm finishing my hogs in the fall, they get milk and potatoes (to help with weight gain), and all the acorns they can manage to stuff in their face from the hundred or so acres of mixed oak scrub hillside that they are allowed to run around in. Tasty!

Re: K'in eejets.

"Cider is swill."

Cider is just as good as the apples that go into it. Here in the computer world we have a fitting acronym: GIGO

Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

Nice of you to paint all 350,000,000 of us with that wide brush of yours, Julz.

Beers built to be aged is a thing here in the US. It's a little known (and even less understood!) aspect of the fine art of brewing. Fashion? Perhaps. One could say the same of a fine, old Bordeaux or Madeira.

AB's "born on" date is the date it is packed. The beer is aged at the factory, and is ready to drink when it is bottled. It is built to be consumed as a young, fresh lager. The longer past that date, the older (and less fresh) the beer will taste. So it actually is helpful to the consumer ... especially if any given retailer doesn't properly rotate their stock.

Re: K'in eejets.

Here in the US, even the lowly Budweiser comes in at 5% ... I'll bet that cozy little fact has surprised a lot of people who thought they knew otherwise.

Re: Milk consumption?

"Restaurants? Whenever I dine out, my choice of beverage is beer, wine or water."

Are you really so ignorant that you think that the only place a restaurant uses milk products is as a stand-alone drink? Wow.

Re: i need to get out more

These days, "bad pints" are nearly always caused by lazy cleaning somewhere between the keg/cask and your glass. That, and methanethiol caused by light contamination after pouring.

Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

The UV causes compounds in hops to break down. One of the breakdown products is known as methyl mercaptan ... which smells exactly like skunk.

That's why some of the idiots who ship beer in clear glass recommend a wedge of lime stuffed into the neck of the bottle ... it's an attempt to mask the skunk. It's also why beer shipped in green glass often reeks of skunk. Brown glass slows the process down, and cans stop it completely.

Note that the skunking process is almost instant out in the sunshine ... take a cold glass of perfectly drinkable lager outside and sip it slowly over a couple minutes. You can taste the flavo(u)r change over that short a period of time.

Re: Pubs not open till July 4th at earliest :(

Have you started to learn the fine art of homebrewing yet? If you had started at the beginning of the lockdown/shelter in place/whatever, you'd have drinkable beer already.

Re: K'in eejets.

"It's clear where you live."

And where would that be? It's not clear to me at all.

You can still get a Growler or several filled for off-site consumption at many brew-pubs here in the US.

Re: Pasteur is turning over in his grave

Properly brewed beer doesn't need pasteurization after it's been brewed. The brewing process provides a bug-free environment for the yeasties, and the yeasties reproduce so fast that it makes the young beer inhospitable to the nasties.

Re: Unpasteurised milk

"The question is why would you?"

Because it tastes better than the plastic swill you get at Tesco?

Re: Pasteur is turning over in his grave

I wouldn't drink pasturized milk in the first place[0]. It tastes dead. Awful, awful stuff.

[0] If I drank milk. Which I don't.

Re: It's probably not actually "bad".

The woo is strong in this one ...

Re: K'in eejets.

" once you get over 5.5% or so it starts to get syrupy and headache-inducing"

Nonsense. Syrupy and headache inducing are both signs of incomplete fermentation.

"like some American IPAs"

And many British "real ales". It's hardly confined to the portion of the North American continent south of the 49th parallel.

Re: Note

It's funny how much the little Orcadians don't realise most of the fishing waters and more importantly the oil fields are *Shetland*.

It's funny how much the little Shetlandic folks don't realise most of the fishing waters and more importantly the oil fields are *The Oil and Gas Authority*.

Fortunately for the pubs ...

... I've noticed that when most people purchase several month's supply of beer, it rarely lasts weeks. Sounds like a win-win for the publicans to me.

Ol' Bill of Occam sez ...

... they are lying.

Re: 8.3

I'm pretty happy supporting some old legacy stuff that requires 8.3 ... at least it's honest, and doesn't try to hide what it's doing from the user. Nor does it make you jump through various hoops to do the obvious. Nor does it require 8 gigs of RAM just to boot the OS ...

Re: 8.3

"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it."

But are the younger set willing to listen ...

Re: Micros~1

It's not usually pronounced. It's been a print-only visual jargon pun for just over 25 years.

(I first saw it on Usenet back when Win95 was still in Beta. Sadly, I can't remember who came up with it, and sadly the gookids have buggered up the irreplaceable DejaNews archive, so whoever it was has probably been lost to history. It is possible that it was a collective "ah-hah!" moment invented by several people nearly simultaneously.)

How come that's leading?

Because it's what we've been calling the company in print since some wag first posted it to Usenet before Win95 was even out of Beta would be my guess.