Category: Misc
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Never follow the instructions on a bottle of shampoo
You’re in the shower, and it’s time to shampoo. You flip the bottle around to read the instructions, and inevitably find the following: Lather, rinse, repeat. Let’s break this down into a flowchart. Do you see the problem here? Nowhere does it state when you should stop shampooing. In other words there’s no “stop condition”…
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Making beer at home: Part 3
This is a follow-up to part 1 and part 2 of my home-brewing series. The final step, as you may have guessed, is bottling the beer. There’s not a whole lot too this: you put your bottles in the dishwasher, then bake ’em a little to sanitize them, fill them with beer via a siphon,…
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Making beer at home: Part 2
Today we’re going to follow up to Part 1 of my home-brewing series. The next step takes place about 5 days after part 1. We’re going to begin “secondary fermentation,” aka putting our beer into a different container. As always, the real first step is to sanitize everything. So my glass carboy (jug) gets sanitized…
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Making beer at home: Part 1
For a few months now I’ve been making beer at home. It’s surprisingly simple. If you can make tea, you can probably make beer. I’m by no means an expert at this, but I’m chronicling my attempt at making a porter. This is my 6th batch of beer ever, and it will take around two…
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WTF: Bell Plumbing advertisement
I’ve been noticing some strange ads lately for a company called Bell Plumbing North here in San Francisco. Their ad is one major WTF after another. And then some. Here’s the ad in question: So there’s a smiling guy with the word PLUMBING in big red letters next to him. Not so strange… or is…
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Surprise blood orange
Does this ever happen to you? You just pick up a regular orange, peel it, and it’s actually a blood orange? It’s like opening a wrapper and finding you won a contest.
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Espresso Guy: Holiday Gift Guide
My other site, Espresso Guy, now has the Holiday Gift Guide back online. This is the gift guide for the coffee lover(s) in your life. It covers espresso, drip coffee, Turkish coffee, and press pot (french press) coffee. Do check it out today, won’t you?
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