Scotch

Its been a bountiful time for scotch. Acquisitions in the last couple weeks:
Glenrothes 85 - haven't opened the bottle yet. When I do, I'll let you know. (Sold by vintage, not age. Bottled in 2005.)
Glenrothes 91 - Candy like. Sweet. Vanilla & caramel tones. Very smooth. (Same deal as the 85. Vintage, not age. I haven't looked up this ones bottling date yet.)
Laphroaig Quarter Cask - super peaty, a lot of oak. Pretty tasty. Very definitely an Islay.
Glenkinchie 10 year - Smoke on the finish with a bit of fire. A bit fruity - maybe apple or pear - but muddled.
Glengoyne 10 year - A bit sour. Tones of apple and cherry. Clean, not smokey. One word description? Tart.

These get added to my existing bottles of:
Lagavulin Distillers Edition
Glenlivet 12
Cragganmore 12

Suggestions for good additions are welcome.


2009
07/05
CATEGORY
scotch
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Amazon Fresh Confusion…

So I'm confused about Amazon Fresh. I'd love to use their service for groceries, but its currently unavailable. I went to check again today, and I noticed a small discrepency.

On the Amazon Fresh Help page, they have this content:

13. Where do you deliver and when will you start delivering in my neighborhood?

We currently offer home delivery to a limited number of Seattle neighborhoods in the following zip codes: 98004, 98005*, 98006*, 98007, 98008, 98024*, 98027*, 98029*, 98033, 98034, 98039, 98040, 98052, 98053, 98056, 98074, 98075, 98102, 98103, 98105, 98106, 98107, 98109, 98112*, 98115, 98116, 98117, 98118*, 98119, 98121, 98122*, 98126, 98136, 98144*, 98199.

* Limited coverage. Check your address to be sure.

We are expanding our service areas as fast as possible. Please let us know where you live and that you'd like us to deliver to your neighborhood.

14. What is Big Radish status and what are its benefits?

Big Radish status is reserved for customers in ZIP codes 98034, 98053, 98056, 98101, 98102, 98103, 98105, 98107, 98117, 98118, 98121, 98122, 98144 and 98199 who spend $400 or more at AmazonFresh during a calendar month. Customers with Big Radish status are eligible to get free deliveries on all orders over $30.


Anyone else noticed that you can get "Big Radish" status in the zip code 98101 but you can't order groceries from Amazon Fresh if you live there?


2009
05/20
CATEGORY
personal
technology
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Emacs Tidbit

Holy crud a motherload of .emacs configuration possibilities:
http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/common/emacs/_emacs.html


2009
05/19
CATEGORY
technology
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Sounders FC vs Chicago Fire

Sébastien Le Toux and Tyrone Marshall - for tying it up, you're my heros.

And Kasey Keller for keeping it close so that we could. Always a hero.


2009
05/02
CATEGORY
soundersfc
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Doubles Classic

69 and 72 for the event
71 and 74 for extra targets


2009
05/02
CATEGORY
skeet
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Peacocks, Giraffes and PENGUINS!

The member preview for the new penguin exhibit happened today at Woodland Park Zoo. I was there and took some photos and got a couple short video clips. Its very exciting. And has my name on it.

My photos are at 2009 - Penguin Exhibit Member Preview

The zoo has some info about the exhibit here, which includes some nifty information about the things they're doing to try and make the exhibit as environmentally friendly as possible:



2009
04/25
CATEGORY
interesting
local news
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Website news

So website news. I've migrated http://www.thegentootux.com and http://www.wwtsl.com to a VPS server so they're no longer served out of my apartment. Thats a really good bit of news.

They last moved from my OSX server to a Linux server back in December. Apparently around that time I managed to break the FeedWordPress plugin which syndicates this blog onto the website. Some error message about fopen() not working. That was fixed by updating a php module. Pain in the rear, but it worked.

I'm still looking for a good plugin to integrate PicasaWeb into the site. And a non-default theme that I like. Though it may be that at some point I just make one myself. I've started that a couple times but I dislike doing web interfaces.

Anyways, things should be back to normal, or at least mostly.


2009
04/19
CATEGORY
technology
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Ireland Trip Return

Back from my trip! Lots o' fun. I've got a Google map I put together of some places I went.

I also have some photos that I've geotagged as best as able and started to caption. Those are here.


2009
03/20
CATEGORY
personal
travel
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Traveling

A list of travels I want to do before I forget them...
1) Ireland (actually doing this one in March.)
2) Across USA by train (Seattle to Washington DC or New York)
3) Across Canada by train (Vancouver to Halifax)
4) Other European nations: Scotland, Portugal, Germany, Poland
5) Antarctica/New Zealand
6) Japan

Obviously not a "do in one year" type list. But a good start.


2008
12/31
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personal
travel
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Microspeak that annoys…

"Asks" is NOT a noun. I don't care how bad your English is. You don't have "Asks". You have questions. Question is the noun. Ask is the verb. And no, you may not ask a question.


2008
12/30
CATEGORY
personal
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