Well I haven't posted over here for a minute, mostly (but not entirely) because I've staked my claim over on bluesky, and let's be honest, it's just a better user experience.
But for anyone that needs one, my invites are piling up, and you're welcome to one of them. I'll post them in a reply.
But at the end, couldn't taste any hint of peach at all. Added a load of artificial sweetener so that I could do a natural carbonation: it got as sweet as I dared, still couldn't taste it, but bottled it with carb drops anyway. Not unpleasant, just not what I was going for.
Celebrating with a nice tall glass of my brown sugar cider, still probably my greatest non-kit success.
This was attempting a peach-flavored mead. After the first fermentation I racked it to a wide mouth and added a couple pounds of sliced, frozen peaches (the frozen helps get the flavor out, as Good Eats fans may remember). Both the first and second fermentations went fucking crazy, and yet took their sweet time about it. There's no way to know for sure how much sugar got sucked out of the fruit but it's a minimum of 13.26%.
Fun fact, "wines" brewed in GA are legally limited to 14%. <cough>
I don't think they ever did install it in the end.
We also had two of those weird egg robots, both of which were dropped after a year because they decided that newer cameras just plain worked better.
I know our security people have a tough job to deal with but christ they get to blow a lot of money on a lot of shit toys.
Years ago at the corporation I work for the security team wanted to deploy ShotSpotter.
One security director I worked with was sure that it could tell the difference between blanks and live rounds, and was adamant that the system had to be tested once installed.
He drew up plans to, on a weekend of course, come to the office with a handgun to test fire it all over the building.
He was suddenly moving on to a new job before this insane QA could happen.
You ever have that moment when your work account pops up to say it's time to change your password and you're upset because it was such a great password to type every time, just a really memorable one with which you've had an amazing time, and now it has to go away?
And then the next one is all weird and clunky and takes you forever to get right?
you know, i started typing this not meaning for it to be a relationship metaphor, and yet
"This is a remote position but you must be local to Austin (TX)"
lol fuck off then
also one of these days im gonna focus on one social network or another
today is not that day.
