Grumpy Beer Geek

The 10th Annual Toronado Barleywine festival was in February. It was a great year with a record 50 (!) barleywines!

Link to pictures below. Read more for the list of beers and their place in the judging.
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Here are some pictures from the BABC Holiday Party. Even though it was 4 months ago, the mental and physical scars have just started to heal. So I thought I would post these pictures…

Jenny and I took a little trip to Kauai last fall. It was a really good time to go — not crowded but the weather was still pretty nice — but a little cool at night.

Truely a wonderful place.

I took more than a few pictures, and I posted my favorites.

The Realbeer.com Battle of the Beers is down to the final eight contenders.

Moose Drool Brown Ale vs. Alaskan Smoked Porter
Gordon Biersch Mäen vs. Penn Weizen
Shakespeare Stout vs. 90-Minute IPA
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale vs. Grant’s Scottish Ale

Vote early and often!

A study posted at Adobe’s website describes how traditionally Mac-centric tasks (rendering using After Effects, Illustrator & Photoshop) are all faster on a PC. These kinds of studies are a dime a dozen; what’s interesting isn’t which platform is faster, but that Adobe would host a page proclaiming the PC is the “preferred” platform for such tasks. Given the notoriously fickle folks at Quark, I would have pegged Adobe as the biggest Mac boosters in the third party software market. Are times changing?
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Golden Gate Park is in bloom. Actually it has been for a while now. These pictures were taken in February, 2003.

Hey - look at me — I created a MoveableType plug-in that displays a directory of images in an entry. See the images below? Click MORE to see how I did it and get the source.
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