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Well, as hoped, I got the wort for the Random Vanilla Stout made yesterday. It’s now sitting down in the basement fermenting away. It seems to be fermenting quite quickly, which I’m attributing to the quart starter I’d made along with the addition of a good quantity of yeast energizer and yeast nutrient (2 tsp and 4 tsp, respectively). It’s not fermenting as foamy / vigorously as last time, but it’s still getting on pretty well.

I missed the target gravity of the beer, ending up at 1.062, which was six points off from the target of 1.068. Hopefully that’s not too bad, though. It should still end up being around 6% ABV if all goes well.

But, yeah… Click that image there up top and you’ll be able to see more peeektures.

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In case you haven’t tried it before, Google Desktop is freakin’ sweet. I’ve used it before on my work laptop, but I’d run into some problems with it and my antivirus software.

Well, with the v2.0 release this morning, I dove in and fixed those problems. I’d forgotten how much I like it… If you are someone who uses Outlook for your daily mail uses, it makes searching large archives really, really easy.

See, I personally think Outlook/Exchange works really well — better than any other shared email / calendaring system currently available — but it’s search sucks. Hard. And lots. Well, thanks to Google Desktop I can actually find old stuff in my email. Well, as soon as it finishes indexing…. (I’ve got a lot of work email.)

Now, if only Spotlight worked so well.

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I don’t know why it took me so long, but I finally ‘get’ the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Wikipedia Link). It’s just… yeah. A wonderful counterpoint to bible girl at work. I even acquired this piece of wallpaper which I’m currently using on my work laptop (except with the genitals blurred) and made this much more minimal one. Both are available at 1024 x 768.