This week's Thursday Five List has a theme of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Songs you listened to when you were a teenager. I'm digging back for this one: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming https://song.link/s/3GIChxHmuLmBm5PTNZGDtj Queen - The Prophet's Song […]

Can these hoses be (easily) repaired? I'm guessing not, but would love to be wrong. If they can't be repaired can I at least recycle it? #fixthings #repairreuserecycle

I figured out a way to hold the stupid molasses jug over the kettle while it takes forever to drain. I'll be fermenting this with wild yeast I captured from some flowers I picked in The Bahamas. #fermentation #molasses

I got my hands on what is supposedly the Ancient Egyptian sourdough culture that made some headlines a few years ago. On the left is the culture in white flour and on the right is emmer flour I've milled myself. I'm gonna build these up and make some bread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Doing some masking and mocking up the slab for its transition into a mantle. Our fireplace is in a corner. This is the underside (obviously). #woodworking

The Tune Tuesday theme today is "My Name Is" not slim shady, but songs with people's names in the title. Almost immediately the song Astara by I Exist popped into my head. It's a sweet melodic dubstep love song that puts a smile on my face. https://song.link/s/7LpIouxOxJzia26GZvmgkC #music […]

Suki's been really itchy lately so she got the donut this morning and a bath this afternoon. #dogsofmastodon #malamute #donutofshame

Kettle gong! Another brew day complete. #homebrewing #kettlegong #beer

The last bottle of Saison du Muscat. A wild yeast saison fermented on Muscato wine pomace (the left overs after pressing grapes for wine). It's got a nice fruity wine character melded well with the saison. There's a hint of oxidation as the beer is a few […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sahti hot scotchy. A hot scotchy is a unique brewers cocktail that consists of hot wort (the sweet sugary liquid that gets fermented into beer) and (surprise) scotch. I wonder if a dash of bitters would work here, making it into a true cocktail? #currentlydrinking #cocktail #hotscotchy

Sahti brew day today. Up before the sun because I'm a glutton for punishment apparently. #homebrewing #sahti #sunrise

Christmas Cactus is blooming again so Merry Christmas everyone!

ok, based on my grains I currently own, I've come to the conclusion that I should brew Sahti next. So that's sorted. Now to cobble together a recipe and build up some yeast starters for brewing this weekend. #homebrewing #sahti

I made a finish for the cutting board from beeswax and mineral oil. I put the first coat on today and it's looking pretty nice and shiny. #woodworking

I've never seen a tree branch do this before. This is a cherry tree. I'm guessing I should prune this off completely but I'll wait a bit if anyone has another idea. #cherry #pruning #gardening #weird #horticulture

Made some cuts for the black walnut cutting board (left) and charcuterie board (right). Doing the finer grit sanding now and warming up some beeswax from my hive with mineral oil for a finish. #woodworking

Modifying my resumé website so I can pass a URL param and then I can just click on things like the company name, job title, start and end dates and it instantly copies the text of the thing I clicked to my clipboard so I can paste it into application forms a bit faster.

I was looking at a plaid shirt of mine this morning, and at how intricate the weaving of the cloth was, and how like 150 years ago that shirt would have been considered super fancy and expensive as hell, but now it's just a meh $15 shirt from Costco because […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Took an inventory of my malt supply, preparing for upcoming brew days: 17lb pale 2 row 13.5lbs white wheat malt 5.75lbs pilsner 6lbs German wheat 6lbs dextrapils/carapils 2kg kaljamallas (finish roasted rye malt) 3lbs old rock solid DME (light) 8oz old aromatic amlt 1lb old crystal 40 4oz old […]

I set up a free project on Hygraph to store the data for my personal resume/portfolio site, mostly just because I wanted to play with/learn GraphQL a bit. This morning at ~4:30am a Hygraph sales person based in Germany called my phone and woke me out of a dead sleep. So now I'm looking at […]

A friend gifted me this rough cut live edge piece of black walnut. I'm going to attempt to turn it into a cutting board or a charcuterie board or something. This is basically going to be a piece to learn from before doing similar things on the piece that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

For Christmas I got a nice weather station, I finally got it mounted outside today and it's reporting weather conditions to Weather Underground here: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KWAWASHO1241 #weather

That sounds great

one of the roller blade wheels on my desk chair won't turn, like it still rolls, but won't swivel. Which means I can still move the chair but basically only back and forth in one dimension, which is mostly how I move it, so it's generally not a big deal, until it is. I'd like to replace it but […]

Now the hard one, the last piece of Tune Tuesday's theme of Kings, Queens, Jacks and Jokers is (obviously) Jokers. And I'd like to avoid the obvious Steve Miller Band song so let's go digging... This was tough, I finally settled on Why So Serious? (Crystal Method Remix) from The Dark Knight […]

So what's next? I've covered Kings and Queens in the Tune Tuesday theme of Kings, Queens, Jacks and Jokers. Now we've gotta deal with the Jacks. And I can think of nothing better than Lemon Jelly's A Tune For Jack, it's so upbeat and happy and fun […]

OK so I did Kings for the Tune Tuesday theme of Kings, Queens, Jacks and Jokers, so now on to Queens. Picking the band Queen is so obvious for this, but lets do a Queen song about a Queen. Also a bit more obscure song of theirs that I enjoy: March of The Black Queen […]

So I also made a Best Instrumental of 2025 playlist. This is best of music I've found last year, not necessarily released then (but most of it was). This playlist spans genres from latin guitar to metal and prog metal to epic sound track to synthwave to chiptune to trance. Hopefully you find […]

Today's Tune Tuesday theme is Kings, Queens, Jacks, and Jokers and it's hard not to pick Ghost of a King by The Gray Havens so that's what I'm picking. https://song.link/s/7flxI4L7nPbN6zdv2TUSfo #kingsqueensjacksjokers #music #tunetuesday #thegrayhavens #christianmusic

Each year I compile a playlist of the best new pop music I've come across throughout the year, genres this year span from alt to metal to melodic dubstep to synthwave etc. Hopefully it can help you to find some cool new music or a new favorite musician. A number of the tracks do come from albums […]

I'm smoking a turkey today, and when I went to turn the smoker on, the controller was on the fritz. I opened it up and blew a hair dryer on it to see if it was just wet, but that didn't work, so I took the controller off of my old rusted out smoker that's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Happy New Year everyone! 💖🍻

So I got this nitro faucet for Christmas; which means I gotta brew some nitro tap worthy beer. I was thinking about a Dark Mild but I'm up for other suggestions. #homebrewing #beer #nitro

So a Douglas squirrel found a way into our attic and has been up there, probably stashing seeds. A week ago I figured out where he was getting in and shoved a chunk of pool noodle into the hole. He's now got the noodle out and went back in so I've now shoved […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Drinking some Tree Beer, turned out pretty well. Tree flavor is mild but present, some nice esters from the wild yeast, smooth mouthfeel from the flaked barley. #homebrewing #currentlydrinking #treebeer #wildyeast

Replaying TotK, got to the surface, found a chasm, said screw it, jumped in, forgot I didn't have a paraglider until I died hitting the bottom, LOL #gaming #totk #zelda

Merry Christmas everyone!

So I decided to dry a bunch of the abbee culture. I made too thicc of a layer, it really grabbed the parchment paper and I had to touch the yeast chunks to get it all off. It is a wild culture and drying yeast at home in a dehydrator isn't exactly a sanitary […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The kegged Tree Beer is just about fully carbed, should be ready for tomorrow night. Gotta drink evergreen tree beer while sitting around another evergreen tree in your living room and opening presents. I don't make the rules. #homebrewing #beer #treebeer #christmaseve

"Alexa, add Press'NSeal to my shopping list"

A dark one for @pejacoby This is a wild yeast Baltic Porter 10% abv and probably five ish+ years old by now. It's a bit tarter than the last time I had it but still good. #homebrewing #beer #currentlydrinking #wildyeastftw

Framgarden Pale Ale is on tap and drinking exactly 2 weeks after it was brewed. Tastes pretty good, extremely tropical thanks to not only the kveik, but also the Galaxy and Sultana (Denali) hops. #homebrewing #beer #currentlydrinking #kveik

Some people expressed interest in how to dry kveik so here's a couple photos of the dried Framgarden. I poured it in a thin (~1/8in/3mm) layer on the parchment paper and stuck it in the dehydrator set to its lowest temp (90°F/23°C) and ran it overnight. Once […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

for Music Women Wednesday I'm gonna rep Dani Sylvia again with her new song Purple Lights, it's a fun electro pop song https://song.link/s/4hZ5wUAnB0nrcfQnVV16rO #music #musicwomenwednesday #danisylvia #pop

Today feels like a friday, but it ain't 😾

Someone should rewrite the Latin chorus from Angels We Have Heard On High so that it is in Aramaic, you know those angels weren't singing in Latin to Jewish shepherds.

Got the Framgarden Kveik Pale Ale kegged, dumped most of the yeast onto a sheet of parchment paper and stuck it on a tray in the dehydrator. Put a small amount into a jar in the fridge as a back up, just in case something goes sideways with the dehydrator. The beer (and the fermentor as I […]

This week's Tune Tuesday theme is your favorite Christmas song. I really like O Come Emmanuel, as it's a chill minor key Christmas song, but for my favorite I'm gonna have to go with Rend Collective's version of Ding Dong Merrily On High (The Celebration's Starting) just because it's so high […]

So I stumbled upon this musician FøoMie? today and they have an entire EP featuring GrimesAI, which is a vocaloid emulator (mimicking Grimes voice). I don't _think_ the actual music is AI generated (if it is then bravo, sadly). But I'm not totally sure how to feel about a vocaloid emulator that […]

Pretty sure we're at (or extremely close to) terminal gravity on the wild yeast (abbey culture) saison. Temperature correction puts it at 1.0056 making this beer around 5.6% abv. I'll probably package it sometime later this week, and the kegged half should […] [Original post on mastodon.social]