The carbonation today was vigorous enough to blow the lids back when I burped the bottles, so I think these are done.
And yeah, with a little more time, they're quite nice. The flavor is still somewhat subtle, but it's gently tart and fruity, with excellent fizz and a beautiful color.
We went camping over the weekend, and the night we got in, I was excited to notice this thing on the ceiling of the restroom—an infrared heater panel!
I've been curious to experience these since learning about them. They definitely make sense as energy-efficient heating for a state park restroom: heat people, not space.
I have these two speakers, which came in their own plastic housing. I want to use them as part of a bigger device, in a 3D-printed enclosure. However, I cannot figure out how best to secure them in place.
As you can see, at each corner of the speaker, there is what looks like a mounting hole, so I was initially thinking of driving screws through two of them into either a threaded receptacle or a captive nut. However, there is very little horizontal space (my calipers say less than 0.5mm) surrounding the hole, where the flat of a screw head might gain purchase, so I don't think this is a viable option.
What other ideas do you have for securing these speakers in place inside a 3D-printed enclosure?
Today's #3Dprinting fail. It was good when I went to bed, but it looks like at a certain layer, it started having extrusion issues. Unfortunate, too, because that means a narrow bridge that was held up only by supports was weak and not cohesive, so when I started tearing out the supports, it frayed and broke.
It's so consistent at that height and above, I wonder if there's a mechanical issue interfering with the filament feed...
This time, I'm using a lid with an airlock, and I've put a plastic bag with water in it inside the jar to keep the fruit submerged. I'm hoping those two steps help prevent the mold I got in batch 2.
I also added a single dried chile de árbol for a bit of heat.
Fingers crossed for a tasty drink in a couple days!
Here's a look at my #WIP design for my new website, built using Hugo. Sharing it here so that I can hopefully inspire myself to get back into the swing of working on it. 😅
My first #fermentation! I made a batch of #kombucha and it turned out real tasty. Definitely on the sweeter side this time around, but that's fine by me. 😅
A year or two ago, I was given a #lockpicking set for my birthday, containing two picks and two rakes, as well as three practice locks (with cutaways to show the pins).
I've found it really hard to develop the skill, however. I can't reliably feel or isolate pins, and I don't know if I have the right amount of tension. I sometimes manage to pop a lock, sometimes repeatedly, but nothing about that experience seems to transfer to a new lock.
What are your recommendations for beginning to learn? Are there particular locks (whether practice locks or normal ones) you'd suggest? Any other resources I should check out?
As I've watched more James Hoffmann videos, I've wanted to develop my currently-nonexistent palate for #coffee. I nabbed this bottle of Stumptown #ColdBrew from a bargain grocery store yesterday, and whaddya know, I actually really liked it!
It had a really bright, fruity flavor without too much bitterness or acidity. I stirred a bit of cream and sugar into the mug, but honestly, it was pleasant enough straight out of the bottle that I could have drank it all that way.
Of course, there's no information on the bottle about the origin of the coffee, so I can't learn much in that regard. But hey, here's to actually tasting coffee!
Tonight's cocktail: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).
A sake-based fizz using sake from a local brewery, elderflower liqueur, and a homemade butterfly pea flower and lemongrass liqueur.
I spent all day painting rooms—the baby is two months away, it's time to Turbo Nest™—and the entire upstairs of my house is in disarray. I was trying to think of something to do to occupy my time this evening... well, why not mix something?
Before I left for work this morning, I added the directory of my in-progress Hugo site to Syncthing so I could access it on my work computer. I'm glad I did. After my morning clients were done, I had a bit of a breather, and I was able to fiddle with CSS a bit.
Started adding some neutral defaults to the base CSS for my theme. I have a more opinionated theme in mind right now, but I like the idea of having a basic fallback that's stylish enough.
If you, like me, love pins and supporting artists and think NFTs are a fucking scourge, might I interest you in this lovely design? Mine just arrived yesterday and I'm very pleased.
I just saw a thing boosted about Mastodon's rules about no NFTs. A friend of mine manufactured a "KILL NFTs" enamel pin - I just got mine this week. He sells them on eBay. ebay.com/itm/125187728709
There's a field in my city across from the fairgrounds. For about a week each summer, it's parking for the state fair; the rest of the year, it's untouched save for geese and dog-walkers.
This last week, I've noticed swaths of blue flowers when I drive past, and today, I investigated further. Turns out, it's camas. From what I've learned, camas was a staple food crop for the indigenous people of this region before white settlers came and, well, did their settling thing. This wide meadow, I've read, was once full of camas—now it's a once-a-year parking lot and suburban neighborhood.
Seeing these blue flowers today helped me feel a little more connected to the land I live on.
I'm finally goofing around with building a new personal website, with the hopes of eventually switching from WordPress to Hugo. It's fun to sling HTML and CSS around again.
