d_rawk

Sounds great, and ready to drink! Here's one that I do sometimes -- it is fermented though so takes a bit more work. But you gain some nice probiotic bacteria in the process. I sometimes also mash some raspberries into this. Instead of the whey you can also create a 'ginger bug' by feeding ground ginger a bit of sugar every day for about a week, but then it is like taking care of a plant. -1/2 cup Sucanat or other natural sugar -1 cup whey -3/4 cup organic ginger, unpeeled, chopped in food proc. or grated -1/2 lemon - juiced Bring a kettle with 2 cups water to boil. Place sugar in 2 liter glass jar and add boiling water to jar. Stir to dissolve sugar. Add cold filtered water but leave space in the jar for additional ingredients. Allow mixture to cool to body temperature. Add whey, ginger and lemon juice. Add more water to fill jar to about one inch below rim. Stir and cover with not too tight lid. Leave in a warm spot for about 3 days. The colour of the liquid will be lighter and clearer and you may see some bubbles rising after a few days. Taste it, if it is still very sweet, allow to ferment for another day or two. Strain ginger pieces and bottle the ginger ale using a funnel into a sturdy bottle with tight fitting lid/cork. Allow for a second fermentation at room temperature of 3-6 days. (bottles with flimsy lids like Perrier will explode - from experience) Refrigerate before opening. Enjoy. Your ginger ale should be spicy, not too sweet, 'alive' and deliciously bubbly. (the occasional bottle may be flat but still delicious.)

Are you suggesting that I have a small penis? 'cause I'll be more than happy to break it out, probably to everyone else's detriment.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

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I really enjoyed it as well. DEM, what is the origin of the name?

Dear work -- I've been sorta, kinda faking it through our morning stand-up meetings and then, generally, effing off until the next meeting where I sorta, kinda fake it through again. While I haven't been explicitly dishonest about anything, I do have to admit that I am somewhere deep inside of me aware that you are under the impression that I have been more productive than I have been. If you had seen the twists and turns that my life has taken over the last number of months, you would understand. But that would make this more of an audience-watching-a-soap-opera vs. colleagues-involved-in-a-mutual-endeavor sort of affair. Not only will I suck it up, but I am presently engaged in the process of doing that sucking. I won't fail you, but I'll probably continue to fake my way through morning meetings and my coffee traveller mug will probably still actually be full of wine.

::1 is the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1 as I understand it. Shouldn't be causing any issues.

As a geek - but not a nerd - I take umbrance at the suggestion that nerdiness ought to trump geekiness. With no offense to TheAlphaNerd intended, who I suspect to be both.

Depends on the audience, I guess. For the benefit of those less geeky / nerdy: leet

Happy happy!

That is dangerously close to a religious debate, but I like all of the ones listed for various reasons. My personal preference is Firefox because I've become reliant on some of the plugins. You won't need to uninstall anything and you'll still be able to use IE8 when/if you choose to.

My first thought was an outdated Flash plugin as well. You can do a few things to try to isolate the problem: - try to upgrade your flash player - change your security settings to medium (internet options > security) - try Firefox / Safari / Chrome / Opera - do you have issues watching other types of (standalone) video? - Youtube has an experimental HTML 5 video playback option which does not use Flash here

Who would have thought that coffee could be so contentious? I generally just take whatever they are shilling at the corner store or whatever my colleague/neighbour is serving for our my morning meeting, but I do appreciate a good cuppa.

Agreed. Theology, like mathematics or philosophy, is a wonderful intellectual exercise. Without commenting on Catholicism specifically, I think we hit the crux of it here: where cultural norms bump up against mythos. Religion is a handy cultural emblem in that it tends to be deeply rooted -- I think this is primarily why we all end up in argument. The Irish wars aren't really about Protestant vs. Catholic, they are about British imperialism, but the quickest way to talk about it is to say that it is the Catholics against the Protestants. But really, nobody is concerned about the religiosity of it all. I think we blame too much on 'religion' that should really be blamed on terrible human behaviour. When I hear lines like "war is because of religion" I always want to say "have you *met* your fellow man?". Cultures clash. I agree about the not-shoving-down-the-throat though, although this is complicated with the Catholic school board. As far as the 'mainline' school-board goes, though, I think discourse is always welcome.

Cute: "At the other end of the spectrum, not surprisingly, was Orin Kerr (George Washington) who notes fairly that one e-mail, even one reflecting sympathy with racist stereotypes like this one, is not a sound basis on which to assess someone's intelligence and character. That, I think, is the most charitable thing to be said about this whole affair. Or to paraphrase Ms. Grace: "we should absolutely not rule out the possibility that Ms. Grace is not really a right-wing racist and neanderthal.""

Nailed it.

big AND soft ... (peter, paul)

Quite true .. there is an interesting bit of history there, however, regarding the agreement between upper and lower Canada and Ontario's commitment to provide Catholic schools. There is a debate there to be had about when, or even if, it is permissible to back out of an agreement. I think we hashed out this issue once upon a time in the politics forum. See the British North America Act, section 93.

This requires that odd type of discipline that I've noted in others, but have never fully been able to understand: the ability to keep beer in the fridge and ration it. I'm with Ollie on this one.

Umm .. wow!

No Jay I think that illustrates that you watch the perfect amount of Television. [edit:] this post brought to you by Yours Truly on d_rawk's computer, not d_rawk

The little voice has something to say about this ... it is some gibberish about a couple decades worth of debauchery that it had already warned me would cause pre-mature aging. Fucking little punk of a conscience. I used to ignore that thing for a reason. Note to self: wait until at least after noon to start breaking out the tequila shots for yourself and your guests. Trust me, by midnight, that shit will be catching up with you.

I wish I could say that was the case. As it turns out, I am the only suzy. How. Did. I. Get. So. Old.