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  Vic:   And here, of course, is Vince Fawn, who starred in the remake of the

         Hitchcock classic, "Psycho".

  Kenny: Yeah that one was so good, I don't know why they bothered to make

         the original.

  

I was digging through my MP3 collection today and discovered/remembered that I have the SOMMS EP, which opens up with, of all things, a cover of "Into the Void".

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Listening to Black Sabbath's version back to back with Kyuss's. The original is harder and lower, and the cover is more trippy with that wonderful Homme guitaring. John Garcia's vocals just don't seem quite right for the song when you hear him following up Ozzy, though.

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Danziger Jopenbier - any longer one does not brew.

Adambier seems to be a barley-wine strength version of altbier. Is it the Dortmunder take on Stickel? It seems there are a number of strange, wonderful, nearly extinct German beer styles. Is it spillover from the vast number of living styles in Germany or selection bias since no one cares about the nearly extinct beer styles of say, France?
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  Aaaoow.

  Aaaoow!

  Aaaoow!

  Soooo.

  Miiiine.



  Just a nail through the barrel of my gun

  Not the first time they don't see

  {Stabbed/Stared}(?) down through the barrel of this gun



  The west coast

  The east coast freight train



  Pull me up through the barrel of my gun

  Not the third time a-they don't see 

  {Stabbed/Stared}(?) down through the barrel of that gun



  The west coast

  The east coast freight train

  

  And all these walls, all these mountains

  And all these minds are filled with pain.



  Aaaoow.

  Aaaoow.

  Sooooo.

  Miiine.



  Wheels spinning on the echo of this ground.

  Twelve days until we don't see

  Wheel's never thought {of}(?) turning on my ground.



  the west coast

  the east coast freight train.



  wheel's burning on the echo of your ground.

  45 is what we don't {see/say}(?)

  wheel's never thought to turn on your ground.

  

  the west coast

  the  east coast freight train



  and all these wall, all these mountains

  and all these minds are fucking {vain}(?)

  you're turning blue, what you're facing

  and what you say is fucking true.

  

  aaaaah.

  aaaaah.

  sooooo.

 Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe

 the {bricks/breaks}(?) in life always seem to 

 pass away, pass away, pass away

 but sometimes, baby, you gotta let me 

 break free, break free, break free

 but that don't mean that I don't love

 love you



 well, oh yeah

 if you listen I'll tell you one time

 oh yeah, babe, I know you don't listen and I'll tell you a second time

 oh yeah, she's gone, baby, and the sun is up, yeah

 oh yeah, you and she are gone and she lights {the night}(?) up.



 Burn, burn, burn, burn

 Your love is burned, and your soul is gone

 And I don't care and I don't mind, and there's something good

 and you're never {poor/broke}(?).



 Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord

 There's something good 

 And you lie, and say you'll give it to me.

 Give it to me!



 Oh yeah, well, if you listen I'll tell you one time

 Oh yeah, babe, I know you don't listen and I'll tell you a second time

 Oh yeah, she's gone baby and the sun is up, yeah

 Oh yeah, you and she are gone and she lights the {night}(?) up



 Well, oh yeah, well, if you listen I'll tell you one fucking time

 Well, oh yeah, babe, I know you don't listen and I'll tell you a second time

 Well, oh yeah, the sea's gone and the sun is up, yeah.

 Well, oh yeah, you and she are and she lights the {night}(?) up.

 

 Oh!

 Give it to me

 Give it to me

 Give it

 Give it to me

 Give it up when you say it.

 x 3



 Well, oh yeah, well if you listen I'll tell you one fucking time!

 Well, oh damn, I know you don't listen and I'll tell you a second time!

 A second time...

 Yeah!

 The time to be was seen

 Miles and miles of green

 Around the wheel it folds

 The {mother/brother/butter}(?) it never stole, yeah.

 Well, a-how...a-how.



 All the things you wanted to be...

 baby, you can't conceive of slow down, a slow.

 Well, all the things you wanted to be...

 honey, you can't conceive of slow



 Ooow, well, a-hoow

 Don't ever said you tried

 Livin' with my ride.

 Drivin' alive and {free/frail}(?)

 to anywhere you want to be, yeah.

 Well, a-how, a-how.



 Well all the things you wanted to be...

 honey, you can't conceive of slow down, a-slow.

 Well, all the things you wanted to be

 baby, you can't conceive of slow down, slow down.

 Well, all the things you wanted to be...

 honey, you can't conceive of slow...down.

 

 Well, all the things you wanted to be...

 honey you can't conceive of slow.

 x 3



 All the things you wanted to be...

 honey you can't conceive of slow burn!

Flying Dog recently released their Gonzo Imperial Porter as a sort of tribute to the late H S Thompson. I thought they had just made up the style to indicate the beer was a porter with Russian Imperial stout kickassness, but it turns out it's an actual BJCP style.

Well, I was off on how long I'd have to wait, but other than that I am pleased to report that I displayed remarkable prescience concerning the manner in which my newsgroup access problem was going to be resolved.

At 9:00am:

telnet news.verizon.net 119

Trying 199.45.49.11...

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

At 9:30am:

telnet news.verizon.net 119

Trying 199.45.49.11...

Connected to news.verizon.net.

Escape character is '^]'.

200 This connection requires username/password authentication. (Tornado v1.0.6)

I saw a tour bus pass through my intersection while I was sitting at a red light...well, actually the bus ran its red light and was generally being driven in the assholish manner more consonant with a BMW. Anyway, I eventually merged onto the same road and ended up behind the bus. There was a little sign on the back "Smile - God loves you."

It seems we also have cause to smile on account of the fact that god doesn't expect us to obey the civil authorities.

Thanks to Dr. McGoldrick that passage always brings to mind the thought that the American Revolution was singularly anti-christian. So much for the idea that the Founder's were god-fearing, bible-believing Christians, and that the United States is a nation founded on Christian principles.

I'm glad I don't have problems with Verizon very often. Suddenly, around last Thursday I couldn't get to news.verizon.net anymore. No changes to my configuration or firewalls. I can ping the server and even trace a route to it. But if I try to connect SYN is sent, but the server never replies. I get variously "Connection failed" or "Network host unreachable".

It turns out Verizon staff monitor a forum on dslreports, so I posted there and got the following reply:

beowulf9

[DSL-OTHER] Can Ping/Tracert, not connect to news.verizon.net



Thank-you for your inquiry on the Verizon Broadband Report Forums. We are very excited about being able to offer our valued Verizon Customers support via this Forum and look forward to your feedback.



We will be happy to help you with your connection issues to news.verizon.net However the support we provide for newsgroups is minimal. Also, we do not support the Mozilla Thunderbird program. We will be happy to review your settings in Outlook Express.

To fully address your particular issue we will need to open a ticket on your account to further investigate this issue. To accomplish this we need you to initiate a real time chat session with us using Answer Web (»supportcenter.verizon.net/euserv···ncidents)



If you do not use IE or have any problems with this link: Please go to »dslstart.verizon.net and click on the Contact US link in blue at the very bottom of our homepage. This will open another page and you will see a section that says " Chat Online with a Support Rep".



AnswerWeb will allow you to open a chat with us between the hours of 8 AM - 7 PM ET, Monday through Friday. This request can be initiated from any computer connected to the Internet, and does not require that you be at home, although should troubleshooting be required, the agent may need you to reinitiate the session from your home PC.



When using AnswerWeb please be sure to provide the following information:



Broadband Reports Forum UserID

Broadband Reports Forum Thread Name

AnswerWeb authorization code: XXXXX



Thank-you for contacting Verizon.



  

I notice Verizon has no problem taking my money before providing me access to their news server. They also only allow me to access the news server from one of their own IP addresses (in addition to having to authenticate using my VZ username and password). But they don't support newsgroups. They also don't support Mozilla Thunderbird. As if there is anything more to setting up any Windows news reader beyond filling out 4 textboxes on a form.

Anyway, so I decide to play ball since I want to get the problem fixed and there's no point to debate why I have to jump through just these hoops. Anyway, I load iexplore.exe since the chat link doesn't work in Firefox and get a Java stack dump. WTF?

DSLReports came through with what seems like a sound diagnosis. Unfortunately, I'm going to be left waiting around for probably another week at least before Verizon finally pulls their thumb out of their ass and my newsgroup access will suddenly start working again...

I'm brewing my second lager (a Münchner dunkel) and am using SafLager S23 dried lager yeast in the primary. Starting about 24 hours after pitching, a distinct sulfur odor became evident in the brew room. I seemed to recall that this is a normal thing for lager fermentations and a quick Google search confirmed my hazy recollection. Even so, I figured that just as with my gut, when it comes to sulfur - better out than in.

Anyway, I came across some good practical homebrewing advice that I'm going to give a whirl as best I can. I don't have any means for controlling temperature at the moment, so I'm left with whatever the ambient temp is in my brew room (usu. 50°F or cooler in winter). Ideal fermentation temp. for the SafLager S-23 is apparently 12°C (54°F); I'm lucky since ambient temp. in the brew room right now is 49°F and the beer is between 51 and 52°F.

• Quickly cool the wort as low as possible, usu. about 65-68°F.
• Pitch yeast and aerate by vigorously shaking primary.
• Lower primary fermenter to temp. specified on yeast package.
• Once the kräusen has completely fallen back into the beer, raise temp. to 60°F (Kopec opines 70°F is too warm) for a diacetyl rest for 2 to 7 days.
• Cool back down to recommended fermentation temp. for the yeast.
• Now you're ready to rack to the secondary fermenter.
• Rack to the secondary and drop temp. by 2°/day until temp. is 33-35°F.
• Lager in the secondary fermenter for about 30 days.
• Bottle or keg the beer and store at cold temp. for 3 weeks and then store for one week around 60°F.

I really liked this picture (i think part of the charm is the filename) and wanted to mirror it in case it ever gets lost at the original site.

With their first album, EODM seemed to be playing around with a mix of seventies pop, whimsy, and hard rock, with a pleasant dosing of the blues. Death by Sexy seems to be heading in the same sort of direction, but with maybe more thought put into production and now it's rockabilly that pops up at odd moments.

I didn't really care for the album on the first listen, but it's growing on me. "Eagles Goth" is pleasantly dark and foreboding, while "The Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck" is about as bunny foo-foo rockin' as you expect. "I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)" has the good old EODM hard rock sex tune vibe that "Peace Love and Death Metal" oozed (strangely, with a chorus whose vocal treatments are reminiscent of standard "DC Talk" tricks). "Cherry Cola" (the first song "leaked" from DBS (does it count as being leaked when the band themselves upload the track?)) has an opening chorus that sounds like it came right out of PLDM, but manages to entertain despite its savage familiarity.

I don't know if I'm going to think it's as good as their first offering, but I'm starting to get into "Death by Sexy"'s groove.

One of the nice things about driving the Rabbit is that doing 75mph down the highway on a windy day makes you feel like you're Chuck Yeager piloting the X-1.

þeostru f (-e/-a) darkness, gloom (both literally and figuratively). Has a constellation of related words surrounding it, including þeostrig adj(obscure, blinded); þeostrian wv/t2 (to make dark or dim); þeostorloca m (tomb or dark enclosure);

I'll be brewing a Münchner Dunkel tomorrow and I think I'll name it Theosterness. Google returns about 270 hits for "theost" with most of them being misspellings of "the lost" or "the most" but there was one that seemed to use the word in a sense consonant with the meaning of the Old English word.

If you're not paranoid, then you're not paying attention.

This phrase was unknown to me until recently. I just assumed the speaker was confused and meant to say "by the same token", but it's used regularly and consistently.

Google shows around 62,000 hits for "on the same token" and 1,770,000 hits for "by the same token". I pulled up questions through Google Groups that were posted to alt.usage.english about the phrase, so it's not an ideolect. As far as I could tell, by perusing the first several pages, the phrase is used in exactly the same sense as the more standard "by the same token" and seems to occur primarily in Southern or Mid-Western American speech (this is a guess based on statements made in the blogs/pages by the users of the phrase about themselves and their locations).

Assuming I can trust what I read on the internet, I was surprised to learn that "token" goes back to an Old English root - tācen.

Rainbows and tornadoes...all that's missing is some Pink Floyd music.