I ended up deciding to pull the brew today and bottle it. It brewed for 13 days. This time, it came out a lot better and stronger than last time (although next time I am going to brew the tea base even stronger still!). The total yield was about 80oz. (10 cups). I’m experimenting with [...]
Wow, 51 people turned out tonight! I attended the Cal Poly Linux User Group (CPLUG) meeting tonight which was a talk and pizza party sponsored by CustomFlix (who my company happens to co-lo) about Ruby, a nifty programming language that’s been brought more to the front in recent times. It was about the uses and [...]
October is here, and so is the first rain of the season. I’m so glad the heat is finally over. Let’s just hope it’s gone for good until next year. I finally went down to the tunnel down by Cuesta Park to get some photos of all the art that’s been done down there. There [...]
Here are some pictures I took out at Morro Bay yesterday on my phone. The Jetty was nice, it was overcast mostly which was a nice change from all the heat of the past few months. I ended up climbing up on the side of Morro Rock a little ways and then realized that climbing [...]
My Kombucha (Experiment #2) is getting to the point of being ready. It’s day seven now and it’s really developing well. In the pictures, the mother mushroom is the small one that’s verticle in the jar (the one that’s the circle). The one from my last batch is the wider, bent one above the mother, [...]
Well, the first batch turned out ok. Not great but not bad for a first attempt. It was a little bit too sweet still but I thought it came out ok. I’d like to try something besides Mason jars for curing since they don’t seem to hold all the fizz (thanks Jim). Also, the first [...]
Some girl with a pet goat on the pier:
I finally received my lockpick learning locks today. It’s a set of three cylinders in a hard plastic block designed to help you learn how to pick locks. After about 2 hours of practicing, I can defeat them all. Interesting to understand how this works. I will purchase some better, high-security cylinders off of ebay [...]
As promised, here are some much higher quality photos of some of the best works at the festival. Also, I heard that they are/have brushed them away at the end of the day since it will be too much of a “distraction” for drivers. How sad!
Today the San Luis Obispo “I Madonnari” chalk drawing festival at the Mission Plaza started and it will continue through tomorrow. Digital West (the company I work for) has sponsored a 7′ by 7′ square there. Some of the drawings are truly amazing such as the portrait of Remdrandt and the egrets. I can’t wait [...]
