Month: April 2012
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Minneapolis Spring 2012
Despite the big travel shuffle that ended with me changing my plans and attending my brother’s small wedding, I did make it out to Minneapolis. Only one week later than planned, too! I really like this town. I like that it is covered in trees. I like that the streets make no sense. I like…
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Jeff and Diana’s Wedding
My brother got married last weekend. It was a small, informal family wedding, and everyone on both sides made it. Even me. I wasn’t going to go at first. We only had a few weeks notice of the date, and it was on the weekend I had bought plane tickets to visit Ben in Minneapolis.…
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Gravity Checks
No, there’s nothing wrong with the Earth’s gravity, I’m only referring to Specific Gravity, the ratio of the density of a liquid to the density of water. In this case, the specific gravity I’m concerned with is the specific gravity of my two fermenting batches of beer. The alcohol content of beer can be calculated…
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I Finally Got My Bike Put Back Together
Way back in January I wrote about getting my road bike tuned up for the season. Shortly after that we got a huge snowstorm that delayed my plans, and then I started riding my fixed gear bike instead. As a result my good geared road bike sat about halfway put together for almost 2 months.…
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I’m Clearing Out Some Old Files
It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m in the office. That’s very unusual, despite what you may have been told. My group moved last week from a space on the west side of the building to a space on the east side. It’s your standard cubicle space, with one major exception: the cubes are right up against…