Friday, October 29, 2010

Music for Film

So where does a person, an individual with perhaps not a lot of resources (organizational or financial) at their command, find some decent music they can use in a Youtube video? Under a Creative Commons license that allows derivative works, or the like. I've looked around a bit and found what might be starting places, but frankly I'm out to sea on this. Could delay the previously advertised video slightly.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Don't Try This At Home

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.html

I read this article back when it originally came out, I'm pretty certain, but I'd sort of forgotten about it since then. I ran across it again today, and did a little looking around... Things have really only gotten worse. When I was a kid I had one of the last Chemcraft chemistry sets, and I remember all the little empty spaces in the rack of chemicals for things they weren't allowed to include. Of course, people remember the exception; we remember that someone with access to chemicals built a bomb, which very rarely happens, but we seem to forget how many people with access to cars and alcohol kill themselves and others all the time. We see cars and alcohol everywhere, they're part of our lives, so we're not scared of them, but "chemicals" ("Without chemicals, life as we know it would be impossible," as my father would say) are foreign and frightening. Which is exactly the problem with the world in general. We don't really care whether you can build a bomb or make drugs; truth is, we can't stop you from doing either. We're just terrified of you being different.

Depressing.

I wonder if the new keg is ready to serve from yet...

Thursday, October 07, 2010

The Last Pint

Why is the head on the last pint from my first keg better than any of the others? Seriously, it's creamy and awesome, almost Guinness-like. Is it to do with sediments, proteins perhaps, picked up from the bottom in the last sputtering of the tap? I know I'm not really supposed to serve that stuff, but as I'm serving myself and I actually rather like the dregs, I went right to the bottom.

Hm... Didn't last, though.