Intrigued by the user of fire in this cocktail, I watched the video. Oh, that a very involved recipe.

Featured in a photogallery of BattleStar Galactica, I want one!  I have some cheap plastic ones that eventually leaked into the inner chamber.  These glasses are just nice.

I saw beer mug candles at Kroger last August.  Oh, so wanted one!

Beer Mug Candle Glass mug & candle.

• Candles look just like a frothy mug of beer.
• Citronella gel keeps pesky bugs at bay.
• Gel filled glass mug.
• Very cute addition to your next picnic.
• Each is about 3 5/8″ dia. x 5″ tall.
• Sold individually.

You can make your own, but that ruin some beer mugs

I stumbled on an advertisement for Carlsberg beer embedded above combining beer and fitness.  Men’s Fitness offers this beer 101. There’s a long article on the subject, but more interesting is the Beer and Fitness article on Military.com amongst a multitude of other fitness articles.  Ironically, the TV Watcher’s Workout (Amazon.com) pictures a guy holding a beer.  Did find a couple free PDFs for download:

• The 45 Day Beginner Program
• Six Week Running Program

Some how I don’t think the guys are execerising hard.  I don’t think The Sarge, whose motto is:

• NO MUSIC
• NO DANCING
• NO MIRRORS
• NO MACHINES
• NO SPANDEX NO JUICE BARS
• NO CYRBABIES
• NO REFUNDS

would allow such distraction.  He didn’t say NO BEER!

The nice thing about an economic downturn is low prices. Bestbuy is offering, advertising even, $400 laptop computers. On recent trips through BestBuy, I notice many laptops for $400. Not until recently have such been so readily found. Previously, the record low price laptop was around $450, but only with discounts, usually mail-in rebates.

RadioShack is offering a $349 netbook. The specifications are pretty fantastic. It is plenty adequate for running Windows XP and most software most people would run. Biggest drawback is the shrunken keyboard. Dell offers a Mini 12. most exciting about Dell’s Minu 12 is it’s like, 12 inches, and runs Linux. The important things about Linux are:

• the free software
• customiziation: striping the software to the essentials of email, web and xterm.
• the lightweight XFCE desktop environment.

The Dell Mini 12 seems great, but Dell’s chat support tells me the keyboard is the same size the as the Mini 10. Now, they are offering a 9 inch for $200. Typing is just horrible on such small keybaords. That is why Apple uses a full size keyboard and 13 inch screen in the MacBook Air.

I’m still waiting for the 12 inch $300 laptop. At this price I don’t expect much: email, web browser X and xterm. Battery life can be great with suffiently low performance. The RadioShack netbook mentioned above boasts a six-hour battery! How many hours do you get from your laptop?

Looking for the Midori browser, Google turned up

• Midori a classical violinist
• Midori liqueur US world Wiki

Other intriguing stuff on the Internet.

• Truck Vs Macbook Pro
• space station named Colbert. At least it’s not Coltrane.
• Sad. LoJack for Toddlers

I rush to catch the early bus, but before it rounds the corner after I get on, the bus loses a tire. The tire was gone as in HTTP 410 Gone. The bus was running on the rim, leaving a mark in the concrete, flattening it’s rim. Nine other wheels, with tires, and the bus couldn’t keep the rim off the road. No spare tire. The drive let everyone off. Metro didn’t send a replacement bus, nor a service vehicle to replace the tire. We just waited forty minutes until the next bus on the schedule came by. I start forty minutes early, and clock-in three minutes late.

Dog Retrieves Guinness

Seeing this adorable canine at CuteOverload.com fetching a can on Guinness shows there is good service in this world. The contributor’s picture can be found on flickr and his homepage has some adorable dog photographs online too.

This unbelievable picture could be recaptioned, “DISBELIEF, prefering Guinness over dead rat.”

Futurama Bender Steam Beer T-Shirt

Beer Girls t-shirts from The United Nations of Beer

Beer brewing Bender.

Busy day and I haven’t even gone to work yet.

I’m feeling good.  I:

1. Cooked a whole 23 pound turkey
2. Washed dishes
3. Cleaned the foul fowl juice that leaked in the refrigerator while thawing the turkey.  …and on the counter while preparing the turkey.
4. Made a quick grocery run needed lettuce and rewarding beer
5. Drank a beer while surfing the net
6. Ate a York Peppermint patty

Does the stimulus package include funds for beer pouring robots?

And what does that make me?

Get Your Cyborg Name

Ytterbium Neohuman…lifelike.  Funny, I was thinking about dressing up as Lt. Cmd. Data for next year’s Kansas City costume dance.  Data is logical; logical in his learning, too.  Contrary to my first thought, Google does have a definition for Ytterbium.  It’s an element named after a Swedish town.  Maybe I should get the periodic table on a shower curtain.

Blame Rakkav for this latter diversion.

Found Kid’s Portrait (Flash) at guardian.co.uk, Cadbury’s ad raises an eyebrow.  The Hanger ad was fun too.  For the screwball musician out there: Gorilla.  I’ll need to ask a pessimist what he thinks about a company named aglassandahalffullproductions.com.

Virgin Atlantic could be me flying again.

Someone even builds a walk-in beer fridge for real.

Need a replica White House?

• A replica White House, built in 2002, is on the market in Atlanta for $9.8 million
• It is owned by Fred Milani, a developer who builds and sells “McMansions”
• Nearby residents have mixed feelings about the replica White House
• The house is one-third the size of the real White House but still boasts an Oval Office

– CNN.com

Finally got proper containment for my Nuclear Chili. How else do you power a Nuclear Powered Brain but with nuclear food.  Yes, beer would be appropriate coolant for the nuclear process.  I haven’t added the excess of jalapenos to this batch. I wonder if a titanium spork can handle it. Seems the spork would be more comfortable with a wood handle.

Nuclear Chili

Nuclear; gratuitous use of nuclear.