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Author Archive: Rajel
One-gallon recipe for Alexander’s wine grape concentrates
Normally the cans of grape concentrate sold by Alexander & Sons/California Concentrate Company are meant to be sold in pairs, as the default recipe is for a 5-gallon batch, and requires 2 46fl.oz. cans. I’m not up for 5gallon batches…
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Experiments with SteamOS
Valve has released SteamOS into the wild, and invited us to play. And so I have, well outside the recommended parameters of their system requirements… because where’s the fun otherwise? For reference: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown My SteamOS test machine is an old…
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The label.
New batches!
Trying my hand at brewing from a raw cider again, putting the last year of learning and experience to test. The first batch is sitting there in secondary now, the second is in primary (in the tub in case of…
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Come down to the arcade!
I haven’t built it yet, but the basic design is complete. It’s based around a spare Dell 17″ LCD, and a miniITX board I aqcuired. The speakers are 2 small Tang-Band drivers, more than enough oomph. If anyone decides…
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Shapcano’s Shadowrun Fiction Mirror
About 5-6 years ago, I was poking around the internet, looking for information on this cyberpunk RPG I’d heard about called Shadowrun. This led me to a simple little corner of the Shadowrun Webring, a page run by a chummer…
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UPDATED HP Envizex files and basic config
Some time ago, I acquired one of these bad boys: There are a few good resources on setting one of these up, namely: http://www.ductape.net/~brianm/xterm/ http://envizex.arganite.com/ http://lisas.de/~adrian/envizex/ The HP X Station reference is here. Now, why do I write an article…
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Surprises
Well, I had intended to bottle my raspberry apple cider this evening, but it needed a bit more time. So I pulled out this little half-gallon of red wine I’ve had on oak for a few months to throw out…
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Sneak peek
Oh hey, what’s this?