Interesting Things

It is always October 19th.

As you know, October 19th is a state of mind and you must keep it in your heart as well as your head.

Via The Atlantic Wire

From the "You Can't Choose Family File":
Kim Jong-Un has a nephew who is...surprisingly forthright. I was going to snark about this but...it is worth the time to be experienced.

Food & Beer:
It is no secret that I like beer and food. In fact, even though I was recovering from the colonization by a distant cousin, I made myself a lovely meal last night and had something great to drink with it. The food was baked chicken over a rosemary and balsamic tossed fettuccine and the beer I had was a Brooklyn Brewery Local 2.

Selectism had a post about wandering through the Great American Beer Festival. It did make me want to try the Ghost Dog Extra Pale Ale from Trinity Brewhouse (specifically because it is not listed on the website for the Trinity Brewhouse and the only reference to it seems to be the post on Selectism). As a nice followup to something like the Great American Beer Festival, Serious Eats has a wonderful slide show about the 20 Recipes to Help Cure a Hangover.(The breakfast Banh Mi has me salivating and reminding me that I need to motivate to go get some breakfast.)

Do you have someone in your life that likes art? Architecture? Puzzles? All three? Yeah, you need to get them the Pop-Out Guggenheim Museum Puzzle.(Coolhunting)

The Dark Internet
The Atlantic has a piece about the actual nature of the internet and the metrics used to measure popularity.
They conveniently offer a tl;dr version of their argument:

tl;dr version
1. The sharing you see on sites like Facebook and Twitter is the tip of the 'social' iceberg. We are impressed by its scale because it's easy to measure.

2. But most sharing is done via dark social means like email and IM that are difficult to measure.

3. According to new data on many media sites, 69% of social referrals came from dark social. 20% came from Facebook.

4. Facebook and Twitter do shift the paradigm from private sharing to public publishing. They structure, archive, and monetize your publications.

Via the Awl.

Dogfish Head in Troy

The Ruck hosted a bevy of beers from the Dogfish Head Brewery.

My first beer of the tasting was the Ta Henket, which I found to be interesting however one of the people I was with, along with someone from the crowd, both self identified "beer people", thought that it tasted like sweat socks or other equally derisive flavors and fragrances.

The other beers that were tried:
World Wide Stout through a randall (featuring coffee and vanilla beans that were infused with Knob Creek) which has been given the moniker "Prestige World Wide" (if you do not get the reference, I feel for you).
Saison du BUFF through a randall (featuring pineapple and habenero) which is being called Dogfunkel Saisonala. This may be my favorite.
Sah Tea (which also was a favorite)
Hellhound on my Ale (great name)
Chateau Jihau

Photo credit to Shauna

It was a nice day, with some great beers (and assorted other fermented beverages) and good people.

Today's the day! The Great Beer Walk!

Here is the idea:

Beer + Long Walk = Tremendously Good Time

TODAY!

If you are coming, please register for the event on Facebook and invite your friends!

5:15 PM at Wolff's Biergarten!

Then we will head to McGeary's, followed by Savannah's/Dublin Underground, Red Square and the Lionheart!

It will be a great time, just like last years was!

You will get a sticker, just like the one above.

This year, I am asking for a $5 donation to be collected at Wolff's (and it is a donation, a suggestion, like at the museum) to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

This year, the walk is just over two miles.


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Oh, and if you are wondering who is at Alive at Five? Don't worry about it.

(Oh, when you are registering for Beer Walk on Facebook, you can also like AFM on Facebook!)

Tomorrow! The Great Beer Walk! Tomorrow!

Here is the idea:

Beer + Long Walk = Tremendously Good Time

July 7th, 2011! Invite Your Friends!

5:15 PM at Wolff's Biergarten!

Then we will head to McGeary's, followed by Savannah's/Dublin Underground, Red Square and the Lionheart!

It will be a great time, just like last years was!

You will get a sticker, just like the one above.

This year, I am asking for a $5 donation to be collected at Wolff's (and it is a donation, a suggestion, like at the museum) to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

This year, the walk is just over two miles.

Please register for the event on Facebook and invite your friends!


View Larger Map

Oh, and if you are wondering who is at Alive at Five? Don't worry about it.

(Oh, when you are registering for Beer Walk on Facebook, you can also like AFM on Facebook!)Here is the idea:

Beer + Long Walk = Tremendously Good Time

July 7th, 2011!

5:15 PM at Wolff's Biergarten!

Then we will head to McGeary's, followed by Savannah's/Dublin Underground, Red Square and the Lionheart!

It will be a great time, just like last years was!

You will get a sticker, just like the one above.

This year, I am asking for a $5 donation to be collected at Wolff's (and it is a donation, a suggestion, like at the museum) to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

This year, the walk is just over two miles.

Please register for the event on Facebook and invite your friends!


View Larger Map

Oh, and if you are wondering who is at Alive at Five? Don't worry about it.

(Oh, when you are registering for Beer Walk on Facebook, you can also like AFM on Facebook!)