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[raison de arizona]

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/eve ... -beer.html

Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer

https://youtu.be/P75SvA344QI

Imma watch this over *checks length* a few beers in the next night or two, thx!

[raison de arizona]

More at the link, but all I can say is right on! Information wants to be free. As a side note, a widely known "secret" is that you can just email the authors of papers such as these if you are interested and they will almost always send you the paper free of charge. I was a anti-anti-vax crusader in a former life and obtained a number of research papers this way.

[Danraft]

So he waved his hand…
And they’re declassified… /s
It’s a really good thing!

[sugar magnolia]

Former Texas Right to Life Political Director Luke Bowen has been charged with online solicitation of a minor after an Aug. 3 sting operation by Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children.

Bowen is out on a $50,000 bond. The charge is a second-degree felony, which could result in a two- to 20-year sentence and a fine of up to $10,000.

Conroe-based attorney E. Tay Bond, who is representing Bowen, confirmed the charge and noted Bowen was in compliance with his bond conditions.

https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighbor ... 397607.php

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Ah yes, a slave to fashion.

Gotta keep up!

[Sam the Centipede]

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/eve ... -beer.html

Every Style of Beer Explained: An Expert Breaks Down 100 Types of Beer, from Malty Lagers, to London Brown Ales, to Bock Beer

After an evening drinking too many Trappist Trippel beers (i.e. triple strength) in Belgium in the 1980s I think I learned why Trappist monks take a bow of silence.

Sometimes one pays for pleasure now in pain later.

[dan1100]

Today is "Tan Suit Day".

On August 28, 2014, President Obama wore a tan suit to work.

[Volkonski]

[keith]

More at the link, but all I can say is right on! Information wants to be free. As a side note, a widely known "secret" is that you can just email the authors of papers such as these if you are interested and they will almost always send you the paper free of charge. I was a anti-anti-vax crusader in a former life and obtained a number of research papers this way.
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Although I really see this as a 'very good thing', the downside is that the anti-science nuts and the semi-literate that just don't know how to read a science paper will find it that much easier to glom to some factoid and use it to 'prove' that up is really down and scientists have been hiding this knowledge for ever.

The other day I had to put the kibosh on some fruit loop that saw a report of a paper that indicated that polio could be caught from vaccine trauma and came to the conclusion that covid vaccine was causing the upsurge in polio.

Of course the vaccine the paper was talking about was 'live virus polio vaccine', the trauma they were talking about was the the polio vaccine injection. Now, it doesn't take too much thinking to find out that the USA doesn't use live virus polio vaccine, and the coronavirus vaccines do not contain polio virus, whether live, deactivated, or dead.

But that's the thing, these people don't think, they just throw stuff against the wall to see if they can get a rise.

Personally, I stopped doing that sort of thing when I stopped smoking the sacred herb in college dorms.

[Volkonski]

I posted about the planned renovations to the battleship Texas on Fogbow 1.0 some time ago. They are finally moving the ship to a drydock in Galveston but there is some doubt that the ship will survive the move.

[MN-Skeptic]

I shopped at Costco this afternoon. It’s not even Labor Day and they have a Christmas tree up.

[raison de arizona]

I shopped at Costco this afternoon. It’s not even Labor Day and they have a Christmas tree up.

Mine has Halloween costumes and I though they were early!

[AndyinPA]

I saw Halloween stuff out more than a month ago.

[MN-Skeptic]

Mmmm.... Halloween candy.

[RVInit]

Santa's White Christmas coffee is for sale at Publix already. It's not even September yet.

[Patagoniagirl]

Santa's White Christmas coffee is for sale at Publix already. It's not even September yet.

The crazy thing is that almost all of the corporate push for holidays feel just normal to a big section of the populist and are still profitable for them. Peeps buying Candy Canes at $5 a box that will be $1.50 day after the holiday. Same for the cost of Peeps after Easter.

[neonzx]

Santa's White Christmas coffee is for sale at Publix already. It's not even September yet.

Oh a different "Santa". Never mind.

I will follow Frater out the door.

[bill_g]

Less than four more shopping months!!! Come on people - hustle hustle hustle.

[Foggy]

Mmmm.... Halloween candy.

[bill_g]

Let's talk about email tl;dr, the executive summary, and the need to beat people with a cudgel.

I learned early on with email to compact everything I wanted to say and ask in as few words as possible so it would appear in the message field above the fold. I called it the executive summary for busy people with little time. Get my bottom line out first. Follow up with my findings, my arguments, my explanations, etc etc in paragraphs after.

Good morning,

I have three things to discuss and a request:
A item 1
B item 2
C item 3
D request

Item 1 discussion paragraph

It appears I now need to limit the number of concepts introduced in a message to one or less.

So, I took a pre-dawn sales lead phone call yesterday morning from an OEM partner. They have an opportunity in the Cali market with a major utility. They need our labor and our financial backing. I write that up in an email as we are speaking on the phone cc'ing our regional mgrs to (A) NorCal opportunity, (B) here's our contact, and (C) appoint an account rep, followed by some expansion paragraphs. By the end of the day everything was sideways, and it all started with the guy at the top of our sales group not reading the first line: who, what, and where.

He apparently doesn't know there is a difference between PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric), and PGE (Portland General Electric). He also glossed over the phrase NorCal opportunity. He assigns it to Portland reps. Minus my email. He just instructs them to contact me without cc'ing me that he's instructing them to contact me. So, they email me wanting details.

But, I'm in the field at a site with zero indoor Verizon coverage. Of course since I'm not answering email immediately, send another. And if I don't respond to that, call me directly. When I don't pick up, leave a voicemail or two, or three. Rinse, repeat until you get tired and call your boss and my boss wanting to know why I am not responding in a professional and timely manner to this major customer request.

By lunch time this matastsized to contacting the customer (PGE) directly with their inquiries only to be rebuffed. They do not have any deals in the pipeline with this OEM. They don't know what we are talking about. So, what am I talking about? What sales lead? Their boss still hasn't forwarded them my early morning email. The answer is right in front of him, and he can't see it.

When I pop my head out of the gopher hole, and return to Verizon coverage, my phone notifications are blowing up. What a mess. The cc list is massive. I hit reply all on the phone, point out the difference in customer acronyms, and continue my drive home. Ninty minutes later I expected another round of emails in the InBox. Nope. Nothing. Silence.

So, I'm expecting something this morning. Good thing I'm retired. They can't fire me.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Mmmm.... Halloween candy.

I got dibs on the eyeball gum!

[northland10]

I shopped at Costco this afternoon. It’s not even Labor Day and they have a Christmas tree up.

Mine has Halloween costumes and I though they were early!

Craft brewers had released their Octoberfest style at the beginning of August this year.

[northland10]

Calling all those who cringe at my writing (i.e. grammar snobs).

...help a RWNJ get elected.

Working for a day job company that adores their acronyms and adds new ones often, this has always perplexed me. R is a consonant so initially one might think that it should be A before it. However, since R is a soft consonant, when spoken or sung, AN sounds better as it sounds more like a word starting with a vowel.

Which is the official way?

[raison de arizona]

I shopped at Costco this afternoon. It’s not even Labor Day and they have a Christmas tree up.

Mine has Halloween costumes and I though they were early!

Craft brewers had released their Octoberfest style at the beginning of August this year.

Hmm, well I’m pro increasing the season for Oktoberfest brews, of course!

[Sam the Centipede]

Calling all those who cringe at my writing (i.e. grammar snobs).

...help a RWNJ get elected.

Working for a day job company that adores their acronyms and adds new ones often, this has always perplexed me. R is a consonant so initially one might think that it should be A before it. However, since R is a soft consonant, when spoken or sung, AN sounds better as it sounds more like a word starting with a vowel.

Which is the official way?

Dunno about others but when I read that acronym I read in my head the full phrase, not the letters. So I would write "a" rather than "an".

Other acronyms I might read as individual letters (e.g FBI, GPS) or as a word (e.g. NASA).