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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

BYCU: Beer and Related Areas

Give Him the Nobel Is your bartender pulling back a second early on the tap, leaving you a centimeter or two shy of the top? It's costing you buzz. The new Beer Gauge tells you how much [http://thebeergauge.com/]. "[T]he majority of the volume in

Russians, Muslims, and the Bagpiper

Seven Abandoned Wonders of the USSR You ever think to yourself: "This is gonna land me in Hell"? I do, way too frequently. I have an acerbic turn of mind. I think I'm subduing it, but then it rears its head mightily. I'd like

From the Notebooks

The Funny Guy What's the definition of a funny guy? Most obviously: A guy who makes others laugh. But that definition doesn't answer many questions. What about the clumsy guy who stumbles a lot and unintentionally makes others laugh? What about the guy who unintentionally says

Bird Watching and Other Scatology

Giving Me the Bird I've had an horrendous spring. I won't go into the details, but a barrage of non-work commitments has frayed my nerves to the bone (is that metaphor possible?). I was looking forward to a nice long Memorial Day weekend, with nothing

Dead Cars, Amish, Marx, and More

Studebaker and Other Corpses In the wake of pending plans to discontinue Pontiac and Saturn, the Mental Floss Blog takes a look at ten discontinued models [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25613#more-25613]. Nice prose, nice assortment of pictures. Excerpt: > Started as the George N. Pierce Company

Something for Sunday Morning

"All nature is good." St. Augustine

Brews You Can Use

Roll Me Away The weather has turned nice. That means one thing: cheap bowling. Bowling alleys slash prices dramatically to attract bowlers during the warm months. This Lebowski [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski]-like observation was triggered by a recent issue of New York magazine: Not Your

Fluid Thursday

Stream of Consciousness Thursday I'd forgotten about this short-lived feature. It garnered some boos and some laughs, and I like laughs, like that scene from Mary Poppins ("I love to laugh. Hahaha"), but that weightlessness stuff reminds me of astronauts, and I hear they have

The End of Volunteerism

In a Service Club, a Long Time Ago I belong to a service club that has a somewhat unique officer arrangement. If you "go through the chairs," you're committing to a five-year stint. Three of the years require you to be at every weekly meeting,

Tuesday Miscellany

Bubba Cometh While at my parents' on Mother's Day, my father told me to check out this article at The Economist [http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13528224] . It's about a new line of business: prison consulting. Or, "How to