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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use III

Also via A Good Beer Blog: Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their Bottled Brands [http://www.essential-reference.com/]. AGBB gives it a good review [http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/may/bookreviewthe1]. Excerpt: > For the beer geek like me, the DBBB can be used in one or two

Brews You Can Use II

I'd never heard of a beer festival. I've emailed my town's mayor, suggesting we have one . . . soon. We're not Montreal [http://www.festivalmondialbiere.qc.ca/] , whose hosting one as I post, but the idea is unique and could be a good shot

Brews You Can Use

White wine in King Tut's tomb [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-05-29-tut-white-wine_x.htm?csp=15] . Egyptians thought wine was necessary for the after-life, so they provided it on this side. Up until this discovery, though, all such wine remnants were red.

More 666 Anticipation

> All across Norway precautions are being mounted to prevent churches being torched on June 6, 2006 [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1336139.ece]. My hunch: The "Satanic" day will pass without incident. A few subpars will get married on that day and spawn a few Damiens,

The Woods

Thomas Woods has a new website [http://www.thomasewoods.com/]. Woods is the author who, in a moment of weakness (smile), endorsed this blog awhile back.

Looking for Blogs

My endeavor to find new blogs has assumed hobby proportions. I'm a little ashamed of it, but I guess it's like any such hobby: it produces dopamine [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1148/], which produces some sort of mild (questionable) addiction. Oh well. In a life with seven

I'll Take a Drumstick and Vermouth

From my backyard [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ICE_CREAM_DUI?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-05-31-22-58-04] : > GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) -- Police say they found a nearly empty pint bottle of vodka between the front seats of an ice cream truck after

The Not-So Good Shepherd

> A Croatian shepherd is hoping for a place in the Guinness Book of Records after he lost 230 animals in a freak storm. Milan Prpic has written to Guinness asking if he can be included for having the most sheep killed by a single lightning strike [http://www.ananova.

Throw Back to 1800s

Two women are accused of taking out life insurance policies on homeless men, then killing them. LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-olgahelen31may31,0,5138323.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-california] Link. This was an old scam, reaching back to at least the nineteenth century, if not earlier.

I See a Bunch of Melons

Face-blindness. I'd never heard of it, except in connection with the old racial joke, "We all look alike to you, anyway." Interesting stuff: > Severe prosopagnosics may mistake complete strangers for acquaintances even as they fail to recognize family members, close friends, spouses, and even themselves.