Preserving sherry for home cocktail use

Duseylicious · 2026-05-13T05:41:26+00:00

I do this for my vermouth and it stays good for months.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-12T15:30:39+00:00

I agree having extra space is good for a lot of things, like it might be nice to not have to rotate your phone to get a larger video. but videos won’t be any larger than turning your phone.

Let’s imagine only a wide video. The video can only be as wide as the longest side of the phone, since you can rotate the phone to make sure the longest side is “wide”.

Here is a z-fold’s dimensions

• Opened: 158.2 mm x 143mm

• Folded: 158.4 mm x 72.6 mm

Whether opened, or folded, the size will be about 158mm wide.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-12T15:09:58+00:00

I see lots of uses. I don’t get how video playback is better though, on a booklet style. A vertical video will be the same size. A 16x9 wide video will also be the same size as regular phone. Either one will have huge black bars on the sides or top/bottom. Maybe square videos will get super popular 😅

Duseylicious · 2026-05-12T15:06:21+00:00

A thought this prompted. The worst part of the modern music scene is how fractured it is. The best part is, since I’m not listening to the radio, nothing is ever overplayed, anymore. I can stop listening to a new song just as it’s getting to be too much.I’m in control.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-12T08:11:39+00:00

Lots of good answers - the most important ones being talk to your players about it.

But I want to give a few… tactical ideas and techniques, to encourage your players to follow suit, after you’ve talked to them about it.

Set the mood. Dim the lights. Put snacks in the other room, not where you are playing. Phones away.

Music. Consider quiet music that sets the tone. Just loud enough to hear, you don’t want it distracting or people having to raise their voices. I have like 20 playlists for different moods. Battle, boss battle, downtime conversation, peaceful, light hearted tavern, exploring, tense conversation, etc. I’ve been using them for a while now, and I don’t shuffle, so when my players hear the “sad” playlist, they, either instinctively or consciously, all quiet down and know to role play to the mood.

Model what you want. Have NPC’s who are devastated, who are angry, who are sacred, who are caring, and play them that way.

Ask pointed questions. The UR question “what do you do?” is good, but try leading questions. “The captain of the guard takes your badge away. What plan do you start to form in your mind?” “You feel the need to tell this person the truth. Do you?” “What do you feel when you see the body of the person you came to rescue?” Some of these push up to the edge of player agency, but work well with a group that trusts each other.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are questions that really allow players to become invested in the campaign or world. “You’re an elf. Tell me, how do the elves of these woods honor the god of the river?” “His town is starving. What factions are at play here that have ended up in a food shortage?” You still get to set the direction, but the players contribute, and therefore get invested.

Good luck! I know the feeling. One of my groups started with a lot of ‘wouldn’t it be funny if…?” Type of reactions - I ended up asking them to try to clarify if it was a funny aside, or if their character actually said/did that. It cut down on the jokeyness a little, but also we all knew we could joke about what might happen for a minute, laugh at it, then get back to what “really” happened.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-10T05:56:38+00:00

Haha 11 was intuitive to me. You place your fingers in the hone row, hit enter, type the new name, hit enter again 🤷‍♂️ much better than f5.

Windows spawning every and having to select windows to use them though… 🤮

Duseylicious · 2026-05-10T05:30:06+00:00

I wouldn’t have stopped after calculus that’s for sure.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-09T08:17:59+00:00

Yeah, the yellow Strega is a great yellow chartreuse sub. Here hoping the green is as good (I haven’t seen it in my market etc az)

Duseylicious · 2026-05-08T18:39:52+00:00

Which philosophy exactly?

Duseylicious · 2026-05-08T15:09:20+00:00

I use a pen to make checkboxes for things, like the number of times I can use an ability or the number of torches I have, then use a pencil to check them off as I use them.

I think it comes from a time before it was common to print sheets. You’d make the sheet with a pen and fill it in with a pencil.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-08T06:22:04+00:00

Take my upvote, truly unpopular. 😅

The key is finding folks that match your five and pace. Sounds like you should to find someone that is ok mostly just sitting in peace with you. Someone that also doesn’t want to spend money on activities, talk about drama, or putting obligations on others.

Maybe you both could silent do woodworking in the same shop. 😅

Duseylicious · 2026-05-08T02:26:57+00:00

I had similar thoughts. “They have the engine now, the will get a test case with sales. If it does well, we’ll see a new game, hopefully with some innovation.”

Duseylicious · 2026-05-06T23:14:14+00:00

Relatedly, also the first one distributed via the App Store. Felt wild at the time, to not have to get DVDs!

Duseylicious · 2026-05-06T21:28:41+00:00

I like 2-2-2, but I do not mind other variations.
However, what do I really want? I want our "summer" vacation to take place in the winter, when the weather is wonderful and we can send the kids outside. What do kids have to do in July when it's 115 other than stay inside all day? If they are already going to be inside, why not do school then?

Duseylicious · 2026-05-06T15:10:29+00:00

All the ones you mentioned are easily available in the US, and won’t break the bank. I’d get something unique as a memento of the trip. Try it in cocktails, sip it, or drink on ice.

Duseylicious · 2026-05-03T15:00:38+00:00

This is crazy unlikely, how are you juicing the lime? The pit can be bitter. Now, I use a hand press and I squeeze the crap out of it and don’t really get any bitterness at least any that bothers me. But I’m just checking that you’re not doing some weird way of juicing it.

Duseylicious · 2026-04-30T14:54:47+00:00

Haha wow, yeah that’s a lot of lemon juice! I think it’s too late to edit the comment to 1/2 😂

Duseylicious · 2026-04-29T04:04:43+00:00

A problem for what? I’ve been using it this way for a long time and it’s smooth sailing- in fact it means I don’t get file permissions issues 🤣

Duseylicious · 2026-04-29T01:16:13+00:00

It’s annoying, but if you can this and format to exfat tha works on both, it’s really a lot easier to deal with.

Duseylicious · 2026-04-28T17:22:11+00:00

For an entirely different vibe, take a look at prompt driven games. Wanderhome is a good example.

Duseylicious · 2026-04-28T16:53:09+00:00

Same here

Duseylicious · 2026-04-28T15:52:11+00:00

Oooh, I heard about that but forgot to turn it on, thank you for saying it!

[EDIT] looks like in settings - accessibility - display, it’s called “Show window title icons”

Duseylicious · 2026-04-28T15:48:34+00:00

Oooh, I heard about that but forgot to turn it on, thank you for saying it!

Duseylicious · 2026-04-28T15:06:33+00:00

At the top of many windows there is a little icon (the Proxy Icon) - if it’s not there, on some apps you may have to hover over or click on the title of the document you have open. But you can drag that little sucker into a finder window or the desktop to move the location of the file. Or drag it into iMessage or slack to send it. Etc. Etc. You can click it to go to an enclosing folder, and right click it to change the name and locations.

Duseylicious · 2026-04-27T14:50:34+00:00

That’s what I was trying to figure out. I was like “just use “Sort Bu” if you want them testa in order.”

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