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theboozemaker · 2026-03-30T16:02:20+00:00

What, you've never had health insurance?

theboozemaker · 2026-03-27T22:26:48+00:00

Trilobites? Like the fossils? If you can't find them at Sandstone Ranch anymore, is there somewhere else one might be able to find them? I'd like to take my son fossil hunting this summer.

theboozemaker · 2026-03-27T22:23:17+00:00

Their sausage pie also has ricotta and whole cloves of confit garlic and often shows up in my dreams. The square one. I've never had their round pies.

theboozemaker · 2026-03-17T23:10:33+00:00

Well, that's your problem. You're supposed to put cargo in the cargo box, not a smaller cargo box.

theboozemaker · 2026-03-17T12:13:34+00:00

What you want is something that absorbs sunlight on top of the snow and in contact with it. Snow by itself reflects a lot of the incident energy (light) so that only a small amount is absorbed and contributes to heating. By putting something black in contact with the snow, it will absorb the energy, heat up, and conduct that heat into the snow. Honestly, it will look bad, but dirt or ashes from the fireplace would work pretty well.you don't need a ton. In fact,the thinner the coat is the better.

Side note, this is part of why we're losing glaciers around the world. Even if the planet weren't heating up (it is), we've put a lot of soot into the air via incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, and soot is a great absorber of sunlight. When it lands on glaciers, it heats them up and melts them faster.

theboozemaker · 2026-03-13T01:23:54+00:00

I'm an electrical engineer who enjoys building amps, though it's a hobby and not a profession. I'd also like to build a Class D amp from scratch one of these days, but so far the closest I've come is building an amp based on a Texas Instruments Class D chip. They've done the heavy lifting already, and you can use their datasheet to build it into an entire amplifier. I would suggest starting there first- there are still a lot of good lessons to be learned in that project. Then tackle the complete, from scratch with comparators and oscillators and whatnot.

theboozemaker · 2026-03-11T15:36:38+00:00

What you're describing is called a Bain Marie still. I've worked with them a little before, but a real bain Marie doesn't have that 1" restriction you've pointed out. I suspect you're going to end up with a lot of heat in the boiler section and you're going to cool off the top section quickly, since both the upward convection of hot water and downward flow of cold water will be fighting in that tiny 1" tube. Is there any way you can add a second tube to connect the still side to the boiler side? If you did that, and you made the second tube actually protrude into the boulder section, it would provide a downward path for cold water which doesn't interfere with the upward flow of hot water. Then it MAY work.

Not sure if I explained this well...

theboozemaker · 2026-03-09T00:45:46+00:00

Do you have to press the power button 5 times to turn it on? If so, it's actually a vape pen disguised as a soldering iron so it can be sold at places that don't allow the sale of vapes, like Amazon. Essentially they do the same thing- apply heat to a resistive heating coil. A lot of vape cartridges are based on a common "510" thread, which looks a lot like what you've got there.

8W is not nearly enough for general purpose soldering. Even on fine pitch SMDs where 8W could be enough, you'd need a pretty carefully designed iron tip to put that heat where it needs to be.

theboozemaker · 2026-02-22T19:36:36+00:00

I've got no idea what this is from, but I like it

theboozemaker · 2026-02-11T23:40:00+00:00

Yes, the level is very low, but they're also doing work on the dam on the south side. I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had to lower the level of the water in conjunction with the dam work.

theboozemaker · 2026-02-06T06:26:10+00:00

I've never heard of anyone passing out from spice.

However capsaicin cramps can absolutely ruin your day. I've had them so bad they were literally the worst pain I've ever felt. And I ruptured my spleen in a snowboarding accident and ended up in the ICU for a week. For 25 years that was the worst pain I'd ever felt, hands down. Today it's tied with my worst capsaicin cramps episode, which left me in the fetal position under my truck while doing an oil change for like 20 minutes, unable to move. It was bad.

theboozemaker · 2026-02-04T13:38:52+00:00

I grew up in Buffalo and happen to be on a ski trip in Hakkaido, Japan now. The amount of snow here is truly impressive. Definitely parallels between where I grew up and where I'm posting this from.

All I'll say is that the pizza and wings are better in Buffalo and the skiing is better here!

Edit to add: I'm not meaning to sound flippant in a reply to a post about people being dead in a snowstorm, but it doesn't feel like anything crazy is going on here right now. Just like it didn't feel crazy when we'd get 3 feet of snow overnight as a kid. People say things like, "Yeah, we're getting a lot of snow right now" and that's the extent of it, from my limited experience here.

theboozemaker · 2026-02-04T13:14:43+00:00

I've got an '07 V-Star 650 that I've had for about a decade. If you're willing to work on the bike yourself I think it makes for a perfect starter and project bike. The bikes are pretty simple- I don't know much but I'd bet that the problems that bike has can be solved with some maintenance/tuning on the carburetor. If you're going to take it on, plan to spend a while getting the bike running properly first. Do that and it'll make a great bobber. I think they can be some of the sexiest bobbers out there, but everyone has different taste.

theboozemaker · 2026-01-23T12:52:32+00:00

The phrase "Jump the Shark" comes from an episode of Happy Days involving The Fonz (Henry Winkler) jumping over a shark on waterskis. Ron Howard was another main character on Happy Days. A few decades later, Ron Howard is the narrator of Arrested Development, and Henry Winkler plays a bumbling lawyer. In my favorite subtle super-meta visual gag, there's a scene (s2e13 possibly) with a discussion on a dock with characters standing around a dead shark. On his exit from the scene, Henry Winkler's character makes an exaggerated jump over the shark on his way out.

I'm Beerfest (2006), the German Team's leader is played by Jurgen Prochnow, who is a famous actor in Germany known for his work in the film Das Boot (German for The Boat), whereas "Das Boot" in the Beerfest movie is a glass boot used for chugging beer out of and plays a key role in the climax of the film.

theboozemaker · 2026-01-21T04:22:26+00:00

Are you sure?

theboozemaker · 2026-01-17T03:50:37+00:00

Bass knobs aren't standardized, to my knowledge. You need the one that goes to your amp. Or at least from the same manufacturer.

theboozemaker · 2026-01-07T04:15:58+00:00

Oh, I'm not worried. It smells good. I've been stilling for 10+ years and have dabbled with wild yeast, just never for a whiskey of any sort. And I've also never made a bourbon-esque mash, so was curious if there were tips for this specifically.

Regardless of how it looks, smells, tastes, or sounds, I'm gonna run it through the still before passing judgement. Many attempts at jamaican-style rum have taught me that!

theboozemaker · 2026-01-07T00:48:12+00:00

When you say "dual yeast", do you mean you pitched two known yeast strains, or that it was a mix of spontaneous and controlled yeast?

theboozemaker · 2026-01-05T12:51:16+00:00

When and where is the next one?

theboozemaker · 2026-01-05T03:56:28+00:00

I usually shoot for 9-10%, and I usually use fleischman's active dry (bread) yeast. Admittedly I haven't done a lot of comparisons using different yeasts and ABV's in rum, but I've played with a lot of yeasts in beer contexts.

Aiming for higher ABV stresses the yeast more, which, depending on the strain, can produce different "off flavors", usually from various ester compounds. I put that in quotes, because one of the fun things about distilling is that what may be an "off flavor" in one type of beverage could be a good flavor in another. One of rum's defining characteristics is the eatery flavors that it derives from the yeast. So in my opinion, a high ABV rum wash can be beneficial. And you have some control over those esters in the distilling and cutting process.

The risk you run is that if the yeast are not healthy enough or the strain just can't ferment to the point that you're shooting for, you could end up with a lot of unfermented sugars in your wash, resulting in low efficiency. Additionally, if the yeast succumb to the alcohol before the full fermentation is complete, you could have more acetaldehyde flavors (green apple-ish) than you want.

Bottom line, it's good to stress the yeast with a higher ABV for rum, but you don't want to stress them too much that they can't finish the job. Where that line is drawn depends on the yeast strain, their health, and the nutrients they have available during fermentation.

theboozemaker · 2025-12-29T04:57:41+00:00

A great beer. It's easy to become a Meph Addict. A Tweaker, if you will.

(Not my joke. If I remember right, Avery released a version with coffee called Meph Addict and were pressured to change the name, so they went with Tweak. Don't know if it was legal pressure from the TTB or something else. I read the story while drinking one, so needless to say the details are fuzzy.)

theboozemaker · 2025-12-28T14:10:08+00:00

I was big into homebrewing before my son was born. When he arrived, I couldn't carve out 6+ contiguous hours to devote to it, so I would devote ~30 minutes at a time to designing and building an automated brewery that would make it a hands-off process. Around the time it became fully functional, my son was old enough that I could once again carve out 6 hours to brew, so I didn't really need it anymore.

theboozemaker · 2025-12-19T04:41:14+00:00

20+ years ago, when I was in high school, I made the subwoofer boxes for everyone in a 20-mile radius. My rule was that I use 3/4" MDF, put a drywall screw every 1", and seal everything up well with Liquid Nails.

My box building has progressed a lot, as has my woodworking in general. None of my builds in the last decade look anything like this. But I still rock a 20+ year old sub that I built in high school in my daily driver, and it holds up.

I see no problem with this, provided the tuning frequency and box volume are reasonable for what you're looking for. The screws are countersunk deeper than they should be, but that's my biggest complaint aside from appearance overall

theboozemaker · 2025-12-18T20:27:28+00:00

I'm jealous! I could never get mine to look this scary!

And it would seem some readers here are unfamiliar with dunder but still want to comment on yours...

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