So, cork’d is pretty cool. Nice to see Dan & Dan doing cool stuff together.
I’m not a real wine aficionado - my wine tastes aren’t very refined. I like it that way, though. I tend to enjoy $10-15 bottles as much as something that costs $70+. I figure that’s a good thing.
Anyway, I’m on there as JakoBlah (or you can search for “Sutton”), even though I don’t expect to use it very much.
I do wish something like this existed for beer. I’d have some fun with that. Unfortunately, as far as i know, there aren’t any good online beer merchants you could partner with for some commerce kickback (cork’d is hooked up with wine.com). Booze would be fun, too, though, and I know there are plenty of decent online liquor retailers…
A while back I read an article about Japanese single malt whiskey being the shit these days, so when I stumbled upon a bottle of Suntory Yamazaki 12 year-old single malt whiskey in a liquor store recently, I went ahead and plunked down the requested $35.
First a little interesting trivia: The Suntory brand is famous for using big name (mostly Western) celebs to shill for them — this is the inspiration for the fantastic Lost in Translation. You can find some of the old commercials at Japander if you have the patience. Good stuff…
Now back to the booze: It’s really friggin’ good! The Suntory site refers to a “smooth, honeyed taste”, which I think is the perfect description. I presonally like to describe it as sitting right on the line between good small batch bourbons and proper Scotch. At least one other reviewer liked it a lot, too.
Try it. You’ll like it!
[Slightly Related Side Note: I have yet to lay hands on a bottle of Jinro brand soju. 'Round these parts I have only tracked down Kyung Woul Green Soju, which is sweet potato-based and is completely awesome. It tastes like slightly sweet water. Yum. Still gotta get the Jinro, though...]
Mike sent me a note last night to let me know he’s got a recipe for tea-smoked game hen on the ballot at TeaChef.com — It’s a whiz-bang concoction and deserves everybody’s vote, so get on out there!
Mike also sent me this list of famous primates, which I am sure I’ve seen a couple times before but never seem to keep around.
Published in BiblioThingy,
Code Monkeying,
Curiosities,
Folx,
Food and Cookery,
Getting Fit,
Homebody,
Hooliganimals,
TechnoLust,
Televisio,
The Intarweb and
TuneStuff .
So, yeah… I’m still here. Here’s a little catch-up:
- My efforts at work on the superultramegaubercrazy-high priority project have come to a rather frustrating result so far thanks to interoperability problems between ColdFusion 5 and Oracle9. Every time we hit the Oracle9 database it causes the memory usage of the ColdFusion server to climb, with that memory never being released. This eventually causes the connection to the database to die with an S1001 Memory Allocation Error, which requires a ColdFusion restart to fix the problem (until the memory allocation builds back up again). Super-fucking-duper.
- The Big Blue Couches rock. While we are trying to keep the pets off them, it’s obviously futile. At least the puddles of Mingus hair come off the ultra-luscious blue microsuede without a problem. I’m just extra-pleased with the fact taht I can lie completely prostrate on the big sofa without touching either arm.
- The Wife and I have been to the hotbox yoga a total of three times so far. I am enjoying it quite a bit, though I think I may have overstretched my back the last time out. We hope to squeeze a couple more classes into our two week trial period.
- My motorcycle wrenching buddy Erik and his wife are inches away from having their baby boy. Very exciting times for them!
- I’ll be brining the second turkey of the month for Thanksgiving festivities starting tonight. If you haven’t brined a turkey or at least eaten the product of said process, I can’t even express how much you need to try it.
- I’m almost done with the Tales of the Otori trilogy. I highly recommend all three books.
- Now let’s turn the lens outward a bit:
And thus concludes today’s category smorgasbord.
Yum
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
Monks run out of the world’s best beer
Brings a tear to the eye, it does. Those Belgian monks make some fine brew.
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