Author: doug

I took a camera-phone shot of a fluorescent light in the basement (so I can investigate a replacement) and the photo came out striped. The tube is not actually rust-streaked.

Some minor tool buried deep within the Windows build of my current work project proclaims the message seen here when it succeeds. I suspect its view is somewhat provincial, but the message is still reassuring when I run across it in the log files. (The rainbow colors is what I get for using my macro lens to take a photo of a computer screen.)

Wrapping presents with a fire in the fireplace(*)

(*) courtesy of Chromecast

Food write Mark Bittman helped me botle my beer this evening.

Channel 5 was outside my building today, filming Chronicle segments on the city of Quincy. I was way too busy to go down and have a closer look than this, and besides I didn’t have the duck with me.,

Pasta bake with spinach & sweet potato (and 3.5 lbs of cheese).  It’s for my work’s holiday pot luck tomorrow, so I baked it in the slow cooker’s crock for ease of reheating.

My holiday beer — a Saison de Noel that I’ll call Candi Claus (for the Belgian candi sugar in the recipe) — was ready for transfer to the secondary fermenter today, so of course I had to have a taste. The strength is about where I wanted it (7.5%) though it may go up a little more. The flavor is already quite good, and should only improve from here. I am hoping for a quick secondary ferment, so I can bottle it in time to be ready for Christmas or at least New Years.

Waiting for the start of the Boston Pops Holiday Concert

Here’s a photo from 2010 to get (some of) you in the mood for ski season.

I started in on a new nutmeg for this evening’s eggnog.