That I've given up on this journal should be by now obvious.  If you're someone interested in keeping up with me you have three options.

1)  My blog.  It's mostly politics, posted infrequently:  excessivefarce.blogspot.com
2)  Facebook.  If you have my email address you can find me there.  If you don't have my email address, well, I probably don't ( Read more... )

 There might be like two or three folks who read this but don't follow me on Facebook.  So if that's the case here is the news: I'm leaving Washington State.  Moving back to NJ and starting college.  Departure date of 11/2.  

In case you're wondering, I've pretty much migrated all my social networking over to facebook.  I don't really pay attention to this thing any more.

If you've got my email address feel free to look me up there.

If you're from the roleplayers community - yes I know I need to find a new moderator.  Working on it!

The list so far, of books I've read this year ( Read more... )

Irving Kristol died this weekend.  Along with William Buckley, he was one of the intellectual founders of modern conservatism.  And like Buckley, he stood for a lot more than the kind of howling fantod crap that we see coming from the modern conservative movement today.

Here Bruce Bartlett (one of the sane conservatives) eulogizes him.  It's worth a ( Read more... )

I finished Infinite Jest.  The best fiction I've read in maybe my whole life. 
( The List So Far )

I wrote some good (at least I think so) posts on another forum about why I don't think a public option should be a mandatory feature of a healthcare reform bill.  I figured some people who read my journal might be interested in them, so here they are!

Post The First (in which Jeff sells out on the public option)

A lot of people are missing the forest ( Read more... )

Kindle enables my book-buying habit rather obnoxiously.  I've bought a few books for it - Grant by Jean Edward Smith, A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, Brew Like a Monk, and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.  It's that last book that I just recently finished.

Overall the book was rather enh.  It's mostly a polemical, an ( Read more... )

Here's my brewing schedule for the rest of the year:

9/7/09:  Brown porter.  My second porter, first from all grain.  This is the first beer I'll be making with my new boil kettle, a 15-gallon Blichmann Boilermaker.  These are Ferrari-level brewing kettles:  temperature gauges, steel-clad sight-gauges, and a ball valve whose action is enough to make ( Read more... )

I'm trying my hand at homemade dogfood for Turner.  I figure I'm an OK cook; he should share in the largesse.  Plus most commercial dogfood is basically garbage - stuff that's not fit for human consumption.  Meat from dead cows, rotten grain, that sort of thing.  Gross!

For today's batch, I mixed up some ground beef (cooked), steamed carrots and ( Read more... )