Wine blogs

Because the BlogShares thing has become rather fun of late (now that I suddenly made $100K over the last 24 hours!) I started looking for wine blogs too. There’s not very many of them, but some of them are *really* good.

Here’s a few:

TiZWine Daily Tipple
Meg’s Food and Wine Page
Dandelion Wine (not actually about wine, but the title of one of my favorite books, so worth mentioning
Alien Wine Connoisseur (also seems not to be actually wine-related)
Wine Blog
New wine for new wineskins (OK, not wine-related at all)
A pure haze of wine and cocaine (huh?)
Ken’s Wine Blog
Wine, Women, and Song
Wine Trends

And, finally, as I mentioned before, Alec Saunders appears to make occasional wine-based posts.

So, having done all that, perhaps I should actually add the wine-based ones to some kind of blogroll so that I can actually read them occasionally.

Somehow, I feel like I’m avoiding work …

Taking the Lamborghini for a spin

This evening I had a Lamborghini with dinner. A Lamborghini 2000 “Trescone” Umbria Rosso ($12.99).

WineLoversPage.com describes it better than I could. I had it with warmed-over pizza that was too hot, and which burned the roof of my mouth, so, to me, it tasted like a full-bodied, earthy red, but I didn’t get all the nuances which those notes suggest. Roquefort cheese in a barnyard? Sheesh

MT software license

So it turns out that, as people have been telling me, the MT software license is in fact pretty not-open. Among other things, it says

You may not redistribute the Software without Licensor’s prior
written consent. Although you may modify or create derivative copies
of the Software for your own use, you may not distribute modified or
derivative copies of the Software.

I suppose that’s pretty normal for software, but does not mesh with the way that I view the world, and, I suppose, it’s pretty clear that I’ve already violated it, having distributed modified versions of various parts of the software. So I suppose I’ll have to find some other package to migrate to. I’m leaning towards Ken Coar’s software, if he lets me use it. I expect he’ll have a somewhat more open license,

Piglet?

Mr Hibbity Gibbity thinks that Piglet is gay. My daughter, on the other hand, seems to think that Piglet is a girl, and I suppose that there is very little evidence to the contrary, except for the whole moving in with Pooh thing, which would thus be rendered somewhat inappropriate for a kids story.

“Doesn’t work”

In Here, let me get you a dog whistle, Bishop observes that all that IS people really do is sit around waiting for interesting computer problems to solve. 😉

We had a charming character on #apache yesterday who presented us with a vague “it doesn’t work” scenario, and then got offended when RoUS asked him for more information about the problem, and furthermore had the audacity to claim that RoUS didn’t know much, and was unwilling to help. Some days, it’s hard to be civil, and it’s real hard to be nice.

Hughes Auditorium steps

For reasons I was not quite able to understand, a recent graduating class of my alma mater gave new steps for Hughes Auditorium as their class gift. Yesterday, I was rather startled to observe that the steps were GONE. So, apparently, when they said new steps, they meant entirely new steps, not just a repair job.

I was also interested to note that there was a large amount of open space that has been hiding behind the steps for the last 100 years or so. I wonder what kind of delightful critters have been holed up in there.

Training again

A new training class started yesterday. And although I only have one student, it’s good to be teaching again.

To complicate things further, I seem to have lost my vga extension cables, which I use to connect my laptop to the projector. So I’m actually sitting next to the student and doing a sort of one-on-one tutoring. This seems to be working out pretty well, except that the student is somewhat too knowledgeable, so the material is going rather faster than scheduled. I hate it when the student is too smart! 😉

We have another class scheduled for next month, and it seems that it will actually have more than one attendee. This is an enormous stroke of good fortune, but it looks like I’ll still have to plan to make an exit after June. Most of the new training opportunities involve travelling hither and yon around the country, and around the world, and I’m just not ready to take on the life of a travelling minstrel.

Mental note: Avoid the frozen land of Nador.

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