beer in the news

Wow, what a week for beer news. Turns out that beer builds your bones. Pale ales and lagers work best. It's the silicon in the beer that helps.

(photo from Bike Friendly Fort Worth)

What a dilemma. I don't like beer much, and I do have osteoporosis.

Then Thursday we had a foot of snow fall on roofs that weren't planned for that. Look what happened to the much-beloved only-game-in-town microbrewery in Fort Worth, Rahr Brewing.

There's video coverage of the damaged brewery on local NBC affiliate Channel 5's site.

Look at the photo credit. Just one of the many groups in town that Rahr has helped. They are friendly to so many groups, I am sure folks will rally to help this often-beleaguered family business.

cool site: art, malaysia, antiracism

...discovered while looking for guava info...



Watch their video collaboration. Inspiring and fun.

Their site http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/

40 years, Woodstock nostalgia

(image from a tutorial on how to use PhotoShop to alter colors)

That year, 1969, was my last summer in college, a couple months after I met my future husband. He joined a rock-and-roll band, and they had a house-band gig that summer in Fort Worth. I remember seeing a guy in the parking lot at my apartment complex in Austin shouting up at me, "Hey I'm going to Woodstock!" I wasn't; I was headed to Fort Worth.

We were 20, the perfect age for that Woodstock moment. Fairly innocent, still children, technically. Yes, boys and girls, the voting age was 21 then.

Both of us loved the 1930s era. The fashions, the cars, travel by ship, movies from then. He read Fitzgerald. I enjoyed Hemingway outside of class. That bygone era was so romantic.

Who could imagine feeling that way about our era? Not us at the time. And now it's happened.

So here's a link to a cheesy icon of the era. Tie-dye. A cheesy how-to video that's not really tie-dying.

I never wore tie-dye t-shirts back then. Too cheesy. I wear one now for nostalgia, because my son made it at Yearly Meeting 15 years ago.

Lord have mercy! Amazon has a 3-tape set of VHS videos, "Learn How to Tie Dye". At least it's not done by Martha.

Here's a how-to video a girl put up online, 17 minutes. Hope it's good. I'll see it next week when it finishes downloading on dial-up. Waiting for a part for my DSL. Being patient, like Job.

people are strange

Forty-plus years after the Doors did that tune, we have Comic-Con in San Diego to show us that people are indeed still strange.

Here's a gallery of 75 pix from the convention, posted on a TechRepublic blog to entertain their geek readership. Yes, that includes me. The headline:

Comic-Con 2009 photos: Iron Man 2, Zombieland, and geeks in costumes

You know how they ask starlets on the red carpet, "Who are you wearing?"
Well at Comic-Con it should be, "Who are you being?"

My favorite pix (these are not people looking strange):
Cartman done in Legos
(GameSpot photo)

Director Jon Favreau wearing a cool NaCo t-shirt. Chido.
(MovieTome photo)

His shirt says Estar Guars,
spanglish for Star Wars,
in the movie's logotype.

These are people looking strange.

They say the top pic is someone being a character from Bioshock 2.

all dead

Reading the Bernie Madoff story on yahoo just now. Also watched the ABC video of folks who "lost" their never-gotten gains. For Madoff, the cash he kept would be considered ill-gotten gains?

The other folks are suffering because their greed didn't work out right. Madoff will suffer in the fed pen for his greed.

Then I did a little Madoff math to entertain myself. I love a puzzle like that--there's no way that everybody lost everything. Anybody that cashed out before the end did just fine. Madoff lived the high life. But there's nothing he could have bought to account for the money he took in.

$171,000,000,000

being all gone now. Some of that $171 billion must be laying around liquid somewhere.

...but that's not what this post is about.

So I scrolled back up, and noticed the top yahoo searches right now:

billy mays .. michael jackson .. neverland ranch .. gale storm

They're all dead. Even the ranch. Bernie might as well be; he'll die in prison.

Rest in peace, y'all.

And the rest of you all should get a little bit of life while you can. Look up something that's still alive. Do something.