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real life tweet #4
by blackgoldfish
we can learn a lot from his films. a quick list:
1. life and people are impermanent.
2. slow down.
3. look people in the eye.
4. drink tea.
5. be kind.
6. simple things hold the secret.
tuesday intentions
by blackgoldfish
what are your intentions for the day?
here are mine:
* today i will get 45 minutes of exercise.
* today i will clean our condo in preparation for our lovely house guest arriving on thursday.
* today i will have a relaxing and fun trip to the hair salon, which will result in a gorgeous new hairdo (hee hee)
* today i will not gossip, complain, or make excuses.
* today i will drink oodles of water.
* today i will remind simon that i think he's really hunky. like, the hunkiest.
now it's your turn!
August 2009
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May 2009
March 2009
Flash - Incredibly realistic coffee smoke effect
by Spone
I drink good coffee every morning. Today, coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide, so I have decided to make and show you how to create incredibly realistic coffee smoke effect. Using this very advanced and realistic effect, you will see how to draw smoke shape, how to animate it, how to convert it into a Movie Clip Symbol, how to apply alpha effect on it and much more. You don't have to use action script code to make this lesson. Let's go!
February 2009
Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide
by sbrothier
I like to drink. I like to watch movies. I like to watch movies about drinking. I like to write about the movies I’ve watched, but only if I’ve had a drink first.
January 2009
Ajaxian » “I won’t support IE 6 in 2009″
by srcmax
& 1 other
(via)
At a New Years Eve party, a friend help up a drink and toasted to his company deciding to discontinue direct support of IE 6 in 2009, and letting users know that the site may work better with IE 7 or another latest browser.
December 2008
Mixed Drink Cocktail Photos : un album sur Flickr
by sbrothier
100 most popular mixed drink cocktails from American Bartending School
Drink Booklet 004 sur Flickr : partage de photos !
by sbrothier
Smart Combo of whiskey whetters
Tall... Cool... Terrific...
Happy Hour Mixology : un album sur Flickr
by sbrothier
44 drink recipes plus a primer of happy hour astrology.
nonist category page :: Vin Mariani
by sbrothier
"never has anything been so highly or justly praised.”
A good 20 years before the original cocaine-infused Coca-Cola taught the world to grind its teeth and give ineffectual bathroom-stall handjobs in per•fect har•mo•ny, there was another drink of choice among those wishing to feel invigorated and overconfident for no good reason. It was called “coca wine” and it was loved not only by self-important blowhards wearing too much jewelry but by Kings and Popes and… oh, right. Anyhow, it was called Vin Tonique Mariani (or simply Vin Mariani) was sold as a curative, and in the latter half of the 19th century it was a medicinal, recreational, and marketing powerhouse. To paraphrase J.J. Cale “Czars don’t lie, Popes don’t lie, Queens don’t lie...”
November 2008
Talking Mixology With Dale DeGroff | alcohol, cocktails, dale degroff | yumsugar - Food, Drink, & Entertaining.
by sbrothier
(via)
Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Dale DeGroff. If you've never heard of DeGroff, you'll be surprised to know that he has changed your life. Remember that basil gimlet you enjoyed at the bar last week? You can thank Dale for that. Or what about that perfectly poured martini? Dale's responsible for that, too. Known to food insiders as the King of Cocktails, Dale DeGroff is single-handedly responsible for the renaissance of classic cocktails. Back in 1980s New York, at a time when the majority of bars served drinks made from overly-sweet mixes, Dale was mixing drinks with fresh, seasonal, local ingredients and creating cocktails based on preprohibition recipes. To find out what the master has to say about cocktail trends and to see who he thinks is the best bartender in America today, read more.
Lorenzo Trenti anima con tre scenari diversi il suo Aperitivo con delitto
by ebyweb
(via)
'Aperitivo con delitto' di Lorenzo Trenti vi propone semplici istruzioni per l'uso e tre scenari già pronti, per animare altrettante serate con un gioco divertente e stuzzicante per tutti.
Primo scenario, Bologna Blues: la morte di un professore di storia, punteggiata dalle note di un tragico blues, svela una Bologna sconosciuta. Può la storia antica e recente del capoluogo emiliano essere la chiave per la soluzione di questo delitto?
Secondo scenario, Bloody Mary: chi aveva interesse a uccidere il rampollo di una delle famiglie più ricche di Roma, proprio mentre brindava col suo drink preferito? Questioni di denaro, amore, vendetta… o altro?
Terzo scenario, Il cerchio delle bande nere: un circolo di duelli clandestini a Lucca, uomini e donne disposti a tutto pur di riportare l’onore rinascimentale nel mondo… ma chi ha ucciso il presidente della congrega?
October 2008
Internet Explorer 6 debugging techniques you won't learn in school
by marco
(via)
Forget about the problem, drink beer, a lot of it
Econoclaste - Histoire de rire
by marco
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.
September 2008
15 (other) Uses for Vodka - Drink of the Week
by sbrothier
These are real uses for Vodka in Russia. I originally posted this last year after a friend sent it to me. Some how I managed to delete it while updating the photo. Never drink and code, I guess.
So back by popular demand…
The Suffering Bastard -- The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess -- Small Screen Network
by sbrothier
The original name for this drink was apparently the Suffering Bar Steward, but as one might expect in a noisy bar after a few drinks, the name gets a little mangled. There are several recipes for this floating about. For mine I turned to one of my favorite sources, Beachbum Berrry's Grog Log, by Jeff Berry.
Absinthe at the Virtual Absinthe Museum
by sbrothier
& 1 other
(via)
Absinthe...the Green Fairy...La Fée Verte....no other drink has the same romantic history - the French
Impressionists....Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, Van Gogh....Paris in the Belle Epoque....the cafes of
Montmartre....the muse of writers from Verlaine and Rimbaud to Joyce and Hemingway. Of course, there's a
darker side to absinthe as well - no other drink has ever roused the same degree of passionate condemnation,
and no other drink has ever been banned outright in the way absinthe was in the years leading up to 1915.
Vin Mariani
by minigoer
(via)
A good 20 years before the original cocaine-infused Coca-Cola taught the world to grind its teeth and give ineffectual bathroom-stall handjobs in per•fect har•mo•ny, there was another drink of choice among those wishing to feel invigorated and overconfident for no good reason.
The Liquor Cabinet
by sbrothier
When I first started getting into setting up my home bar, I remember looking through various cocktail recipe books and trying to figure out what ingredients I needed in order to be able to produce many of the cocktails it listed. What an eye-opener. It would have cost a small fortune. So instead what I did was to focus on a different cocktail every week or so, and just pick up the couple of ingredients that I needed for that one drink. To make this even less painfull, I purposely started out choosing drinks that used few ingredients, as well as ones that leveraged ingredients that I already had.
Coudal Partners : Friday Drink Links
by sbrothier
fresh signals categorical archives Friday Drink Links
Project facade
by karlcow
The First World War was a war dominated by high explosives and heavy artillery. Battlefield casualties included an unprecedented number with horrific facial injuries - injuries so severe the men were commonly unrecognizable to loved ones and friends. Often unable to see, hear, speak eat or drink, they struggled to re-assimilate back into civilian life. This secondary tragedy - the living unable to "live" - catalyzed Surgeon Sir Harold Gillies to transform the fledgling discipline of plastic surgery based on his unrivalled observation of the profoundly wounded and his ability to push the parameters of the profession beyond all known techniques.
