Decided at 2:30 am that I needed a beer. I have a few 500 ml cans of John Smith’s Extra Smooth Bitter chilling in the fridge, bought because they’re especially cheap in ALDI this week. These cans have a widget in them meaning the brew has to be decanted into a drinking vessel. Being 500 ml cans, it needs to be a sizeable vessel.
I’d also bought a few cans of SapporoPremium at ALDI a few months back & taken the tops off with the can-opoener jigger on my trusty Swiss Army knife. This makes them into nice big drinking buckets of 650 ml capacity, ideal for the job.
The Sapporo itself is an inoffensive & boring tasting brew of 5% ABV, by the way. Drinkable but not exciting.
The John Smith's Bitter is just that, a very bitter medium strength (3.6% ABV) brew with heaps of malty flavours & oddly smooth, considering the maltiness & buitterness.
Just as the Sapporo is a great refresher in summer, the John Smith’s strikes me as well suited to cooler weather. I like it a lot.
@matigo Kevlar vests would reduce injuries from shooting incidents, they are USELESS against slow-moving sharp oblects like knives or spikes.
// @streakmachine
May be time to upgrade the old 2015 iPod Touch 6th gen. A new one has been released carrying the A10 Fusion SoC – as used in the current 6th gen 9.7-in iPad & iPhone 7. Available in 32 GB; 128 GB & 256 GB sizes with a price structure change.
For example, in Oz, the new 128 GB model is $30 more than the previous 64 GB variant. An extra $20 than the old 128 GB price buys the new 256 GB model.
@streakmachine Table salt is not just table salt, there’s also an anti-caking agent included.
// @matigo
Nice. I had the ext drive backing up via SuperDuper & it had made virtually no progress in 15 minutes. The same drive has been successfully cloned in 14 minutes with Carbon copy Cloner.
SuperDuper app was taking far too long to perform a regular clone of my iMac’s Fusion drive (156 GB in use out of 1.03 TB). Killed that process & changed the settings so it wouldn’t start backups as soon as the drive is detected.
Now backing up from the same source to the same destination using Carbon Copy Cloner, much more progress. The ext drive is an old USB 2·0 case although with a trio of dongles I could connect it via FW 800.
Instead, I have ordered a 3.5-in USB 3 drive enclosure from Amazon.
@streakmachine Generally, after about three of those, I don’t need to sneeze for about 5 days.
@whoisashygirl And I don’t care what Wikipedia says, they were definitely available before 1976.
@whoisashygirl Being several decades older, I remember buying proper old-fashioned WagonWheels, they were about 90 mm in diameter, chewy biscuits coated with rich chocolate & a jam & marshmallow filling. I can’t recall the price, though.