The little Inn by the wayside

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:21

What the hell does IPAs mean???

Post by **Zyx** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:28

Pater Alf wrote:What the hell does IPAs mean???

Indian Pale Ale. A kind of beer. Lighter colour and more acid-y taste than say lager.

Also available at 41%.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:39

Never drank one.

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 13:05

You should try it just to see if you like it. I have a friend that LOVES them, so it is all about tastebuds...

BTW: Tanja was at her midwife (birth-helper doctor-thing...?) yesterday and was told that there is an increased risk that she will be told to lie down for the last month of the pregnancy to avoid premature labor (spelling?). That means that I might get a bit more busy at home in that period of time - which I actually thought was pretty impossible as I am extremely busy at the moment already... However that is not always a bad thing for my connection to CWF, as when I am the most busy, my best stress-relief is to visit CWF and play some games, so you might actually see me more.

ATM I am doing some work for my webdesign, doing a lot of work for my blog, and using some more time on CWF, so I feel good about having time for myself. When Winter-een-mas hits next week I am planning to ask Tanja if she minds spending an evening/saturday with her sister or something so I get time to myself with the house to myself. Sometimes I think when I write this that it sounds like I dont like spending time with my wife... I love spending time with her, but I told her when we met that I need time to myself from time to time, and she really gets that, so se knows that giving me this time means the quality of the time we actually spend togther will be much better.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 19:06

I dont believe I can get this IPA in Cracow. It's the first time Ive ever read about it, never heard about it from friends and I believe that if somebody drank it in pub or bought it the name would surface. Will investigate it.

Post by **Zyx** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 19:46

eMTe wrote:I dont believe I can get this IPA in Cracow. It's the first time Ive ever read about it, never heard about it from friends and I believe that if somebody drank it in pub or bought it the name would surface. Will investigate it.

I think it's mostly a British and American thing. I drank quite a lot of pale ales on my trip to the US a while back. There are not that many available in bars here, I think it's mostly Brooklyn East India Pale Ale that I see in bars. I'd guess wheat beers are quite close, except of course the malt is completely different and wheat beers usually have much more fruity taste.

I will definitely report back here if/when I get my hands on a Sink the Bismarck.

Pager · Post by **Pager** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:13

We have a lot of IPA's here...of note, if you ever get your hands on an Alexander Keith's IPA, you should go for it.
I share a birthday with the man, he may be long dead, but I tend to get a lot of Alexander Keith's swag for my birthday when I go out...

But seriously, I wonder what kind of duty I would have to pay if I shipped everyone a bottle...

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:55

Hmmm. Are you thinking if it's worth it?

I got a tip on a beer monday, and today I am going down to buy it. Its a dark beer called Black Magic Woman, and the guy told me that this was THE dark beer to end all dark beers. So obviously I have to try it.

Drasir-Vel · Post by **Drasir-Vel** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:26

One dark beer to rule them all, one dark beer to find them,
One dark beer to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 15:03

Some people really have a spleen. Yesterday I went to a concert of Ian Fisher, a songwriter from New York. After that I bought two CDs and heard a woman complaining that Bernhard Eder (the other songwriter that was performing this evening) sold his vinyl record welded with a CD included. That way she wouldn't be able to put the CD into her CD rack, because she will never open a welded CD or record.

What the hell are records and CDs are good for if you're not able to open them and listen to the music??? Even if you are a collector, that doesn't make any sense...

Post by **Zyx** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 19:15

Pater Alf wrote:Some people really have a spleen.

Funny you'd say that as today I was totally grossed out by the sight of the world's largest (now removed) human spleen (obviously rather gross link, so you might want to skip unless you like internal organs). And yes, the person is still alive.

Tormuse · Post by **Tormuse** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 22:40

Zyx wrote:
Pater Alf wrote:Some people really have a spleen.
Funny you'd say that as today I was totally grossed out by the sight of the world's largest (now removed) human spleen (obviously rather gross link, so you might want to skip unless you like internal organs). And yes, the person is still alive.

That's a spleen?!?

The spleen typically isn't a particularly large organ; it makes me wonder how large the human was to contain it!

And on an unrelated note, I'm back from a trip to Las Vegas where I went for a barbershop festival. Las Vegas is an amazing city; I would recommend it to anyone, even if they don't gamble.

Post by **Zyx** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:41

Tormuse wrote:That's a spleen?!? The spleen typically isn't a particularly large organ; it makes me wonder how large the human was to contain it!

The guy wasn't that large, that thing basically filled the guy's whole body. Those little bumps on the other side of the spleen? They came from the spleen pushing against his rib cage...

The full story is here.

Post by **Chroelle** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:34

I just read the entire thread there and there were some quite funny and educational quotes in there. Go read!

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 23:07

Ive moved to new flat. If you didnt forget, I had trouble with loud neighbours. Now...it's so silent in here that I cant sleep as well, I think Ill be moving again soon...

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:03

Or you could be the one who starts playing loud music in the middle of the night. Every neighbourhood needs someone it can hate...

Post by **Chroelle** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:29

TAnja told me during the early stages of the pregnancy - where she was sick all the time - that she would like me to move onto the couch to sleep, because every time I turned she got sick. (I have to say here that I willingly sleep on our couch whenever she is sick so I can get my rest - it's a damn good couch). After 1 night she asked me to move back in as she couldn't sleep because it was too quiet.

People are hard to please sometimes.

Drasir-Vel · Post by **Drasir-Vel** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:54

Just figured out something ridiculously cool. How to set an image as background in a folder. Check out my games folder

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 13:11

That's neat. You can put screenshot of each game as a background in corresponding folders. Id ask you how to do it, but I believe Uncle Google is able to explain it as well.

Btw, your folder looks like mine years ago. Now Ive got only about 10 games, half of them are Amiga files.

Attack of the Paper Zombies? Broken Cave Robot? Are these games?

Drasir-Vel · Post by **Drasir-Vel** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 14:24

Those two games are here: http://www.freepcgamers.com/2010/03/att ... mbies.html and http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8038.0

Just if anyone is interested i've made a folderlist of that folder. You can look through it if you want. And also ask if you wan't anything uploaded. I have a dropbox account i can upload to. You could of course just google them yourself, but it's not all of them that's easy to find on the internet

As for how to make the background, one way of doing it is that you basically put the imagefile you'll use into the folder you wan't to have it as background in.
Then make a desktop.ini file in the folder and write these lines in it:

Code: Select all

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
ICONAREA_IMAGE=(Filename; name of the image, including extension. example: "sillygame.jpg")
ICONAREA_TEXT=(hexadecimal text color; "0x00000000" if you want black text, or "0x00FFFFFF" if you wan't white text.)

When having a folder with a lot of files, the background will scroll with the files, and it will repeat as tiled texture when scrolling.
That doesn't look very good, unless the image is meant for being tiled without visible borders. One way of making normal images into seamless texture is by using Paint.NET and this plugin.
The plugin is installed by moving the downloaded dll file into \Paint.NET\Effects.
I did it the way that i resized the image to 200%, and then applied the seamless texture maker effect: mirror on the axis. That makes the image into four mirrored images that will repeat on all edges.

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