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I love Laphroaig too, especially my bottle of 57.8% cask strength 10 year old. None of my friends like it though, that was where I got the campfire analogy, one of them told me he thought taking a sip of Laphroaig was like biting a campfire log.

Just picked up a bottle of delicious 12 year old Caol Isla. Pleasantly smoky and peaty, but not quite as campfire-like as Laphroaig.

No full time job, but my kids are 4 and 1, so continuing to stay home with them is important right now. I will continue working in the small (1,200 students, 4 librarians and 30,000 volumes) university library where I am now but with a few more hours and more librarian-like responsibilities...

I love XKCD, I just saw the "what if" section a few days ago and read through all three of them. I can't wait to see what else he posts.

After seven straight years of full time higher education, I am finally done with school. After getting a BA in history in 2009, I will be receiving my master's of library and information science in a few weeks. The library where I currently work is expanding my hours to 3/4 time and giving me a...

It is pretty good, but it doesn't have a lot of general pipe information. It has been a couple years since I read it, I remember it mostly being about Newcombe's personal pipe collection and him meeting pipe makers, going to shows, and amassing his 1,000 plus pipes. Of course, the book is called...

That was incredible. I love the Gymkhana videos, every one is better than the last. I remember the first video absolutely blowing me away. This course had better be playable in the next Dirt video game.

Close, but it was just because I was using Chrome. :D I tried again using Firefox and Explorer and both of those worked. Must be something with the browser.

I have never had Asombroso, though I have wanted to try some for a while now. My favorite is El Tesoro de Don Felipe Anejo. Only $35-40 a bottle and fantastic, a great sipping tequila. I would love to try the El Tesoro Paradiso, but I never seem to have an extra $125 laying around for...

I am under 30 for five more weeks.

Fetzer Cabernet, only $7 a bottle. I was a little disappointed when my wife bought it since it was supposed to go with a special dinner, but was very pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be. I agree about Botabox as well, we often have either that or a Black Box on the counter.

This is originally meant to be about video games, since players can say whatever they want from the safety of their homes without fear of the other guy beating them up, but it applies just as well to forums: From the Penny Arcade store, http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/pat070381

I made chicken piccata last night, but instead of white wine in the sauce I used 1/2 cup of my homebrewed IPA. I splashed in another 1/4 cup or so later while waiting for the pasta to finish cooking. It turned out really well, the bitterness came through strong and the hop flavor was a nice...

Wait, wait, wait. You're in South Carolina and you can get New Belgium?! I love their stuff and Fat Tire is one of my wife's favorite beers, but they don't distribute in New Hampshire. When I moved out here 5 years ago I even called the brewery to ask about their distribution future, but they...

I put some of my homebrew in lots of different recipes; I recently made a beef stew with IPA. One of my favorites is homemade mac and cheese with sausage and IPA in the cheese sauce. Roasted chicken with IPA in the bottom of the pan for basting; obviously, I am a big fan of IPAs :D I also...

Tired, very tired. I haven't gone to be before 1am this week due to working on papers and projects for school, then I get up at 6 to 630 with my 2 year old. Unfortunately, the only time that I can do homework is when he takes a nap or after he goes to bed. Most days I nap with him, but with...

It would be nice to go back to those days, but I think that they were an aberration; perhaps a lingering effect of having pulled together for World War II. The 20th century has had the most polite politics of the entire history of the United States, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s...

I think he meant $600 EXTRA per year for being a pipe smoker.

I absolutely love that pb's two word reply to this comes only one minute after the original post, awesome. :D I don't know why that struck me so funny, but I was laughing at the computer when I realized it.

Yes, why is that, who made that design decision? It is literally not possible to use my DVD player unless you have the remote. A little ridiculous, I feel.