Words On Wednesday

The Build Your Own 6 Pack area at Ingles (or your local grocer) is great because it allows curious drinkers to try several different styles and brews without committing to the price, storage, and obligation to drink a full 6 pack of each of them. Being a curious drinker myself, I love picking up some new things to try, and my nearest Ingles store cycles out the available beers quite regularly. To present my “research” for others, I figured I could write up a post with a few of the more noteworthy brews I’ve discovered. Expect a follow-up every few weeks, when I’ve had time to find some more good ones. Name: Up the Creek Extreme Ale Brewery: Thomas Creek Brewery, LLC Style: Double IPA ABV: 12.5% Buy Again? Yes I’ve long claimed that I hate IPAs, but this one somehow works. Maybe it’s because the absurdly high ABV gets me too drunk to taste it, but I really do like this ale. Ingles sometimes has it in the build-you-own-6-pack area, they sometimes have it in 4 pack, and fr...

If you look at my GoPro playlist  on YouTube, you’ll notice that I haven’t added a new video since  23 June 2017 . Honestly, I find that a little depressing and frustrating. It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to add new videos, or even that I haven’t recorded footage to make new videos. It’s that I just haven’t had time to edit them together. Between work, school, raising kids, and writing articles for my side gig, I really don’t have time to sit down and create a video. Looking back, I sound like a broken record because I’ve mentioned not having enough time to make videos before . Still, as much as I love creating content, I have much bigger priorities at the moment. In addition to my lack of time to work with videos, I also don’t have time to learn a new editing software right now. Microsoft discontinued Windows Movie Maker , and if I’m going to learn a new editing software, I may as well go with what a lot of videographers use with DaVinci Resolve. The problem is that Da...

After 2 weeks of membership, my bond has expired and I am back to f2p status. Was my experience worth the 15.5 million gp I paid for the bond? Was it worth whatever the current price of a bond is? What caused me to actually pull the trigger on consuming a bond was the result of the Spring Fayre  on my inventory. Because the activities of the event required no inventory space, and I wasn’t going to waste that time doing anything else, I accrued a ton of xp items that were either p2p exclusive, or could be more effectively used on p2p skills. Since most everything else in the game requires an empty inventory to effectively participate, I was forced with the decision to either trash a lot of really useful items or use a bond to take advantage of them. May as well make the most of the situation. My initial goal after consuming the bond was making enough money to purchase another and replace the one I had used. Figuring that bonds would only go up in price until the next DXPW , I...

Long theorized by television and film, “Smell-O-Vision” is the idea that digital media could produce a scent to more thoroughly immerse the viewer. While there have been attempts and partially successful examples in the past, I do not believe we will ever achieve true Smell-O-Vision. And I’m not just being a doubting naysayer, I have genuine reason behind this proposition. This theory began from a discussion with my wife about purchasing Bath & Body Works  items for Mother’s Day gifts. We both prefer shopping online instead of visiting brick and mortar stores, but scents are one thing that will always require a store front. Without physically smelling the products, you can never know exactly what you’re getting unless it is an item that you’ve purchased before. We mused about how it would be nice if they could use Smell-O-Vision on their website to let you smell the scents from the comfort of your home. Before long, we started musing about exactly how this would work. To re...

Thanks to the overzealous bot detection methods of Jagex, my own compulsion to grind out levels, and the world of Gielinor seemingly plotting against me, I’ve been banned from Runescape for the third time. Hence, I made another alternate account that I actually plan on playing occasionally. The Spring Fayre This story begins on Good Friday, 30 March. Runescape has typically hosted an Easter event each year, with some unlockable items. I hadn’t yet seen any details about one, but I did notice decorated eggs placed around the game, so clearly something was afoot. After doing some research, I learned that beginning in 2017 , Jagex replaced the annual Easter event  with a “ Spring Fayre ” event. It seems this trend was also repeated for 2018 , with an event that started on 26 March. The decision made sense, what with religious tolerance and all that. Besides, we still got an event with unlockable rewards, so I didn’t really care how they phrased it. Plus, the quests for holiday...