Monday, November 16th, 2009

[Billy's Little Trip]

Today marks the death of Carl von Linde. Who is Carl and what did he do that was so important you ask? Well I'll tell you in my own arrangement of alphabet numbers.

Carl von Linde was a German engineer with a great thirst for life and an even bigger thirst for beer. As with many a great mind in history, comes the desire to drink mass quantities of the delicious liquid amber of brewed hops and barley, as our own resident genius, Spud, can attest to.

But Carl had a dilemma that he faced each and every year. No matter how much of is favorite lager that he would stock up on, he would run out mid summer and be forced to settle for summer brews which he did not care for in the least. So Carl decided he was going to put an end to this travesty.

Carl has always been interested in the ability in making man made ice and ways to keep his beer cold. So in 1895, Professor Doctor Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde patented his design for the first mechanical refrigeration unit for a Guinness brewery in Dublin.

So later today when you go to the fridge for a tasty cold beverage, look up slightly to the left and think of Carl von Linde for a second or two.

Monday's song of the day. Bad ass old school solos start at 2:16 and they are awesome!


Question of the Day 1: What is your favorite beer(s) of the world, if any? Or for the teetotalers, what's your favorite beverage?

Question of the Day 2: Have you ever invented anything? Maybe a flyswatter that never misses or a recipe or maybe even the perfect mixed drink?

[rone rivendale]

QotD: I'm straight edge so I've never touched the stuff. My favorite is red Vemon. It tastes like liquid candy.

QotD2: I invented a style of singing called "Roneing".

[Spud]

1. I would lose several sponsorships if I picked just one.

2. Yes. I am under non-disclosure, however.

SPUD

[Caravan Ray]

Question of the Day 2: Have you ever invented anything?

I started the world's first Santa Claus Pub Crawl in Newcastle, NSW in 1986. It spread around the world from there.

[HeuristicsInc]

1. I am very partial to Smithwicks. I used to love Caffreys but I don't think they export it any more. But many beers are worth special attention.
2. Yes, certainly.
-bill

[Caravan Ray]

Question of the Day 1: What is your favorite beer

Are there different types?

[Denyer]

QotD: I'm straight edge so I've never touched the stuff. My favorite is red Vemon. It tastes like liquid candy.

QotD2: I invented a style of singing called "Roneing".

You are crap at singing so you invented a word to try to justify it.

[Caravan Ray]

I've invented a series of autoerotic stimulation exercises I call "Denyering".

[Paco Del Stinko]

QOTD 1 - I generally dislike beer in a can, but love Guiness in those cans with the whistle gas thingy. Next best thing to on tap. Had me mucho many this very past weekend, I did.

QOTD 2 - If I were an engineer, and hadn't yet snapped like they all do/will, I'd have long ago designed my automatic toilet seat lifter. But other than concept, nothing invented.

[rone rivendale]

QotD2: I invented a style of singing called "Roneing".

You are crap at singing so you invented a word to try to justify it.

I'm not the one who coined the term 'Roneing'. I don't recall who did but it wasn't me.

[Denyer]

QotD2: I invented a style of singing called "Roneing".

You are crap at singing so you invented a word to try to justify it.

I'm not the one who coined the term 'Roneing'. I don't recall who did but it wasn't me.

So someone else invented a word to describe a previously indescribably poor vocal delivery that could not be identified either as singing or rapping. I wouldn't say you invented Roneing; that's just how shit you are by default, like a monkey who picked up a microphone and thought hmm do I make noise into this??. If you had put any effort into developing a vocal style maybe I would count it as an invention.

[fluffy]

1. Widmer Hefeweisen

2. a few things off the top of my head:
- a method of dynamically partitioning Euclidean space such that one can query a locality of dynamically-updating objects quickly
- a representation of continuous surface geometry which allows for rapid fidelity resampling and shadow volume generation
- a means of reformatting a scanned image of a page to fit a new display size so that scanned books can be treated as ebooks without the use of OCR or labor-intensive editing processes
- given millions of small aligned but non-registered monochrome images, a means of (relatively) quickly determining which images are the same as each other within a certain confidence threshold

[Caravan Ray]

QOTD 2 - If I were an engineer, and hadn't yet snapped like they all do/will, .

Excuse me? I happen to be an engineer you know....

[roymond]

There's an English ale called English Ale that I like a lot. More available is Bass.

My brother and I invented a hand-held pickup. I'll use it at some time since I recently found it again.

[Paco Del Stinko]

Excuse me? I happen to be an engineer you know....

You'd better brace yourself, then. And stay away from the knife drawer. But in the meantime, maybe you can help me with my seat lifter.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Excuse me? I happen to be an engineer you know....

You'd better brace yourself, then. And stay away from the knife drawer. But in the meantime, maybe you can help me with my seat lifter.

1. waterwheel propulsion driven by the water flow in the tank every time you flush with a series of gears.
2. gears in the turlet seat hinge area driven by a corkscrew shaft to the tank gears.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!

[signboy]

Still waiting for WalMart to start stocking the Bush Bandit...

[rone rivendale]

So someone else invented a word to describe a previously indescribably poor vocal delivery that could not be identified either as singing or rapping. I wouldn't say you invented Roneing; that's just how shit you are by default, like a monkey who picked up a microphone and thought hmm do I make noise into this??. If you had put any effort into developing a vocal style maybe I would count it as an invention.

The funny thing is, I know you like my stuff. You've PM'd me about collab'ing in the past. Face it, you are a closet fan.

[/hijack of thread]

[signboy]

c'mon, Denyer. out of the closet. you know it's time...

[Ross]

1. Beck's

2. I think so, but I can't recall what at the moment. In 5 th grade my friend and I invented a playground game that involved a basketball and one of those big cement pipes that were used as playthings in the 70s - it was similar to handball sort of, but bouncing the ball off of the outside ot the curved surface made for some interesting possibilities. We called in pipeball and taught it to all of our friends and stuff.

[JonPorobil]

1.) I used to love Rolling Rock. Not so much these days. Actually, the fall is my favorite time of year, because I love just about any Oktoberfest beer.

2.) A couple of years ago, I invented a mix drink at a Halloween party once: it was Jack Daniel's mixed with Jones' special seasonal Licorice Soda. I believe I polled Songfight about what to call it. Someone here came up with "Jack Black," which is what I've called it on the two or three occasions I've gotten to make it since then.

[Billy's Little Trip]

2.) A couple of years ago, I invented a mix drink at a Halloween party once: it was Jack Daniel's mixed with Jones' special seasonal Licorice Soda. I believe I polled Songfight about what to call it. Someone here came up with "Jack Black," which is what I've called it on the two or three occasions I've gotten to make it since then.

Sounds like it would taste like Jagermeister, but much better. I'm not a fan of Jager shots. But I'd be completely down with something similar made with JD.