Random Thoughts X (The 9th Regeneration)

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

People come up with the dumbest requests.
Users access a specific system using a product called Switch. Every night the active users log off at about 23:30 and operations cycles the task to bounce any users that forgot to log off to free up all the connections.
So now someone came up with the brilliant idea that instead of cycling the task the active users could still log off and then we could display all the active connections and then just cycle any connection that shows active with a session.
I just displayed the current active connections and see 285 thus turning a task that is performed by a single command (that completes in about 1 minute) to an automated routine that could consist of up to 570 separate commands which will take a hell of a lot longer that 1 minute because each inactivate command has to be issued individually, wait for it to go inactive then you can issue the activate command again.

 

[jcyclonee]

Doubt they had war and peace sitting around to use. Probably a soft back picture book. Those 12 glossy pages don't stop much.

 

[jcyclonee]

I went to Global Market on Lake today for lunch. After I ate I went to the hipster bar in there and got a Kirby Pucker Sour Blonde. It was ******* delicious.

That little brewery in there is pretty cool and the Mexican restaurant has some of the best mole in the Twin Cities.

I can't seem to find places where I can buy like a case or something. It's all on tap at hipster bars. But I'm a big fan.

As much as I want to, I just can't get myself to like sour beers. In liquor stores, I've seen it in sampler packs but not by itself. You could try one of the bigger liquor stores (Total Wine, Haskells or Surdyk's). My wife was recently looking for 2 specific beers and Total Wine was the only place that carried both.

 

[VeloClone]

Victor Hugo finished writing Les Miserables 155 years ago today in 1862. He conceived of the idea for the book not long after publishing his first novel - the wildly successful Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831. Some literary historians believe Hugo spent 17 years writing Les Miserables. Coincidentally that is about how long it takes the average reader to read it.

 

[cycloneG]

I can't seem to find places where I can buy like a case or something. It's all on tap at hipster bars. But I'm a big fan.

Good sours aren't going to come in a case. You normally aren't going to sit down and drink a bunch at a time. They'll generally be 22-25oz bottles. Two of my favorites are Surly Pentagram and New Belgium La Folie. You're lucky because you can find Pentagram all over the twin cities.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Good sours aren't going to come in a case. You normally aren't going to sit down and drink a bunch at a time. They'll generally be 22-25oz bottles. Two of my favorites are Surly Pentagram and New Belgium La Folie. You're lucky because you can find Pentagram all over the twin cities.

These beer bottlers clearly don't understand that when I buy a case of beer, it lasts for months.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

As much as I want to, I just can't get myself to like sour beers. In liquor stores, I've seen it in sampler packs but not by itself. You could try one of the bigger liquor stores (Total Wine, Haskells or Surdyk's). My wife was recently looking for 2 specific beers and Total Wine was the only place that carried both.

I can't get into sour beers either. I tried a couple and just don't have the taste for it. What's odd is I like a lot of other sour drinks (Irish and Moscow mules, navy grog, etc).

I also don't care for IPAs, which a ton of people like. Give me a good stout, bock, wheat, amber, blonde, porter or ale any day though. Today, preferably. Now, preferably. All of them, preferably.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Victor Hugo finished writing Les Miserables 155 years ago today in 1862. He conceived of the idea for the book not long after publishing his first novel - the wildly successful Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831. Some literary historians believe Hugo spent 17 years writing Les Miserables. Coincidentally that is about how long it takes the average reader to read it.

Subsequently also how long it takes for someone to stop babbling about how they saw it on Broadway and how amazing it was.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I can't get into sour beers either. I tried a couple and just don't have the taste for it. What's odd is I like a lot of other sour drinks (Irish and Moscow mules, navy grog, etc).

I also don't care for IPAs, which a ton of people like. Give me a good stout, bock, wheat, amber, blonde, porter or ale any day though. Today, preferably. Now, preferably. All of them, preferably.

I hate IPAs. I keep trying them because that's mostly all that's available in the bars I go to, but I still haven't found one I like. Way too bitter.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Victor Hugo finished writing Les Miserables 155 years ago today in 1862. He conceived of the idea for the book not long after publishing his first novel - the wildly successful Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831. Some literary historians believe Hugo spent 17 years writing Les Miserables. Coincidentally that is about how long it takes the average reader to read it.

This is my favorite Broadway show to date. The worst one was here in KC because some drunk chick behind us insisted on attempting to sing along with Fantine's "I Dreamed a Dream".

This isn't a Poison concert, lady.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Subsequently also how long it takes for someone to stop babbling about how they saw it on Broadway and how amazing it was.

Hey, wait a minute....

 

[VeloClone]

I can't get into sour beers either. I tried a couple and just don't have the taste for it. What's odd is I like a lot of other sour drinks (Irish and Moscow mules, navy grog, etc).

I also don't care for IPAs, which a ton of people like. Give me a good stout, bock, wheat, amber, blonde, porter or ale any day though. Today, preferably. Now, preferably. All of them, preferably.

I enjoy an IPA but don't generally enjoy any more than like two of them in a row. The bitterness tends to build up and overpower any good flavor for me. My go-to is a good stout, but I will drink and enjoy just about any beer.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I've been seeing a lot of Walmart ads for CB radios pop up on my facebook page.
1. I wonder what search I did that triggered that.
2. They still make CB radios?

 

[cycloneG]

I hate IPAs. I keep trying them because that's mostly all that's available in the bars I go to, but I still haven't found one I like. Way too bitter.

Pompeii by Toppling Goliath is a very easy drinking and delicious IPA.

Founder's All Day IPA is the only beer I buy in volume. It's my default beer when I'm just relaxing. It comes in 15 packs!

 

[VeloClone]

Pompeii by Toppling Goliath is a very easy drinking and delicious IPA.

Founder's All Day IPA is the only beer I buy in volume. It's my default beer when I'm just relaxing. It comes in 15 packs!

I'm confused. Are you saying drinking too much IPA is the reason people tend to go on and on about how much they loved Les Miserables?

 

[cycloneG]

I'm confused. Are you saying drinking too much IPA is the reason people tend to go on and on about how much they loved Les Miserables?

Ha. I somehow quoted the wrong post but I think the logic still holds.

 

[jcyclonee]

I can't get into sour beers either. I tried a couple and just don't have the taste for it. What's odd is I like a lot of other sour drinks (Irish and Moscow mules, navy grog, etc).

I also don't care for IPAs, which a ton of people like. Give me a good stout, bock, wheat, amber, blonde, porter or ale any day though. Today, preferably. Now, preferably. All of them, preferably.

I hate IPAs. I keep trying them because that's mostly all that's available in the bars I go to, but I still haven't found one I like. Way too bitter.

I enjoy an IPA but don't generally enjoy any more than like two of them in a row. The bitterness tends to build up and overpower any good flavor for me. My go-to is a good stout, but I will drink and enjoy just about any beer.

IPA's will be my downfall. I love them and I know they tend to have way more calories than other beers. Between IPA's and gin and tonics, I have a profound respect for the ingenuity of the British Military. My biggest problem with IPA's tends to be that they mess with my palate and they screw up my perceived flavor of some of the Ambers that I like.

 

[jcyclonee]

Pompeii by Toppling Goliath is a very easy drinking and delicious IPA.

Founder's All Day IPA is the only beer I buy in volume. It's my default beer when I'm just relaxing. It comes in 15 packs!

TG makes a couple of really good ones. Golden Nugget is fantastic.

 

[cycloneG]

IPA's will be my downfall. I love them and I know they tend to have way more calories than other beers. Between IPA's and gin and tonics, I have a profound respect for the ingenuity of the British Military. My biggest problem with IPA's tends to be that they mess with my palate and they screw up my perceived flavor of some of the Ambers that I like.

I love IPAs and sours but hold off on them until the end of the night. I'll drink pale ales, lagers, hefs, ambers and darks earlier in the night. Don't start drinking without a plan. Map out your course and hold steady.

 

[BoxsterCy]

I hate IPAs. I keep trying them because that's mostly all that's available in the bars I go to, but I still haven't found one I like. Way too bitter.

The old Minnesota standby, Summit Extra Pale Ale isn't that bitter and is a good alternative to the really bitter IPA's IMHO. Started brewing these in 1986 before everything had be to uber hoppy or uber bitter.