friends - Cory Strischek
Madison, WI
On 14, Aug 2011 | No Comments | In Travel | By Cory Strischek
Thanks to Gabe and Liz for their hospitality in Madison, Wisconsin. The Farm is a beautiful place.
Who are these guys?
On 10, Apr 2011 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
If you know who they are, you know why there were there.
Savor DC 2010
On 06, Jun 2010 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
Saturday, June 5, I was very lucky to have attended Savor Craft Beer & Food “Experience” at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC — my second Savor!
First of all, I love the National Building Museum. I’d probably pay to sit in on a jury trial if it was held there. Second, I tasted 27 beers in under 3 hours and still walked out under my own power.
Here’s what I had:
- Abita – Andygator
- Alaskan Brewing Co. – Alaskan Smoked Porter (Long line for this, not sure why.)
- Boulevard Brewing Company – Tank 7
- Boulevard Brewing Company – Boulevard Pilsner
- Brooklyn Brewery – Sorachi Ace
- Brown’s Brewing Company – Oatmeal Stout (A good beer.)
- Clipper City – Heavy Seas “Loose Cannon” IPA (One of my favorite beers for years now. Pretty fun tour near Baltimore if you ever have the chance.)
- DOG Brewing Company – Pub Dog Very Cherry
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery – (The hype around Sam Caglione was so intense at this booth that we chose not to elbow past the cameras. Sad. But I drink enough of it anyhow.)
- Saranac Imperial Stout
- Flying Dog – Raging Bitch (She really pushed the Wasabi Ginger Truffles with this and, yeah, it was good!)
- Foothills Brewing – Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout (The Saras were all over this company because they’re from NC. Maybe my favorite beer there. The whole Savor “experience” was pretty Stout/IPA.)
- Foothills Brewing – Hoppyum IPA (Also good.)
- Great Divide – Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
- Lagunitas – Hop Stoopid (I like this.)
- Magnolia – Big Cyrpress Brown Ale
- Ommegang – Three Phils, yo!
- Ommegang – Hennepin
- Rogue – Chocolate Stout (Yep, good.)
- Saint Somewhere Brewing Company – Pays du Soleil (I like this.)
- Ska Brewing Co. – Nefarious Ten Pin Imperial Porter (ha)
- Southampton Publick House – Cuvee des Fleurs (Sweet!)
- The Brewer’s Art – Resurrection (Now in cans! But only at Wine Source in Bmore, apparently.)
- The Brewer’s Art – Green Peppercorn Tripel (Definitely tasted like pepper. Also, like feet.)
- The Bruery – Rugbrod (Great with mac and cheese.)
- The Saint Louis Brewery Inc. / Schlafly – Schlafly Oak Aged Barleywine
- Troegs – JavaHead Oatmeal Stout
For food, the leftover pulled lamb from the pre-party was AWESOME. Everything else was pretty good. Mac and Very Cheddar Cheese stole the show. Cheese grits were also nice. Bamboo stuff was a good thought but a little precarious. I pre-gamed with a bag of jellybeans and closed out at Wisdom with bourbon gingers (Sara had some creepy thing with a grape in it.) — which was, in hindsight, not the best idea.
How Many Terabytes for My Memories?
On 07, Mar 2010 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
Dear Craig,
I just saw that my new iMac has 1.88 free terabytes on the hard disk despite all my music and photographs.
I started to think, how many terabytes would my memories require? (And then: “But I should probably limit that to visual memories. But I should probably limit those visual memories to stills — maybe 72 dpi, 500 X 500 px JPGs. But, are my visual memory stills even real representations? They’re pretty blurry, foggy, and polluted with uncertainty. Do I even have any memories? It’s not like my memories are written on a hard disk and retrieved as exact binary files. They’re fluid, maybe even assembled on the spot from infinite little … infinite little what’s?! What is the unit of a memory?”)
I ended up with the question, “How many memories have I had?” I’m thinking that, although you couldn’t possibly calculate the number of still visual memories you could “generate” in a given sitting, you could probably record a number off of a given rate of frames/per second … if, say, you connected someone’s mind up to iMovie. (You’d probably get a lot of imagination in there as well but, we’ll just call it all memories.)
This all reminded me of you. No particular memory, of course! Not you on the blue couch on your old porch; or you, driving in the Geo; or you, leaning over the table at Casa. Just a floating Craig head and shoulders, looking inquisitive!
Any idea who the big thinkers in memory are? I might like to read up on it.
Adopt Sticks
On 18, Oct 2009 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
Sticks is a sweet pitbull (I think — but I don’t know anything about dogs). My buddy Eli has temporarily adopted her from neighbors who can no longer take care of her. Unfortunately, Eli already has a dog and can’t take another. He’d like to see her go to a good home but has had little luck placing her.
I’ve met the puppers and can guarantee her sweetness.
If you can help us get her adopted or know someone who might, please contact me.
Writer-ing Weekend 2009
On 26, May 2009 | No Comments | In Sundry, Writing | By Cory Strischek
I spent three days in a motel in Pennsylvania this weekend. The mission was to write.
We got the idea from The 3-Day Novel and NaNoWriMo (which, I think, are both inspired by Kerouac?), a couple of projects I now respect as games of champions. I should also thank Ohio associate, Brad Swiniarski, whose motel-recorded BKO album was a low-budget gem of inspiration.
Did it work? For me, no. Brian had better luck. I played around with the old novella and wrapped up a story about a girl chased by dogs that I’ve been kicking around for years. Both are about as well-aged as a 2002 kerosene pickle.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was the town — right outside of Gettysburg and dead to the World. There was a college, Dickinson College, beautifully polished from their recent graduation but as deserted as a hydrogen bomb experiment site. Pretty much perfect.
Food
Affordable Steaks and How to Grill Them
http://lifehacker.com/5265730/nine-affordable-steaks-and-how-to-grill-them-anywhere
“Eat lead” takes on a new meaning, har har har
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/garden/14lead.html
Friends
Haha, that “____ing hipster” is Gabe!
http://www.latfh.com/post/104251961/the-best-thing-about-having-a-ping-pong-paddle
Great books
The Road is gonna kill it
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/05/the-road-1.htm
Music
I would also like to see this film about multi-track recording
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/19/a-film-i-liked-tom-d.html
News
Michael Steele has the worst job in the World
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/16/michael-steele-gay-marria_n_204263.html
Web Design/Development
Password sharing
http://www.passpack.com/en/password-provisioning/ [Via Lifehacker]
7 File Manager Scripts
http://devsnippets.com/article/ajax/7-free-powerful-file-managers.html
Web Designer Industry Jargon
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/21/web-design-industry-jargon-glossary-and-resources/
Really good item about designing for non-profits
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/14/non-profit-website-design-examples-and-best-practices/
Winter Vacation 2009
On 09, Jan 2009 | No Comments | In Images, Travel | By Cory Strischek
Back from Vermont
I guess we like to drive. We went to Burlington, Vermont, and stayed on the lake. We made a trip to Montreal for some food and kicks and had a lot of good pancake breakfasts, celebrated the New Year in solemn privacy just the way we like(d) it (this year). And that was that! Nice to be out of the city but I’ll have to go back when it’s a little warmer — say, above 0.
(Image to the right is from Jason’s awesome doodle blog, Sketchbook City.)
Books
Computers
- Apple patent for “hovering” touch screen solves all my worries about smudgy screen.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/04/apple.hover.touchscreen/
Domesticity
- I want a yurt from www.yurts.com
(I could make a summer home for Athens!) - Learn about Different Screw Types
- Eat Meat in Deck-of-Cards Portions For A Healthier Earth [Eating]
Hosting
Music
News
- Obama Watch Begins!
- Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping Presidents Is “Un-American”
- Chris Matthews for senate?
(NO NO NO)
Photos
Childhood and Other Stories
On 23, Jun 2006 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
Professor Russell once recommended I read Stuart Dybek. “He’s good people,” he said.
It’s true: What might otherwise have been another author’s milktoasty collection of musings about games of stick ball played in Chuck Taylors is Dybek’s alternately gripping and melodic vignette of Chicago the way my Grandpa told it to me — dirty, crazy and beautiful.
Stuart Dybek: Childhood and Other Stories
Friends
I was lucky enough to attend a beautiful biker wedding at the beach this week. Thank you, Allison.
Domestic
Amazon sells groceries (link removed)
Push pins with aluminum heads are better than the other kind, imo
I think the point of this is, if you like it, you’re a nerd.
Online stores for nutbags like me
On 02, Jun 2006 | No Comments | In Sundry | By Cory Strischek
- www.cheaperthandirt.com — ultra cheap army surplus, ammo, and knives
- www.countycomm.com — lots of small doodads- and odd military and civilian stuff
- www.tadgear.com — EXTREME GEAR!! crazy outdoor gadgets, and military items
- www.sportsmansguide.com — do a search for “german”– then “swedish” to pull up a country’s surplus … lots of outdoor gear
- www.actiongear.com — current issue US military gear gadgets and such
[Thanks to Matt]