• Solenoid valves for brewing

    I’ve been brainstorming a design for a new home-brewing system. I’d like it to be capable of both recirculating (RIMS) and stepped-infusion mashes, and to have a large degree of automation. If I actually follow through on all my ideas (which would be the first time), it would probably be a system that Labbatt’s would…

  • Pissed off at Canada Revenue Agency

    I wrote this letter to CRA today.

  • Bisphenol A is the new aluminum

    Sabrina received a couple email warnings from well-meaning friends today, about this decade’s great evil conspiracy: Bisphenol A in baby bottles.

  • A good auto-body shop in Kitchener-Waterloo

    I recently had some body work done on my Infiniti G35.  Why?  I’d rather not talk about it… Anyway, I got quotes from a few different body shops around town.  Most were crazy expensive.  But one quote stood out from the others.  It was from Towne Collision, in Kitchener.  It’s a small shop, mostly just…

  • Mediterranean Cruise 2007 diary online

    I just put up my diaries and some photos from our Mediterranean cruise in 2007, on the Emerald Princess.  The photos are also available in full 6 mega-pixel glory at my home-hosted photo gallery (it’s slow, but lots of disk-space.) Photos in the diary are just thumbnails, and link to the big ones in the…