chickenboot

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by chickenboot 11y ago
Seconded. I too was hanging off his every word, and learned from this course that Roget's Thesaurus is arranged in a completely different way to a regular thesaurus (by category/association rather than alphabetically) [1], and so
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by chickenboot 12y ago
(Very) Minor niggle but imgur is blocked in my office, so I don't get a logo at the top. Like the idea though!
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by chickenboot 12y ago
I'm surprised there isn't mention of the Spiedels Braumeister [1] - it seems to be a similar product (albeit with less tech, and possibly a bit more manual work). I've heard lots of good things about them, but the price has a
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by chickenboot 12y ago
I always thought that the key was to mash with an appropriate volume of liquor (or 'water' for those that don't enjoy the brewing jargon): if you chuck all the liquor in (full-volume mashing I think it's called), the thi
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by chickenboot 12y ago
There's a famous (in the UK) example of how prevalent it seems to be in politics: a Labour aide, Jo Moore[1] eventually had to resign after issuing a memo on 9/11 basically saying "today would be a good day to bury bad news&q
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by chickenboot 13y ago
Codswallop! I'm in the UK and I use WhatsApp a lot. Though I do know many (mainly iPhone users with their iMessages) people that haven't heard of it, for us Android people it is an excellent tool for group chat & image sharing
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by chickenboot 13y ago
I preferred the Guardian[1] piece on this, for it's lack of real content (who's heard of graphene?) and very entertaining comments. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/graph
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by chickenboot 13y ago
I'm personally a m4/3 convert - I exchanged my D700 and some great lenses for a full Olympus OM-D kit, and aside from a few quirks, I couldn't be happier. However I am not ashamed to say that the D700 and the glass I had was
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by chickenboot 13y ago
Indeed. Sunday night is quite a popular night to have "a few" over here. Never understood it myself - Monday mornings are hard enough!
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by chickenboot 13y ago
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon?