But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Minor Productivity Tips with QuickSilver
I love QuickSilver on my mac. When I have to get a new mac, Quicksilver will be the first application I install. I know there are a TON of sites that have great Quicksilver tips and tricks, but I wanted to take a few minutes and show some of the shortcuts I use everyday.
1. Bookmarks for QS
I love the fact that Quicksilver indexes my internet browser’s bookmarks. 99% of the time I open my favorite web pages through Quicksilver. Example: ctrl+space > “min” > Mint.com is opened in Safari.
Also, when I land on a site that I want to come back to but I don’t necessarily want to clutter up the bookmarks bar, I’ll bookmark the site and dump it into the “Bookmarks for QS” folder. That way I can easily get back without having to drill through tons of folders or browser history to remember where I was.
2. Google search from QS
Love this one but I can’t take credit for figuring it out. See Setting up a Google web search Trigger for instructions.
3. Opening a folder for developing in TextMate
ctrl+space > navigate to the desired folder > tab > open with > textmate. And it opens the folder in TextMate as a project. Here’s a little attempt at a screen cast I made while playing with Camtasia.
Chili, Baking and Homebrew
Today was a wonderful saturday. The weather was gorgeous, I didn’t have any commitments, I had a batch of beer to brew, AND, to top things off, Jason came over with all the ingredients for homemade chili. He had a hankering and I wasn’t going to let an offer like this pass me by.
As I worked on brewing my Chinook IPA, Jason made up some fantastic chili. Then Jen got home and decided to whip up some Tastefully Simple Beer Bread.
Chinook IPA
Aiming for:
Hoppy American IPA. Kit link
Yeast:
Safale S-05 Dry Ale Yeast. Dry. 11.5g. Rehydrated.
Speciality Grains:
| .75 lbs | Belgian Caramel Pils |
| .25 lbs | Briess Caramel 120 |
Malts:
| 6 lbs | Pilsen malt syrup | Liquid |
| 1 lb. | Pilsen malt extract | dry |
Hops:
| 1 oz. | Chinook | 60 minutes | 11.2% AAU |
| .5 oz. | Chinook | 10 minutes | 11.2% AAU |
| .5 oz. | Chinook | 1 minute | 11.2% AAU |
| 1 oz. | Chinook | Dry Hop | 11.2% AAU |
Calculated IBUs: 38 IBUs (via calculator)
OG: 1.070 @ 70 Degrees
FG:
ABV:
Brew Day Pics (11/12/2011):
Racked to Secondary (11/22/2011):
FG: 1.018
Bottled on 12/3/2011: