A friend of mine just introduced me to BeerRiot.com. It’s a beer rating/recommendation site. It’s actually quite cool. Basically, you give beers a rating of Like, Shrug, or Dislike. It compares your ratings to those of other users and gives you recommendations for beers that you would probably like. After spending a little time on it going through all the beers I could think of (some which I had to add myself because they weren’t there, meaning they probably didn’t count much towards my recommendations), I checked the recommendations. Apparently, I really need to try Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute IPA as that’s by far the top recommendation according to this site.
I’m occasionally active on Beer Advocate, reviewing beers when I have the time to really think about what I’m drinking and posting on the forums there. This site is a bit different. It doesn’t seem to give overall ratings, at least not to the extent that BA does, but it does give you a recommended list of beers to try. I found that pretty cool, so I’m going to seek out some of the beers it listed I think. Hopefully, Nikki’s will have most of them.
Also cool about the site is that it uses the Yaws web server, which is designed for dynamic-content web apps. As I don’t know much about Yaws, I’ll let you read up on it and learn more about it. So far it seems pretty neat.
I had purchased Trey Anastasio’s new album, The Horseshoe Curve, and took a listen (along with the 5 song EP that came with it). I was excited when I read about it being an instrumental album, much like Seis de Mayo. Unfortunately, it wasn’t what I had expected. I would really like to see Trey get more into classical-type music. While I like the funky beats of the new album, I was hoping for something a little more refined. I have only listened to the album twice now, but I will be listening more. I will admit that I do like it the more I listen to it, but I was hoping it’d be something a little different than it is. I am very happy that Trey has dumped the major record labels and started his own label. Now if only the other 3 will follow him.
I would really like to see Trey transcribe some of his instrumental Phish songs for orchestra. I loved what he did with “Guyute” and would love to hear orchestral versions of “Divided Sky,” “You Enjoy Myself,” “David Bowie,” and “Fluffhead.”
UPDATE: Interestingly, a day after posting this, I received my daily Google Notification about Phish and saw a review of this album. It didn’t give it high marks, but it’s pretty much exactly the same way I feel about the album.
Review from The Music Box
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August 27, 2007 in
Politics.
I’m not normally a political person. Because of that, you’ll very rarely see political statements here. However, the United States government is having some issues. While anyone but Bush would be great right now, especially if it were a democrat, I’ve got some very mixed feelings about the current democratic front-runners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They both make me feel that there won’t be a whole lot of change, regardless of the rhetoric they’re feeding us. Because of that, I am supporting, as the title of this post states, Dennis Kuchich in 2008. He’s the only one running for president who voted against the war in Iraq and against the constant funding of the war. He’s also the only one who supports full marriage rights for gays and lesbians. The others have tip toed around that subject saying that they support civil unions, but not marriage.
So, I urge anyone who cares about your future and the future of this country to vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries and for president. Vote for change, vote for peace, vote for sustainability. Even if you disagree with me that he’s the right person for the job, at least vote.
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