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Current Topic: Miscellaneous

RE: Beer sizes shinking - WSJ.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:00 pm EDT, Jun 13, 2008

Decius wrote:

Two of the world's biggest glassware makers, Libbey and Cardinal International, say orders of smaller beer glasses have risen over the past year. Restaurateurs "want more of a perceived value," says Mike Schuster, Libbey's marketing manager for glassware in the U.S. Glasses with a thicker bottom or a thicker shaft help create the perception. "You can increase the thickness of the bottom part but still retain the overall profile," he says.

Clearest proof yet we're in an economic contraction. The U.S. needs a pint law! Ah, the benefits of monarchy...

Check for places that mark capacity on their glasses. Typically you can find places that do half liters, which is ~1.06 pints (thus a hair below 17 ounces). Some places have glasses marked at 16 ounces and some at 20 ounces. Glasses with beer and brewery logos on them are almost always 16 or 17 ounces. If you get a pitcher, check the bottom for a number, such as 60 or 64 (as in ounces).

13 & 14 ounce glasses, along with 50 or 52 ounce pitchers are a plague.

Let commercialism speak for shrinking glasses. If you find a place serving these sizes without telling you prior, let the management know you are upset and claim you will never patronize their establishment until they fix the problem. If you are bold, get up and leave before drinking claiming the product served was not what you ordered.

RE: Beer sizes shinking - WSJ.com


Even beer prices are rising - AJC.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 6:36 pm EDT, Jun  3, 2008

There is a range of reasons behind the rise in food prices.

Demand for food is up, driven heavily by the expansion of incomes in Asia, mainly India and China.

Supply has not fallen, but millions of acres that could have produced more grain have been shifted to corn for ethanol. ...

Over the past two years, the list price for Red Brick six packs has gone from $6.49 to $8.99, [the president of ABC] said. "That still does not cover all of our added food costs. It means that our profit margin is not as big as it was."

Barley is up 82 percent since last year, aluminum for kegs is up more than 20 percent and bottles cost 18 percent more, said David Guender, director of sales at SweetWater Brewing Co., another Atlanta brewery.

Overall costs are up 17 percent to 20 percent just in the past eight months, [guy from Sweetwater] said. SweetWater's prices are up about 7 percent in that period.

Barley

* 2002: $2.72 per bushel
* 2007: $4.10 per bushel
* 2008, projected price: $4.58 per bushel

Hops

* 2002: $1.91 per pound
* 2007: $2.81 per pound
* 2008, preliminary price: $6.36 per pound

Unmentioned in this article is that the corn/ethanol craze has mainly affected barley production. Hop vineyards have just about remained the same, the factor contributing to the price fluctuation this last year is just the main warehouse that supplies almost all the hops in the US burned to the ground a few months ago and prices skyrocketed overnight. Rare/odd hops are almost impossible to find now. The hop supplies should be back in a comfortable state in a few years, but the squeeze on barley is only going to get worse as people chose corn to make ethanol and as food prices for basic cereals go up throughout the world.

Even beer prices are rising - AJC.com


'Sleeping' driver ploughs into bike race - World - smh.com.au
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:21 pm EDT, Jun  3, 2008

MONTERREY, Mexico: This dramatic photograph shows a car ploughing into cyclists in a race along a highway near the US-Mexico border.

One rider was killed and 10 others injured in the incident. The 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the cyclists, said a police investigator, Jose Alfredo Rodriguez.

That picture is amazing. And drunk driving in the middle of the day?

'Sleeping' driver ploughs into bike race - World - smh.com.au


Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - NYTimes.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 4:34 pm EDT, May 30, 2008

Interactive infographic on money spent after x number of years for buying and renting.

Basically, having now bought a house, I move for at least 6-10 years, depending on house appreciation (or depreciation).

-janelane

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - NYTimes.com


USA National Gas Temperature Map
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:41 pm EDT, May 19, 2008

Now you can see what gas prices are around the country at a glance. Areas are color coded according to their price for the average price for regular unleaded gasoline.

USA National Gas Temperature Map


Does Hello Kitty now have diplomatic immunity?
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:49 pm EDT, May 18, 2008

Wow, this is just too strange. I don't know where to start on the jokes. Things like Sanrio going on a mascott killing ramage comes to mind.

Thratchen

Does Hello Kitty now have diplomatic immunity?


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Sex pest' seal attacks penguin
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:23 pm EDT, May 15, 2008

An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Sex pest' seal attacks penguin


Nerdy Tattoos
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:21 pm EDT, May 15, 2008

Abraham writes: "My fascination with Tesla started in elementary school, when my science teacher compared Tesla and Edison. I decided to pay my tribute to the wizard with a patent drawing on an electric magnetic motor, submitted by Tesla in the late 1800's."

Nerdy Tattoos


Request for Papers | summercon 2008
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:36 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2008

We're hoping to have a great crowd this year!

Request for Papers | summercon 2008


Summercon 2008 Official Announcement | summercon 2008
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:36 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2008

Please keep checking the site. We plan to have preregistration up soon. We're updating it everyday!

Summercon 2008 Official Announcement | summercon 2008


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