Posts by Peter Ashby
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@Russell
No Springbank to Caol is the right order, you build up to the stronger flavoured malts so they don't spoil your palate for the others. I don't disapprove of Speysiders, it's just that I drink single malts as digestivs after dinner. Speysiders are more aperitif malts.
As for that I do like an aperitif in the winter and for that I am partial to Scapa, the other Orkney malt which is honeyed. Though that has been overtaken in my heart by the 8yo unpeated Caol Ila. My tasting notes for that are: honeyed green melon rind. In a blind you will never pick it as a Caol or even an Islay.
Speaking of Orcadian malts, Mark if you want a good introduction to the world of smoke, peat etc then Highland Park is the malt for you. It's the one I started on after years spent drinking anodyne Glendfiddich. I still have bottles of HP, but no Glenfiddich since I would rarely drink it and have enough variety to be able to supply visitors. Most Speyside drinkers will be happy with Highlanders like Dalwhinnie or Dalmore.
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The problem with Lagavulin (my 2nd favourite dram) is that being a 16yo predicting future demand is a problem and a couple of years ago they discovered they didn't have enough casks of the right age so the price went way up. I have a bottle of the cask strength 12yo to get me by. For a while here in Scotland was the only place you could get the 16yo reliably, if your pockets stretched to GBP30+ that is.
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I'd argue that it's probably the highest profile science/technology magazine (with the arguable exception of Scientific American among non-specialist audiences.
Which may be true, but NS have admitted that the vast majority of their readership are scientists. This biologist uses it to keep abreast of the rest of science that isn't in the journals I read. I first became hooked because the Physiol dept at Otago had a subscription and I would read it in the common room with a cup of coffee. Now I have a personal subscription. I pass my copies onto a professor of Economics.
May family do read it, but they all either have a BSc or are studying for one.
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@Mark Taslov
Recommend some classics, well that rather depends on your own predilictions doesn't it? For eg while I am generally all over Islays that excludes Bruichladich and Laphroaig, but your mileage may differ. However wrt Islay you can't go past Ardbeg and Caol Ila, the most balanced of them. Then there's the Islay that is unlike the others: Bunnahabhain, a great big, warm hug of a dram.Or if that is too much peat, smoke and seaweed for you then hop over to Cambeltown and pick up a Springbank, complex and creamy. If you like it but still hanker after some warming peat then they call their malt made with peated barley Longrow.
Anyway if you want to continue this my email is prashby at blueyonder d*t co d*t uk
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Oh and I have a hierarchy on the Single Malts as well. Most Speysiders for eg rank close to blends, whereas if it was distilled on Skye . . .
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the bishop! now you mention it, it was whisky!
In that case I hope it wasn't a Single Malt that would be a terrible, terrible calamity. A Vatted Malt only slightly less so, a blend: com çie, com ça.
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So long as it wasn't whisky, what's the harm?
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Russ, Simon Baron-Cohen is not proposing that the in utero testosterone level can be used as a test for autism. The research does not suggest that, it is only investigating the possibility that testosterone levels might play a role in autistic spectrum phenomena, not even autism.
The most he has done is call for a debate about what might best be done if a hypothetical test for autism could be developed. He is right that debate needs to be had and the polarisation you rightly describe would probably talk past each other over it.
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In terms of what people in IT can do as a protest, is not possible to refuse to do IP address lookups to ID people? or to 'break' that system so nobody else can? Obviously you would want to check the details of your employment contract first, perhaps couch it as a work to rule?
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@Mark
Thanks a bunch, my reading had intimated that the Mac native Open Office was 10.5/Intel only. I'm downloading the PPC Aqua as I type this. I might use it now since I was never able to get it to print from within X-11. Yipee!