Posts by Hadyn Green
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when's the Puppy Bowl?
Every year during halftime of the Superbowl on Animal Channel (and on webcam)
Oh GOD, it's American football season again. It comes around every year so *quickly*. Sigh.
I know! isn't it aweso... oh, sorry.
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Wow, the things I learn on a Sunday morning. Polo shirts are named after the sport (naturally) and though the originals were similar to the tennis shirt designed by Lacoste they were made of a heavier fabric. So Lacoste's light weight design was adopted instead.
The term polo shirt, which previously only had referred to the long-sleeved buttoned-down shirts traditionally used in polo, soon became a universal moniker for the tennis shirt; no later than the 1950s, it was in common usage in the U.S. to describe the shirt most commonly thought-of as part of formal tennis attire. Indeed, tennis players often would refer to their shirt as a "polo shirt," notwithstanding the fact that their sport had used it long before polo did.
As for nude sport (it's a Wikipedia link).
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Isn’t the order of the list of contributors about as meaningful as the NZ batting order?
Heh heh... hey, what!?
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Hayden great you could come along to Beervana and enjoy yourself due to the Brewers Guild generously allowing you to come in and cover it. It is just a pity your journalistic side did not check the facts before typing up your blog. There were in fact eight entries in the Draught section not the one you so derisively trumpet.
I see yes, I did get that wrong. I should have said no other "medalists" rather than entries and I apologise (and I'll correct that).
You can also check the brewers Guild website for a a description of the Draught Style if you wish to broaden your beer knowledge
I did actually, and if it's there I couldn't find it (Wait, just did! a pdf at the bottom of this page, though "draught" is spelled "draft"). But, you'll see that I did link to the excellent piece by Fraser McInnes discussing the style.
Your source also gave you an unbalanced view of the judging and if you had questioned people who were involved they would have been glad to inform you. In certain categories where a gold was not awarded a Silver and even a Bronze can win. Beer must be judged to style so must be put in categories and yes you can get multiple golds in categories and none in others that's judging!
I believe I did actually say that. My "source" were the brewers themselves. One was incredibly outspoken about the judging (even though they were Trophy and Gold winners), but I felt that I wouldn't name them even though they knew I might.It seems to be a small industry and I don't want to "out" people.
I also perhaps didn't make it clear that I wasn't critiquing the judges or the judging (well, except maybe the Tui). The Speights brewer himself pointed out that he won the Lager section with an "ale", and we laughed about it.
None of the brewers were bitter (pun!) about the categories or the judges. Some were offhand about the Tui win, maybe a little curious about why the style was there and how Tui won.
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Shouldn't the debate today on PA be why the hell Dan Carter's moving to 2nd five-eight?
Hey! I had other things to do, alright? [edit: now I think about it, that's not much of a topic]
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The Magogs have a website, call themselves a "motorcyle club" and are kind of respectable.
Named after the Biblical giants?
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I do still look like a 1950s zombie, though.
Though they are always the best ones. Congrats on the move, the consciousness and the mobility!
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Not to dig this back up, but I just read an interesting blog post about variance of height in human populations. It was titled "Human morphological variation: height & weight" so it does contains a few long words I had to look up.
We find that humans show low levels of within-population body height variation in comparison to body length variation in other animals. Humans do not, however, show distinctive levels of within-population body mass variation, nor of among-population body height or mass variation.
In other words, it is particularly in the domain of variance in heights within populations where humans are atypical. The authors suggest that selective forces are driving human populations toward phenotypic optimums, and we inhabit a "rugged adaptive landscape." That is, in some places it pays to be short, and in others it pays to be tall.
So body shape is atypically variable in humans, meaning that long legs, arms, torsos etc are not so uncommon. Now I just need to find a study comparing the within-population variance for gender and we'll be done!
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a Belgian Blonde, which is only occasionally available, as they only brew it by mistake.
I had that at Brewfest in March, it was bloody good!
Anyone know where to get more 1/2Gs?
Harringtons said they do a lot of trade in 1/2Gs, you could try them.
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Oh, and I like Galbraiths' Bellringers best bitter. It helps to show people that there's something other than lager for hot days.
Heh, when I'm not screwing up the drink order(!)
Did you know Gailbraiths is an off-license too? They sold me some Renaissance Stone Cutter for $6 a bottle and Tuatara Porter for $4
Richard Emerson.
Oh yeah, the photo is of Richard Emerson but it wasn't him that I spoke to