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Seconded. I too was hanging off his every word, and learned from this course that Roget's Thesaurus is arranged in a completely different way to a regular thesaurus (by category/association rather than alphabetically) [1], and so much about how a good song is structured.
(Very) Minor niggle but imgur is blocked in my office, so I don't get a logo at the top. Like the idea though!
I'm surprised there isn't mention of the Spiedels Braumeister [1] - it seems to be a similar product (albeit with less tech, and possibly a bit more manual work).
I've heard lots of good things about them, but the price has always put me off, though it is comparable to the PicoBrew, at least here in the UK.
I think they require a bit more interaction if you want to sparge (from my cursory internet forum research performed just now [2]) but at least you can (batch) sparge, and create recipes that would scale up to your big rig if you desired (and had a big rig and space etc).
[1] http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/speidels-braumeister-en.h...
I always thought that the key was to mash with an appropriate volume of liquor (or 'water' for those that don't enjoy the brewing jargon): if you chuck all the liquor in (full-volume mashing I think it's called), the thin mash means that there's less contact between the enzymes and the starches which I would expect to result in a different chemical composition.
Batch sparging on the other hand (following a mash with a regular ratio of liquor/grain - but rather than slowly rinsing the grains with sparge-temperature liquor, you fill your mash tun with your full volume of liquor at sparge temperature) may affect efficiency (positively or negatively), but shouldn't change the quality.
I've enjoyed some fine batch-sparged beers!
Oh and as for the OP's point about a beer taking three hours... I wish! For me it's more like 8 with all the cleaning and fiddling around in my tiny brewing space!
There's a famous (in the UK) example of how prevalent it seems to be in politics: a Labour aide, Jo Moore[1] eventually had to resign after issuing a memo on 9/11 basically saying "today would be a good day to bury bad news"
Codswallop! I'm in the UK and I use WhatsApp a lot. Though I do know many (mainly iPhone users with their iMessages) people that haven't heard of it, for us Android people it is an excellent tool for group chat & image sharing.
I preferred the Guardian[1] piece on this, for it's lack of real content (who's heard of graphene?) and very entertaining comments.
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/graphen...
I'm personally a m4/3 convert - I exchanged my D700 and some great lenses for a full Olympus OM-D kit, and aside from a few quirks, I couldn't be happier. However I am not ashamed to say that the D700 and the glass I had was more camera than I needed; I would wager I'm not the only person who covets (and spends perhaps too much on) new and better gadgets though...
I made the switch after a holiday with a new baby - trying to carry a serious DSLR and nice lenses around with a baby just didn't work. The whole m4/3 camera and lens kit feels to me like it weighs about as much as one of the serious lenses I used to have!
A real fear is that, despite how happy I am (and clearly the author of this article is too), I don't think they're selling enough across the board (if you don't already, I'd suggest any avid photographer read Thom Hogan's stuff, and he talks about this often - e.g. here: [1]).
[1] http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/the-m43-users-are-nervou...
Indeed. Sunday night is quite a popular night to have "a few" over here.
Never understood it myself - Monday mornings are hard enough!
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon?