The DMZ

AviD

12:01 AM

nope, but heard of it

Duncan C

Single malt?

Yum.

Lagavuilin is my personal favorite.

Very smoky and peaty at the beginning, but a lonnnnng, complex finish.

AviD

@DuncanC TWSS!

@DuncanC yes, definitely one of my top X.

Duncan C

Actually she said "Oh my!"

What are your top 3?

I'm not a big fan of Talisker. I think it tastes fishy/seaweedy.

AviD

12:17 AM

@DuncanC I find talisker a bit rougher, I think a tad salty. That could be the fishiness.

Terry Chia

@AviD TWSS?

AviD

but the dark storm is different - its like Talisker, if Laphroig made it. Or Laphroiag, if Talisker made it.... anyway, verrrryy smokey, you can really taste the charred wood.

Duncan C

Look it up on Urban Dictionary Terry.

AviD, is it so charred tasting that it's bitter?

AviD

@DuncanC ha, he knows what it means. he was implying it about what I said.

@DuncanC bitter? no. smokey, like delectable barbecue.

Duncan C

No need to ping me when I'm actively talking to you.

AviD

12:26 AM

@DuncanC actually, replying is a feature of the chat, and is recommended to be used :-)

Duncan C

@AviD The noise is irritating.

AviD

heh, fair point. But you can turn down the pingage per room, if you want. I will try to avoid it though

Duncan C

How do you do that?

Terry Chia

@DuncanC Wait till you hear our daily guilt trip.

Duncan C

Every single tag listed on this room is a dead link.

AviD

12:29 AM

ha. Welcome to the oddity that is The DMZ.

Adnan

Who's the new guy?

David Freitag

@RoryAlsop It was warm today too. Went from 90 on tuesday to 70 today.

AviD

@Adnan @DuncanC.

and, welcome @DuncanC.

Duncan C

Indeed. I didn't expect to discuss single malt in an SE room

Thanks AviD.

AviD

@DuncanC ah, so you've never been here before. Note the tags.

David Freitag

12:31 AM

@DuncanC I can vouch for Laphroaig. It's very tasty.

Duncan C

I don't want a castle. I want.... to sing!

I know Laphroaig well. Not the Tallisker Dark Storm though.

AviD, have you had Highland Park? That's another favorite of mine.

AviD

worth giving that a shot, especially if you like laphriaog.

Adnan

@DuncanC Did you expect to discuss blends?

Duncan C

Cooking Whisky? No.

AviD

@DuncanC yeah, just finished a bottle over the weekend. I like it, but not my favorite.

Adnan

12:33 AM

@DuncanC You cook with blended whisky? Ewww

AviD

in general I usually prefer the Islay anyway, but if do go for a highland - my favorite highlander is The Macallan.

David Freitag

@Adnan Make your steak way more smoky

AviD

well actually @RoryAlsop is my favorite highlander. but you know what I mean.

Duncan C

The regular Macallan is too sweet for me. The 18-year-old is better balanced in my opinion.

AviD

@Adnan heh, nice twist.

actually I think its the Fine Oak to which I refer. Or maybe Special Tag. Or whatever it is.

Duncan C

12:35 AM

It's kind of like not using top quality wine for cooking. I save the good stuff for DRINKING.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag I do get that, and I frequently use Ardbeg and Laphroaig to cook

but blends? In my my mouth?

No, thank you.

Duncan C

Tallisker "Fine Oak"?

AviD

Oo last time I travelled to london they were tasting out a bottle of Distillers reserve. I think it was something like 350 pounds, but soooo good.

David Freitag

@Adnan blends?

AviD

@DuncanC no, thats the Macallan.

Duncan C

12:37 AM

Are you a Brit AviD?

Adnan

@DuncanC I threw up a little

He's not

Duncan C

So I gathered.

But you are?

David Freitag

Well, you're closer I suppose.

Adnan

@DuncanC Please don't make such accusations like that

Duncan C

He seems to get lots of fairly obscure varieties of single malt.

Adnan

12:39 AM

@DavidFreitag Oh, yeah

Blended whiskey

A blended whiskey (or whisky) is the product of blending different types of whiskeys and sometimes also neutral grain spirits, coloring, and flavorings. It is generally the product of mixing one or more higher-quality straight or single malt whiskies with lighter spirits and water. Some examples of blended whiskey include Dewar's, Johnnie Walker, Seagram's Seven Crown, Jameson Whiskey, Chivas Regal, Old St Andrews, and Black & White. == Ingredients and uses == Higher proof, low aged spirits are usually much less expensive to produce than straight whiskey or single malt whisky, and are thus used...

AviD

@Adnan waaat

@DuncanC heh. Well I am one part Scottish.

David Freitag

@Adnan Why on earth would you do such a thing?

Duncan C

I am part Scottish as well.

Adnan

@AviD Are you saying you're drunk right now?

Duncan C

I am a northern European mutt.

AviD

12:40 AM

@Adnan ha. no...

not by blood either, just by association.

Adnan

@DuncanC Where in Northern Europe?

Duncan C

Scottish-Irish-English-German-French

Adnan

A lot of daddies, I see.

Duncan C

Who's your daddy, then?

David Freitag

Oh baby.

Terry Chia

12:42 AM

@DuncanC Not a good question to ask @Adnan.

Adnan

@DuncanC I'm the one who usually asks that question

Duncan C

Yeah well.

Terry, what's your Avatar? A Vulcan/Elf ear with reindeer antlers? Hard to tell at small size.

David Freitag

Hah, I just realized you still haven't switched from your christmas avatar.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Why? Christmas is only a few months away

Duncan C

I think I may have helped you make that observation...

David Freitag

12:47 AM

@Adnan Not last Christmas.

@DuncanC Yes. It's difficult to see the small red blob without clicking to find a larger image.

Adnan

Modulo operation

In computing, the modulo (sometimes called modulus) operation finds the remainder of division of one number by another. Given two positive numbers, a (the dividend) and n (the divisor), a modulo n (abbreviated as a mod n) is the remainder of the Euclidean division of a by n. For instance, the expression "5 mod 2" would evaluate to 1 because 5 divided by 2 leaves a quotient of 2 and a remainder of 1, while "9 mod 3" would evaluate to 0 because the division of 9 by 3 has a quotient of 3 and leaves a remainder of 0; there is nothing to subtract from 9 after multiplying 3 times 3. (Note that doing...

Duncan C

And even then it looks more like a blob than a Santa hat.

Adnan

@DuncanC There's actually a story behind that.

Duncan C

You never did tell me how to turn down the ping/reply sound for this room.

Adnan

At some point, I was very active and wrote a lot of answers and placed them very strategically and gained a lot of rep. @Terry noted that I'm gaining rep only because of my pointy ears

So He decided to add a pointy ear to his avatar

Still 4k rep behind me. Poor @Terry

Duncan C

12:51 AM

I've got the most rep on Stack Exchange.

David Freitag

speaking of whiskey I think it's time for a glass of bourbon.

Duncan C

Sorry, Stack Overflow.

Adnan

@DuncanC In the bottom of your screen, there's a little speaker icon. Click on it, and then a slider will appear. You can use it to lower and raise the volume

Duncan C

Duh, really?

Adnan

@DuncanC Yeah, really.

and, get this, you can use it to mute the sound completely

Duncan C

12:52 AM

Actually I'm on a Mac. It doesn't have a one of those. But I do know how to turn down my system volume.

AviD lead me to believe there was a way to turn down SE chat specific sounds.

David Freitag

@DuncanC A screwdriver and a pair of diagonal cutting pliers can silence them just as well

Duncan C

That way I could still hear my system sounds, music, etc.

Or a ball peen hammer...

David Freitag

@DuncanC If you had windows you could turn the volume for just the browser down...

Adnan

@DuncanC You can mute it. There's an icon up there o/

Duncan C

I saw that. I'd like the notices, just not quite so LOUD.

Terry Chia

12:55 AM

@Adnan Heh. I mostly stopped participating on the site.

Adnan

Duncan C

Adnan, where's that speaker icon again? I can't seem to find it. :/

David Freitag

@Adnan Ah, so much snark. It goes well with bourbon.

Duncan C

Very snark. Much sarcastic. Wow.

Scott Pack

With free-hand circles like that you'd fit in well at meta.SO

Duncan C

12:59 AM

Speaking of blended whisky, I need to take out the garbage. Be back in a few.

David Freitag

@Adnan you still haven't told me why someone would blend whiskey.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Cheap way to get more whisky. It exists because people buy it

David Freitag

@Adnan Oh, I thought there was a legitimate reason.

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag There are two reasons to blend whiskey.

David Freitag

@ScottPack Oh?

Scott Pack

1:02 AM

One is to take a bunch of leavings and come away with something that someone might drink. (the wrong way)

The other is to mix different batches in order to come up with a particular flavor and alcohol content (the right way).

The latter is usually [needs citation] performed with whiskies of the same age, so it can still be bottled with an age.

David Freitag

@ScottPack Citation needed? What is this wikipedia? I trust your beard.

2

Scott Pack

So you might have a distiller run 3 batches at the same time. One with (to throw out numbers) 40/60 rye and wheat, 50/50, and 60/40 rye wheat.

Then once they've been distilled and aged for 7 or 10 years they'd be pulled out and tasted. You may end up with 50% of the volume being bottled as "single barrel", meaning the entire bottle came from only one barrel.

David Freitag

I see, that makes much more sense. I was picturing blending whiskey with something not whiskey.

Scott Pack

Then maybe 25% would be labeled as not single barrel because there wasn't quite enough in each of the barrels of the same proportions to fill a bottle so they get mixed together and bottled.

Then some 25% may be held over between all three and mixed together in different amounts.

Say this bottle is one-third 40/60 and two-thirds 60/40, another bottle is mixed a different way,e tc.

Those will all be labeled as blends

Adnan

Duncan C

1:09 AM

Single malt whisky often combines casks from different years

Adnan

Well, so @Scott managed to attract the highest number of views for the least amount of repwhoring.

Terry Chia

@Adnan Conclusion? We should all start writing perl and growing neckbeards.

Scott Pack

@Adnan What's the calculation there?

@TerryChia Yes.

Although, to be fair, I shave only my neck.

I suppose that makes me a reverse-neckbeard.

Adnan

@ScottPack Simple views/reputation ratio

Scott Pack

Kind of like the reverse-cowgirl but with more shaving.

2

@Adnan Profile views?

Adnan

1:10 AM

@ScottPack Yup

Terry Chia

@ScottPack star whore.

Adnan

@ScottPack How is that even remotely like the reverse-cowgirl?

Don't you need a beer bottle, a cactus, and Vaseline for that?

Scott Pack

@Adnan I got stars, does it matter?

Duncan C

reverse cowgirl with a cactus? Ouch.

David Freitag

Doesn't matter, had sex... err got stars.

Scott Pack

1:12 AM

@DavidFreitag So yeah, also what @DuncanC said. That's why I hate it so much when people say "blending is for shit whiskey that you should be embarrassed to drink".

Adnan

@ScottPack Oh no no, I'm not embarrassed to drink blended whisky at all. I just don't lower my standards enough to even think about trying it.

Scott Pack

@Adnan So you have a basic misunderstanding of what blending means. Cool...cool.

Duncan C

With Scotch, blended whisky means something specific.

Single malt can combine casks from different years, but all from the same distillery.

It's called single cask when it's all from one barrel.

US whiskey uses different conventions and rules for naming that scotch does.

Adnan

@ScottPack Blending in itself is alright. However, most blended whisky is done by basically mixing small amounts of good whisky with other bad whisky and/or water.

Very few names actually offer good blended whisky

so, yes, it's easier to make fun of all blended whisky than to try and find a good one.

Scott Pack

@Adnan Even non-blended whiskey is sometimes mixed with water, entirely to make the alcohol content what the distiller wants.

Duncan C

1:16 AM

Johnny Walker is fairly drinkable for cooking whisky.

Adnan

@ScottPack :|

No way!

Duncan C

Sure. Usually even.

Adnan

Whisky is watered down?

Scott Pack

Almost always.

Duncan C

It comes out of the cask at much higher than 80 proof.

Scott Pack

1:17 AM

Hell, sometimes raw grain alcohol is added when the barrel is dumped in order to bring the proof up to what they want.

Duncan C

You can buy "cask strength" but it's awfully strong tasting.

Adnan

Like like.. do you mean that they don't sell the pure 80% product after distilling?

Duncan C

80 proof is not 80%, it's 40%

David Freitag

@DuncanC That's not that high for a bourbon. Wild turkey is 86 proof

Adnan

@DuncanC :|

Ahhh

Duncan C

1:17 AM

pure grain alcohol is 200 proof.

Scott Pack

Yeah, proof == ${ABV}*2

Duncan C

Everclear!

Scott Pack

@DuncanC Much of the same rules apply, they're just usually different names.

Adnan

This is the whole SSL thing all over again.

Scott Pack

@DuncanC We tend to refer to "barrel" instead of "cask", except in the case of "cask strength" which I find interesting.

Duncan C

1:18 AM

I have a bottle of The Macallan "Cask strength" in my liquor cabinet right now.

I tend to drink it on the rocks. Normal strength single malt I drink neat.

Adnan

@DuncanC Actually, no. Whisky doesn't usually reach 200 proof

Not even 180

Scott Pack

That's true, it usually only hits 94.8%

Adnan

@ScottPack Nope

Duncan C

Right, I said pure grain alcohol, not whisky.

Adnan

Lady at Laphroaig said it's closer to 80%

Scott Pack

1:21 AM

@Adnan Then blended down and casked for aging.

Adnan

If they distill it too much, it loses flavours

David Freitag

My 20 year vintage bottle of Laphroaig says 43%

Scott Pack

@Adnan Maybe, at that point in processing there's not much flavor since it's raw distilled.

TildalWave

Stroh

Stroh Austria GmbH is an Austrian manufacturer of strong spiced rum. The Stroh Rum brand is one of the best-known from Austria. == History == In 1832 the liqueur and brandy manufacturer was established in Klagenfurt, named after the founder Sebastian Stroh. Its assortment was awarded a gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. As the state of Austria–Hungary had no access to colonies in tropical regions, rum producers originally tried to replace the sugarcane molasses aroma by a mixture of flavorants and dyes added to a diluted ethanol basis, referred to as Inländer-Rum ("domestic...

80% rum

so 160 proof

not really drinkable but makes for a helluva cookies

Duncan C

This discussion inspired me to pour myself a couple of fingers of Laphroaig.

Scott Pack

1:23 AM

I do more often put 1 or 2 cubes of ice in my whiskey, but usually it's to cut the oils. Some don't bother me but more often than not the oils upset my tummy.

Duncan C

Drinking on a school night. Could be ugly tomorrow morning.

Scott Pack

@DuncanC I'm drinking a Manhattan.

Duncan C

My dad likes Manhattans.

David Freitag

I have to try gin sometime soon.

Adnan

I'm drinking Guinness. Yummm

David Freitag

1:24 AM

@Adnan Nothing like having a nice glass full of dinner

Duncan C

I'm not a big fan of gin. I'll drink a gin and tonic on a hot summer's day sometimes.

"Beer is good food"

David Freitag

I don't like beer.

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag Meh, I find Guinness to be a very nice light summer beer. The kind of thing I'll drink outside on a hot day to feel refreshed but not heavy.

Adnan

@DavidFreitag I love beer!

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag There are few things I like more than a nice G&T on a hot summer day, or night.

David Freitag

1:26 AM

@ScottPack The problem is I have run out of room in my mini fridge.

Duncan C

So you need a bigger fridge then.

David Freitag

I think I'll polish off the tequila I bought and replace it with a bottle of gin.

Adnan

@ScottPack Oh, at Bruichladdich distillery, they offered us G&T at the end of the tour

It was gin they produce

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag Go with a roughly 2:1 Canada Dry Tonic (stay away from diet) and Hendricks Gin with a couple of thin sliced slivers of cucumber.

David Freitag

Cucumber?

Adnan

1:27 AM

@DavidFreitag Cucumber or lime. Both work great

Duncan C

Gotta have lime.

Maybe lime AND cucumber, but gotta have lime.

Scott Pack

For most gins I'd go with lime, but the herbal blend used in Hendricks is much more suited for cucumber.

David Freitag

Mmmm nutella and bourbon.

Scott Pack

The thing to keep in mind with gin is that each distiller uses a different spice blend for their infusions, the only commonality is juniper.

TildalWave

just don't binge drink gin, every now and then is fine but a lot of it will kill your liver

Adnan

1:29 AM

Shit! I probably shouldn't have poured myself a Guinness at 04:29

TildalWave

Why not?

Adnan

@TildalWave Because I have to "wake up" and go to work in 3:30 hours

David Freitag

@Adnan One guinness shouldn't be an issue.

Scott Pack

So you just drank a low alcohol easily metabolized beer. What's the dilleo?

Adnan

@DavidFreitag Staying up until 4:30 is

David Freitag

1:31 AM

@Adnan Nah. Sleep deprivation is fine.

TildalWave

@Adnan How many you had? I mean, if you only had one then I don't see a problem

Scott Pack

It's been my experience that "one more" isn't usually a problem. It's when that gets said more than once that you have a problem.

Adnan

@TildalWave The beer isn't an issue, but staying up is

Duncan C

4:29? Where are you located?

TildalWave

@Adnan you'll be fine, just eat a good breakfast

David Freitag

1:34 AM

@DuncanC Mare Australe, The moon.

Duncan C

On the other hand, beer has strong soporific effects, so you should sleep well for those 3 and a half hours.

Adnan

IT'S NOT THE ALCOHOL! GOD DAMN IT!

@DuncanC Finland

Duncan C

Off to bed with you then.

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag that's on the edge of visible Moon no?

Duncan C

After you Finnish your beer that is.

David Freitag

1:35 AM

@TildalWave It's the center of what would be the man in the moon's mouth.

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag You sure? It's Latin for "The South Sea"

David Freitag

@TildalWave Woops I was thinking of Mare Cognitum. My bad.

TildalWave

I'm still not exactly sure how to see the man on the Moon ... I always see something else

Scott Pack

Boobs? That's what I usually see.

TildalWave

Interesting :8

Duncan C

1:40 AM

Rule 34, the lunar edition.

David Freitag

@ScottPack That's not the moon, you're thinking of the other end.

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag Whatevs. Ends is ends man.

TildalWave

usually, if I'm sober I see a gray round rock on the sky roughly half a million clicks away, and if I'm not sober I see two or more of them and they dance around each other

Of course, if I saw one when it's cloudy of foggy I'd be worried

David Freitag

@TildalWave I wonder if Fry's beer would still be good after a thousand years in cryo.

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag Fry's beer? Stephen Fry? Or ... ?

Scott Pack

1:42 AM

He thawed well enough, why not the beer?

David Freitag

@TildalWave Fry as in Futurama Fry.

TildalWave

oh, dunno about that

Duncan C

I guess if you can cryo preserve a human without rupturing his cell walls you can cryo-preserve a beer without making it foam over and go flat.

TildalWave

I think a can of beer could handle thousand years in deep space

not a bottle tho

David Freitag

not deep space, cryo

TildalWave

1:45 AM

Also, why does this sound familiar?

Duncan C

Beer cans rupture in the freezer. :(

TildalWave

Didn't some brewery send beer in space?

I know they have a tiny brewery on ISS now

ah no now I remember, not beer but pop soda

Duncan C

Voyager should have had beer on it, if was to be a sampling of the best the human race has to offer. And single malt.

TildalWave

some Japanese company or something

@DuncanC plural, there's two of them

Duncan C

I meant Voyager 1, the one that's in interstellar space.

TildalWave

1:48 AM

and install alarm system on the can ... you know, as proof of intelligent life out there, if the probe still beeps and the alarm goes off, then we'd know

Scott Pack

@TildalWave WAIT WHAT?!?

TildalWave

@DuncanC meh the difference between interstellar and still within the heliosheath is so marginal ... pun intended

Duncan C

Sounds like the plot summary of a SNL star trek movie spoof.

TildalWave

@ScottPack yup, some company sent a small beer brewing facility up on the station, IIRC with the last ATV5 this summer

Duncan C

Still pretty cool that it passed through the heliopause.

TildalWave

1:51 AM

yes, because ~ 2 proton particles per cubic centimetre and ~ 2 proton particles per cubic centimetre is really significant :)

Scott Pack

@TildalWave Any idea which one?

I am kind of disappointed if beer was sent along with V'GER. It was sent up by the US and we had garbage beer back then.

These days there's an amazing plethora of fucking fantastic American beers, but not then.

David Freitag

Damned crackers keep braking off in my nutella. It looks like a cracker graveyard.

TildalWave

@ScottPack not sure, here's one article space.com/… but I dunno which company sponsored him eventually

then there's also this: news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/…

Adnan

@DavidFreitag That's racist

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag I spread mine on bread or bagel.

David Freitag

1:56 AM

@Adnan s/racist/delicious

Scott Pack

Why can't racism be delicious?

@TildalWave Clearly they picked a stout because that's what real beer is.

TildalWave

What I'd like to see is how it'll ferment in microgravity

David Freitag

Magic.

Duncan C

Well all, I gotta run. It's been a pleasure.

Scott Pack

Good night my sweet.

Adnan

1:59 AM

Same here

night night, all.

TildalWave

well it might not make it if the fermentation process is doomed because of lack of gravity, but I think we could develop some tech to help it with that, I mean it's beer we're talking of here!

If we want to send people into space they'll be asking if they serve beer there. It's essential that we have a beer brewing facility in space. Not sure what nonsense they're spending all the money on that we still don't have that capability!!

Scott Pack

I wonder what would be easiest to brew in space. Beer, wine, mead, distilled liquors?

TildalWave

Dunno, they might all need some centrifuge system, I'm not sure those trapped fermentation bubbles would allow any to mature properly

there's also a question of how bad does increased radiation influence yeast

Scott Pack

Ok, that part is easily solved.

TildalWave

should be yup

Scott Pack

2:10 AM

You know the whole "line the exterior hull with the water tanks" thing to keep humans safe?

Do that on the brewery section. It'll be a much smaller room than the whole ship making the water based shielding more practical.

TildalWave

another problem is formation of sugars ... I know they've done experiments with yeast before on the station but I didn't read results so dunno how well they metabolize

that's called biological shielding

Scott Pack

Sounds hard

David Freitag

@ScottPack Oh it's hard.

TildalWave

:)

damn you!

lol

Scott Pack

@DavidFreitag So hard.

So.

At work we have hubot running on our HipChat instance.

One of the first automated actions we programmed in was a string trigger for "TWSS". Hard being one of them.

Terry Chia

2:30 AM

@ScottPack Sounds like I should join your team. I'd fit right in.

Iszi

2:59 AM

@ScottPack TWSS

tylerl

4:08 AM

Hello, Internet

Image captioning contest. GO:

TildalWave

5:39 AM

@tylerl we're learning to play benjo too

(reference to Deliverance)

or Careful, these things will take your eyes out!

Lucas Kauffman

6:10 AM

@RoryA Netherlands for a course

Rory Alsop

6:31 AM

Morning all

Hang on. I missed an entire night's chat on whiskies and welcoming a new face who likes Highland Park?

Dagnabbit!

@LucasKauffman Ahhh - well, say hi from me. That might amuse him

Polynomial

7:36 AM

@RoryAlsop security.stackexchange.com/questions/66720/safe-secured-room - see my comment.

SCIF / LIST X are official names for those.

Rory Alsop

@Polynomial but not applicable to his question. LISTX is very specific. SCIF also fairly specific.

Polynomial

@RoryAlsop Yes, but they're both names for what he's talking about, and there are more generic terms.

Rory Alsop

His question could cover all sorts of secure project room types

Polynomial

which is what I was writing :P

Rory Alsop

@Polynomial ya want me to reopen then? Okay :-P

Polynomial

7:39 AM

nods

Terry Chia

@Polynomial You started answering questions again? shocked :P

Rory Alsop

@TerryChia must be bored :-)

not enough hammers

@Polynomial I met someone who could have been your brother the other day, playing under the name Tapewyrm. He was one of the support acts at our gig in Nottingham on Saturday

I mean, he did have a mohawk, rather than long hair, and was about 6 foot 8, but so similar

Polynomial

@RoryAlsop hah, well my real brother is skinny and ginger and wears t-shirts big enough to fit most of sub-saharan africa in.

Rory Alsop

hahahahaha

Polynomial

7:53 AM

@RoryAlsop Yeah, re: that question, if he'd just asked "what are the names of..." then I'd say close as a list question, but since he prefixed it with "are there any proper terms for..." then I think it becomes valid, because there's a definitive "yes, and here are a few" or "no, but here are some from the industry that sort-of fit"

AviD

@DavidFreitag what? no. most of your favorite brands are blends. Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels (well techncially a bourbon, but still), and many more.

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop Thor only needed the one.

AviD

@Adnan @DuncanC its not just strong tasting, you really are not supposed to drink cask strength straight. you're supposed to mix it with water.

I actually made that mistake once.... double cask strength Laphroaig. First time I had a proper peaty single malt... And when I could feel my toes again, I realized I loved the flavor.

@tylerl Han Solo and Princess Leia enter the witness protection program

Terry Chia

@AviD Hah! Good one.

Hmm, won't it be the biggest troll ever if they make Carrie Fisher wear the gold bikini in the new Star Wars movie?

AviD

I think there is an age limit to that thing.

She's got to be like in her 160's now, right?

Polynomial

8:05 AM

@tylerl "Hi, welcome to Blue Peter. Today, we're going to show you how to make a piece of red-green 3D art with a budgie, a rifle, and a canvas."

AviD

She's been around since @RoryAlsop's last regeneration.

@tylerl Continue watching to see where we will be putting these! Right, honey? wink wink

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Terry Chia

Is the next Marvel movie Avengers 2?

I think it's that and Ant Man next year right?

Rory Alsop

8:19 AM

@Polynomial good answer, mate - you got my upvote

my apologies

Polynomial

s'all good ^^

Terry Chia

Syscan 2015 CPF is open if anyone is interested: syscan.org/index.php/sg/cfp

As usual speakers get an awesome deal.

AviD

@TerryChia do they pay for travel? if they dont pay for travel its moot.

Polynomial

@TerryChia hot damn.

Terry Chia

@AviD $2k.

Polynomial

8:26 AM

Signaporean dollars

AviD

@TerryChia pshaw.

Polynomial

it's ~£500

so more like $1000 USD

Terry Chia

@Polynomial Nah, $1600~ USD.

AviD

wat. That could probably cover cab fare to and from the airport.

Polynomial

oh yeah you're right, $1600

£971, not £500... miscalculated

which is pretty decent.

Rоry McCune

8:28 AM

Terry Chia

@Polynomial Plus another $1500 SGD if your talk is new.

AviD

and another 1500 if you dont suck.

its amusing - some confs want talks that are BRAND NEW, and some prefer ones that have already been given, practiced, and polished at another big conf.

Polynomial

well, looks like you can get flights there from the UK for less than £600

I'd jump it up to First Class just to fit the budget haha

AviD

oh yeah? so I could probably get there via LHR...

Terry Chia

@Polynomial You should submit a talk. :P

Polynomial

8:31 AM

I might do

Terry Chia

You will fit right in with the Syscan crowd. You probably know a bunch of them already.