fleshyorgans

Notes about the 7 Bridges Red Ale I’m finishing up:
7/7/7:
Followed instructions exactly. Wort chilling took 1 hour.
Pitched yeast at 1am 7/8/7
OG (adjusted) 1.045, 75F
7/9/7 at 9am:
Prefermentation (patches of yeast on the surface, stationary bubbles around edge)
7/9/7 5:30pm:
fermentation has started.
7/10/7:
fermentation going strong, churning, etc
7/14/7:
Fermentation slowed down.
Light bubbles at edges.
Huge swath of […]

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Posting this because it’s been difficult for me to find resources on how to convert between different character encodings, such as Windows-1252 (cp1252) to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1. It took me about a day to discover some of these libraries. Maybe I wasn’t searching for the correct keywords — dunno.

require ‘iconv’
require ‘charguess’
# Reads an arbitrary file […]

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Not sure what this is. Looks evil.
Tse-tse fly?
Mutant horsefly?

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That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
That’s the way the bee bumbles.
That’s the way the football fumbles.
That’s the way the monkey tumbles.
That’s the way the scrabble jumbles.
That’s the way the hobo mumbles.
That’s the way the drunkard stumbles.
That’s the way the old man grumbles.
That’s the way the dore Dumbles.
K, that last one is a stretch.

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So, FWIW, apparently the latest Wine update to 0.9.41 breaks IEs4Linux. Symptoms: IE runs but
a) displays only blank pages
b) doesn’t have toolbars
c) does not let you enter URLs in the address bar, only displaying the letter ‘h’
Per this forum thread, I downgraded back to 0.9.38 and everything is hunky dory again. You should only have […]

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