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Tag: cocktails

  • Dan lies in a hammock under a warm sun, smiling.

    Meetup Magic

    As I come to the end of a week in Mexico with ~400 of my the smartest, friendliest, open-source-loving geeks I could wish to know, I come to realise that Automattic's meetups are just... magical.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 11 October, 2024
  • This evening, I'm reduced to re-alcoholising my alcohol-free beer. Unfortunately the cleanest-tasting vodka I have is "only" 40% ABV, so by adding enough of it to bring the beer back to its correct ABV... I'm technically watering-down the beer.

    Full image of Pint glass having been filled with a carefully measured mixture of 0%ABV Guinness and vodka, with measuring spoons alongside.
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    Pint glass having been filled with a carefully measured mixture of 0%ABV Guinness and vodka, with measuring spoons alongside.

    This might be the strangest cocktail I've ever made.

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 6 September, 2024
  • Full image of First-person view down a hammock in a rural garden. The hammock's occupier (Dan) is holding a novel and a can of premixed Pimms & lemonade.
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    First-person view down a hammock in a rural garden. The hammock's occupier (Dan) is holding a novel and a can of premixed Pimms & lemonade.

    • Note
    • posted 11 August, 2024
  • JTA, Paul and Ruth eat pizza and drink Earth Sunset.

    Earth Sunset

    As regular readers will no-doubt know, the other Earthlings and I are currently in the process of moving house. Last weekend, as well as watching the Eurovision Song Contest, of course, we packed a lot of boxes (mostly stuffed with board games) and moved a handful of them over to New Earth, our new home, โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 3 minutes (522 words)

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 21 May, 2011
  • Carribean Night

    It's not often you plan an entire evening around one ingredient... which turns out not to have anything to do with the food...

    Kit: "What're we going to do with these coconuts?" (holds up two coconuts)

    Two hours later, we're sipping pina coladas, eating carribean-style curry (soon to be followed by Bounty bars). The curry turned out โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 9 July, 2003

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