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found drama get oblique Home 2017-2018 BJCP Study Group Books Colophon About the Author Orin Reflection on the 2024 mead study group ¶ April 30, 2024 by Rob Friesel Earlier this year, my friend Kyle organized a mead study group which was not unlike the 2017-2018 BJCP study group . 1 And while this study group did discuss aspects of mead judging, it was more like a tasting group than one focused on earning the BJCP Mead Judge endorsement . I don’t mean this as a criticism — just an observation of how it played out. Continue reading → Nor the 2022-2023 study group that I ran but didn’t write about. [ ↩ ] Posted in Homebrewing , Vermont [# BJCP , # BJCP study group , # homebrewing , # mead , # mead making , # Vermont ] Leave a comment A brief summary of recent brewing ¶ March 31, 2024 by Rob Friesel While a more thorough re-telling of my homebrewing hiatus seems worthy of its own post someday, in the spirit of writing more and trying to keep that running log of my brewing adventures here ( it’s been a while! ), I’ve decided to summarize the brewing I’ve managed to do since returning to Vermont in 2021. Continue reading → Posted in Homebrewing [# homebrew , # homebrewing , # Personal , # Vermont ] Leave a comment Trying to write more in 2024 ¶ February 23, 2024 by Rob Friesel To put it bluntly: I’ve let this blog languish for the last couple of years. While topics had narrowed down to be almost exclusively about #homebrewing since about 2015 or so, my time in Washington and COVID and a few other things derailed just about everything for me. Writing for this thing was definitely not a priority. I’d like to change that this year. I’d like to be doing more writing, and this is about as good a venue as any. And I’d like to get back onto a cadence of at-least-once-per-month. Even if I’m cheating a bit — like with this quasi-meta-post about posting. (I suppose the redemption there is that I’m trying to be publicly accountable to that otherwise semi-private goal.) ‘Til next time… Posted in Personal Leave a comment Got married ¶ January 27, 2024 by Rob Friesel I love you, Jess. (This post retroactively posted to be roughly the time we said our vows.) Posted in Personal [# Jess , # Personal ] Leave a comment Chaos or Community? ¶ January 15, 2024 by Rob Friesel In the week or so leading up to this Martin Luther King Jr. Day of 2024, it occurred to me that I had never read any of his full length” works — only essays, excerpts, and speech transcripts. I wanted to understand more about him and his legacy. I wanted to hear his message more fully, and to engage with it directly rather than having it mediated through a high school teacher or some media columnist. I no longer recall how this book came to be the one on my to read” list, but it also seemed fitting to read his last work — as a kind of sign post of his thinking before we lost his leadership. Continue reading → Posted in Politics [# Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , # MLK , # Politics ] Leave a comment 2023 recap ¶ December 29, 2023 by Rob Friesel Part year-in-review, part brag sheet, part best things and stuff , part tap-the-microphone is this thing on?” life support post for this, my much-neglected blog. It’s been a few years since the last time I did one of these , and several of those were pretty hard years — but now seemed like the perfect time to get back to it. So without further preambles: a look back on my 2023, in no particular order… Continue reading → Posted in Personal , Vermont [# Personal , # Vermont ] Leave a comment book review: Just Ride ¶ May 30, 2022 by Rob Friesel At the age of 41, while living in Bellingham, WA, I decided to spend too much money” on a mountain bike. It had been about 2 years since I’d owned a bike, and (if I’m being honest) probably about 10 years since I’d done any riding. I was going through a tough time (pandemic + some personal stuff) and figured that maybe I could buy myself some happiness in the form of a nice mountain bike — take up a new active hobby, take advantage of the apparently excellent local trails, and distract myself from the essential mundane horrors of my life. Continue reading → Posted in Sundry , Vermont [# Bike , # Biking , # Personal , # review , # Vermont ] Leave a comment dream.20220504: Rice Krispie Treat pairings ¶ May 4, 2022 by Rob Friesel You’ve been sent on an assignment to ascertain the perfect cocktail pairing for a Rice Krispie Treat. You’ve been to too many of these places already but what’s one more? You repeat your now banal-seeming request: I’ll have the house Rice Krispie Treat and whatever cocktail pairing you usually recommend.” This particular bartender opens with a couple of finer points about Rice Krispie Treat doneness, going so far as to demonstrate the differences between a too-brittle over-cooked example vs. a gooey and flaccid rare” one vs. a supple but sturdy medium-rare RKT”. The cocktail pairing comes out in a Tom Collins glass. It’s ivory-colored and creamy. Garnished with an orange twist coiled around a cinnamon stick. It tastes like chai and vanilla and subtly of rum. You swoon. It is the perfect pairing. Em Sauter overhears this and rushes over to confirm. (She agrees.) Posted in Dream [# Dream ] Leave a comment Cyclocross World Championships 2022 ¶ February 2, 2022 by Rob Friesel Went and spectated a new-to-me thing that was incredibly fun. Ever hear of cyclocross ? It’s a kind of bicycle racing that includes all sorts of variable terrain and obstacles and is just generally pretty intense. I’d never heard of it before a few months ago when a long-time friend (and avid cyclist) pitched a long weekend vacation to Fayetteville, Arkansas, which was hosting the 2022 UCI World Championships. And since these days I’m all about shaking things up and trying new things, I said: Yeah sure — what the hell, count me in.” Continue reading → Posted in Personal [# cyclocross , # Personal , # travel ] Leave a comment Orin at 10 ¶ November 15, 2021 by Rob Friesel In 2011, I created the Orin theme for this blog — layering a bunch of then new-to-me CSS3 styles on top of the naked” Starkers theme. It was a perfect combination for me: Starkers provided the barebones mark-up and the WordPress-flavored PHP … and I got to do the rest”. Fast-forward a year and I took the styling a step further and got some responsiveness going. And then… not much happened on the theme for a long time. It was doing the job. It looked fine and let me focus on writing my content — which is to say: living my life and then coming back to write about it. I was content with it. Until… Continue reading → Posted in Code [# Code , # Orin , # WordPress ] 1 Comment ← Older posts Buy my book! PhantomJS Cookbook Beginning with the basics of PhantomJS, this book will dive into its core modules and guide you through how to solve real-world testing problems. This book explores a variety of test automation tasks, including executing JavaScript unit tests with the Jasmine, QUnit, and Mocha frameworks; functional tests with tools such as Selenium, Capybara, and CasperJS; performance analysis with tools such as YSlow; and much more. Recent Comments Rob Friesel on currently watching: ¿Cómo copiar confirmaciones de una rama a otra? - Fallosweb.com on git cherry-pick: it might not be what you think What Is a Dunkel Beer? - Best Beer Near Me on Homebrew #82: Urban Owl Rob Friesel on Orin at 10 Orin at 10 | found drama on Orin Books These are books that I wrote or are otherwise featured in: Recent Posts Reflection on the 2024 mead study group A brief summary of recent brewing Trying to write more in 2024 Got married Chaos or Community? Pages 2017-2018 BJCP Study Group Books Colophon About the Author Orin Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Search for: found drama Proudly powered by...