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| Published: 2025-03-29 [Sat] 06:51, by |
| A dragon that eats you! |
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| Published: 2025-03-25 [Tue] 16:53, by |
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>>37 Mixed some of jar #1 with milk -- wondered how milk w/ cereal liquor would be. I'm not sure if it was the "heads" or what but the cocktail was almost completely revolting and not something I would wish upon my friends or enemies. 2/10 |
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| Published: 2025-03-24 [Mon] 09:32, by |
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>>2 Just grab my attention someday and I'm happy to teach you! |
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| Published: 2025-03-24 [Mon] 08:35, by |
| that would be cool but i don't know how to play backgammon. |
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| Published: 2025-03-23 [Sun] 18:43, by |
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>>4 don'tcha know? the 'indie web' is content to be consumed! come check out MY website all about ME with 3 blogposts!: * new blog! * big tech sucks!!! * what I did today read my 'about ME' page so you can contact me on d*scord |
| 1. The Giko Backgammon Tournament |
| Published: 2025-03-23 [Sun] 18:36, by |
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Just a fun idea I had. We should collect a list of interested parties for an April tournament, best of 10 (permitting use of doubling cube) per match, maybe with a $5 buy-in per person (winner gets 90% of funds, 10% of money goes toward paying VPS bill) Playing for nothing is also fine but $5 feels like enough to stake that the games would be a little more interesting but nothing to get upset over. Best of 10 may sound like a lot but incorporating the doubling cube, 1 game becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 potentially very quickly... playing with a small number of games per "match" gives RNG an advantage over skill, which is something to be avoided |
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| Published: 2025-03-23 [Sun] 18:25, by |
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>>3 it's funny how often we see comments like this on the site only for the people who said it to disappear forever within days (not even weeks) after saying it lol |
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| Published: 2025-03-23 [Sun] 17:49, by |
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>>37 Sampling jar #2 of the Trix cereal wine (72% ABV), mixing with cola. The strongest flavors carrying through are corn with incidental berry / lemon sweetness. But the heads and tails present hinder the potential for tastiness. I feel like if it were to be distilled again, aged hearts on oak would taste as a pretty tasty bourbon .. |
| 37. |
| Published: 2025-03-22 [Sat] 21:24, by |
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>>36 I got about ~4 liters out of my 18L 9% ABV Trix experiment. 700g of smashed and boiled Trix cereal with 3kg of sugar. Fermented for 1 week, allowed to clear a bit before boiling 1st jar (1.5L) smells very fruity -- perhaps berries and citrus ... but also very strong in alcohol 2nd jar (1.5L) is a bit more ambiguous. 3rd jar (~1L) is much more corny, but also weaker in alcohol. I will likely incorporate this with my ~10L of "stripped" tomato paste wash to make some kind of gin. The corn and berry notes should add a nice complexity to the juniper, coriander, et al. |
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| Published: 2025-03-22 [Sat] 17:51, by |
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>>35 The early part of the run has smelled very berry-like. Not what I was expecting, though I never eat Trix cereal so I'm a poor judge. As we approach the end of the run, the corn notes are starting to come through. It's interesting how different smells and tastes come out at different parts. |
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| Published: 2025-03-22 [Sat] 10:47, by |
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>>34 Just started distilling the Trix cereal wine / beer! I wonder how it'll turn out... |
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| Published: 2025-03-21 [Fri] 22:25, by |
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Started 13 liters of apple cider a few hours ago... airlocks beginning to show that fermentation has began And tonight, I'll distill my "Trix Cereal" wine (~18L water, 700g Trix cereal, 3kg sugar, yeast nutrient) notes on smell and taste will come.... |
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| Published: 2025-03-21 [Fri] 22:23, by |
| lukewarm english breakfast from lipton (bagged tea) |
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| Published: 2025-03-21 [Fri] 19:56, by |
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>>3 I use MusicBrainz Picard to organize all my music in the form ~/Music/Insane Clown Posse/[1997] The Great Milenko/04 - Piggy Pie.mp3 and tinyMediaManager to sort shows and movies like ~/Videos/tv/Sorairo Utility(2025)/Season 1/Sorairo Utility - S01E06 - Special Round.mkv using special software to consistently name/sort content saves a lot of mental bandwidth, and has the bonus feature of being friendly with media servers. I used to try and rename all the random stuff I pulled off torrent sites and it just drove me crazy... In my ~/projects/ , sorting chronologically gives me plenty of context but keeping ~/projects/_index.txt is really helpful in case I forget. Too bad that "tagging" isn't more of a thing in native filesystem tools, we are stuck with trees I think. For stuff like images I prefer boorus but on-disk I try to go for broad categories and give "tags" to the filename so I can search that way. Not very satisfying. |
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| Published: 2025-03-21 [Fri] 19:38, by |
| .plan file |
| 1. gikopoipoi.net forthcomingness |
| Published: 2025-03-21 [Fri] 11:17, by |
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Doesn't it seem kind of disingenous for gikopoi.com to not have even a little explanatory sentence or something somewhere explaining it actually is, in relation to gikopoipoi.net? An alternative instance with some little preference-based mods? And then going as far as calling it "kidpoi", it's like you forked off of it against your free will or something. Rubs me the wrong way. |
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| Published: 2025-03-18 [Tue] 18:36, by |
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Processed ~20L of 12% ABV sugar wine to 4L of 40% ABV "low wines" last night. Next distillation this week is ~20L of "trix cereal" liquor: >18L water >3kg sugar >700g trix cereal >pinches yeast nutrient The idea is that the sugar produces alcohol, and the cereal infuses the alcohol, and provides additional nutrients and sugar to the yeast. I think it should end up as a slightly fruity bourbon, but who knows. Breaking new ground here! |
| 3. Witcher |
| Published: 2025-03-18 [Tue] 18:13, by |
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Book order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher#Overview I read books 1-3 and I'm working on 4 now. The world is pretty interesting and the focus on character relations is done pretty well. After I finish 4 I'm going to watch the Netflix series and start playing Witcher 3 while I continue reading through the rest of the series. These books feel like they could work really well as an anime or game series as I read through them. It's not world-changing literature but the entertainment level is pretty solid. I liked the references to fairy tales in the first 2 books of short stories. I don't think Witcher is as good as Lord of the Rings but it's better than Game of Thrones. Fans of Dungeons and Dragons and classic RPG games could probably really appreciate Witcher, and fans of fairy tales and myth as well. |
| 2. Dune |
| Published: 2025-03-18 [Tue] 18:06, by |
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Earlier this month, I read Dune 1-4. I appreciate how each book goes in a different direction yet the world of Dune still remains largely consistent with itself. Dune #1 was probably the best but the sequels all take the concept in interesting directions. I think the writing has aged pretty well. But 3 return visits to Arrakis were enough for me. |
| 1. Giko Book Club |
| Published: 2025-03-18 [Tue] 18:02, by |
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Read a book? Post your thoughts on it! Someone read a book you read? Answer them! > Find books: https://fmhy.net/readingpiracyguide > Windows ereading: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org > Android ereading: https://readera.org/ < We suggest epub / mobi over PDF when possible < As this thread grows, "tree" mode may be more useful than "thread" |
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| Published: 2025-03-12 [Wed] 18:34, by |
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Fresh fermenting ciders: https://booru.gikopoi.com/post/view/253 Post fermentation / aging dry ciders: https://booru.gikopoi.com/post/view/254 |
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| Published: 2025-03-10 [Mon] 02:47, by |
| nice farm taocana. |
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| Published: 2025-03-10 [Mon] 01:04, by |
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if it's just your own computer, the goal is to organize so that you can access what you need easily. under-categorization makes finding the right thing difficult; over-categorization makes finding the right thing tedious. ~/projects/programming/utilities/c/actual_project vs ~/projects/actual_project only sub-categorize whenever it's actually warranted, otherwise you are just adding extra access and organization time. for having fun on computers, i have ~/fun which i use as a sandbox and then send elsewhere or delete the stuff when it's unwieldy. generally, music can be organized like ~/music/genre/album/song.flac as for calendars and such, it is easier to plan less so your life isn't needlessly complicated. |
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| Published: 2025-03-06 [Thu] 17:49, by |
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Wiki article on winemaking up: https://wiki.gikopoi.com/w/WineMaking |