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Recirculating with an Immersion Chiller

  By Nerdly Admin | 1 May 2012 - 11:01 pm | Homebrewing
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I’ve already mentioned my new homebrewing system.  One feature I made sure to include was recirculating the wort with an immersion chiller.  Like a counterflow or plate chiller, this provides for very efficient cooling.  But it retains the advantages of an immersion chiller regarding easy sanitation, by dropping the chiller … Continue reading →

Growing barley for malting

  By Nerdly Admin | 30 April 2012 - 6:59 pm | Homebrewing
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After growing hops for a few years, I thought I would try growing some two-row Conlon barley to have a go at turning it into malt for brewing.  I probably won’t get a lot of product, but it should be a neat experience. Not surprisingly, the seed looks very similar … Continue reading →

Audio switch for airplane passenger

  By Nerdly Admin | 17 April 2012 - 10:29 pm | Aviation, Electronics
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Mrs. Nerdly Endeavours likes to fly with me in the airplane, but she gets annoyed at the radio transmissions I have to listen to from air traffic control.  So I made an inline switch to block the incoming audio to her headset – she can still listen to her tunes … Continue reading →

Philips LED light bulb

  By Nerdly Admin | 10 April 2012 - 7:02 pm | General Hacks
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my uzi weighs a ton

Always keen on being on the bleeding edge of technology, I bought an LED light bulb despite the relatively high cost.  Namely, it’s Philips Dimmable AmbientLED 12.5-Watt A19 Light Bulb (model # 409904 / 423343). First impression: as Public Enemy once said “my Uzi weighs a ton.” Actually it has … Continue reading →

Foreflight and the new iPad

  By Nerdly Admin | 6 April 2012 - 9:29 pm | Aviation
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I was excited to try the Foreflight app with the latest iPad 3 having a “retina” display with 2048×1536 resolution, four times as many pixels as the old hardware. Version 4.4.2 of Foreflight was at least partially updated for the new iPad, but still wasn’t optimized as you can see … Continue reading →

Rancilio Silvia Portafilter Gasket Replacement

  By Nerdly Admin | 24 March 2012 - 9:17 am | Coffee, Food and Drink
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old portafilter gasket

Poort Miss Silvia was still laboring with the original brew system gasket that seals the portafilter against the body of the machine.  After six years of almost daily use, a replacement was in order as it was prone to leaks. I knew the old gasket would be difficult to remove … Continue reading →

Recovering lost photos from an iTunes backup

  By Nerdly Admin | 20 March 2012 - 8:32 pm | General Hacks
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So I carelessly wiped clean my old iPad before copying all the photos from it.  A lot of them did not exist elsewhere (transferred from a digital camera and then cleared the memory card), so I wanted to recover them.  There was an iTunes backup of the iPad still on … Continue reading →

Excommunication is a harsh sentence. Can you stand up to the Pope’s attack fleets?

  By Nerdly Admin | 1 March 2012 - 6:17 pm | Gaming
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Imperial Earth

As a youth I saw this advertisement in an old Dragon magazine and while I forgot the name of the game, the picture of it stuck in my mind for decades, particularly the clever tagline: Excommunication is a harsh sentence.  Can you stand up to the Pope’s attack fleets? Recently … Continue reading →

New Brewing System

  By Nerdly Admin | 28 February 2012 - 7:04 pm | Homebrewing
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The lovely Mrs. Nerdly Endeavours treated me to an awesome birthday present of a new homebrewing system.  I wound up sourcing a Blichmann Top Tier stand, burners, and shelf from a local shop and the kettles, pump, fittings, etc. from an online source.  Here it is squeezed into a nook … Continue reading →

Thermometer Calibration

  By Nerdly Admin | 13 February 2012 - 9:57 pm | Homebrewing
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calibration

I received some parts for a new homebrewing system & thought I’d better calibrate the thermometers to ensure the desired mash conditions, where temperature is critical. To start, I heated water to approximately mash temperature and put it in an insulated mug.  I used a reference mercury thermometer and a … Continue reading →

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