So i was watching queer eye, since I handily have Bravo now. In horribly embarrasing fashion, the subject attempted to make a mint julep. He knew it was supposed to be sugar, mint and boubon, but his girlfriend (who he was making it for) muttered something about it being clear.

he for whatever reason paid attention to her, and used gin instead of bourbon. Then he decided to fix it, by throwing in some cointreau. Egad.

umm, I'm pondering getting an accessory for everyone's (who has seen it) favourite vacuum tube oscilloscope, something with nixie tubes. I think this continues my admiration of analog electronics from the 60's. Somehow with everything and its brother being digital (which is good for DVDs + HDTV I'll admit) there's more of an appeal in numbers being made out of glowing gas. Yes, I'll link to something explaning nixie tubes because its not like I knew what they were before this evening. Here Pictures. The tubes themselves were displays that pre-dated the 7 segment LED. Think of a vacuum tube (for those of you who have seen one) with a bunch of glowing numbers inside stacked in front of one another. So you activate one cathode (number) and it glows. Neat isn't it? (And obvious why engineering-wise an LED is mucho bettero, especially since the unlit numbers get in the way of the lit one)

Btw, another site says that that site has cheap crappy clocks, so just look there for pictures.

uhrm, besides the nixies (aparently there are nixie lamps in Monsters Inc.) nothing else exciting really. i know its highly boring, but you can't expect too much these days.

must get to sleep now.