Anyone who knows me knows I am a Qdoba addict. I not only love their burritos but their no nonsense approach to ordering. They get you in and out in a hurry. It’s good for them and it’s good for their customers.

Today at one of their downtown Pittsburgh locations rather than stop the line from moving while they waited for their register to restart they gave each customer their lunch for free.

They know why people choose Qdoba for lunch and didn’t want something like a cash register failure to change that.

I am in the market for a steel single speed road bike. I am looking for a fun urban bike for commuting, general city riding and maybe some rails to trails rides with Monica.

I have narrowed it down to the following, all have rack and fender mounts, are steel and are single speeds.

Bianchi San Jose link
Pros:

• Can add disc brakes for winter riding
• It’s a cyclocross bike so it’s more rugged

Cons:

• Maybe not as “fun” a ride
• Can not be set up geared

Salsa Casseroll link
Pros:

• Can be set up geared
• More “fun” of a ride

Cons:

• No disc brakes

Redline 925 link
Pros:

• Cheap
• Comes with fenders

Cons:

• Maybe too safe
• Not sure I like bullhorn handle bars

Woke up on Wednesday morning and could barely move. I was in pain, sweating and staying the hell away from work. It seems to be on its way out of me now, no more fever, just a nasty cough.

Cloverfield

Loved this movie, it was fast paced, daring, frightening and just really fun. Its Godzilla without the camp.

There Will Be Blood

I expected to love this movie, but came away hating it. I am the biggest P.T. Anderson fanboy, but this movie is a pile of trash in my opinion. I honestly couldn’t wait for it to end.

Seems like Akismet is doing a good job keeping the spam away, so I decided to turn off the requirement to log in when you want to leave a comment.

I received my demo umd of Chains of Olympus in the mail on Friday and dug out my duty PSP for the first time in about a year to play it. Wow. It plays almost identical to the PS2 games and looks just as great. I think I would play more PSP games if they were all of this quality.

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I am in the market for a new desktop computer to replace my aging Windows desktop which I built myself. I am trying to decide if I want the Mac Mini, or the iMac, the 2.0ghz Mini or the 24″ iMac. I have a Dell 20″ LCD monitor which I would use with the Mini, but a 24″ screen would be much nicer. However, I don’t have a lot of money to spend, so the Mac Mini makes the most sense for me, however, why bother getting a computer I doubt will be powerful enough for my tastes. At $1,799 the iMac would be the most expensive computer I have ever paid for myself.

Mac Mini Pros

• small
• quiet
• I could use my exisiting Dell 20″ monitor to save some money

Mac Mini Cons

• smaller and slower hard drive
• would have to use my ugly Dell 20″ monitor
• slower cpu
• no iSight built in
• sad video card

iMac Pros

• faster hard drive
• new, great looking monitor
• iSight built in
• takes up less desk space
• comes with a new keyboard and mouse
• great video card

iMac Cons

• price

What I really want is a Mac Pro, but I really can’t afford that $2,499 baseline price tag. I think the Mac Pro I would want would come in at over $5,000.

So, when I have the money I will have a serious decision to make. I think I am leaning towards the iMac at the moment, in the end I think I will be happier.

Good stuff

I was hoping to find one of my co-workers outside smoking.

“Brewing” Hard Lemonade

I was going to run some test batches for hard cider today, but when I went out to buy the cider I realized that its not apple cider season. Duh. So I decided to do some hard lemonade instead.

I used two one gallon carboys, 5 lemons, 1 lime, 1/2 packed of Windsor brewer’s yeast and two lbs of sugar. I split everything in two and seperated the batches into the one gallon carboys, one lb of sugar in the raw in one, one lb of regular sugar in the other.

As of right now it is actively fermenting, I am afraid this one is going to explode on me so I put both carboys in a closed crate.

I may bottle half of each batch with priming sugar, and half without to find out if I like with or without carbonation.

Brewing South Hills Brewing’s APA

I bought a kit from South Hills Brewing and brewed that today as well. It came with liguid yeast and extra hops to add to the secondary fermentor which should give me a nice hoppy aroma once its all done. It seemed to have come out well, I will know in about a week when I do the first gravity reading.

Bottling the Brewer’s Best APA

On top of all this I bottled the Brewer’s Best APA today as well. It has come out really heavy and malty which is not what I am into. I will let it sit in bottles for a month and see what happens. This was the first time however that I ended up with two full cases. In fact I was able to have enough after bottling that I filled up a flip top bottle I had and added blueberries to see what would happen.