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See also Rocky IV
Mar. 6th, 2004 03:26 amAfter the heady successes of my last two soda experiments—Sprecher's Cream Soda and Hannah's (not Sarah's) Maple Cream Soda—I pushed my luck a little too far tonight. I got cocky, I admit it. And I paid the price.
I'm not sure exactly what it's called, since the label is mostly in Cyrillic, but I believe it is "Kvass: Russian-style carbonated beverage."
There is, apparently, a beer-like drink called Kvass; this does not appear to be it, as it contains no alcohol. I can imagine, however, that sad Russian children are forced to drink this Kvass substitute until they are old enough to drink the real thing, which explains all that experimentation with Communism and gulags.
Despite it being non-alcoholic, the clerk asked me for my ID when I brought it to the counter. The list of ingredients includes "bacterial culture" and "bread crumbs." And it tasted like old beer with bacterial culture and bread crumbs in it.
Key planning point for the future: avoid Kvass.
I had a serious scare tonight. I was (am) using Kendra's iBook for my internetting, and the hard drive suddenly began spasming, grinding, knocking against the case. The speaker began chirping in some eldritch tongue. I could feel the drive thrashing about in there. (None of this, I should point out, I am making up.) My first thought was, obviously, "Poltergeist!" but hot on the heels of that one was "Kendra's dissertation is being chewed to bits!" Which scared the daylights out of me.
Obviously, her computer is fine, as I'm continuing to use it, and her dissertation is undamaged. I found the hard reset button, and, after rebooting, Norton Utilities could find nothing wrong. But I think it might just be time for a backup; the last one was more than a month ago. The icy dread that clutched at my heart when I thought she'd lost all that work has convinced me that weekly backups are wise.
(Anybody have any experiences like this one? It sounded like the reader arm in the drive was literally banging against the walls of the hard drive. Very freaky.)
I'm not sure exactly what it's called, since the label is mostly in Cyrillic, but I believe it is "Kvass: Russian-style carbonated beverage."
There is, apparently, a beer-like drink called Kvass; this does not appear to be it, as it contains no alcohol. I can imagine, however, that sad Russian children are forced to drink this Kvass substitute until they are old enough to drink the real thing, which explains all that experimentation with Communism and gulags.
Despite it being non-alcoholic, the clerk asked me for my ID when I brought it to the counter. The list of ingredients includes "bacterial culture" and "bread crumbs." And it tasted like old beer with bacterial culture and bread crumbs in it.
Key planning point for the future: avoid Kvass.
I had a serious scare tonight. I was (am) using Kendra's iBook for my internetting, and the hard drive suddenly began spasming, grinding, knocking against the case. The speaker began chirping in some eldritch tongue. I could feel the drive thrashing about in there. (None of this, I should point out, I am making up.) My first thought was, obviously, "Poltergeist!" but hot on the heels of that one was "Kendra's dissertation is being chewed to bits!" Which scared the daylights out of me.
Obviously, her computer is fine, as I'm continuing to use it, and her dissertation is undamaged. I found the hard reset button, and, after rebooting, Norton Utilities could find nothing wrong. But I think it might just be time for a backup; the last one was more than a month ago. The icy dread that clutched at my heart when I thought she'd lost all that work has convinced me that weekly backups are wise.
(Anybody have any experiences like this one? It sounded like the reader arm in the drive was literally banging against the walls of the hard drive. Very freaky.)
