Hacker for Hire

Some how, I got this crazy idea in my head that I should try making my own beer. I’ve just finished sterilizing everything in the kit and now I’m moving on to the fun part … actually trying to brew beer.

1. Steeping the Grains
The hard part about this is trying to get the steel pot up to 170F without making it insanely hot to deal with later when I have to make sure that I don’t over boil the silly thing.

And the waiting…. We finally got to the appropriate steeping temperature so now there’s 20 minutes of waiting before we can bring it to a boil

2. Adding in Malt & Extract
Finally finished steeping. Have to let the grains drain and then add in the malt and extract

Added the ingredients and now we wait till it boils

Boil dammit!!!

Just broke the candy thermometer. It is now officially a fiasco.

Finally got to add the hops. Hope I don’t make it over boil.

My stove is having trouble keeping the heat up…moving to the lid.

Brand frickin new stock pot lid started snapping and developing hairline cracks…moving to a beefier lid and walmart is going to get a nasty-gram.

3. Beginning Fermentation
Starting the rapid cooling of the boiled sticky mess.

Adding in the yeast and the cool little air lock thingy.

And the beer has a new home for the next week

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That’s all for now!!! Tomorrow, we’ll have to see if the yeast is actually working the way that it’s supposed to and that will be the tell-tale sign of whether or not we have a chance at success. Stay tuned!

Recently, I receive a comment from a gentleman named Ryan. Normally, I just trash messages from people I don’t know; however, this one caught my eye:

Wow, I was considering you for some work, but after reading some of your comments to other individuals I now will not solely for your lack of tact. You may be some geeky techy who knows a lot about computer systems and networking, but you know jack shit about common courtesy.

No, I’m not one of these morons who asked you a previous question and am now offended by it. I am offended that you are trying to run a business and feel the need to treat people like crap because they ask stupid questions. Get used to it and get over it…you’re gonna get stupid questions guy!

I nearly spit all over my computer monitor when I read this I was laughing so hard. Wow … just … wow.
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Super iPhone Blog can kiss my ass. Their crappy spam bot decided to visit my site and this is the result:

If you can’t read it, here’s what they wrote:

I eventually managed to intend a useful “hello world” app created for the iPhone and additional up on my site. The difficulty I was having was not exclusive were individual tutorials discover on the cyberspace inaccurate (i.e., using rattling older groundless techniques), but Apple’s cipher didn’t quite seem to provide me sufficiency information.I started mine completely from irritate with an Xcode iPhone analyse supported application, went finished the impact of adding my IBOutlet conjunctive it up, and then took the player travel of exercisin

Go here to feature the rest:
My First iPhone Hello World App

And my response:

I don’t care if you’re going to rip off my work; however, if you’re going to do it, at least take the time to write a spam bot that can actually do your job with a few more brain-cells that you. Your crap-ass rendition of my post doesn’t even come close to making a grammatically sound or remotely cognitive thought.

Write a better spam bot or just suck less in general. In fact, just leave the Internet before someone revokes your day-pass.

Go suck a spoon jackass. All of your links have been purged from my site and if I find anymore, I’m going to myspace-goatse “hack” your crap-ass spam bot.

I finally managed to get a functional “hello world” app created for the iPhone and added up on my site. The problem I was having was not only were several tutorials out on the Internet incorrect (i.e., using really old unsupported techniques), but Apple’s code didn’t quite seem to give me enough information.

I started mine completely from scratch with an Xcode iPhone view based application, went through the process of adding my IBOutlet connecting it up, and then took the extra step of exercising some memory management in Cocoa Touch (something I couldn’t find many places). I’ve tacked it up on my iPhone development section for your viewing pleasure.