I’ve been an insane ball of energy lately. I’m reading about 20 books and 10-20 magazines now, I’m learning 2 different programming language, making wine, planning events and more events, blogging and updating a lot of personal sites, running a growing business and a couple fun businesses, taking golf lessons, planning to start making cheese, [...]
I’ve been learning a thing or two about winemaking lately. I will now share one of those things with you.
The process that converts grape juice (or other fruits, or grains) into wine is ethanol fermentation. Here’s the formula:
C6H12O6 –>2 CO2+ 2C2H5OH + Energy Released (118 kJ mol-l)
At the most basic level, that’s all there is [...]
We bottled the first Margaritifer wine a couple weeks ago: Martian Red Australian Shiraz (23 liters; from a kit). We acually bottled it a week later than I had originally planned because we went to Boise for my Grandpa’s funeral. In honor of him, I’m calling the wine Spencer’s Martian Red Australian Shiraz.
We’ve drunk a [...]
It’s one day old and the debut release by The Sursiks is a huge hit!
The record label my brother, David Minnick, and I created to facilitate the release and distribution of our own music released David’s latest CD, The Sursiks: I Didn’t Know I Was Singing, yesterday to incredibly good reviews. CDBaby is loved it [...]
As some of you might be aware, I’ve been planning a conference which will hopefully take place in Sacramento sometime within the next 12 months. The basic idea of the conference will be “Ideas (mine in particular) about the future of the Web, and also ridiculing the concept of giving version numbers to the Web”. [...]
You’re all insane!
Not really, I just wanted a snappy title. My post from yesterday has generated quite a firestorm of controversy. Not really, but hey, I can dream. Anyway, in my dream, I’m responding to my critics:
I’m not calling you lazy. I’m saying that you’re hung up on one aspect of starting a business (start-up [...]
The standard advice I used to get from my creative writing professors was to write SOMETHING. I’m a firm believer in this, but not often a practitioner. I’m also a firm believer in doing some sort of exercise regularly…but, again, I don’t follow through most of the time. Although…look: I’m writing something now, and I [...]
I read the first 20 pages of a lot of computer books. I’ve been trying to be better about making it through the whole thing lately, but there are just so many. Here are some of books I’m reading now that I intend to make it all the way through. I’ve decided not to link [...]
This site needs a blog, and so I’m breaking out my old one. I don’t know what’s in the archives here, but I’m feeling good about things, so I’m just going to leave it all around for anyone who cares.