3/8/2015
We attended the North Texas Irish Festival, Whiskey tasting event.
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If you order a nice Scotch or Irish whiskey, you know that ordering it “on the rocks” waters it down.
What do you do, if you want your whiskey chilled?
At home, I use whiskey stones, but most restaurant servers don’t really understand that you want your whiskey cold, but not watered down.
Here is a good trick to use at restaurants:
- Order your whiskey neat (no ice), a second whiskey glass with ice in it, and some water
- Drink some of your water
- Empty the glass of ice in to the water (leaving an empty, cold glass)
- Pour the whiskey in to the cold glass
- Enjoy
A Note on Drinking Whiskey at a Bar
Adding about a teaspoon of water to a standard 1.5 ounce serving of whiskey dilutes it just enough to bring out the complexity of its flavors.
- Option 1: Order your whiskey neat, then add 1 to 2 ice cubes from your water glass.
- Option 2: If you have a really good bar tender, order your whiskey “shaken” (implying: “shaken over ice”). A small amount of the ice in the shaker will melt and mix with the whiskey, but only a really knowledgeable bar tender will know what you’re trying to accomplish.
- Option 3: If your bar tender walks on water, order your whiskey in a chilled whiskey glass, with two ice cubes. Only the most awesome of bar tenders will understand the complexities of whiskey, and have a chilled whiskey glass on hand.
Enjoy!
My list of recommended Windows Utilities and Software is incorporated in to this post:
How to Set Up a New Windows PC or Laptop
https://justinparrtech.com/JustinParr-Tech/how-to-set-up-a-new-windows-pc-or-laptop/#Recommended_Software
“Serious flaw found in Internet Explorer”. That’s like saying, “garbage found in the dumpster”. Although I don’t disagree that the flaw is serious, I DO question the utility and value of using Internet Explorer, as well as the ongoing expectation that IE is useful for anything other than downloading a competent browser.
As a former consultant, I learned or figured out many creative uses for the hotel mouthwash.
I was working on a project that required simple arithmetic for very large integers, a set of algorithms called “Arbitrary Precision Math”.
Thinking back to elementary school, simple algorithms exist for addition, subtraction, and multiplication of two numbers with any number of digits.
To my surprise, every algorithm for division either relies on logarithms, which are difficult to implement in arbitrary precision, or the first instruction was “guess the first number, then guess the second number” etc…
Update: 10/2015: I’ve put together a YouTube video for this post. Check it out, here:
Read on, for a simple, reliable, repeatable algorithm for dividing integers of any length.
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However, there is nothing in the world more frustrating than a website or web application that is poorly-designed or hard to use.
Here are some common mistakes that Web Designers might not think about, but make a huge impact to the customer
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Someone says, “we have 10,000 hits per day on our website”, but what does that mean from an instantaneous demand standpoint?
A distribution curve can help you figure that out.
You just bought a nice new Windows PC or Laptop!
…NOW what do you do?
I get this question all the time – what are the best practices I should follow, when I purchase a new PC or laptop?