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by jdaw1
03:09 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: What is a “head fake†?
Replies: 11
Views: 4834

Re: in defense of Port

g-man wrote:Julian does this a couple of times towards the end of the night after the 3rd bottle of port.
Is that after my third bottle?
by jdaw1
03:04 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: What is a “head fake†?
Replies: 11
Views: 4834

Re: What is a “head fake†?

Split from in defense of Port at 10pm EST Fri 5 Sept 2008 by jdaw1.
by jdaw1
03:02 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: in defense of Port
Replies: 4
Views: 2763

Re: in defense of Port

A woefully off-topic distraction moved to What is a “head fake†?.
by jdaw1
02:56 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Too Young to Drink?
Replies: 11
Views: 5738

Re: Too Young to Drink?

Not quite DRT. I think AHB asked the wrong question. He might disagree. How goes the help with the demonstration? I was inviting comment — though, as you intimate, hinting that it seems that the consensus is not unequivocally against me. Though, upon reflection, it could have been phrased more conc...
by jdaw1
02:53 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

Ghastly poll bars believed repaired.
by jdaw1
02:47 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Too Young to Drink?
Replies: 11
Views: 5738

Re: Too Young to Drink?

AHB wrote:help me to demonstrate to JDAW that he should be opening and drinking far more of his 1994 ports than clearly he is at the moment.
How goes the help with the demonstration?
by jdaw1
02:17 Sat 06 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

DRT wrote:larger Reply and New Topic buttons
And New PM and Forward: done.
by jdaw1
23:53 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, costing a mere $25.20, and cheap at twice the price. (Costing £26 at .co.uk: buy it in the USA.)
by jdaw1
23:23 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

I think 10, 20, 30, 40 is a natural progression that one would find in any wine list. I think the contrast between that at date order for VPs is entirely acceptable and apropriate. So you want VPs oldest-to-youngest, but tawnies youngest-to-oldest. OK. Is that the consensus? And yes, Tufte is excel...
by jdaw1
23:12 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

Saw that. Had already decided that it needed work — but precluded by baby-sitting.

If we’re down to squabbling about poll colours, does that mean it can become the default style.
by jdaw1
22:51 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Too Young to Drink?
Replies: 11
Views: 5738

Re: Too Young to Drink?

Sure, 1994s might be good to drink today. I’ll vote yes. Wrong question. But if 1994s will be much better later, one should wait. There should be a small number of experimental bottles, just to check whether one should be drinking them. But to have regular drinking of one’s stock 1994s better than O...
by jdaw1
22:43 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

Small bug in both indexes, to be fixed when next updated. They are sorted by the year field, in ascending order. So 1900 comes before 1927. So far, so good: oldest first. But this also means that “10Y† comes before “20Y†, so tawnies are youngest first. Ooops. Extra code will be added.
by jdaw1
22:40 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: in defense of Port
Replies: 4
Views: 2763

Re: in defense of Port

Anything that tastes like Fonseca 1966 should have a legal right to call itself Port. The only country making such a thing is, err, Portugal. The end.

(And I only “slay† :tpf: regulars whose first language is English.)
by jdaw1
21:14 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

I’ve marked you down as an enemy of Edward Tufte.
by jdaw1
20:59 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08
Replies: 147
Views: 67699

Re: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08

If they have any more of the RP85 at ┰¤$30 a bottle, I’ll take a few cases.
by jdaw1
17:02 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Apostrophe crimes
Replies: 2072
Views: 676511

Andy V’s extra apostrophe

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=18031#p18031]Here[/url] Andy V wrote:And who says us American's are the only ones who drink them young
:‘!’:
by jdaw1
16:46 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: One man's indexes are another man's indices...
Replies: 11
Views: 4676

Re: One man's indexes are another man's indices...

KillerB wrote:went into IT because they couldn't spell nor understand grammar.
… because they could neither spell nor understand grammar …

:‘!’:
by jdaw1
14:22 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: One man's indexes are another man's indices...
Replies: 11
Views: 4676

Re: One man's indexes are another man's indices...

IT often uses plurals and past tenses containing the root (often the third-person imperative). Any postscript programmer would be happy to use the term un bind ed (source shown coloured) (e.g., here ), just as a database might have one index or several index es. Standard IT word formation. This word...
by jdaw1
13:27 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: One man's indexes are another man's indices...
Replies: 11
Views: 4676

Re: One man's indexes are another man's indices...

KillerB wrote:modern usage allows for "Indexes", especially … the IT industry
Not so far from what I was saying.
by jdaw1
04:19 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

DRT wrote:Should we have a coloured background in the site header?

PS: This is not a question for JDAW
But I’ll answer it anyway. No. It is plenty clear enough. Don’t make it an island: the whole page is :tpf:, not just the header.
by jdaw1
04:08 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

SushiNorth: ready when you are.
by jdaw1
04:05 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

Whereas I am the definitive only TPF expert in 1908s. Smugness.
by jdaw1
04:02 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

SushiNorth: ready when you are.

Also fixed: zapped text peeking out from behind the locked icon that top-and-tails locked threads.
by jdaw1
03:53 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: New Style
Replies: 263
Views: 81586

Re: New Style

DRT wrote:But would it be pushing my luck to ask to have them larger?
Maybe tomorrow.
by jdaw1
03:51 Fri 05 Sep 2008
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Tasting Notes Section
Replies: 178
Views: 80822

Re: Tasting Notes Section

Both announcements, and also the format thread. Meanwhile, we drink more eighty-fives than any other year. We also over-consume 2000s and 1994s, which are far too young. 75 Ã 1985 61 Ã 2000 57 Ã 1994 54 Ã 1977 47 Ã 1970 45 Ã 1963 34 Ã 1983 31 Ã 1966 31 Ã 1995 30 Ã 1991 29 Ã 1997 26 Ã 198...