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- 15:08 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Software that makes placemats
- Replies: 1268
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Software that makes placemats
Custom placemats As some users of this BB already know, at jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html is some free software, open-source as well, that makes elegant placemats for use in a port tasting (or the like). Clearly labelled placemats really do help avoid confusion later in the evening. T...
- 12:54 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Forum Rules
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14108
Recalling why we are here, …
Recalling why we are here, here being both domain and thread… What are the rules on the administrators? • Manifest spam, obscenity, pornography (using a work-compatible definition), flaming, and automated submissions can go. • But admins pay two roles. They are god — in that they can change other’s...
- 12:47 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Reply notifications
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6523
I think admin is a person.
I think admin is a person. post-alert@… would be my preference.
- 03:06 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Reply notifications
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6523
Reply notifications
1. Reply notifications currently come from what appears to be Alex K’s real human email address. They should actually come from something that doesn’t mention a human’s name.
2. Is it possible to be notified automatically of new threads? That facility would keep things moving nicely.
2. Is it possible to be notified automatically of new threads? That facility would keep things moving nicely.
- 03:03 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Forum Rules
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14108
Rule 42
Rule 42: no viagra advertisements.
- 02:54 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Nacional 1962, 1980 and 1985
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8441
Nacional 1962, Nacional 1980, and Nacional 1985
Nacional 1962, Nacional 1980, and Nacional 1985 were tasted in a further celebration of the birth of my first child, Sophia Wiseman . Present were myself and the missus, and friends BAW ODM TZ SGO'S and RO'S; the first of these bringing some fines cheeses. All were decanted at about 3pm through musl...
- 02:53 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Nacional 1962, 1980 and 1985
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8441
- 02:43 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 1985: Nacional, Noval, Warre, Dow, Calem, Royal Oporto …
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7068
1985: Nacional, Noval, Warre, Dow, Calem, Royal Oporto …
Saturday 17th March 2007: again chez mon père, a 1985 horizontal, consisting mostly of houses new to me ( paperwork , more fancy-schmancy than that used the previous evening ). Notes are even briefer: my enthusiasm for note-taking had clearly diminished. Present: JDAW MAW RAW APPW JRW RKA JFH MF SRG...
- 02:42 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: 1985: Nacional, Noval, Warre, Dow, Calem, Royal Oporto …
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7068
- 02:41 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
What the wife could see
What the wife could see.
Naughty girl took no notes! (Or at least, very few notes.)
Naughty girl took no notes! (Or at least, very few notes.)
- 02:41 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
Bottle pictures
Well, since people are being nice, I’ll post more. Bottles first. Cockburn 1908 revealing that it was bought at Sotheby’s New York (lot 1203, 20 May 2006). http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-c08.jpg Sold at auction as ‟Cockburn, believed 1950’s” (Bonham’s, lot 711 on 27 Sep 2005), though actu...
- 02:40 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
People: in the lower picture yours truly is pouring water
People: in the lower picture yours truly is pouring the water. http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-people-1.jpg http://www.jdawiseman.com/ftlop/20070316-people-2.jpg Observe the colour of the ’08s in the decanters, and the cloudiness of the Taylor 1908 in the glass of the man far left, he being...
- 02:40 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
Eight of the eleven decanters
Eight of the eleven decanters.
Readers with better decanter labelling technology are invited to share it.
Readers with better decanter labelling technology are invited to share it.
- 02:39 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
Cockburn 1927, Army & Navy stores.
Cockburn 1927, Army & Navy stores.
- 02:39 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
Taylor Special Quinta 1950: pictures of capsule
Pictures from the Friday, which I shall break into several posts.
The Taylor’s Special Quinta 1950 was identifiable only from the capsule.
The Taylor’s Special Quinta 1950 was identifiable only from the capsule.
- 02:38 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
Friday 16th March 2007: chez mon père, a sesquivertical of Cockburn and Taylor ( paperwork ). Present: JDAW MAW RAW WDBP RKA JFH MF SRG , and sort-of SVW. A vertical of Cockburn, with some matching Taylor vintages, and some mystery bottles. Having had very little experience of Cockburn, this was edu...
- 02:37 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Reviews
- Topic: Cockburn 1908, 27, 55, 60, 63, 70, 85; Taylor 08, 27, 50, 85
- Replies: 10
- Views: 25798
- 02:22 Sat 23 Jun 2007
- Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
- Topic: Timothy Taylor Landlord
- Replies: 27
- Views: 21769
Correspondence with Peter Eells
Peter Eells Timothy Taylor & Co. Limited Knowle Spring Brewery Keighley West Yorkshire BD21 1AW 11th April 2007 Dear Mr Eells, Earlier this year I visited The York, a fine pub near Angel tube station in London, wherein, with a friend, I thoroughly enjoyed six pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord. A ...
- 20:52 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Give us a graphic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 28538
Clean, simple, easy to read, high-contrast: fantastic.
Clean, simple, easy to read, high-contrast: fantastic.
Graphic designer gone mad and a pestilence on the users who we hate anyway: bad.
Graphic designer gone mad and a pestilence on the users who we hate anyway: bad.
- 20:24 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introducing jdaw1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25245
Shhhhh! Nobody had noticed.
Shhhhh! Nobody had noticed.
- 20:09 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introducing jdaw1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25245
A pecking order has been established
Well, excellent. A pecking order has been established. My introduction thread has sixteen replies, not including this one. The introduction thread used by everybody else (Well, here we are), has a mere fourteen. Ha!
- 19:55 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Tasting Notes Section
- Replies: 178
- Views: 81914
machine readable TNs
Actually, having this section machine readable would be a great joy in the future. And the time to work on that is now. • As for webmasterlyness, there’s no harm in a standing policy of you changing thread titles to conform to generally-accepted practice. Propose: Title = YYYY House, where House ∈ {...
- 19:21 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Turn page at 50, not 15
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13658
my usual avatar makes me not-a-team-player type person
Oh joy!
I recognise that my usual avatar makes me not-a-team-player type person. But, well, I can’t be bothered to locate a cat picture that speaks to me, or of me.
I recognise that my usual avatar makes me not-a-team-player type person. But, well, I can’t be bothered to locate a cat picture that speaks to me, or of me.
- 19:01 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Give us a graphic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 28538
Square parentheses
Or, when deleting one's own stuff, replace it with something like “[Mildly raunchy picture deleted on the suggestion of …]†. And perhaps leave in a link to the picture. And, to be emphatic, there’s nothing wrong with mischief. :-) Back to the main point: when I said My preference would be nothing. ...
- 17:45 Thu 21 Jun 2007
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: Turn page at 50, not 15
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13658
Blackberries and avatars
You’re not wrong.KillerB wrote:Sod 'em, we're having avatars.
Though you could have tighter size (width≤80, height≤60, bytes≤5k) restrictions. And ban moving avatars, which I think terrible. (Yes, I know I’m alone.)
Also, a thread on this subject on a different BB, FWLIW.