heh Seriously. When I was in college back in the early 90's, the company I interned for switched from thicknet ethernet over to twisted pair. (ahhhh the days of repairing a coax connector because the cleaning crew ran over the cable with the vacuum cleaner...) The rollout took several months, and my semester ended, so I went back to school for a semester and another intern (from a different school) came in. When I returned the following semester, I got my education in why it's important to label things clearly, accurately, and empirically. Some connections to the hub weren't labeled, and others were labeled uhhh interestingly. "Nice Lady in Accounting" was my favorite label. Anyway, to sort out where they each went to, we did just what the parent said. We unplugged the cable and waited for the phone. Took about 20 minutes. This was well before medium sized companies like this one had Internet connections, or it would have been much sooner.
Nope they've changed. Last year, my father was in the ICU for 6 weeks, and my mother had heart surgery and was in the Surgical ICU for 2 weeks a few months ago. In both cases, I never saw a physical chart. The nurses would come in, pick up a bar code scanner from beside a PC (with an 802.11b card), walk over and scan a wristband on the patient, go back to the computer and look up what needed to be administered. Every time I was there when this happened, I was sure to ask what they were injecting, and why it was needed. Not so much that I was concerned of a medical mixup, but more so I knew what was going on.
Oh man, you've got that right. Luckily, when I first signed up I did the "bill my phone service" option. So, when I moved, I changed my phone number and called to cancel AOL. So the operator says, "well, how about this: We'll keep it active for free for another month." By this point in the conversation, I was tired of talking. So I stupidly said "ok fine. whatever. I'm not renewing." So, 3 months later, I started getting the past due notices. My gfriend asked if I was gonna call them. "Nah. Those are just trying to get me back." I finally got a "give us our money or we're turning you over to a collections agency" letter. OK Time to react. After waiting in queue for a while "Thank you for calling AOL, how may I help you?" "I cancelled my subscription back in July and yet you keep trying to bill me. Now I receive a letter threatenting me with a collections agency. Stop Harassing Me!!" "uhhh ok" He looked up my records and saw that I had indeed cancelled before the charge they were trying to bill me for and claims to have fixed my record. It's only been a couple of weeks, so we'll see...
ahhhhh But Arrogant Bastard doesn't taste like _just_ hops. You can definitely taste the malt in it as well. I do enjoy Stone Brewing'sRuination IPA quite well. Hops should complement malt in a beer. Not be the _only_ flavor present. Of course, all of this is IMNSHO...
Oak Barrel Stout huh? Nope, haven't tried that one yet. I'll add it to my list.
I _love_ hops. More than your average human, but agree with you on Hop Pocket. It tastes like hop water. Not enough malt. I'm a hobbyist home brewer and make a Pale Ale that's _quite_ hoppy, but still can't get into Hop Pocket.
My cousin spent a year at the University of Nice on the Riviera. When I visited him, we went out and drank a LOT of the original Killians as it's sold in Europe. When he got back and we went out, he ordered a Killians thinking he was getting the same thing. Needless to say, he was quite disapointed.
Killians is made by Coors. http://www.coors.com/brews/killians.asp
But I will second that Old Dominion comment. They made _good_ stuff. And their brew pub restaurant is pretty cool too. LOTS of taps. One of their brews, New River Pale Ale, is _way_ better on tap I think than bottled.
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heh Seriously. When I was in college back in the early 90's, the company I interned for switched from thicknet ethernet over to twisted pair. (ahhhh the days of repairing a coax connector because the cleaning crew ran over the cable with the vacuum cleaner...) The rollout took several months, and my semester ended, so I went back to school for a semester and another intern (from a different school) came in. When I returned the following semester, I got my education in why it's important to label things clearly, accurately, and empirically. Some connections to the hub weren't labeled, and others were labeled uhhh interestingly. "Nice Lady in Accounting" was my favorite label. Anyway, to sort out where they each went to, we did just what the parent said. We unplugged the cable and waited for the phone. Took about 20 minutes. This was well before medium sized companies like this one had Internet connections, or it would have been much sooner.
Nope they've changed. Last year, my father was in the ICU for 6 weeks, and my mother had heart surgery and was in the Surgical ICU for 2 weeks a few months ago. In both cases, I never saw a physical chart. The nurses would come in, pick up a bar code scanner from beside a PC (with an 802.11b card), walk over and scan a wristband on the patient, go back to the computer and look up what needed to be administered. Every time I was there when this happened, I was sure to ask what they were injecting, and why it was needed. Not so much that I was concerned of a medical mixup, but more so I knew what was going on.
Oh man, you've got that right. Luckily, when I first signed up I did the "bill my phone service" option. So, when I moved, I changed my phone number and called to cancel AOL. So the operator says, "well, how about this: We'll keep it active for free for another month." By this point in the conversation, I was tired of talking. So I stupidly said "ok fine. whatever. I'm not renewing." So, 3 months later, I started getting the past due notices. My gfriend asked if I was gonna call them. "Nah. Those are just trying to get me back." I finally got a "give us our money or we're turning you over to a collections agency" letter. OK Time to react. After waiting in queue for a while "Thank you for calling AOL, how may I help you?" "I cancelled my subscription back in July and yet you keep trying to bill me. Now I receive a letter threatenting me with a collections agency. Stop Harassing Me!!" "uhhh ok" He looked up my records and saw that I had indeed cancelled before the charge they were trying to bill me for and claims to have fixed my record. It's only been a couple of weeks, so we'll see...
ahhhhh But Arrogant Bastard doesn't taste like _just_ hops. You can definitely taste the malt in it as well. I do enjoy Stone Brewing's Ruination IPA quite well. Hops should complement malt in a beer. Not be the _only_ flavor present. Of course, all of this is IMNSHO...
Oak Barrel Stout huh? Nope, haven't tried that one yet. I'll add it to my list.
I _love_ hops. More than your average human, but agree with you on Hop Pocket. It tastes like hop water. Not enough malt. I'm a hobbyist home brewer and make a Pale Ale that's _quite_ hoppy, but still can't get into Hop Pocket.
My cousin spent a year at the University of Nice on the Riviera. When I visited him, we went out and drank a LOT of the original Killians as it's sold in Europe. When he got back and we went out, he ordered a Killians thinking he was getting the same thing. Needless to say, he was quite disapointed.
Killians is made by Coors. http://www.coors.com/brews/killians.asp But I will second that Old Dominion comment. They made _good_ stuff. And their brew pub restaurant is pretty cool too. LOTS of taps. One of their brews, New River Pale Ale, is _way_ better on tap I think than bottled.