BarSign

I made an app! It's brilliant. Well, kind of. If you hate ordering at loud bars, but you still go to loud bars. I call it BarSign and it's available on Google Play here. It's a list of drinks that you can select from and the your selection is displayed in large text for you to show to the bartender. Pretty nifty, I think. I made it with the MIT app inventor which is pretty simple to use, and I really like it, but it is somewhat limited.

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Hop Farm and Fechtmann Number

So, like most other people (especially males), I like to drink beer. Good beer. What's good beer? Essentially, any beer that I haven't had before or a very alcoholic/bitter IPA. While I was studying fluid mechanics in college I noticed that all the dimensionless numbers (i.e. Reynolds Number, Capillary Number, Mach Number, etc.) gave a quantitative number, but were qualitative in that the number would fall into a certain range that corresponded to a certain flow regime. Blah blah blah, engineering. SO, I devised the Fechtmann number, which is given by the formula:

Where V is the volume of the drink, A is the alcohol percentage, P is the price and v (a.k.a. nu) is Hershel's Coefficient. If you've had the drink before and liked it, Hershel's coefficient is 1.1, if you haven't had it before it's 1.2, if you  had it before and thought it was okay, then the coefficient is 1 and if you had it before but didn't like it the coefficient is 0.9. So, basically the higher the Fechtmann number, the happier you'll be. It also says that you need to try new things and if something is very alcoholic and cheap, just order it.

Since I like IPAs so much, my brother and I decided to grow hops. Our dad didn't realize what he was getting himself into when he allowed us to build a trellis :) But now he thinks it's pretty cool.

My dad next to our trellis posts

Hops about midway through the growing season

pssssyyyyunnnggg

Hands in the air

ヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノ

Gotye Is On Another Level

"Somebody I Used to Know" was an unbelievably huge hit for Gotye, and an ungodly number of people covered it on youtube.  But being the artist that he is, Gotye decided that all these cover presented an opportunity rather an encroachment on his work. This man is on another level of artistry that most will never achieve. Remix the covers of my own song? Brilliant.

The Cuddle Sutra

The Cuddle Sutra is exactly what you think it is: a collection of cuddling positions. I, for one, am glad to see that someone has put in the effort to create this book (the author Rob Garder, and the slew of other people that it probably took to make it happen). It's a bit of de-sexing in an oversexed society. Now for my shameless plug, the Arm Pillo, as it's name implies, is a pillow that wraps around your arm and is great addition to many cuddling positions. In addition to cuddling positions that are enhanced by the Arm Pillo, the Arma Sutra (get it?) contains positions that you can comfortably sleep in by yourself in random places (like at a desk, in a car, etc).

Arm Pillo Update

New Logo!

There are quite a few things going on in the Arm Pillo Universe. Firstly, we have a logo! Secondly, we have posted the Deluxe Fleece Arm Pillo for sale on amazon.com in cotton candy pink and baby blue. We started using Facebook ads to advertise our Facebook page and it seems to be going pretty well. The Arma Sutra is going to be remade because the pictures the first time around were kind of overwhelming, we just need a white background. And that's about it for now.

The Arma Sutra - Cuddling Positions

Though I recently posted about the Arm Pillo, I just made this Arma Sutra collage and I really like the way it turned out. The Arm Pillo can be ordered through www.armpillo.com or http://www.amazon.com