New Wines
Posted by Zeno in Wine & Liquor on May 6, 2010
Bogle – Merlot – California – 2007
I found this to be a very pleasant wine, definitely one of the better wines in the under $12 price range. While it certainly was beat by the Rosemount Merlot listed below, I would most certainly purchase this wine again. (8.5 score / $10.99 avg/US)
Rosemount – Australia- 2007
This was by far, one of the best Merlot wines I have had in a long time. Unlike most of my reviews, this wine isn’t in the under $10 category, but
isn’t much higher at an average price of just $12.99 US. Fruity taste, with an excellent tannis. Highly Recommended for a great wine that won’t bust your wallet. (9.5 score / $12.99 avg/US)
Check back soon for more reviews. I am trying to get the blogs back up to speed after a significant absence. For those still subscribing thanks!
Hermit Crabs
Since I picked up my 1st two crabs two years ago, it has been a learning experience and a lot of work. If you are not willing to put the work into owning Hermit Crabs, don’t purchases them. Hermit Crabs may be a lot of work, but they are very interesting pets to own, also very fun to watch. The first thing you need to know is that your crab habitat must be set up correctly or your crabs will die.
You will need to purchases a 10 gallon aquarium. (at least 10 gallons) They will need at least 6 inches of sand, so they can molt and tunnel. Hermit Crabs love to dig. Also you will have to buy a thermometer and a hygrometer. You can purchases those in a pack at your local pet store or order on-line.
Hermit crabs breath the water out of the air, you need to keep humidity up to 80 at least. You can do this by having damp sand, NOT wet, but damp. Also keep a squirt bottle for misting inside the tank when humidity gets low.
They also need heat. So buy a stick on heater for your tank. Do not place the heater on the bottom under the sand. It has to be placed on the back side of the aquarium. Putting it on the bottom could cook you Hermit Crab during a molt.Your temperature needs to stay around 80 degrees.
Helpful hint: In winter if you think you will lose your power for a length of time, boil water and put it into 20 ounce soda bottles. Place the bottles in the tank and cover the tank with a towel or blanket. This will help keep the tank warm.
Next is their water. You will need 2 shallow bowls, very shallow, your Hermit Crabs has to be able to walk through it and be able to get in and out easily. You don’t want any bowl they could drown in or not be able to get in and out of. You will need to keep one bowl of plain water and one salt water. Salt water does not mean water with table salt in it. You must buy Aquarium Salt. NEVER use tap water always buy distilled water or boil all your water to remove impurities.
Hermit Crabs love a variety of foods. I buy all my food and supplies from the Hermit Crab patch. http://www.hermitcrabpatch.com/ . They need a balanced diet and their food will need to be changed at least every 2 days.
You will also need to buy a variety of shells. Your Hermit Crab will grow and they must have shells to grow into. There are a number of websites that will let you know how to measure the shells and get correct sizes. Once again the Hermit Crab Patch has the best shells and the best prices. Don’t ever buy pained shells for your crabs, they may be cute but they can do more harm than good. The paint will chip and harm your crab.
Crabs love to climb and love places to hide, I have a small cave for them to get in to. and lots of wood for climbing. Dried Cholla cactus is great for climbing, I also pick up small pieces of drift wood from the lake for them. boil the drift wood from the lake before adding to your crab habitat. You don’t want to bring home bugs and bacteria.
You will also need a isolation tank in case of injury or illness with a crab. My isolation tank is very small. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it will come in handy. just the basics in your isolation tank, sand, food and water. It also comes in handy to put them in while you clean their home.
If you have any questions leave me a comment, I will do my best to answer it! Have fun setting up your new pets home!
Long time No Posts
Sorry for the extended absence for any that did in fact register to the RSS for these blogs. I have been incredibly busy with a 5 yr old, a new girlfriend and various other day to day things that only gives me a few hours a day tops of free time that I usually devote to other matters 
I will try to get back to blogging some, and posting the usual reviews and such.
I plan to write a review soon for several MS Flight Simulator add-on’s that I have tried recently as I have finally gotten back into flying which has always been a life long passion of mine. Reviews will include the FSX aircraft from PMDG Simulations, Flight1 Software, AES, Aerosoft, Nemeth Designs and others. I hope to include as many screen shots as possible, and I also have a nice PDF for FSX tweaking that I am looking for permission to republish since there aren’t that many around the net, and FSX is a notoriously CPU/GPU hungry application.
I am also in the process of migrating all my production machines to Windows 7 which is another undertaking as I have refused to run Vista since it was never a very polished product from the get go, luckily they finally seem to have hit the nail on the head so to speak with Windows 7.
My recent netbook included the horribly crippled Starter edition which I promptly upgraded to Ultimate a few weeks later. There are so many reviews on the Acer Aspire One netbooks that I haven’t planned to post a lengthy article on it at this time, unless there are comments that would request yet another review of the product. I am running the newer 532h-7352 version with the Intel Atom 450 CPU.
For those still subscribed thanks for sticking around, stay tuned for more reviews, video’s, guitar tablature, and now a soon Flight Simulator section for those interested. As always comments are always welcome, although flames, jerk offs, and spammers need not apply, you will be auto-deleted anyways, don’t waste your time (or better yet, go ahead, your time deserves to be wasted).
Lastly, Don’t Forget guys, this Sunday is Mothers Day, get those cards, flowers, and gifts in order less you hit the doghouse for the upcoming week!!
Microsoft Flight Sim FSX White-Screen Issue Fix
I searched until I found the fix for this issue, which others are having a lot of issues with, including changing every possible computer setting other than the Games video settings.
The issue is on non-native aircraft, getting white-out screens in various views, sometimes it will dissapear and come back, sometimes it will not, VERY annoying to say the least.
The fix, VERY easy. Graphics settings, Turn OFF Light-Bloom. Done, Finite.
No, you do not need to change FSX CPU priority, lower video settings lower, change resolutions or anything else, just uncheck that ONE box.
Note that there is also another issue with the cockpit tool-tips causing this as well, so uncheck both if you still have issues after doing the above.
Good Luck and Happy Flying!
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Tablature in A minor
Posted by Zeno in Guitar Tablature on November 10, 2009
Found this to be one of the best tabs for this piece, and have been working on learning it for a few weeks. Much harder on guitar than piano with some crazy finger work in places, but it sounds awesome for anyone that appreciates classical music at all.
This was transcribed by someone else who’s name I cannot find now from one of the many many tablature sites. If you are the author of this tab, please email me the link to the posted tablature from the posters email address and full credit will gladly be given. The transcriber worked hard on this…
If you have found the Mp3 for this piece that I have played on classical guitar, you will find he is tuned down around 1 step from standard, however for A minor, standard tuning is correct.
The numbers under the bars are the fingers he used (which I mainly followed but changed to my own style in places), it is a great starting guideline however.
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III.. | | | | | | | | E-|------------------------|------------------------| B-|-----1-----1-----3-----3|-----3-----1-----0-----0| G-|---2-----2-----3-----3--|---1-----2-----2-----1--| D-|-3-----3-----3-----3----|-2-----2-----2-----0----| A-|-------------5----------|------------------------| E-|-1----------------------|-0-----------0----------| 3 2 1 1 2 1 4 2 3 1 1 1 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ II | | | | | | | | E-|-------------------0----0|--0-----------------0----0| B-|-----------1-----1-----1-|------3-----3-----3-----3-| G-|-2---2---2-----2-----2---|----4-----4-----4-----4---| D-|-2-2---2-----2-----2-----|--------2-----2-----2-----| A-|-0-----------------------|--------------------------| E-|-------------------------|--0-----------------------| 3 1 3 2 1 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | | | | E-|-0-----------1----------|-0-----------------3----| B-|-----1-----1-----3-----3|-----1-----1-3---0-----0| G-|---2-----2-----2-----2--|---0-----0-----0-----0--| D-|-2-----2-----0-----3----|-2-----2-----3-----3----| A-|-0----------------------|------------------------| E-|------------------------|-3-----------3----------| 2 3 1 1 2 4 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 2 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ V........................ | | | | | | | | E-|------------------------|--------------------------| B-|-1---1-----1-----1-----1|--------------------------| G-|---0-----0-----0-----0--|-----5-----5-----5-8---5h8| D-|-2-----2-----2-----2----|---5-----5-----5-----5----| A-|-3----------------------|-6-----6-----6-----6------| E-|------------------------|-8------------------------| 1 2 1 1 4 4 2 4 2 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IV.....................................I..... | | | | | | | | E-|-------------------------|------------------------| B-|-4-----------------4----4|-4---------------1-3---1| G-|-----6-----6-----6-----6-|-----5-----5---2-----2--| D-|---5-----5-----5-----5---|---6-----6---1-----0----| A-|-------6-----6-----6-----|-6-----6----------------| E-|-6-----------------------|-4-----3-----2----------| 1 2 4 1 3 1 3 1 4 2 1 3 3 1 2 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ III............ 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Autumn Acres Corn Maze
I have been very busy lately and haven’t gotten around to writing much on the blogs, but did want to at least take the time to p0st my recent experience with a corn maze. Yes, you heard right, for those that do not live in agricultural area’s you may have never heard of one. I personally had never heard of such a thing until my current girlfriend took me to one, but found them to be pretty cool all in all. We took her 4yr old son, which had a blast, although we actually went a few days before Halloween where the pumpkins and hay rides etc, had a bit more relevance than they do in November when the commercialized Christmas season starts to ramp up.
This particular one is called Autumn Acres, who’s website can be viewed here, however apparently these things are more popular than I knew, and there are two offered just within 40 min drive time in my area, one of which is offered by a local community college. I’m posting a picture below of the satellite view of the corn maze, and yes, this is the real maze. Apparently they cut the design/trails using a GPS/CPU controlled harvester/reaper type machine. Until buying this card at the gift shop, I had no idea the trails followed anything but a random pattern! For anyone that lives within the driving distance of middle Tennessee or any corn maze offered in your area, I highly recommend them for all ages for next year, however they stopped activities this year yesterday at this one, and I assume most all end activities this late into November as the corn will be wilting quite badly by now. Yes this blog posting is a bit late, but I wasn’t even aware of these type of things until about two weeks ago…
Expect to spend anywhere from one to four hours in the maze, depending on which you take, how good you are at the “questionnaire” they give you for navigation, if offered, (we didn’t even use ours and took around 2.5 hours), and dress for the weather with easily removable layers as you will be walking quite a while. This particular maze also has activities for children including a barrel ride, hay ride to a pumpkin patch where you get a free pumpkin, a very large jumping thing that is buried in the ground, like the inflatable houses but much larger, petting zoo, several large slides, and another separate area for smaller children play activities. Concessions and a small souvenir store are also offered and Very reasonably priced for this type of venue. Admission was $8 for “Regular” pass which doesn’t include the jumping thing etc, and $11 for VIP pass which includes all activities.
If you ask me, seeing this type of thing kinda debunks the aliens in the crop theories from crop circles…
Yes, this is the real maze from the air! If you look to the lower left, you can see the entrance and exit of three separate mazes. The top one is the shorter “kids” maze (about .7mi), 2nd from the top is the medium length (about 1.8mi), and lowest entrances are for the longest maze (around 3.6mi).
Autumn Acres corn maze aerial view.
More Wine
Wine – Savanha – Merlot (Vintage 2006)
This was another wine I found at the back that comes in at the under $10 category, is made in
Spire Wine
Western Cape South Africa by Spier Wines and had to give it a go. This wine has a good color and what I describe as an “earthy” taste, very similar to the Fetzer Merlot which has always been a favorite Merlot of mine. A sharp fruity taste with a very long finish which may be a little too sharp, and a bit too long for some, separates this wine from the racks of cheap under $10 reds. All in all, a good buy, and I would purchase again. 6.5/10 ($8.99 avg – 750ml).
Coldplay – The Scientist (Acoustic)
Posted by Zeno in Guitar Tablature, Videos on September 2, 2009
Awesome version of this song. Linking the first of the three tablature versions listed on youtube as it’s the most correct by far. Only three chords and yes the low E is tuned up to F.
Tablature Ver5 (Correct by all accounts): http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/c/coldplay/the_scientist_acoustic_ver5_crd.htm
For completeness I am including the other two versions of the tab listed on the original YouTube video location. The first one is actually the version four of the correct listed above and written by the same person, only a few frets of difference total, while the second one is incredibly different and written to play along with the original album version capo’d or not.
Tablature Ver4: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/c/coldplay/the_scientist_acoustic_ver4_crd.htm
Album Version with or without Capo:
Tablature Album Ver1: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/c/coldplay/the_scientist_acoustic_crd.htm
Another Wine Review
Posted by Zeno in Wine & Liquor on August 30, 2009
Wine – Redwood Creek – Merlot (Vintage 2005)
My store got in a shipment of this wine, and as usual it’s of the cheaper variety, but it is actually a very good brand, and for the extra couple of dollars, this wine is far better than Crane Lake which was my previous top “cheapest of the cheap” wine picks. It is a California Valley wine, which as far as I have found almost always puts out quality wines. The label tells of the “Frei Brothers Vineyards” which were established in 1890 outside Modesto which gives this maker over 100 years of experience, which might explain the high quality of this very low priced wine.
As in the heading, the only type available at my location was the Merlot, which has an excellent flavor, just an ever so slightly sharp on the tongue taste, which quickly dissipates to it’s finish. Unlike most cheap wines, the sharpness of this Merlot is very pleasant and adds to it’s flavor. The finish of this wine is fairly short lived and pleasant, but leaves no lasting bitterness which is typical of most cheap wines. All in all, this wine is very good for the cost, and is my new top pick for the lowest priced wines, and is still good enough to serve at any dinner party. 8/10 rating. ($5.99 avg – 750ml)
Cool trick for finding the combination for Master padlocks
I found this rather interesting video on youtube which I will embed here, and also typed it out (for my own reference) as well, which will make it easier for you guys to copy/paste this into word or something for your own saved reference. I found this one helpful as every other “trick” I found to discovering your combi padlocks numbers involved having the lock already open and basically just watching the wheel pack, which really isn’t a trick at all. Thanks to HeaviestJ on YouTube for sharing this trick!
Note for Step One: (Faster) This takes a bit of practice and feel, but I have found it is much faster to determine the last digit of the combination as follows.
Use the below steps for finding the stop points on the dial, using tension on the locking bar. Starting from 0, work around each stop point putting just enough pressure to find the middle digit as listed, but continue to apply tension until you feel “drag” on the dial, you should be able to eventually lock up the dial in fact.
Continue with this all the way around the dial. However, one of the 12 stop points will have NO drag no matter how much tension is applied (as the fence is hitting the contact points on either side of the wheel notch.)
This is the final digit of the combination.
Written steps for above video. (Pretty sure I got them right)
Step 1
Use tension to find the numbers that the dial will stop on during a full rotation of the dial from 0 and back to 0. Write these numbers down. You will end up with 12 numbers.
Write down these numbers, we will use this lock from the video’s numbers.
| 3 |
| 6.5 |
| 9.5 |
| 13 |
| 16.5 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 26.5 |
| 29.5 |
| 33 |
| 36.5 |
| 39.5 |
You should have 7 numbers ending in .5 and 5 integers.
Take the 5 integers which are.
| 3 |
| 13 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 33 |
| 3 |
| 13 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 33 |
| Now remove all numbers that end in the same digit, which in this case would leave us with the number 20.
This is the 3rd number in your combination. |
We now have the number 20 as our 3rd number.
Step 2
Using the number you received from step one above, (in this case 20) divide this number by 4.
So 20/4 = 5.
In this case we received no remainder.
If you DO receive a remainder, write it down. It will either be, 0, 1, 2, 3.
If for example we had an ending digit of 18, when dividing by 4, we would have a remainder of 2.
This is the number we will use to find the final two digits of the combination.
Since we had no remainder with our number of 20, we will start with 0 (using the 0,1,2,3 corresponding to the number of remainders in the 3rd digit division), and add 4 to it until you reach the last number possible in the master lock, which in this case would be 39.
This gives us: 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36
If we had a remainder of 1, we would have started with 1 getting: 1, 5, 9, 13….
With a remainder of 2, we would start with 2 getting: 2, 6….
Step 3
Now working off of the numbers we acquired earlier we have ten numbers.
0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36
Any of which can be the first number of the combination.
Now
If the remainder we had earlier from the four division is either a 0 or 1 add 2 to that number. Giving:
0 = 2
1 = 3
If the remainder is either a 3 or 4, subtract 2, Giving:
3 = 1
4 = 2
Now since we had a remainder of 0, we will start with 2, and 4 to each number so:
2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38
Which gives us ten numbers, any of which can be the 2nd number of the combination.
We have now worked 34,000 possible combination’s down to 100. So:
First Digit is one of these ten digits.
| 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 |
Our 2nd digit is one of the next ten digits which we worked out with the remainder addition/subtraction step:
| 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38 |
And our last digit is 20.
Start from the first digit and work your way through them, with the started combination being 0, 2, 20, the next being 4, 2, 20, 8, 2, 20 and so on, until you have your combination to your lock, this will take a few minutes but is certainly faster than trying 34,000 combinations!
Thanks to HeaviestJ from YouTube for this awesome trick!