Here are a couple more shots from Nicaragua. These were taken in San Juan del Sur, a surf town on the Pacific coast. Laura, mid-cartwheel:
San Juan del Sur
Author: Sam Kornstein
Nicaragua Photos
A few highlights from a recent trip to Nicaragua. These are from Granada:
Exoplanets
The (Mostly) Useless U.S. Passport Card
I picked up one of those new passport cards a couple years ago. I was told it could be used to travel to Canada or Mexico, and doubles as another wallet sized ID in the event I misplace my license. Compelling enough, so I added one back in 2010 when I renewed my passport. Yesterday I flew to Vancouver with my Dad to visit my brother, who’s here studying at the Vancouver Film School. I was ready to use my passport card for the first time. It seemed like a good opportunity. I was flying out of White Plains, New York, as I was at a friend’s wedding in Connecticut the night before, so I packed up all of stuff Saturday
Small Airplanes
I apologize for the slow blogging. My dad recently pointed out that I haven’t posted anything in over two weeks, and if I keep this up, some of my readers (him) might stop checking it quite so often. Fair point. It’s been a fairly busy, and exciting, couple of weeks. I finished school in late May, went on a trip to Nicaragua with my girlfriend Laura, and then graduated this past week. I plan to get into a better blogging routine once the summer gets rolling. Anyways, in the meantime, here’s a short clip I put together of a flight Laura and I took in Nicaragua. We were flying from Big Corn Island to Managua in a small 12 seater
Old Timers
This is funny. Via xkcd:
Apricot Ale Homebrew (2012 Batch #1)
School’s finally out, and my brewing equipment will be neglected no more. My latest brew is an Apricot Ale, and it’s my first homebrew in quite some time. Here’s the recipe for those interested: Grains: 7 Pounds Light Malt Extract 1 Pound American Crystal 60 Hops: 1 Ounce Amarillo (9.2%) @60min 1 Ounce Amarillo (9.2%) @30min 1 Ounce Columbus (13.2%) @ 10min Dry hop with 1 Ounce Cascade (5.5%) in Secondary (7 Days) Other: White Labs California Ale V Yeast 1 Whirfloc Tablet @5min 4 Ounces Apricot Extract at Bottling 5 Ounces of Priming Sugar at Bottling Original gravity reading: 1.056 It’s similar to a recipe I made a couple years ago, and it’s a bit like a hoppier and
And We’re Off!
The commercial space race hit a pretty big milestone! Yesterday’s SpaceX launch put the first commercial spacecraft with plans to dock with the space station into orbit: I’m convinced that space travel, like the kind Virgin Galactic is planning, will become “reasonably” affordable over the next two decades. You can now book a space flight right on the Virgin site for $200,000. The form is actually quite funny: “Book Directly with Virgin Galactic” or “Book with your Local Accredited Space Agent.” I love it. It’s an outrageous sum of money, but not nearly as outrageous as the $20-$35 million per trip paid to the Russian government by “tourists” over the past 11 years. And now there’s talk of $13,000 trips in the
8-Bit OK Computer
In the spirit of electronic music, Pitchfork has some links to Kid A and OK Computer tunes, played as though they’re 8-bit video game music. It sounds like it could be annoying, but some the OK Computer tracks are pretty great:
Google Celebrates Robert Moog
With a cool working electronic synth four track right on the homepage: It’s funny. I feel like tons of blogs are posting about this, acting as though they know all about Robert Moog. And I suppose maybe they do. The “Moog Synthesizer” sounds vaguely familiar, but I won’t pretend to have known anything about the man or his contributions to electronic music until this morning when I looked him up on wikipedia. But now I do. And I used google’s synth to make this monstrosity. Click the link to hear something horrendous. A somethingsbrewing.com original.