The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

I realize I haven’t written much on here lately, and much of my time has been taken up by, in turns, coming to grips with the fact we have to move (our landlords decided they want to move back into the house we were renting), finding a place to move to, cleaning, sorting and purging items from our current domicile, and preparing to move.

We won’t actually be finished moving until the end of August and the very next weekend (September 5-7), I’ll be traveling to Chicago for the C4[2] Mac indie developer’s conference, so… I wouldn’t necessarily expect any regular updates until after that point.

I am still posting to my tumblog fairly regularly with links from the day’s reading, and even more often on Twitter, so check those out in the meantime if you want your daily dose of my craziness.

This is the boston shaker glass that I inherited from my great uncle, reconstructed after I recently broke it by dropping a bottle of Bärenjäger on it. If you have any idea where I could get a replacement, I’d love to hear about it.

Note, this is a QuickTime VR of the glass, so you can click and drag to the left or right to rotate the view.

See the full QTVR.

The Zombie, originally uploaded by bobtiki.

3/4 oz Fresh lime juice (about 1/2 lime)
1/2 oz Grapefruit juice
3/2 oz Unsweetened pineapple juice
1/4 oz Falernum
5/4 oz Gold Puerto Rican rum (J. Wray & Nephew works well, Bacardi is so-so)
1 oz dark Jamaican rum (Appleton Estate Extra (NOT V/X))
1 oz 151-proof Demerara rum (Lemon Hart 151 is best, Bacardi 151 is an unsupported substitute)
3/4 oz Maraschino liquer
1/4 tsp Grenadine (or pomegranate syrup - anything but Rose’s)
2 dashes Angostura bitters
6 drops (1/8 tsp) Pernod
a handful of crushed ice

Put everything in a blender for ≤5 seconds.
Serve in chimney glass with extra ice to fill, and garnish with a sprig of mint.

(Recipe adapted from “Sippin’ Safari” by Jeff ‘Beachbum’ Berry, attributed to Donn ‘Don the Beachcomber’ Beach in a 1956 issue of ‘Cabaret Quarterly’.)

NOTE: When I type things like 3/2, that is not a typo - that is three halves.

It’s a little tougher to fix your computer while wearing a sombrero, but the benefits are well worth it., originally uploaded by bobtiki.

[Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.]

Mark Boszko
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Chief Problem Solver, Steamer Media, LLC