shaken not stirred

As some of you may know I want to make my next big hobby cocktail-making.

inb4 alco, cocktails are for fanciness and not for drunkness. If you get drunk off cocktails, two things: 1) They are not that strong 2) They are fucking expensive >=O
Did you know the cheapest thing I found was a bottle of white wine for like $3, which amounts to 7 standard drinks? Hopefully I just completed some of your university lives (Y)

Anyway mixing drinks doesn't come cheap. Need equipment and ingredients. Fingers crossed I get a good job in the holidays =O

Shopping List

Equipment Highest To Lowest priority, roughly
[x]Boston-style Cocktail Shaker
[ ]Lots of cocktail glasses
[ ]Lots of Highball glasses
[x]A few Old Fashioned glasses
[ ]Fruit Juicer (the hand squeezy ones for lemon and lime juice)
[x]Jigger (measuring device)
[ ]Zester + lemon/lime twist peeling thing
[x]Bar spoon
[ ]Ice Scoop
[x]Muddler
[ ]Very few shot glasses

Alcohol Highest to Lowest priority, roughly
[x](Absolut/Smirnoff) Vodka $40
[ ]Triple Sec $20
[ ](Bacardi) White Rum ~$37 (gold/dark as well if I feel like it)
[ ](Tanqueray) Gin $40
[ ](Jose Cuervo) Tequila (white, reposado maybe, for some) $40
[ ](Jim Beam) Bourbon $35
[x]Jack Daniels
[ ]Cointreau $45
[ ]Vermouth (Sweet+Dry) ~$13ea
[ ](Angostura) Bitters ~$17
[ ]Grenadine (non-alcoholic) $13
[ ]Blue/Orange Curacao $20
[ ](Kahlua/Tia Maria) Coffee Liqueur ~$30
[ ]Apple Schnapps $20-30
[ ]Peach Schnapps $20-30
[ ]Midori $24
[ ]Amaretto $40
[x]Baileys

It's going to take me forever to obtain all these, it totals to $500 if I get everything :L. Good thing is each bottle lasts for 20+ servings though. And some of the lowest priority ones are only used in one or two drinks anyway.

Fruit Juice
Tomato Juice (if I ever make a Bloody Mary) + Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco sauce
Orange Juice
Coke, Sprite
Lotsa fucking cranberry juice
Grapefruit juice
Ice tea
Make my own syrup (sugar + hot water)
Make my own sweet/sour mix (sugar + lime juice + lemon juice)

Fruit Salad
Maraschino Cherries (can we get them at woolies... any bakers who know?)
Limes
Lemons
Apple
Pineapple

My intended repertoire

[ ]Daiquiri
[ ]Manhattan
[ ]Margarita
[ ]Martini
[ ]Old Fashioned
[ ]Black Russian
[ ]White Russian
[ ]Bloody Mary (ingredients are pretty gay)
[ ]Tom Collins
[ ]Screwdriver
[ ]Tequila Sunrise
[ ]Appletini
[ ]B52
[ ]Cosmopolitan
[x]Cuba Libre
[ ]Jack Daniel's Lynchburg Lemonade
[ ]Japanese Slipper
[ ]Kamikaze
[ ]Long Island Ice Tea
[ ]Mai Tai
[ ]Mojito
[x]Sea Breeze
[ ]Sex on the Beach
[x]Vodka Cranberry


Set for uni life =D
Tell me if there are any other popular cocktails that I have missed! I refuse to do Pina Colada though, the ingredients are too lame.
Once I'm decent I'll invite peoples over and I can serve you stuff to sip =D. But they can't be free forever because that would be UNSUSTAINABLE so I'll probably ask you people to bring a bottle of something each :L I'll work it out when/if I get to that stage.

mmm belongment

I was googling quotes for As You Like It

If anyone is considering tweaking the quotes in their essay, this site has been of colossal help for snagging those extra few lines by Jaques, etc.

What it does is it can list out all the lines said by one character, in one page. It's amazing! It's designed, I think, for stage productions where you are playing one character and you want to see your cues and etc. But we can appropriate it's intentions and do better in the HSC with it :L


Oh yes and if you're doing the other English set, here is Hamlet that Max kindly reminded me of :L

misled on meds

Holy crap this is actually pretty intense.

1) This implies that doctors spend their free time reading up research reports on the medicines they are prescribing

2) The reports are cherry picked so that positive results are biased over negatives. Which means pharmacology is potentially a load of bullshit.


It's actually pretty terrible. So we have to question EVERYTHING WE READDD!!!

mother of scotch

I was looking through duty free to see how much alcohol is taxed. (It's like 30c per standard drink for Baileys, about 50c per drink for Kahlua, vodka and Jack Daniels, and fucking 1 whole dollar for drinks like Cointreau. What the |fuck|?!?!)
Then I saw this monster of a bottle. A 4.5L of Chivas scotch.

That requires 2 full adults to bring into Australia tax-free.

If you had one drink every day, that bottle will last 150 days.

Imagine trying to pour just one drink out of that bottle anyway. It weighs more than freaking 4 kilos. When the bottle is full its likely that you'll need to enlist help.

And your recycling bin is fucked for the week that you decide to throw away your empty bottle.

dragging the chain

I was chatting today and I was suddenly reminded of the fact that I have had recurring dreams the past few nights.

I'm on a basketball court. It was a pretty important looking court, must be the Australian equivalent of NBA or something.
But I suck dick (as in, as much dick as I do atm). I distinctly recall shooting an air ball, and another time losing control while dribbling ahaha.

But for some reason I never get subbed off. They just don't pass to me that often, and if they do, they don't expect too much.

So bizarre.

words

If a girl is called butch for being like a guy

And a guy is called a pussy/pansy for being like a girl


Why is it that both of these insults more derogatory to a woman than it is for a man?!

iOS6 for Australia

Including:
Siri for Australia
Maps for Australia

First of all, Siri finally works in Australia! Where's the nearest Maccas? Brings up a list. How do I get to Town Hall? Boots up the Maps app.
It pretty much achieves in Australia what it achieved in America in iOS5. What was meant to be new to Siri this time? Like... sports scores or something. Apparently ManU smashed Wigan 4-0 last Sunday in the EPL (Y). But it couldn't tell me the results of the last Bulldogs game, so limited Australian shits given. Fortunately I don't want to ask Siri for sports scores.

The Maps app isn't as bad as made out to be (in Sydney, at least). The flyover view is pretty useless but it seemed to work okay for Sydney CBD. My local residential area appears flat (just like google maps) but I'm not about to complain about that.
The directions seem to work as usual. Search function doesn't seem any less powerful.
When you search a restaurant, some of them have a slideshow of pictures that come from ??? but are a really nice touch)
What we are sorely missing is traffic data and OMG STREET VIEW =(.


Overall a pretty big leap for Australian Siri users, and Apple maps are a slightly less polished version of Google Maps but still very much so functional.