North British Distilleries

Hey hey everybody, went to North British Distilleries today. Just a 5 min walk from here.
Had a tour of the place, gotta say it's pretty cool. :) After the tour there was a quiz and the winner won a bottle of Famous Grouse "Finest Scotch Whisky". ;)

Well I figured I'd show these people what I know. ;) Ha ha, which I think isn't too much, yet. But anyways, I got the best mark out of the group and I gotta say this prize'll definately help me waste a night (and the next morning) next week. Well, we'll see, it's exam week... Maybe I'll take it to Haifa?

Whatever, as if it matters where it goes, I got a FREE BOTTLE of whisky today and that makes me HAPPY! HA HA HA. Ok, I want to eat, din din time for me. You guys still have 5 hours to go until you get to now in Toronto. :P

Mmmmm, chicken some kind of curry and basmati rice...

Later!

Dave

S'more pics

Just found some other pics on my phone... here they are.

Our porter.

The William Wallace Memorial in Stirling.

The "Loch" on campus. Pretty nice for Feb. 23rd. ;)

Lates.

Dave

Diageo's Cooperage

BEFORE




















AFTER

Pics tomorrow... and today I guess

Heya all!

Not much to report, been an unexciting last week excluding the fact it's been 10C for a week and sunny. Perfect running weather!

Going to Diageo's cooperage in Alloa tomorrow, gonna take some pics. I'll put those up sometime soon. We went to Berwick-on-Tweed a week ago to to see Simpson's Malt. I took a bunch of pics. Here are a few, they're kinda neat because everything was do damn huge. :)

The first pic is a steeping vessel, this is one of a set of 6 vessels. These ones are the largest in the world at the moment. The second pic is one of the BIG centrufugal fans Simpson's uses to draw moisture off their GKVs; germination and kilning vessels.

Not so exciting if you don't know what the hell this stuff is or what it does but I found these to be cool. Beer nerd...

So, more unexciting techie pics of a cooperage to come tomorrow. Yay.

I will be going to Rome soon and then back to Israel for 3 1/2 weeks so TRUST ME there'll be more of interest to come. ;) Ooo, I also found tons of new cool stuff here in Edinburgh to take pics of when I somewhat intentionally got lost on Friday. So I'll be heading back to those places soon to get s'more pics.

Alrighty-o, just before I head out and finish up my last little bit of work for the night I'm gonna post a little bit of nostalgia for myself, my backyard in Oakville. :)

Bye for now!

Dave

Thou Heathens, Convert!

Here is the one true path, follow or feel the wrath of the great flying pasta dish!
















Here He is, just after creating the world.

















Also, become a pirate, it'll prevent global warming. And become a Pastafarian, OR FEEL HIS WRATH!!!

















Ok, so I'm a bit distracted this morning. Oh well, one morning out of 7 is acceptable.

All photo creds to Wikipedia.

Be afraid!

Dave

For those of you who don't like clowns....

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-22T141926Z_01_N21305078_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLOMBIA-CLOWNS.xml&src=rss

It works!

Oooo, the link works!

Zippidy doo da.

Later.

Dave

Zee Facebook Liynk

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=579445103

Lets hope that link works. If not just search my name in facebook, I'm sure I'm pretty unique on there.

Lates!

Dave

Facebook

Ok, so I'm on Facebook now too. Been getting that thing up and running the last little while and I've been recovering from Cam's damage to my flat and my sanity! The guy broke two doors, flooded both toilets and then set the over on fire!!!!!!!!!!!

No, just kidding, I had a great time with Cam. We just generally got drunk with my friends at school, as well as a couple profs, and went to Stirling. For those of you not familiar with Scottish geography (including 99.9% of the world and all Americans) Stirling is where the William Wallace monument is. So we went there and to Stirling Castle.

Cam! You still have the pics! I wanna see them sometime. I'll email you, you'll get that faster.

Ok, so I'm 25 now, didn't go out yet, going out tomorrow. Going to eat Thai food, go get drunk, throw said Thai food up all over the streets of Edinburgh and create the world's first vomit rainbow. Dunno how, any advice on the rainbow?

The girls at the flat here made lasagna for my b-day, they also set up a treasure hunt with hints. I got a pint glass with a drunk Scottish guy on it, two beers, a chocolate bear (whom I've eaten) and a bunch of fridge magnets with Scottish sayings on em. Then we watched the Departed. Aptly named film! What else do you call a movie where everyone dies?

Hope I didn't spoil that for anyone. ;)

No pics at the moment. I like posting pics. See my facebook thingy for new pics of the school labs and a bunch of self-indulgent ME shots. :)

I'll post the link for those of ya who don't know it or who don't have facebook.

Cool, maybe I'll put up pics later tonight. SOmething to do when I'm too tired to think straight.

OH, happy b-day Dwayne! Well, I'm 4 days early at this point but I dunno if I'll post again by Mon.

"The loodest bummer's no the best bee." - the loudest person isn't the most effective

Ancient Scottish proverb of the evening.

Bye bye!

Dave

Solitaire!

Two days worth of effort summed up in one little picture.

















Who says persistence doesn't pay off??? I don't know, but I agree with them.

DAVE