Alcohol's Effect on the Brain (Video)

This video is from asapSCIENCE's YouTube channel which has lots of fun and interesting science short flicks.  This one is about the effects of alcohol on the brain.  I do believe it's almost time for a beer!

My Internal Eternal Battle with Facebook and Twitter

Instagram. I never signed up for it and I never will. I said the same thing about Facebook and Twitter, but I finally lost the battle along with the last bit of integrity I once maintained. I got sucked into social networking. Everyone else was doing it so why not me (very un-punk rock, I know). Recently, and in light of the racket surrounding Instagram’s proposed language that would give the company ownership of any of its users images, I have been brought back to an all too familiar place. Should I delete my Facebook or Twitter account, or both? I’m not overly concerned about privacy policies. I feel not much can be kept secret these days regardless if you’re online or not. However, if someone desires to use my crappy ass, non-professional camera phone images that have most likely been compressed upon upload to their site for financial benefit, the least they could do is show some common courtesy and ask me politely for my permission. Chances are, being the kind human being that I repeatedly convince myself I am, I would say yes. I think it would be cool to see a mediocre picture I snapped used for advertising purposes. I completely understand that these sites need to make money and I appreciate being able to use them for “free”, but steal an image from me and you’ll get a big FU. Probably not even a fully spelled out fuck you, because I’m somewhat too nice. Would you take something that rightfully belonged to someone else without asking? If so, you’re lame. So once again I find myself asking my yin and yang, barley conscious mind, should I keep my social networking accounts. Below are some pros and cons.

Pros:

• See Cons

Cons:

• You can see what your friends are up to, which is great, because more than ½ the people who are your friends are folks you hardly ever or never talk to, or see face to face.
• A few people or businesses you like post way too often.
• You get stupid game/app requests, like Farmville.
• Your personal data could be used by NASA to develop the next Mars Rover.
• You husband, wife, mother, father, significant other, etc. constantly bug you about the amount of time you spend on social networking sites.
• As CEOs go, Facebook’s, Mark Zuckerberg seems like a douche bag.
• You get invited to bunch of events and it makes you feel important.
• You spend a good portion of your day checking people’s status updates on your phone or computer for posts that have no use in life when you could actually be doing something, like creating world peace.
• It makes you feel good when someone likes your post, shares your post or makes a comment. This gives you a Stuart Smalley-like self affirmation. Say it: ‘I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!’
• You can be friends with Food Network star, Paula Deen.

Steal the pic of my 6 Second Abs piece
of exercise equipment and
I'll break your face!

Editor-in-chief: MP

Sex Sells!

Indeed, sex sells! Today I took a look at the number of views of my past posts and the ones that had the words ‘Premature’ and 'Casual Encounter’ in their title had a high number of hits. Cheers to filthy, nasty beer porn!

Have a great weekend all!

Clever Sapporo Beer Commercial (Video)

My friend Matt sent this to me and said “If anyone will appreciate this commercial, you will!” He was indeed correct. I’m not sure if you people out in cyberland have seen this very clever creation from Sapporo, but if not, it’s certainly worth 2.03 minutes of your time to watch. I love the drums too!

Portlandia and Lompoc Brewing's Sidebar

I just read on Oregon Live that Season 3 of Portlandia debuts January 4^th, which brought to memory a sighting of the Portlandia crew filming at Lompoc Brewing’s Sidebar. About a month or so ago the wife and I were headed to the Sidebar to have a late afternoon beer. As we approached the entrance we were greeted by mini-scaffolding draped with black fabric. At first, I thought someone was giving the Sidebar’s outside a secret face lift, but there was a young gentleman close by that said we couldn't go in because Portlandia was filming. Given the news, we headed next door to the Sidebar’s adjacent, bigger brother, The 5^th Quadrant to have a beer. As we sipped away we saw the famed Carrie Brownstein walk through the back alley. We were both wondering what the Portlandia creators were up to featuring one of our standard North Portland beer stops. One thing is for certain, it will poke fun at the way we Portlanders carry on.

 Here's a clip from the all new season of
Portlandia coming to IFC this January:

 

OMSI After Dark - Burgers and Brew

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is always bustling with lots activities that are both fun and educational. As the tabs along the top of their website indicate, there is an OSMI for everyone; adults, teens, kids, educators, and professionals. They have an ongoing series called ‘OMSI After Dark’ which occurs the last Wednesday of every month from 6-10pm. In case you don’t know what OMSI After Dark is, I’ll enlighten you. It’s basically a child-free, fun, science themed event that includes tasty bites from local purveyors and adult beverages from the NW region and beyond.

Dear Blog, I've Missed You.

Dear Blog,

I’ve missed you. Please accept my apology for not adding text and pictures about beer related things to your Post Editor page. I’ve been very busy at my job that actual generates income and with life in general. There’s no question, I love you more than you’ll ever know, but in life there are priorities. Having beer, food and shelter are at the top. I’ll be back though, you can count on that. Also, I did want to let you know that I’ve branched out some and having been writing occasionally for other beer blogs, such as your friends over at Brewpublic and #pdxbeergeeks. Can you believe that other blogs like text and pictures just as much as you! I know, you’re a little jealous, but please don’t be. Jealously requires you to focus energy on the object of your jealousy rather than yourself. Blog, I want you to concentrate on your own goals and live your life to the fullest. Well, it was nice to have a brief visit with you today. See you again soon my friend!

Cheers,
Chris