Good bye Beer, I hardly knew ya.

It was a great beer, sorry to see the keg run out. I tried out fermenting in my 35 quart brew pot. Fermenting in my brew pot saves me from having to clean out a fermenter. I drilled a 1/2" hole with a spade drill through the stainless lid for the air lock. After no activity, I guessed my lid was not air tight and got out my wife's stethoscope. Sure enough, the yeast was audibly fermenting away. I'll work on the seal for next time, but I suspect it doesn't really matter all that much. The beer was very close but not the same as the Sierra Nevada Torpedo IIPA. Not better or worse, just a bit different. Here are my notes. Good luck reading them:

"The iPod cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified."

I wasted a lot of time this morning fixing a problem with my generation 4 iPod shuffle. Apple's error message is pretty unhelpful:

"The iPod PIG'S SHUFF cannot be synched. A duplicate file name was specified."

Here is my solution:

In Windows Vista (with iPod attached to computer)  go to Start | Computer | Right-Click on iPod shuffle drive | Properties | Tools | Error Checking

Select both check boxes "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" and select the start button.

Problem solved.