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I kind of know what that's like. We have a 14-year-old cat that broke a leg fighting with a neighborhood stray. Diagnosed with basel cell carcinoma (cancer)a year ago he promptly ran away and knocked his leg cast off the first day it was put on. Shortly after the cast was replaced he ran away for 3 days. After 8 weeks there was no essentially no healing. He ate off the cast 2 weeks later and proceeded to lick his leg into some semblance of what a cat leg should look like. He is now a rather forlorn house bound kitty and every morning the litter box litter lies scattered across the living room.
Hence all my wines have a tinge of cat.
Se la Vie!
I did a quick google on wine tasting online and only found an online wine tasting class:
http://www.wineloverspage.com/taste/
Part of my previous job was troubleshooting medical equipment across the NW USA. A number of my accounts were in California wine country, from Santa Barbara to Mendocino, with a good concentration around Napa. Being on the job I could not often stop for tastings, but I know the countryside well.
It always upset me that wines at many wineries were often priced higher than what was available in SF stores. In balance at least you could taste your purchase.
Thanks,
That was worth the pause.
I have found it useful to set up a simple excel spreadsheet to record names of wines that I am trying.
This can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. I keep mine simple, 7 headings, as the following shows:
Name, Date, type, region, price, taste note, date --
Rodney Strong, 2003, Sauvignon blanc, Sonoma, $9.00, excellent, 9/28/2004
Invaluable for later reference.
I would have preferred to see SP increase thru rising revenues and earnings. Management will also feel the pain of lower SP due to the reverse split and has likely anticipated this. Their confidence that this is the way to go perhaps indicates that we are having a final year end sale... one last chance to pick up cheep shares.
My take is a little different. This would free up more planes in China, and make them available for lease in SA.
You need not limit youself to reds, but the choice is yours. I will not recommend any particular brand but my favorite reds include Cabernets, Sirah, Pinot, and Malbec.
I'm on the West coast so a Mid-west time of 7PM is a bit early. To avoid confusion let's use East Coast time and let participants adjust schedules as necessary. e.g. a 9PM east coast time would be 6PM for me and that would be just dandy.
I went to the wine aroma wheel site and ordered one.
The site is rather cumbersome in that it directs one to paypal where you need to cut and paste the aroma wheel e-mail and payment amount, which if you haven't jotted down, requires that you go back to the site for the details. Then paypal said aroma wheel was not yet registered, but it accepted the payment.
More comments when it arrives.
To quote Cramer:
"We don't care where its been, what we care about is where it's going!" If you cannot see the road in front of Hartcourt, I suggest that as you go to sleep each night you try counting Chinese PC users... by the millions...
Let us know the number you reach before you fall to sleep.
From the wine lover's calendar 11/27/05: www.pageday.com
The ascending order of quality for Beaujolais is as follows:
Beaujolais: a wine of basic quality
Beaujolais-Villages: must be made from grapes grown in one of 39 designated villages
Cru Beaujolais: the finest where the grapes come from 10 villages where the granite soil is ideal for gamay grapes.
That's nice, but did you ask Hoople?
On another note there are some logistics to be taken care of for the 1st online IHUB wine tasting event.
We need to have an idea of where participants are located so as to establish an optimal time of day. We also have to agree on the specific wine to be tasted. I would suggest giving that honor to Hoople, who came up with the initial idea. We can then take turns in order of appearance on the IHUB board. That makes me 2nd.
I would suggest that selections be posted as recommendations, to be followed up by a consensus of agreement pending brand availability.
I tried the Ecco Domani 2003 Merlot this evening. The purported "aromas of currant and black cherries" were rather vague for my under-educated nose. I haven't had a Merlot for quite some time. My initial attachment to red wine favored Merlot, until I began to appreciate the more robust Cabernets and "Sideways" favorite Pinot.
I will hold this Ecco Domani as a good baseline for Merlot.
I do not want to be the board moderator and am perfectly happy for you to take it on. If I need to to something special to allow this to happen you'll have to step me thru the process. I believe you can become moderator just by sending Mat a PM.
I only ask that there be no public stock talk on this board.
It is only now beginning to dawn on me how vast is the TPM marketplace. It is becoming more evident every day that every digital device requiring communications' security would benefit from a TPM. This clearly stretches from bank machines to cell phones, to PCs, to gaming devices, voting machines and now I suspect even to any proprietary vending machine tied to a home office. Medical device manufacturers with equipment communicating to home-based help and sales centers would enter this realm and then comes the insurance world and their laptop laden field reps. Add on here field reps in the food business, tallying sales figures. The word here, as mentioned many times before is ubiquitous. WAVX is in a sweet spot.
Since Dottie and John did not specifically mention the "Debeuf Villages" it might be a good idea to get a sample of their #1 and the "Beaujolais Villages" before going for the case.
My immediate inclination, being the penny picher that I am, was to buy the lower cost Debeuf. As I was looking across the selections another character walked up and scanning across the cases kept saying under his breath villages... villages... until his eye hit the mark. He grabbed 2 and proceeded straight to the counter.
The Beaujolais Villages was very good. I agree on the raspberry flavor. The sub-dominant 7th was asparagus tips, whose ends my dear wife put down the garbage disposal, clogging the kitchen drain 2 hours before dinner. Just finished with Roto-rooter... $205 for asparagus tips. Dam, that's 20 bottles of Beaujolais!
The SF Chronicle reported today that Diebold has hired a computer hacker from Finland to break into one of its voting machines next week. It would be interested to know if the Diebold machine contains a TPM, perhaps even WAVX software...
We need people like this on the board:
Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber keeps 5,000 bottles in the wine cellar of his Sydmonton home and 10,000 more in bond. His selections include case after case from the vintage Bordeaux years of 1945, 1947, 1949, 1959 and of course 1961. He also has about 30 cases of 19th-century Bordeaux. Among them is "a large collection" of Château Margaux from 1899 and 1900 that he intends to open at a party he is planning to celebrate the start of the coming millennium.
(www.winespectator.com/Wine/Archives/Show_Article/0,1275,572,00.html)
Probably not many at all. It was described as a necessary formality to vote the shares with a quorum.