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[TanithAeyrs]

Mass produced American beer is awful, I'll second that. Now the microbrews on the other hand...

I live in the Northwest US and we have tons of awesome microbrews availible locally. Zonker Stout, Black Butte Porter, Alaskan Smoked Porter, 1554 (New Belgium Brewing Co) are some of my favorites. Lately I have been indulging in Imperial Stouts - Old Rasputin when I can find it and Sam Adams when I can't.

[Tasmen]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

Mass produced American beer is awful, I'll second that. Now the microbrews on the other hand...
I live in the Northwest US and we have tons of awesome microbrews availible locally. Zonker Stout, Black Butte Porter, Alaskan Smoked Porter, 1554 (New Belgium Brewing Co) are some of my favorites. Lately I have been indulging in Imperial Stouts - Old Rasputin when I can find it and Sam Adams when I can't.

*perks*  You live in the Pac NW?  So do I.  And yes, there are some excellent beers here.  I get so happy when summer nears so that I can get Strawberry Fields Ale.  Yum.

[TanithAeyrs]

Idaho, so not quite Pacific. Favorite vacation spots are Portland, Seattle and the Olympic Penninsula - fishing, seafood, beer, what's not to love?



Strawberry Fields Ale - who brews that?

[weyrleader]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

Mass produced American beer is awful, I'll second that. Now the microbrews on the other hand...
I live in the Northwest US and we have tons of awesome microbrews availible locally. Zonker Stout, Black Butte Porter, Alaskan Smoked Porter, 1554 (New Belgium Brewing Co) are some of my favorites. Lately I have been indulging in Imperial Stouts - Old Rasputin when I can find it and Sam Adams when I can't.

OMG! I go nuts for Black Butte Porter! 8))) Wait a minute.....*eyes narrow as he reflects on other info* Crumbs, Tanith!  You might just be my neighbor! 

[Tasmen]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

Idaho, so not quite Pacific. Favorite vacation spots are Portland, Seattle and the Olympic Penninsula - fishing, seafood, beer, what's not to love?

Strawberry Fields Ale - who brews that?

WA State here.  Oh wait, it's not strawberry fields.  It's Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde.  I had an empty bottle on my desk 

[Gilgamesh1138]

Yum, micro brewers! We have a microbrewery in Austin that is a restaurant. You can get a sampler of all their beers, and yummy nibbles, while sitting on the patio. Lovely. : D

[TanithAeyrs]

Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde - I should be able to find that here - it's a summer seasonal?



@Weryleader - have you tried Zonker Stout - Snake River Brewing Company?

[TanithAeyrs]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

Yum, micro brewers! We have a microbrewery in Austin that is a restaurant. You can get a sampler of all their beers, and yummy nibbles, while sitting on the patio. Lovely. : D

There are a couple of places like that around here  - except without the outdoor patio.  Probably impractical when it snows in MAY.  Yes, I woke up to an inch of snow again this morning.  I know it does that here, but I'm ready for spring!

[Miri1984]

Snow's that white stuff, right?

[Tellervo]

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

[TanithAeyrs]

Tellervo wrote...

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

So far the only thing I have had work is to use the line break on the FF site after I upload my chapter, but before I post it to my story.

Oh, and about the FF viral ads (re: your posts on Zev thread) that happened to me too - I am using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware progam now because McAfee is worthless for this.

[weyrleader]

@Tanith: Yes! Awesome, but only at a trade fair as a sample. They didn't supply our area, but we could order it. (

[Tasmen]

Tellervo wrote...

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

Yeah I was the one that sent you that review mentioning the formatting.  I've been using .'s.  You can check out this story to see how I did it.

[Tasmen]

TanithAeyrs wrote...
Oh, and about the FF viral ads (re: your posts on Zev thread) that happened to me too - I am using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware progam now because McAfee is worthless for this.

There are viral ads on ffnet?

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Tellervo wrote...

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

Yeah, this happened to me too :/ I've been using the standard FF.Net linebreaks since then...less chance of random punctuation being eaten. *sigh*

[Tellervo]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

Tellervo wrote...

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

So far the only thing I have had work is to use the line break on the FF site after I upload my chapter, but before I post it to my story.

Oh, and about the FF viral ads (re: your posts on Zev thread) that happened to me too - I am using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware progam now because McAfee is worthless for this.

Yes.  Slipped past my silly paranoid registry protection and everything.  It must disable those sorts of programs first.  Even keeps you from opening the task manager.

@Tasmen: I will attempt something like that since line breaks break the scene a little too much.  Thank you.  And, about the viral ads, yes.  They're actually ransomware, but there's really no need to make a distinction from their behavior.

Modifié par Tellervo, 08 mai 2010 - 04:44 .

[Tasmen]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

Tellervo wrote...

I forgot that my formatting got nommed. Anyone got a recommendation on how to make more permanent scene breaks for FF.net?

Yeah, this happened to me too :/ I've been using the standard FF.Net linebreaks since then...less chance of random punctuation being eaten. *sigh*

FYI, I sent a message to them about it.  This is what I got back:

I see what you mean.  This feature was disabled for site upgrade. It
will be restored in a few days.  But for the future, please use the
build-in "horizontal line ruler" feature of the Document Manager to
separate paragraphs.

It appears to be accidental, but I wasn't aware that things like *'s and ~'s were features   Anyway, hopefully they won't take away .'s because then everyone will be screwed.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Tasmen wrote...

FYI, I sent a message to them about it.  This is what I got back:

I see what you mean.  This feature was disabled for site upgrade. It
will be restored in a few days.  But for the future, please use the
build-in "horizontal line ruler" feature of the Document Manager to
separate paragraphs.

It appears to be accidental, but I wasn't aware that things like *'s and ~'s were features   Anyway, hopefully they won't take away .'s because then everyone will be screwed.

Ah, cool. Thanks for doing this and posting the reply. It does feel a bit weird to be told symbols are 'features' XD I suppose I will leave off fixing all my old fanfics if they intend to fix the problem...wonder how long it'll really take them, though.

[Aroihkin]

*sidles in randomly* The built-in hr divider has been eaten before as well, make no mistake. It does happen far less often, however. I've only seen it happen twice, I believe.

I'm still aggravated that simple "- - - - -" is too much for them to cope with, having had to fix all my stories twice within two weeks. It's less intrusive than the hr bar across the entire page... but at least they didn't just up and delete all instances of these "feature" characters, this time, scene-break or otherwise.

I've taken the b*tchy route, and slapped "go read at my website where the formatting doesn't get screwed" across all my backed-up fics, so if someone is reading and suddenly it's half-incoherent from a scene divider being gone, they know where to find the original. I have 270,000+ words and growing on that site, I can't keep having to go back and fix it all if they decide to eat the hr break next (again).

Hm, ffnet ranting would summon me to the 39th page of a thread I haven't read, hahaha. I was a paid member on that site once upon a time... but not since they started screwing the formatting with vigor in late 2003. They have a long history of this nonsense.

*shuffles back off*

Modifié par Aroihkin, 08 mai 2010 - 04:59 .

[Tellervo]

With the way they store fics it should be nearly impossible to restore them in an automated fashion. I think I'm just frustrated enough with them to try somewhere else.

[Aroihkin]

EtteStarz wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...
Hm, ffnet ranting would summon me to the 39th page of a thread I haven't read, hahaha. I was a paid member on that site once upon a time... but not since they started screwing the formatting with vigor in late 2003. They have a long history of this nonsense.

*shuffles back off*

You paid to be on that site?  Really?

Yeah, I was a paid member back in like 2001-2002. I wanted to... support it? It cost the same as an LJ subscription at the time, IIRC.

And then they started screwing with things, and I never did it again. *shrug*

[TanithAeyrs]

Is there anywhere else to post them? FF.net is rather annoying with the ransomware problem but it is nice to get the e-mail alerts and the format is easy to read. I confess I don't really like reading fics in the forums, long posts are hard to read with the text size and color scheme.



I have to admit, I only discovered FF recently - I read a little on the old Bioware forums and found links to FF.net after the new Social site was up and running. In my defense, I have only had an internet connection at home since 2005.