Monday, March 11, 2013

Fire Up The Bassoons!

For teh Zombie:

I should send the PSD file to Substance for the full animatronic treatment. Or I could figure out how to do the cheezy animations myself.

Update: For full effect you really need to click the image to see it in its full-resolution transparent glory. Just sayin'

36 comments:

  1. Lovely. Add a wall with splatter marks at frame right.

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    1. (puts on sunglasses)

      "Looks like someone was acting a bit... squirrelly."

      Yeeaaaaaahhhhh!!

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    2. But that would eliminate options for aiming the squirrel at other things -- Althouse, McMeghan, etc. Having the squirrel intact and splatter-free opens up so much room for activities!

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    3. You could always position Althouse, McMeghan,etc. in front of the splatter wall. It would give it a firing squad kind of feel.

      Also, OT, my second batch of homebrew is now being served. I followed your sage advice and it came out great. Thanks. It's a chestnut brown ale. The tough part was finding chestnuts down here in Florida. It almost became a macadamia nut brown ale. Which I'm now thinking I might have to try some day.

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    4. Homebrew is never OT around here! Glad to hear the brewing is going well.

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    5. I have a Belgian blonde in the secondary right now and a couple more pre-mixed kit brews to do, then I think I'll be comfortable enough with the brewing process to start trying my own recipes. I recently discovered this source and am anxious to try it out.

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    6. I rarely use software to design the original recipes, but I use it to figure out the final details and tweak gravity and such as needed if I'm really trying to nail a particular style.

      Just remember to keep recipes simple at first. I've done beers with a zillion different grains and various hops and/or silly adjuncts. The best ones are still the simple ones.

      Along those lines and since spring is coming, a simple 5-gallon one-hop American Pale Ale extract recipe to do would be:

      7lbs of light malt extract (could go a pound less if you want it lower alcohol)
      0.25 lb of 40L crystal malt (steeped)
      2oz Cascade bittering (60 minutes)
      1 oz Cascade flavor (15 minutes-- add Irish Moss for clarity at this time too)
      1 oz Cascade for aroma (0 minutes -- added at the very last moment when you start chilling)
      While Labs California Ale Yeast (or equivalent)
      You could dry hop in the secondary with 1oz Cascade as well if you want even more aroma.

      ... Profit!

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    7. I have pretty much convinced myself to stick to the KISS method for now, despite that kid in the candy store part of me that looks at the list of available adjuncts and additives and says "ooh, I want that, and that, oh and that too". Although, sometime in the future I want to make the darkest beer ever, just so I can name it None More Black. What I like about the Brew Builder site is that I can put together a decent, simple recipe and order just the grains I need for that recipe. I have very limited storage space.

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    8. A 50/50 mix of Black Patent malt and roasted marley, 1 pound total will give you a really black beer, but it'll still be nice and drinkable. Throw some chocolate malt in there for fun too. Then add a pound of Carrafa II -- the de-husked roasted malt I use for "Black IPA/Cascadian Dark Ale" -- that'll give you more color without adding too much additional roast/burnt/astringent flavors from the husks.

      Then put an all-black label on the bottles with no text. And black caps.

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    9. "roasted marley"? WTF?

      Roasted BARLEY.

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    10. you just BETTER not roast Zom Marley.


      Also, nut ales attract squirrels.

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    11. My understanding is that Marley was pretty well roasted most of the time. Or toasted, or somesuch.

      Then put an all-black label on the bottles with no text. And black caps.

      Perfect, with that kind of marketing they will sell like bassoon t-shirts!
      And I was thinking of labeling them "Nunmoor Black" to make it sound like it came from a respectable olde English brewery.

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    12. You may be interested in this.

      It's pretty fucking great.

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  2. hey, you know who now has five of the top six spots when you Goofle "Fire Up The Bassoons"? Thass right, your friendly neighborhood zombie!

    You know who has that sixth spot? Yep. Now you're going to get all that sweet, sweet bassoon fetish traffic.

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    2. I'm finally gonna be able to add that special bassoon room onto the house!

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    3. it is making me wonder what kind of awful thing you said in response my 'bassoon fetish' comment that you took it down so quickly.

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    4. Nothing awful. Just a type-o fixed in the subsequent comment you see now.

      Nothing to see here folks, move along.

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    1. The next evolution in the squirrel-firing bassoon is the beaver-firing flugel horn. Only after that is perfected will we get to the tuba that fires raccoons.

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    2. Finally, orchestral music with some liveliness!

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  4. Don't you dare put a badger in the tympani.

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  5. The rocket-propelled squirrel launcher, eh?

    Forbidden by the Oak Tree Treaty.
    ~

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    1. The trees are all kept equal by hammer, axe, and saw, thndr.

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    1. Nice! I'm happy to see that the smoke-wisp-out-of-the-bassoon was the chosen theme. Also, too: now I don't have to make my own version.

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    2. h/t to you for the smoke wisp. In addition to adding a certain je ne sai qua, it makes the product attractive to stoners too.

      Soon those phat Bassoon bucks will be rolling in...

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    3. Gladi to have helped!

      You're gonna be raking in cash now that you've perfectly targeted the lucrative pot-smoking-band-geek demographic.

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  7. We had a good day of fishing, the charcoal's getting hot. We'll fire up the bass soon!

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    1. Keep it short, bass solos rank just barely above drum solos. Barely.

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    2. Bass and drum, better as a duet

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  8. Shouldn't the little wirey part be leading to his mouth? I think it's much funnier if he is tooting the squirrel out of the bassoon, rather than using it as some trigger, as it appears.

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    1. The orbs on yours are a really nice touch.

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