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Hrm. $35 a bottle sounds about right. One the one hand, I'm told by my Serious Scotch Snob Friends that I'm drinking the "cheap" Ardbeg and I should pony up. On the other hand, I don't *like* the older stuff much better, and sometimes not better at all.

So, it's not that Ardbeg is necessarily cheap, it's that I'm cheap about my Ardbeg :-)

Also, I don't drink wine. If I want kool-aide, I'll drink kool-aide. So I don't think of $6-12 a bottle as normal. Although, my gf has found some oak aged chardonnays that have an actual flavor other than sugar....

The way I recon it, she gets a $6 bottle of wine two or three times a week. I get a $35 bottle of scotch and it lasts me three months. I'm ahead on dollars per day in alcohol and I get to continue my claim that you can't get a hangover from good scotch.

On the toddy front, also try hot lemonaid with honey, alternating with a good booze.

But I like strong flavors: Russian Caravan tea and scotch that tastes like iodine.

Mmmm. Iodine and peat moss.

I didn't know rye was on a comeback. I'm pleased to hear that. I've always wanted to walk into a bar, do my best Ray Milland impression, and yell, "Give me a rye!" just to feel like I'm living the Lost Weekend.

But no. Bad idea.

First, my blood sugar shouldn't tolerate the small amount of alcohol I already use to abuse it (a common and cheap islay single malt--say, Ardbeg--every couple of weeks).

Second, my Ray Milland impression sucks.

I'm not sure AOL *wants* an upscale image. There's a lot more money in being ubiquitous and down-to-earth (literally, in this case) than being the new, hip thing for the technorati.

Their new ad campaigns seem to be "Joe 90" to me. Snoop Dog (IIRC), making fun of their own ubiquitous waste, basic TV middle-class (not that anyone I know in the middle class lives in that sort of home).

They wanted to be the wave of the future in 1996. The internet is not the wave of the future anymore and the AOL content was never capitalized succesfully. So now they want to be the default home shopping network of the QVC addicted.

If they get that crowd, they may be worth something again.

BTW, I love the quote "I have yet to see a sci-fi writer who correctly predicted that the twentyfirst century would come along and we’d all be literally walking on discarded piles of digital recordings that promised us the ability to instantly connect with anyone in the world, free of charge"; I'm sure we can all name a lot of SF that predicted the commoditization of information and access. Often accompanied by dystopian waste. Even without heading into cyberpunk.

>>Question for the editor-types: should that semi go inside the quote? Should I just use a period and forget the question?

I've been reading the RSS feed for a few weeks. I run an aggregator which pulls articles to my PDA and (offline) laptop. Partial feeds are basically useless to me. I'm in the process of cancelling subs to partial feeds, although I do click a few now and then.

I just don't understand the value of a partial feed: how is getting less data a good thing?

Obviously, I'm missing a common use case where having the full article is bad. I'm inclined to blame the tools, not the data format, but it's certainly easier to restrict the data that to rewrite the tools.

Oh well, been nice reading you while it lasted! Keep up the good commentary.

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