is that you, Mr. Cruise?

CBT is a wonderful advance in psychology.

but most honest practitioners of it will concede that a short course of (the correct) meds will make CBT a lot more effective.

how do you tell someone to calm down when they can't hear you above their own screaming? sometimes people get into a state where they're simply not going to be receptive of any talk-based therapy. if this happens to somebody in your life, you'll be glad that drugs exist, and in enough variety that one of them is quite likely to be just the ticket.

an analogy i've heard is that the patient is like someone walking through snow wearing nothing but underwear. giving them meds is like handing them a coat and scarf. it'll work, but eventually that person has to get themselves out of the snow because it's pretty damn cold.

i hope you don't drive on Melbourne roads.

i'm a technical user and OSX is a pain in my arse.

"it's just like linux - it has a proper terminal" i thought when i got my mac.

yeah... still punching at it to get it halfway as usable as apt-get install.

attempt the same in any linux distro...
"too many arguments"

nah, man. you can direct delete.

you're using the wrong delete.

i don't have time to go into art history with you... but i can assure you that all attempts to define art once and for all have failed.

see impressionism, fauvism, in fact any ism that was disruptive to previous isms. they've all been condemned as "not art". can i call upon the principle of induction to say that all further attempts will have the same result?

Masturbation is Art too.

Art escapes all attempts to define it. enjoy being wrong.

you excluded the Belgium he mentioned. that's 11 million people... gotta be a market in that (unless they're ALL on the supply side...).

ever hear of cleanskins?

it's how wineries keep the price of their premium wines high. if they produce too much, they plop it into generic labelled bottles and sell it at a small profit, so they can keep their top-of-the-line label scarce and exclusive and expensive.

if there's a bumper crop one year, i say buy up on cleanskins of that vintage. you can never be sure if you're getting the good stuff, but you probably will.

the oak is MEANT to seep into the whisky...

the charred inside of the cask scrubs the heavier alcohols through adsorption (it's basically activiated carbon filtering), and the layers underneath the char dissolve into the mix and give it colour and flavour.

too old can be as bad as too young. take 25yo Ron Zacapa - it's beautiful, but i can't for the life of me taste any alcohol in it.

late-and-heavy hopping is getting a bit too faddish. it can get like cold, too-strong green tea with it's astringency.

sometimes i grab a coopers and just fucking relish the simplicity of it.

i was at a brew workshop last year in Italy where the craft brewer was praising the American microbrew renaissance.

two row or six row barley?

and feed corn or foodgrade corn?

if you're buying corn, the US goobermint will pay for you.

no, revolution is a good way to describe what wheels do.