another excellent thing ready for the president to sign...

HEY CLEARCHANNEL AND NAT'L ASSN OF BROADCASTERS!
GO FUCK YOURSELVES.


Which is to say, hooray for low power fm community radio.

THE VANILLA EXPERIMENT IS UNDERWAY!

So, about that vanilla experiment. I got a package of 8 different kinds of beans (different geographic sources, etc), and pulled a bunch of beans from each group. For each kind, I scraped out the beany pulpy goodness and added a bit of chopped up bean husk and put each in a separate bottle, labelled A through H. It ended up being 8 beans from each batch, with around 6g of bean meat and 4-5g of bean husk in each bottle. Then I filled the bottles with vodka (smirnoff, 40% alcohol, which is over the minimum of 35% alcohol required by the FDA. I gather that lower than that you just get vanilla flavored booze rather than a proper extract.)
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I put the bottles in a box - partly so they'd be dark, partly so I would only have one thing to remember to shake up - and sealed it up. So now, we wait. Occasionally shaking.