Root Beers from Lost Ark

Posted by LeviathanC in Root Beer, Travel on July 6, 2009

Diamond Bear Brewing Company

Diamond Bear Brewing Company

Before I was on the road trip to Little Rock, Arkansas with friends, I am researching if there’s any root beer in the state of Arkansas.  But I found one in Little Rock so far.  Talk about a perfect timing for my road trip to Little Rock.  And it’s in Diamond Bear Brewing Company.  It’s not just the root beer the Diamond Bear made but there’s some beers as well.  Yes, I did tried their beers and it’s not great to me at all.  But the root beer tasty better than their beer.  Diamond Bear Root Beer taste like it have a vanilla and cane sugar.   But I can tell that it smell like a licorice but not taste like a licorine.  I asked if they have a bottle but unfortunately, they only sell a glass jar of root beer for $15 a jar.  And $10 if refill.  Little bits overprice for a jar, right?

Vino's Brewery

Vino's Brewery

And before my friends and me went to Diamond Bear Brewing Company, we stopped by Vino’s Pizza/Pub/Brewery which one of my friends suggest to go. I was like “Why not? Because I do like a pizza and want to see how good their pizza tasted.” It turned out that their pizza was pretty good. Guess what? I found out that Vino’s does brewed their own hand-made root beer and ordered a cup of root beer on tap. Their root beer was pretty good and slightly different from Diamond Bear. Vino’s don’t smell like a licorice at all but does strongly taste like a vanilla and not cane sugar but more like regular sugar to me. And I bought a glass jar of Vino’s Root Beer for $6. What a cheap price for the jar! I decided to keep both of jars and is going to finish them up before it goes flat. Cheers!

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Billy Rattler’s Root Beer

Posted by LeviathanC in Root Beer on June 30, 2009

Billy Rattler's Root Beer

Dublin Dr. Pepper and Billy Rattler's Root Beer

When I went to Billy Rattler’s Bar-B-Q for playing Texas Hold ‘Em Poker and order some baked potatoes and a drink, I saw two different soft drinks which is hard to find anywhere.  One shows Dublin Dr. Pepper which I did post the video blog two years ago.  Another soft drink shows that Billy Rattler’s made its own root beer.  However, it sure shows that their own root beer made in Dublin Dr. Pepper.  Both of them have same imperial cane sugar.  I was like “Oh heck yeah!  I gotta try that root beer” immediately and filled the cup with their root beer right away.   The root beer taste pretty sweet and have lots of foam.  It’s not too bad at all but I would definitely drink that root beer and Dublin Dr. Pepper everytime I come to Billy Rattler’s Bar-B-Q for playing Texas Hold ‘Em Poker.  I did asked the waitress there if they sell any bottle of their own root beer.  Unfortunately, they don’t have a bottle of that but can fill the plastic galloon of their root beer.  It sure disappoint me greatly because I love to collecting the glass bottle of root beer.  Yes, it’s one of my hobbies.   As for you Root Beer fans, if you haven’t had a chance to try that, make sure to put it on your wish list whenever you comes to Fort Worth, Texas in future date.

Note: As of June of 2010, Billy Rattler’s Bar-B-Q went out of the business.  Sorry about that, viewers.

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World of Warcrap!

Posted by LeviathanC in Video Games on May 7, 2009

When I heard about World of Warcraft (WOW) online game then I decided that I start played World of Warcraft back to 2005 for several months then quit playing it due to the personal life situation right before the release of Burning Crusader expansion.  That game was very enjoyable and lots of stories which happened right after Warcraft III.  Until recently, as soon as the release of Wrath of the Lich King expansion, I want to go back to playing to see how I feel about that.  Yes, it’s kinda of addicting but I had to be careful not to being heavily addicted to that since I have a better life to do than sitting there and playing all day and night which I used to playing Ultimate Online and Diablo II (with Lord of Destruction expansion) back to the college years.  Unforunately, I start noticed that Ventrilo (the voice chat software) is getting more popular for Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).  So, that means lots of players are now depending on Ventrilo for voice communicating with each other during the big raids.  Since I’m not capable to hearing anything due to my deafness, therefore, the Ventrilo is worthless and useless to me and lots of the raid guilds don’t want me to be in their guild due to my inability of hearing over the Ventrilo then I decided to bring it up to GameMaster (GM) about that issue and had a talk with GM over that.  Found out that they aren’t doing any crap about that.  World of Warcraft is pretty fun and enjoyable but unforunately, it won’t be enjoyable at all if you are deaf in the raid party with hearing players on Ventrilo unless you have a full raid party of deaf players then it would be wonderful.  I don’t mind to start my own guild which have deaf players, children of Deaf adult (CODA), and any hearing people who understand about Deaf Culture and Deaf World but sadly, I decided not to playing WOW anymore for good even if there’s new expansion in future date because of WOW’s poor policy.  That means I am going back to playing video games such as PlayStation2, PlayStation3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable to catch up with several games which I missed out in last several months.

Blizzard Tech/GM/Whoever you are, if you are reading this weblog, then I advise you to do something with Deaf players out there who continue playing WOW since your policy for WOW is pretty poor for the Deaf players.  I betcha that you will lose several players over that and even $14.99 a month for each player.  And once again, I decided not to go to BlizzCon 2009 either because you won’t have my hundred dollars for that crap!

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Netflix RSS Feeder

Posted by LeviathanC in Plugins on October 17, 2008

Plugin Information Summary

Netflix RSS Feeder plugin allows you to display the list from the RSS feeds (such as Movies at Home, Queue, Notifications, Reviews, Recommendations and Watch Instantly Queue) in your Netflix account into your WordPress Blog Sidebar.  This plugin is also widgetized.

Download and Install

Download the latest release from Netflix RSS Feeder.

Download the official WordPress Page: Netflix RSS Feeder

1) Decompress the archive netflix-latest.rar

2) Upload netflix folder to your wp-content/plugins directory

3) Go to the plugins link in the WordPress admin control panel and
activate the plugin

4) Go to Netflix Option under Setting section and enter your Netflix ID
and check what you would like to show on your sidebar. And Submit it

5) Add Netflix Widget to your side OR enter this code to your sidebar as
you wish:

<?php if (function_exists(‘netflix’)) : ?>
<?php netflix(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

6) Voila!

Changelog

Version 1.0: Initital Release

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Hillside Self-Heating Hot Cocoa

Posted by LeviathanC in Miscellaneous on October 14, 2008

The Self-Heating Rich Cocoa

While I was shopping for food at some grocery store, this drink caught my attention and bring my curiosity feeling out. It show some strange interest to me because I never seen anything related to “self-heating” without any application to cooking at all. After reading its instruction about how to use, my imagination show me that I don’t have to worry about working so hard to made a hot cocoa with a kitchen pot, microwave, or any kitchen application at all. The good benefit is you can bring it anywhere especially on a long road trip. In case if you are curious about how it works, let me tell you how to use it. All you do is turn this drink upside-down (yes, I am not joking about that), take the cap off, strongly press the button from bottom down, and wait for 5 to 8 minutes or the pink dot on the drink will becomes into a white dot. The drink cup will feel hot inside (it won’t burn your hand only if you don’t tear the drink down. Otherwise, if you did, then you are an idiot. :-) ) and turn it back to normal from upside-down, shake it for 10 seconds and pop the lid (be careful that the hot cocoa may pop out just like the pop soda did from too much fizzle). And enjoy the self-heating cocoa. Even if it sound so weird.

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