Posts Tagged ‘swag’

Smiley TG

Posted: 21 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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I mentioned TGs in a previous post.  To refresh your  memory, they are the school of computer science’s big departmental parties (actually thrown by the student organization, Dec/5).  The name has been generalized to any party thrown in the department.  Today’s was the Smiley TG, celebrating the birthday of the smiley, invented by Scott Fahlman, a professor in my department.  Planned as well as all things are, today is also the annual picnic for my department!  So I went to the TG, where I was almost completely without friends.  So I drank a Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA and left.  But not before grabbing some swag and snapping a pic of the pandemonium.

Smiley Swag

 

Smiley TG in the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University

Bell’s Batch 8000

Posted: 21 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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Wednesday night I had the rare opportunity to go out to a bar and try some Bell’s beer. There was a special event run by the distributor where they gave away a shaker, a coaster and a pin if you bought their beer. The shaker unfortunately featured the Oberon, my least favorite Bell’s, but I’ll take what I can get. The bar was a pretty cool little place call Fat Heads Saloon. They had a bunch of decent stuff on tap and I got to try the Lagunitas Sonoma Farmhouse Hop Stoopid, which was a massively floral hop monster. Fat Heads also has a custom Belgian Trippel made for them by some Belgian brewery I didn’t recognize. It was decent, but I’m always a little underwhelmed by Trippels.

 

Bell’s Batch 800 Ale and Swag

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