Town Pants. Friday or Saturday?

Owl & Thistle Pub 808 Post Alley Seattle WA.
April 14th & 15th

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OK I'm Just going to Add to Paul's original great post so we can keep the comments going, which you should all check by the way we had a special guest pay us a visit. So far Friday is the Big Town Pants night! Everyone is in agreement that Friday will be the part to end all party's at the Owl and Thistle.
-Chris

Hey, i know it's a bit early since they aren't showing up til the 14th and 15th, but i vote for us showing up on the 14th at the Owl for Friday Beers meets the Town Pants.

Friday Pants? Town Beer?

-Paul

Finally... Another Friday.

They never seem to come around enough. It feels like you have to wait a whole WEEK between fridays which, to me, is just simply too long. I would propose that we lobby congress to just do away with Tuesdays (I mean really. Who honestly LIKES a TUESDAY?) and put a second Friday in the lineup. I think everyone will be happier with that.

But whatever. Today is Friday. Hell Yeah. Let's go have a beer. Let's go to the place where the beer is good, the drive is close (for most of us anyway) and the waitresses (for some strange reason) actually like us.

Red Hook anyone?

Thank God we are not in Texas.

What a great week it has been, and when I say that what I really mean is "Thank God it's Beerday". I don't know about the rest of you but I am so glad it's Beerday I could drink a whole liter.

Well it looks as though it is back to Redhook this week to frolic and play with our old friends Cooper, and ESB. I look forward to seeing everyone there. Tim will be eating free tonight because he knew not just the color and style of a beautiful woman's drawers but the fabric it was made with! That guy has balls for getting that kind of info from a woman, and he didn't even take her home!

OK well That's it for this week I hope everyone has a good time tonight and we will see you next time with a beer in your hand and a song in your heart(Paul please keep it in your heart and don't sing again). Cheers!

Drunkard's Log BeerDate 60317.4-1/2 urp

Medical Log, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Russell reporting

Dr. Russell after extensive research on the phemoninon the reported by Captain Timothy R Sankey, of the United Federation of Drunkards, Captain of the Brewship Enterprise.... I have come to the following conclusions:
1) Resistance IS Futile
2) Staring at the "Jubblies" can be educational (Medically speaking of course)
3) The alien creature's on this planet come in two types
a. female (broken down into many sub-types)
i. Amazingly beautiful (requiring more research)
ii. Average cute (much more accessable, much more willing to experiment)
iii-xxx. Others (not enough research completed to classify)
b. male (broken down into many sub-types, mainly un interesting, will be assigning a researcher to them later)
4) The entire landing party has been affected by the unusual amber liquid and hypnotic creatures servicing there needs
5) I concure with Mr. Miller the amber is safe for consumption but I am concerned with what appears to be differant affects on each of the crew members.
a. many of the crew become "loud" in thier conversations
b. communications become difficult and at times incomperhencable
c. the strange occurrences reported by the landing party are in fact happening and the "Road Runner" flash back reported and then deleted from his log is a telephathic image projected on to his brain
d. In addition to the "Road Runner" flash back there seems to be projections of complete but sometimes incredable alien events which the entire landing party acquieseces too
e. an incredible urges ( more resreach in this area may be difficult due to the men's proffessionalizm)
6) While not treatable I believe this plant is causing a break down in discipline but a tremendous rise in physical...... and morale

Close Medical Log


Medical Log Supplemental, Chief Medical Officer, Dr Russell reporting

Physical examination prepared on subject William Jake Russell, Chief Medical Officer, Beer Ship Enterprise, Captain Timothy R Sankey Commanding.

The subject has been under strict training and health review since Beer Fleet command indicated that a consuption issue was identified. Here the results of the 35th day review:
Total weight differance +/- <0.90718474> Kilograms
Body Fat weight differance +/- <8.61825503> Kilograms
Lean Muscule weight differance +/- 9.0718474 Kilograms
At rest Heart rate 74 bpm down from 82 bpm
Cardio endurance 35 minute @ 3% grade, 1.1176 meters/second, 132 bpm, recovery time of 3.35 minutes

Close Medical Log

'Tis the season... Of BEER!

Ah, the Luck-o-the-Irish smiles upon us this year... The confluence of St Patty's Day and Friday Beers is a marriage made in heaven! Where will all the lads and lasses be celebrating our favorite patron saint of all things alcohol this year? (Well, the lasses is all we really care about...) I believe the idea of the Owl and Thistle may have come up. I would second that motion were it to be made. Or if it were not, I would put forth that motion. Other ideas? What's the plan, lads?

Will the ladies of Redhook miss us too much, were we to patronize another pub on the biggest drinking night of the year? Or would a little absence make the heart(s) grow fonder? Eh? :-)

Beer, Beer, We all like BEER!!

Today is?...Friday?? Hmm Yes I think it is. RedHook is the place where the cool hang out, The Geeks like to drink and the Chicks flaunt...Racks? Well OK it doesnt rhyme but I like where it was going. Be there or be square!

Drunkard's Log BeerDate 59630.7

Redhook Command has directed the Enterprise to do a preliminary exploration of the brewery --- in advance of a full research team. Sensors report the place to be habitable, but are receiving confusing readings with regard to female life forms. I am beaming down with a landing party composed of all our chief officers except for poor Scotty. (he never shows)

Drunkard's Log, Supplemental:

Ensign Brunson has received a head injury, apparently while exploring under a table. He reports only hearing a loud sound and jumping before being struck. After examination by Dr. Russell he has been judged capable of continuing duty.

Drunkard's Log, Supplemental:

We have encountered an alien creature on this planet. While it does not itself seem menacing, a fortunate occurrence took place when it was present. Specifically, on my orders, Lt. White drew his glass. The creature (of amazing beauty) filled it will an amber bubbly liquid, immediately following a curious white foam appeared at the top. He drank. Oddly enough, Lt. White started showing signs of disorietation and started to slur. Mr. Miller determined that the effects of the liquid were benign and deemed it safe for comsumption. Lt White has been sent back to the ship for examination and quarantine.

Drunkard's Log, Beerdate 59633.3:

The strange occurrences that have dogged the landing party since our arrival at this brewery have led me to believe that the creature is in some way directly responsible for them. Lt White and Ensign Brunson have both been declared fit for return to duty, though Dr. Russell has entered in his medical log that he feels we should be kept under observation. Mr. Chris has constructed a device which he suspects should be able to counteract the creature's incredible concoction: We have placed a dish of birdseed out in the open, with several signs pointing to it. The dish is atop a cleverly concealed trap door, which will open when any weight falls on it. The creature will then travel a slide, eventually being deposited in a cage constructed of sheets of transparent aluminum. We will then be free to analyze it at our leisure. Wait a minute that was an episode of Road Runner...Computer please remove last 5 min of log. Meanwhile, I have forbidden all beaming down to the floor of the bar except on my or Mr. Chris's direct order.

Drunkard's Log, Supplemental:

The plan failed. The creature was indeed too enticing to be ignored, as expected. It filled the glasses, brought us food, and sped off without succumbing to my lines of flirtation. Mr. Miller is as puzzled as I, and the decision was made to give in to the power of females serving beer and screw the mission

Drunkard's Log, Beerdate 59644.2:

This is a warning to all other starships that may pass this way. Do not approach this Brewery unless you have nothing else to do! If you have heard the events transcribed in the rest of this log, you will learn that this creature is nearly undefeatable. We have been overcome with the urge to stay and drink and drink and drink and stare at Jubblies. Resistance is Futile

Captain Timothy R Sankey, of the United Federation of Drunkards, Captain of the Brewship Enterprise, recording.

FireFox is GOD!

Hey blokes, I have placed an install for FireFox on our Blog it's on the bottom right. It is a great place to install from it also includes the Google toolbar which is just down right awesome. I encourage all of you to get FireFox from the blog when ever you need to install it. The proceeds from this site go directly to buying us beer on Fridays.

On the Nature of Circular Dimensions...

In order to try to visualize more dimensions than we humans are normally accustomed to, physicists will typically have you imagine a universe on a plane or even on a line, and then have you imagine what the "extra" dimension(s) might seem like to some creature living in this stunted universe. What does the second dimension look like to a creature of "Lineland"? What was Homer's reaction when he experienced the mythical "third dimension" (being, as he was, a creature of "Flatland")? That is useful, but of course, only takes you so far.

Imagine now, a universe on a garden hose. A little like Flatland, this imaginary 2-dimensional universe, but with a twist (or a circle, if you will). Now imagine seeing it from a long way away (like hundreds of miles away). This universe now appears to be 1-dimesional and an entity on it seems to be an entity existing on a one-dimesional universe. But close up (from just inches away), the nature of this unverse becomes clearer - its a 2-dimensional space (the surface of the hose) with a single dimension traversing length-wise and another dimension that is circular. So, for each point in the 1-dimensional space (from far away) there is a second, circular dimension that has length, but that exhibits the "curious" property that, if you travel far enough in that dimension, you end up where you started.

Now scale that up.

We appear to live in a 3-dimensional universe (3 spatial dimensions anyway). But what if we actually lived on a 3-dimensional garden hose however from very close up (close to the Plank length) other (circular) dimensions became apparent? This is (in part) what String theory proposes.

There could be (in scales we cannot directly see or experience) circular dimensions that add to the three apparent dimentions in which we live - dimensions which are folded or curled up on themselves such that, if you were to travel along them for some length, you would wind up back where you started. (In fact they dont actually have to be "circles" per se, just so long as they are closed loops of some variety) String theory (the mathmatics of it anyway) proposes that there are actually six additional dimensions that are not apprent to us in our everyday worlds. In fact that maybe we might live in a 9-spatial (+1 temporal) -dimension universe... With 6 of the unseen dimensions existing at scales beyond our ability to directly experience. What would that look like? Well apparently (according to the math) the six circular dimentions might look very much like this picture except at distace scale far too small to be "seen". We are talking Plank length, so something just over 10^-35 meters here. That is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 meters. Small. Very VERY small.

So. Assuming this were a possibility... Now imagine that one of these "extra" circular dimensions is, in fact, a time dimension. What if one or more of those tiny circular dimentions were actually temporal in nature? How would that appear to us in the macro-world? What would that mean to sub-atomic particle theory? How would that affect your life if, say, you were a photon or an electron? Or even a muon?

In a scaled up way, I think it might appear something like this: No matter where you would go or what you would do, the same moment would keep coming back around and you would find yourself at the same point again. Movement in that dimension would be forever forward (as it is in the familiar time dimension) and forever repeating itself. So in much the same way that despite what we do with ourselves throughout the week, Friday continues to come around and we find ourselves at Red Hook, drinking beer. In so much as it really does come down to how each of our individual perceptions decide to experience the universe, I choose to experience the universe as having a circular temporal dimension with a radius of 168 hours, at which time t₀ is 5:30pm PST on Fridays. :-)

Eh, eh? (Beer + Physics) * Geeks = ??

(Note: A universe on a garden hose as a visualization construct is Brian Greene's. A universe with a circular temporal dimension of radius 7 days is mine. :-) Check out this.)

The B-Team

In 2005 a crack group of beer drinkers went to a local brewery to consume mass quantities and stare at hot women. These men promptly drank too much, got nothing and disappeared into the Seattle underground. Today, still wanted by the bartenders, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a keg, if you can't drink anymore, and if their not too drunk, maybe you can hire the B-Team.

I made it to level 6 Last time

Stages of Drunkenness

1. Witty and charming (part 1)
This is after one or two drinks. The tongue can still remain in step with the brain. In the witty and charming stage one is likely to use foreign idioms and phrases such as au contraire in place of "No way, Jose" or "Bull -sheyet"
2. Rich and famous
By the third drink, you begin mentioning that the little BMW you've had your eye on
3. Benevolent
You'll buy her a BMW, too. It's only money right?

4. Just one more and We'll eat
a stall tactic
5. To hell with Dinner
Let's Just get a snack at the Bar
6. Patriotic
The war stories Begin (Unless you served in the Air Force)
7. Full battle mode
   We should a fixed it the first time
8. Invisible
So this is what the inside of of ladies room looks like
9. Witty and charming (part 2)
You know, you don't sweat much for a fat girl. (Great line)

10. God's own drunk and a fearless man:
Shit! That's...that's when I first saw the bear..

Here's to more FridayBeers!!!!

Red Hook as usual or something else?

Hey, How is everyone doing this week? Man the weather has been crazy hasn't it?

Due to the fact that it was kinda busy at the Hook this last Friday, I was wondering if anyone had ideas of hanging out at a different place? Now I know some people feel obligated to stay at the Hook because they feel they have special relationships with some of the workers there ;-) But I think its OK to branch out every now and then. I was thinking of an Irish pub or other beer drinking establishment. The other option is that we could show up a little bit earlier there by increasing the chances we will get a table? Ok well these are just some idea I hope every one that reads the Blog will comment on how they feel and what ideas they have. We all have ideas and if we don't share them we are just a pack of wandering dogs looking for an Alpha male(no not you Paul) to lead the pack.

Friday Beers

Hey, i finally got the invite. I'm here.

Let's Go Bowling

In the effort to keep FridayBeers fresh and new, an idea was proposed that we drink beers while throwing a ball at some pins. (The ball references alone would make up their own blog) but that aside here's the plan. Go to Redhook like normal for a couple pitchers and food. Then roll to Kenmore Lanes around 6:30 - 7 for more beers and bowling.

Comments please...

I have arrived

Good day to my friends and more! I have made it the promised land and one has put the "Kick Me" sign on my back yet!

Fuck Yeah Friday's coming!

Man what a long week, I can’t wait to taste the glorious goodness of Beer.  I have abstained from Beer this past week for fear that my brain would explode.  I do plan on making up for it this Friday at our favorite local venue Redhook.  I would love to hear from you if you think you can show up, we are trying to figure how much space we will need.  I hope everyone had a great week and I look forward to seeing you Friday.

 

“I went into an ale-house I used to frequent
And I told the landlady me money was spent
I asked her for credit - She ordered me out
‘Such a custom as yours I can sure live without’”

Of course the worst part of Friday Beers is the Saturday Hangover. I realize that I am posting this on the fundamentally, spiritually farthest day you can get from Friday, but just could not fail to mention what a great time Friday was. For all that missed it - too bad for you! You missed a hell of a show and a hell of a night.

All I can say is, it sure is great to have friends to pick you up when you get a little sloppy... Thanks, Blink, for getting my credit card back... You are the best, man! :-)

Rock on!

Ok it's Friday!

It’s finally here and we are trying to get a head count of people who think they might be making it. If you not there before 9 there will be a cover and seats will be limited. We are wondering how many people are going to go to the wingdome and also how many s people are going to go to the Nectar. We can save a few seats but not a ton so let us know and we will do our best. This is going to be a great night so everyone wear your party hats and have a good time.

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Chris

Great way to Start this Friday

Lets start the night out right. Let's all meet at the Greenwood Wingdome for a hundred or so wings and maybe a beer or two. Its close enough to the Nectar that we wont get too lost. Heres the address so you can use the map page of your own choosing.

7818 Greenwood Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98117
Directions from Wingdome to Nectar

This Friday we are going to do things a bit different!

The great thing about Friday beers is that, well… it’s every Friday. I know seems like its kind of obvious but there it is. This Friday we have a special treat in store, we won’t be going to our good friends Redhook’s place. This Friday by special engagement we proudly present:

The Town Pants

@ 9:30pm
Nectar Lounge
Seattle, WA
412 N. 36th St.
Ph. 206-632-2020
http://www.nectarlounge.com/

I do believe that the Pants will be the second band to hit the stage which should be around 10pm so if you feel your going to be late you wont miss the show till then, but keep in mind you wont have any place to sit. This is always a great show and the guys and gal of the Pants are great folks. We always have a great time and enjoy a few too many beers and liquors.