I think it's awesome you're promoting your local 826. Jon and I both support the local Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company (826 Seattle) and their local events. They're a great organization. How cool is it to do something charitable, and have stupid amounts of fun?

I'm wishing we were in NY just to go to this, but that's cos I'm a D&D loving dork.

When we were recently in Ireland, we found that the beer culture there was just starting to perk up, though good pubs with varieties outside of the standard Guinness, Caffreys, Smithwicks, Heinekens were few and far between. My favorite beer was local to Galway, and called Galway Hooker - we were told that they were inspired/worked with/communicated with Sierra Nevada peeps for their hoppy yummy brew. Then there was the Porterhouse Brewpub in Dublin, which also had some tasty beers, my favorite being the high ABV An Brain Blasta. (lapses into tastey memories)

And to #4 - Germany has interesting beer culture if only because working within the constraints of the Reinheitsgebot levels the playing field for a tasty challenge. Belgium does not have such restrictions, and hence has tasty, crazy concoctions with their beers.

But this is not the point of this comment! When we were in Dublin, we went to the Guinness Storehouse where we got to taste some of their more limited beers, including the Guinness Special Export, which sadly can't be gotten in the US, but is delightfully more intense in flavor (and ABV) than the standard stuff we get here.

How ridiculously peachy-keen to see you on BoingBoing, Lev.

Thanks for keeping the Bluetooth sitch updated. That was my first annoyance when I saw the iPod Touch, because VoIP seems like the necessary next progression. I think I may hold out for that one, because I'm more jazzed about that than an iPhone.

Likely for irrational reasons.