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4.25/5 rDev +8.4%
10-18-2013 03:56:39 | More by DeFaz
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4.13/5 rDev +5.4%
Beautiful pour: strong, fluffy, creamy tan head, with very good retention and lovely, wide lacing. Brew itself comes out brown, congealing into a dark, dark brown - almost ebony - presentation in the glass.
Roasted barley, cream, overripe fruit, and yes, oatmeal; all present in varying amounts in the nose. A little alcohol presence, as well, alongside some cocoa and coffee.
Very roasty flavor up front, featuring lots and lots of roasted barley (which keeps coming back for more!), coffee, and a hint of chocolate. Cream and overripe dark fruit try to make themselves known on the mid-palate, before being overwhelmed by roasted barley. Delicious!
Thick, creamy, smooth mouthfeel. Some sting; very lively. No hint of alcohol. Nicely balanced with an earthy bitterness.
Among the best oatmeal stouts I've had. Lots of roasted barley; creamy, smooth body; not exactly complex, but not one-note, either. Great beer. Compares favorably with Founders Oatmeal Stout.
08-13-2014 23:57:13 | More by Roguer
North Carolina
3.98/5 rDev +1.5%
I liked the real nice black color with some ruby hue,off white sticky head real impressive looking.Roasted malt is predominent smell I get from it with some underlying chocolate notes.Taste is roasty and chocolaty but wiith some softness due to the oats I would venture to guess,pretty easy to drink maybe a little thin.All in all pretty darn good.
04-27-2003 08:36:54 | More by oberon
3.65/5 rDev -6.9%
Appearance Ruby black in color with a decent head.
Smell The dark, roasty malt notes were complimented with fine chocolate undertones.
Taste This was your basic dark malty stout. The highlight though was the subtle yet superb chocolate notes. They were kind of like fine cocoa or a bakers chocolate.
Mouthfeel This was the stouts weak point, IMO. I thought it was too thin to make the grade. The flavors were expertly balanced though and felt good in the cheeks, just a bit light in the butt for my tastes.
Drinkability This overall was a nice example of the style. I would probably buy again.
04-25-2004 03:05:32 | More by RoyalT
3.75/5 rDev -4.3%
04-26-2014 11:09:13 | More by DanGeo
4.19/5 rDev +6.9%
Pours the deepest brown you've ever seen, basically black in the middle with a bit of dark-brown shining through the edges. Frothy, creamy looking light-tan colored head, decent retention and minimal lacing. Nose hits with a handful of malts, nuts, roasted grains, charred wood, and a heavy dose of oats and oatmeal. The taste follows the nose perfectly, allowing for great harmony and exemplary synthesis of the senses. Full of a nice, roasted character of malts and grains, complete with some caramel sweetness. Woody and nutty flavors shine through about halfway through, and the oat/oatmeal hints are abundant throughout the entire length of the sip, in an over-the-top, good way. Very creamy, medium body, with a middle of the road type of carbonation.
I know I may slightly be overrating this beer, but I don't care. I love it. It's full flavored, and there's something about the taste I just love - oats, grains, malts, wood, nuts. And the best part is, at only 5.2% ABV, it's very easy to drink, making it the best session beer I could ask for.
11-01-2012 11:59:38 | More by tectactoe
3.76/5 rDev -4.1%
08-19-2014 01:19:14 | More by GameOfBeers
3/5 rDev -23.5%
02-18-2012 17:10:59 | More by bdkucharski
New York
4.18/5 rDev +6.6%
A_Dark brown with a thick khaki colored head. Excellent retention and thick lacing.
S_Roastiness,malt,and chocolate.
T_Roasted malt,bittersweet chocolate,and burnt,earthy,woody flavor.
M_Full bodied and creamy mouthfeel.
D_Great flavor and low abv make for a great session beer. Big flavor.
05-02-2010 04:23:03 | More by nickadams2
3.75/5 rDev -4.3%
10-08-2013 21:45:02 | More by danthehopslamman
3.5/5 rDev -10.7%
03-19-2014 23:24:30 | More by DaftPatrick
3/5 rDev -23.5%
03-06-2012 22:59:49 | More by DWolf
4/5 rDev +2%
01-08-2012 23:20:52 | More by WuAnquo1
4.25/5 rDev +8.4%
11-19-2013 18:18:52 | More by SmellsofMahagony
North Carolina
4.5/5 rDev +14.8%
01-09-2012 23:09:08 | More by Britton
3.93/5 rDev +0.3%
A: Dark brownish red. white head. leaves a nice lacing
S: dark chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, slight oatmeal scent
T: tastes just about like it smells. very strong dark chocolate flavor. oatmeal is more present in the taste than in the smell.
M: very smooth. carbonation is very light
D: i could have a few of these.
03-22-2010 03:50:59 | More by SAxDRC5
4/5 rDev +2%
11-15-2012 22:49:39 | More by VernonKell
Rhode Island
4.2/5 rDev +7.1%
08-19-2014 23:34:11 | More by Doomcifer
New Hampshire
4.5/5 rDev +14.8%
06-22-2014 02:04:53 | More by JakerLou
2.85/5 rDev -27.3%
12 oz. bottle poured into a New Belgium snifter.
A - One-finger head of thick dark tan foam that collapses quickly to leave a very thin layer of lace on the surface and a ring around the glass. Beer is coffee black and solidly opaque.
S - Nose is pretty faint, but well-roasted malt and dark chocolate are present. Even letting it warm in the glass and giving it plenty of swirling doesn't generate much.
T - Bitter dark chocolate melted into a moderately roasted cup of coffee. Caramel and oats appear in the background that sweeten the initial impression. Faint trace of bittering hops gives the finish a bit of an cleansing edge. There just isn't much of what's there in any given quaff. It begs to have the volume turned up.
M - Creamy and very smooth. Light carbonation. Seems too thin and watery. Lacks structure. Not much of a finish that lingers.
D - The oatmeal smooths the edges off the typical stout bitterness, making this style more enjoyable, but the flavors are too subdued, resulting in a beer that doesn't stand out in any way and make me want to drink another. The word "inoffensive" is what comes to mind.
12-31-2010 05:19:19 | More by BuckeyeSlim
4.05/5 rDev +3.3%
12 oz brown bottle with no freshness date.
A- Excellent head retention leaves a thin sticking tan lace, nearly black with glowing edges of garnet.
S- Creamy malt aroma, hints of woody charcoal and dark bakers chocolate.
T&M- Quenching crispness meets full-bodied, amazing. Touch of sweetness from the malt and oats, mild char twang with undertones of roasted coffee and dark chocolate emerge. Hop bitterness is just enough to keep thing balanced. Finishes a tad sweet.
D- By far one of the best stouts I have had to date, big and flavorful yet very drinkable at the same time.
08-06-2006 01:39:16 | More by Jason
4.05/5 rDev +3.3%
Clear and dark brown hued on the pour, opaque in the pint glass. Attractive tan head leaves some patchy lacing. Aroma of oatmeal, milk chocolate, and a hint of roasty coffee. Very nice mouthfeel has a full medium body, moderate carbonation, and smooth grainy oats. Milk chocolate and oats dominate the taste. The oats are a major player in this one, serving up a soft but grainy character. Fruity hops add a note of ripe orange. Nice roasty coffee bitterness on the finish. A very nice sipper on a cool autumn evening.
10-25-2007 12:56:01 | More by merlin48
New York
4.05/5 rDev +3.3%
12 ounce bottle, pours dark mahogany, with a nice creamy long lasting dark tan head, going to a tiny bubble film and, of course, scattered lace upon a swirl. Nose is of chocolate and cafe au lait. Very easy drinking OMS, more milk chocolate notes, lightly burnt grains all with a silky smooth, pleasing mouth feel. Well done and well worth a try. More quality brew from Michigan
08-17-2008 03:35:38 | More by Billolick
4.5/5 rDev +14.8%
06-22-2012 23:58:06 | More by reitzbrewing
4/5 rDev +2%
Review No. 3,000 here on Beer Advocate.
The beer pours a dark brown to black color with a tan head. The aroma has a lot of chocolate and oats, as well as some roasted malt. The flavor is similar. I get a lot of cream and oat notes as well as some dark, bitter chocolate and roasted malt. The beer is fairly dry and has some bitterness. Medium mouthfeel and high carbonation.
07-15-2012 03:44:18 | More by Mora2000
New Holland The Poet from New Holland Brewing Company
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The state of Mississippi is home to two of the SEC's top three returning quarterbacks.
Welcome to Raycom News Network's live blog from SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL.
(RNN) – It's another week and there's another reason to rip Bob Stoops.
The Oklahoma coach followed up his statement that the SEC is overrated and finally has a couple of decent quarterbacks by getting flat run out of the Cotton Bowl by archrival Texas, 36-20, in a game that might have bought head coach Mack Brown another year or so in Austin.
That same Texas team, by the way, lost by 21 to Ole Miss, which didn't even score against Alabama and took the better part of three quarters to muster a touchdown against Auburn.
Much-maligned Texas, which fired its defensive coordinator after a 40-21 loss to BYU, is suddenly 3-0 in the Big XII and looking formidable. For what it's worth, Ole Miss equaled Oklahoma's total points for the game in one quarter against Texas. Yeah, the SEC is looking really weak right about now.
Just shut up.
Every season there is a weekend that destroys your knowledge of college football. This might have been it. The two biggest upsets of the season both occurred this week, Florida got pretty much dominated and Ole Miss looked competent again.
Here is the weekly list of what we learned from watching SEC games in Week 7.
1. Missouri is a dominant force that may not win another game. James Franklin (player) engineered the biggest upset of the college football season – a 41-26 win over No. 7 Georgia – just hours before unranked Utah pulled off a bigger one over No. 5 Stanford.
Such is life for Jimmy Football. Franklin hasn't been recognized because Missouri hadn't played tough competition. Then he finally gets his moment and he's overshadowed by a bigger upset. It just added insult to injury because in the fourth quarter, Franklin suffered a separated shoulder and will be out the rest of the season.
Missouri only has to play only conference games from this point, and the next two are against Florida and South Carolina. Franklin did at least get the team bowl eligible before getting hurt. It remains to be seen what Missouri does without him, but the Tigers' expectations just went way down.
It was the kind of win that would have been worth printing a T-shirt over. Now, with their dual-threat offensive pacemaker out, Missouri may have to wait for its game against Kentucky to increase its bowl status.
2. Georgia did what Georgia does. Let's stay in the same game for a minute. Mark Richt gave back whatever good will he had earned from Georgia fans with the home loss – yeah, HOME loss – to Missouri.
Georgia outgained Missouri across the board, was equal on third down and committed fewer penalties, but turned the ball over four times to Missouri's none. Game, set and match. The hot seat has been turned back on.1
Georgia is still very much alive to make the SEC championship game, but any national championship chances the Bulldogs had are now probably gone. As always, Georgia's annual game with Florida now has massive SEC championship implications.
3. Florida's offense is no longer cute. Speaking of Florida, their toughest test of the year was met with a massive thud. Previously I had revealed Florida's biggest weakness as being turnovers. Well, now we have to find a new one because the Gators didn't commit a single turnover in their 17-6 loss to LSU.
Instead, the story is about an offense that couldn't stay on the field and couldn't do much of anything when it did. The Gators threw for 115 yards, which isn't surprising, but they only ran for 111 and no player had more than 56. Add to that Florida's 6-of-17 mark on third down and the tale of offensive woe is complete.
Facing 17 third downs is a problem in itself, and converting only one-third of them is a bigger one. Eight penalties for 72 yards didn't help any, either.
The Gators did, however, win time of possession by almost nine minutes and are currently the No. 1 team in the nation in that stat. But it doesn't mean anything if you can't score.
4. Alabama is its own toughest opponent. Something is just not right about Alabama's offense and it's going undetected. After derp-ing their way through a scoreless first quarter, the Crimson Tide decided to start playing actual football and left Kentucky trampled underfoot 48-7 as expected.
When the scoreless tie was finally broken, the score was 3-0 when it could easily have been 28-0. Dropped passes plagued the Tide all game, including a crucial third down drop early on. Running backs Kenyon Drake and T.J. Yeldon both fumbled to stifle what likely would have been scoring drives, with Yeldon's coming at the 1-yard line.
Yeldon later dropped a pass when he had a clear route to the end zone and fullback Jalston Fowler dropped another on a potential touchdown. But it was actually a career-best passing day for AJ McCarron and two running backs went over 100 yards. That the Tide missed so many scoring opportunities and still put up 48 points is a testament to how bad Kentucky is rather than a statement of their greatness.
If the Crimson Tide do the same things against LSU in a few weeks (or down the road against someone like, say, Oregon) they may find themselves playing from behind. The Tide has the No. 2 scoring defense in the country, though, so they'll be in any game.
It's a testament to Alabama's recent dominance that there's even the hint of trouble right now, and that might explain the issues in games against people not named Johnny Manziel: It's just not worth putting in 100 percent effort when you don't have to.
5. Steve Spurrier was just Clowney-ing around. Remember the "controversy" over Jadeveon Clowney playing or not playing, caring or not caring, being hurt or not being hurt and Spurrier alternately questioning his commitment and praising his mere presence on Earth?
Well, you've been Spurrier'd. No one manufactures controversy, eliminates controversy, acts like there was never any controversy at all and trolls a vanquished foe quite like Visor Man.2
Spurrier's parting shot to Arkansas that getting blown out 52-7 at Homecoming was "no fun" is the greatest Spurrier troll job since he called Florida State "Free Shoes U." You get bonus points when it's a team you won't play against for, like, the rest of your career.
It still leaves all sorts of unanswered questions about how good South Carolina actually is because the evidence points toward this blowout being an anomaly rather than true-to-form – well, except for Visor Man.
Clowney, though, had only one tackle.
6. The crazy Hog Lady is no match for #karma. Liz Honey returned this week to try to spur her beloved Razorbacks to Come Together for a win over South Carolina. They lost 52-7. It's not Liz Honey's fault. Forces beyond her control are at play.3
From the Bob Stoops Foot-In-Mouth Research Center comes Exhibit B: Jen Bielema (Stoops himself is Exhibit A). Is she a good coach's wife? Sure. Does she understand football? It's possible. Is she causing untold horrors to rain mercilessly down upon the be-snouted minions of the Ozarks? Yes.
It's been four weeks since Jen Bielema, wife of Arkansas coach Bret Bielema, trolled Wisconsin fans for their referee-induced loss to Arizona State. Arkansas hasn't won a game since. The Razorbacks picked up wins over Louisiana-Lafayette, Samford and Southern Mississippi before the tweet and have lost to Rutgers, Texas A&M, Florida and South Carolina since then. The 52-7 loss to the Gamecocks was particularly disheartening after South Carolina looked vulnerable following a poor showing against Kentucky.
Is an ill-advised tweet to blame for the Hogs' misfortune? Of course not. Is that going to stop me from blaming it? Of course not.
Rule No. 1 of being a fan is don't talk trash to other people if you can't tolerate other people talking trash back to you. Rule No. 2 is don't brag about things that haven't happened yet. Rule No. 3 is now known as the Jen Bielema Rule – don't take joy in another team's misfortune without expecting misfortune to strike you back.
A better way of saying that is 3-0 looks really good when you haven't played anybody decent. The only other loss Wisconsin has on the season was 31-24 to Ohio State. The Badgers knocked off No. 19 Northwestern this week, so the karma bug has found a new victim.
But don't worry, Arkansas fans, you're next opponent is only Alabama.
7. LSU is the best team in the SEC. In related news, Les Miles is the best interview in the SEC. I mean, honest to peace, he's not a nail.
Anything that gets Les Miles fired up is a good thing and LSU's 17-6 win over Florida did that. Zach Mettenberger had a pedestrian 152 yards passing, but LSU only attempted 17 throws, completing nine. However, the Tigers ran for 175 yards with 121 coming from Jeremy Hill and kept Florida's offense from having any success.
It was kind of like a hammer and a nail, but don't tell that to Miles.
8. Bo Wallace knows near misses. Last year, Ole Miss almost pulled off an inexplicable win over Texas A&M. Saturday, the Rebels almost did it again.
Wallace threw for 301 yards and three touchdowns, but with time winding down and facing an opportunity to mount a game-winning drive, Ole Miss faltered. It was the second straight year the Rebels lost to A&M by a field goal.
The teams combined for more points in the fourth quarter than they had in the previous three combined. Wallace also ran for 27 yards and led the Rebels to a first half touchdown for the first time in four weeks.
Ole Miss was penalized for targeting on A&M's final drive, but the ejection was overturned on review. It was the second time in the game an Ole Miss player had been ejected for targeting and then re-instated following a review. The two penalties accounted for 30 of the Rebels' 65 total penalty yards.4
9. Johnny Manziel knows how to avoid near misses. Johnny Offense kept the Aggies from committing six turnovers like they did last year against Ole Miss and did what he's famous for by throwing for 346 yards and running for 124.
Manziel, however, did not throw for a touchdown. All five of the Aggies' scores came on the ground – two from Manziel, two from Trey Williams and one from Ben Malena.
A&M found itself down by a touchdown for the second time in the fourth quarter with about six minutes to play and Manziel stopped throwing stupid passes, forgot that he was wearing a knee brace and became Johnny Football again.
He led the Aggies to a tying touchdown and later a last-second field goal, even running for a crucial first down during the drive. It was a similar comeback to 2012 when Manziel orchestrated two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter to erase a 10-point deficit to win by three over the Rebels.
10. Mississippi State needs to get its offense together. The Bulldogs struggled to a 21-20 win over Bowling Green and got 100 yards passing from one quarterback and 75 yards passing and 130 rushing from another. I mentioned this kind of haphazardly last week, but I'm going to take a full stab at it here. It's long overdue for me to tell somebody to run the Notre Dame Box, so here goes.
Let me preface this by saying I have almost no clue as to how the Notre Dame Box actually worked, so be advised that reading the rest of this column is purely a waste of your time. Now that that's out of the way, here we go.
First of all, the rules of modern football make the original Notre Dame Box illegal, so already this is a failed idea, but considering Mississippi State is committed to a two-quarterback system, and one of those quarterbacks is the team's leading rusher, I'm christening my suggestion as the double-barreled shotgun. It's Notre Dame Box-inspired, but acknowledges the existence of the forward pass.
I think the Bulldogs would be better served by putting both quarterbacks in the backfield at the same time – one on either side of a running back who lines up behind the center – and alternately snapping the ball to all three.
One guy is almost exclusively a passer, one is almost exclusively a runner and the third guy can do both. The read option plays are endless, and the potential for the development of the quadruple option (read option handoff, QB keeper, option pitch and pass) makes this a truly must-see scheme. The only thing that would make it better would be if one the backs threw left-handed.
You can run it with two tight ends for a power T effect or even trade out the running back for a receiver and go four wide. This is either a stroke of genius or abject stupidity – there is no middle ground. Either way, I think it would be fun to watch.5
Does anybody have Dan Mullen's phone number? Or Urban Meyer's?
Extra points: 1I'm really starting to think Mark Richt has an undiagnosed medical condition and needs the hot seat for treatment. Call it CBS – Cold Butt Syndrome. Symptoms include unexplained decisions, snippiness in press conferences, lack of consistency and fear of job security.
2Spurrier'd is kind of like MTV's Punk'd only entertaining. Visor Man is the main prankster and all he does is lie to people's faces and argue with the cameraman for 30 minutes before revealing the truth and throwing a visor with razor blades on the edge at your foot, slicing off your pinky toe. I don't know what this says about me, but I'd watch that show.
3Liz Honey is apparently a big fan of fall because her fireplace is festooned with pumpkins. Her new accessory is a comically oversized bowtie. She also appears to be trying to help raise awareness of breast cancer by wearing a "Pink Cure" shirt. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
4The targeting rule continues to be a disaster. I went in depth on this two weeks ago, and the criticism just keeps mounting up. A New York Times columnist weighed in against it this week, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini invoked the Seinfeld Bizarro World defense of an ejection that was upheld despite very tenuous evidence, Bleacher Report produced a video takedown piece of the rule and CBSSports.com's Jeremy Fowler supported it using unverified stats provided by the NCAA, who put the rule in place. Those numbers claim only 10 ejections have been overturned all season, which seems unbelievably low. (Three were overturned in Week 1 alone).
5If you throw in David Letterman's idea that if you get three consecutive first downs you get to use two balls for a play, then we have revolutionized football.
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Post subject: A Bit of Distro Advice
I'm essentially looking for a bit of distro advice. This is likely to be long-winded, I apologise for that. And I do hope this sort of question isn't unwelcome here.
And I'm being a bit Goldilocks about it. I've been using Linux off and on (more off than on) for years. I've always wanted to make the switch (for 'values' reasons rather than pragmatic ones) but I have, in the past, been weak. I've given up when it got tough.
This past year I've been a bit more successful, partly due to being a bit more resolved about and partly (predominantly, probably) because it's much easier now. Desktop stuff is far better than it was a few years ago.
So I've been distro-hopping, but I want conflicting things:
1. Well stocked repos and an easy to use, fully featured package system
2. ... which have the latest stuff in them
3. Something robust enough that it's not going to break every five minutes
4. But not so pre-built that I felt like I had no involvement - I want to learn, I want it to challenge me
5. Ideally rolling release. This just makes so much sense
I started off with Mint and also LMDE, as I've always liked that in the past. But it feels a bit too windowsy and a bit too sort of... packaged. I didn't feel like I could really mess around with it. There's something about the Mint approach which I can't really identify which puts me off.
I also stumbled into Gnome Shell somewhere around this point, which I love. So that became a must-have.
I've always been fond of Debian so I gave that a pop. It's much easier to install than it used to be, almost too easy (in that I didn't feel like I was learning anything). Getting Gnome Shell on Debian was... interesting. It was only in the experimental repos which... left everything very messy (general bugginess and I was wary of running a hybrid of testing and experimental).
I tried Ubuntu somewhere along the line. I've tried pretty much every release of Ubuntu over the years. It's ... ok. I dunno, like Mint there's something about it which bothers me. I can cope with Unity, so long as I can install others. It just feels a bit like it's trying to do too much at once and not doing any of it particularly well. Seems unfocussed. I love what it's done for Linux, the role it's had in raising Linux's profile on the desktop and so on but... I don't enjoy using it.
I've never got on well (though this is based on experiences 5+ years ago) with RPM based distros but people kept praising Fedora, so I installed that. And... it's really quite lovely. Seems to be very nicely put together, Gnome Shell as default (and very easy to install other WMs too - I like having a poke around). Just very solid and polished. I never thought I'd find something as good as apt but yum seems to rival it these days (if you ignore speed).
So I actually made the switch. I've been running Fedora for weeks on end, only booting to windows for games I can't get running in Wine (I do love PC games (which means being able to install proprietary drivers in a way I can comprehend is essential too)).
But, and here's where I get all Goldilocks about it, it's a bit
well put together. I'm not really learning anything. I mean I am, I made a little bash script which reads websites using espeak while I play games, which made me very proud of myself. But there's so much
on there and I have no idea what a lot of it is or what it does. I'm not learning anything about how this all works.
So the obvious choice seems to be Arch. But... I feel like I'm missing an intermediary step. I don't really know enough to make informed choices as to what I need and what I don't need, I'm not that knowledgeable. Arch sounds ideal in terms of: I would certainly learn about how this all works and my system would feel like it was really
- everything on there was put there by me for a reason, which is appealing. But then I don't want simple things to be unnecessarily hard. When I want to just get something done rather than learn how everything works, then I want it to be easy.
I realise I could go spend a couple of weeks reading and learning what I need to know but... I learn much better by doing/fiddling. I tend to forget what I read five minutes ago, whereas if I go through the process myself I understand it better and remember it.
So.. what's the next step? What's the bridge between distros which do it all for you and distros built around enabling you to do it yourself? (while retaining well stocked up to date repos)
So yes. If I just wanted to use this thing I'd stick with Fedora, because it really is lovely. But I want to learn and fiddle and break things and fix them too. But not something which difficult for the sake of being difficult, that would be silly. When I
have it set up I want something which is easier to use both intrinsically and also because I understand it better and tailored it. i.e. I don't want to get to a working desktop and then have to read for three days to figure out how to get, say, Wine on there.
So yes, sorry about the length of this. I realise, as I say, that I want contradictory things to an extent. And I hope I've explained myself well enough. I'm just looking for advice - maybe it is time to take the plunge with Arch and someone knows of a really good noob-guide, maybe there's another distro I'd not considered - that sort of thing (I should probably list what I have considered and dismissed to save wasting your time. Though feel free to make a case for any of those too
And yes, I'm sorry if it's rude to come here and ask for so much and bombard you with so much text in my first post!
Ok so big list of stuff I've tried/considerd:
Debian: love it bit it's so old (naturally, that's its schtick)
Ubuntu/Mint/etc.: Great for newcomers and probably also great if you're already knowledgeable enough to know what to remove.
Fedora: Amazingly polished, easy, boring.
Suse: Tried it years ago and detested it. Also the MS thing makes it a 'no'.
Mand<s>ake</s>iva: Tried it years ago and hated it slightly less than SUSE.
Slack: Used it off an on over the years. Very customisable. Respect what it's doing but it never grabbed me.
Gentoo: I can't be arsed waiting for things to compile. I am an impatient gentleman. Also people seem to use this primarily so that they can brag that they use it, I'm not into that (I'm 100% sure this doesn't apply to any Gentoo users
, I've clearly just met the few annoying ones)
Sabayon: Preconfigured Gentoo, not sure how much I'd learn. Also I don't like the logo and that matters a lot of course.
I think that covers most of the prominent not-based-on-ubuntu ones.
Wow this got long. I'm saying sorry again: sorry.
Thank you!
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As you seem happy to try out distros, Arch.
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I'm in a similar situation to yourself. I'm looking for a challenge.
Why not make things easy for yourself? Install a decent distro that covers your day-to-day needs, then install virtualbox and learn to install Arch there. If it takes you a month to get it running, you still have a working system in the background.
I tried to install Arch on an old laptop a few days ago. I got completely stumped at wireless setup. I instead decided to put Xubuntu on it and give it to my daughter since her eeepc700 is pants. I'm gonna find a free slot and put Arch on virtualbox myself. If I get it working and working well, I might take the leap to using it as my main distro.
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Yeah that makes sense actually, heiowge, and I'd not really considered it. I shall do that, I think.
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Post subject: Re: A Bit of Distro Advice
Spangwiches wrote:
Gentoo: I can't be arsed waiting for things to compile. I am an impatient gentleman. Also people seem to use this primarily so that they can brag that they use it, I'm not into that (I'm 100% sure this doesn't apply to any Gentoo users
, I've clearly just met the few annoying ones)
That is one of Gentoo's killer features, so few annoying users
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)
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I gave Sabayon a go a few months ago, and to tell you the truth I haven't looked back. I was really surprised, it's been a joy to work with, and that's even using KDE!
Equo is a really nice package manager.
But hey, I am a serial distro hopper, what do I know! I used Arch previously, it was fun to mess about with too. I'm really happy with Sabayon though.
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Brian, if you don't mind could you tell me what you were dissatisfied with in Arch? And why/how Sabayon is better?
(I realise of course that our preferences and expectations will be different, but it's interesting anyway I think)
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Install Gentoo, stage 1.
Or Linux From Scratch.
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Brian, if you don't mind could you tell me what you were dissatisfied with in Arch? And why/how Sabayon is better?
(I realise of course that our preferences and expectations will be different, but it's interesting anyway I think)
I don't think I was unsatisfied with Arch, I am just a distro hopper and I like to try new things.
Sabayon just took me by surprise. Being Gentoo based (which I had never used before) I thought it was going to take as least as much configuring as Slackware and Arch to get my usual tasks running (auto mounting, dual screens, that kind of thing), but it's been as easy as any debian based distro I have come across.
I keep meaning to document my thoughts as I go along on the distro's I am using, and I think my inability to answer your question has convinced to me start.
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Thanks, that's interesting.
I've been playing with Arch in a VM and I'm enjoying it. I've only got as far as installing a WM but I've learnt a ton already.
I keep meaning to document my thoughts as I go along on the distro's I am using, and I think my inability to answer your question has convinced to me start.
That'd be cool, I'd be interested in reading that. There's plenty of info about comparing distros of course but after you've got your head round roughly what each distro is about, it's nice to read something a bit more subjective and anecdotal.
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If you're wary of Arch but want a taste of what it can do, try
. You can play around with the live image or install it and hack it about to tailor Arch to what you fancy. Less work than starting from scratch!
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I did have a look at archbang but thought if I'm going to do this I may as well do it properly. Also wasn't sure how compatible archbang is with arch itself, and presumptions about such things is what usually gets me into trouble
Anyway! I've installed Arch!
Was actually really easy. The wiki is as amazing and people say.
It took me two days to do, but that was mainly because I was working out how I want to handle wifi and reading up on the choices and just reading up on the config stuff.
The actual install went without a hitch, far easier than I was expecting. Then had Xfce and Gnome3 installed in no time at all. And it boots so lighting-fast (not that I care about that, I do it once a day. But it's a nice indication of how light it is).
So far, I love it. It's nice to feel in control and understand what's going on underneath it all. Oh and pacman is as great as people say it is and
fast after yum.
I rate this distro: seven pieces of eight out of a possible tasty malt-loaf.
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Spangwiches wrote:
I did have a look at archbang but thought if I'm going to do this I may as well do it properly ... Anyway! I've installed Arch! ... I rate this distro: seven pieces of eight out of a possible tasty malt-loaf.
Excellent work and glad you found the wiki very good. I've been using Arch seriously for about 3 years now, and have gone through various evolutionary steps: KDE, Gnome, Openbox, Awesome, Icewm ... and now finally back to Openbox + Fbpanel (on 10 systems)! You learn a lot, sometimes a bit painfully and slowly, but there are a lot of resources to help and the AUR is pretty excellent too. And as for speeding things up and keeping memory low, you can tweak things till your heart is well and truly content ...
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I kinda went the other way. Started with KDE about... ten years ago (though I didn't use Linux a great deal then). Then went all out minimal and used blackbox (one of the boxes anyway, I get them mixed up) on both Linux and Windows. Then didn't use Linux for a long time. Then gnome and through to gnome 3.
Still loving Arch. Sorry, this is becoming a diary.
It's very elegant. And yeah, the AUR is great. Can you recommend a frontend for that btw (not GUI, I prefer command line for this - just something which does it in a pacman-like way. I've seen a few but it's difficult comparing them)? I'm fine using makepkg but that could get tedious if I do it a lot.
And man it boots fast. I counted this morning and it's 27 seconds from power on to a working Gnome Shell (and 7 secs of that is getting to grub). Fedora/Ubuntu and even Debian were at least twice that (after grub).
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And yeah, the AUR is great. Can you recommend a frontend for that btw (not GUI, I prefer command line for this - just something which does it in a pacman-like way. I've seen a few but it's difficult comparing them)?
Yes, the range of
AUR helpers
is quite daunting. I currently use
which is only for AUR packages (tweak its configuration at /etc/aurgetrc and 'aurget --help' to see its options). If you want to be more daring and try a wrapper for both pacman
the AUR,
seems to be a front-runner. (I used to successfully use clyde, but it's no longer developed; yaourt is one of the oldest and creakiest maybe.) With aurget, I set my build and package directories to /tmp in the config, then simply run:
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New Eagles QB Kevin Kolb made it clear that he hopes one thing will be the same from last year's offense. "We love the quick strike," Kolb said.
McNabb: Contract extension will take care of itself
In an interview with PFW, Redskins QB Donovan McNabb said he feels no rush to get an extension with his new team.
Eagles, Sapp agree to four-year deal
The Eagles have announced the signing of fifth-round DE-OLB Ricky Sapp to a four-year contract.
Eagles sign four draft picks
The Eagles have signed contracts with four 2010 draft picks: fourth-round CB Trevard Lindley, and seventh rounders LB Jamar Chaney, DT Jeff Owens and S Kurt Coleman.
Eagles sign sixth-round pick Scott
The Eagles announced Wednesday that they have agreed to terms with RB Charles Scott on a four-year contract. Scott was the team's sixth-round draft pick.
Achilles injury may be season-ending for Eagles' Jackson
Eagles FS Marlin Jackson ruptured the Achilles tendon in his right leg at OTAs on Tuesday. Although the team didn't estimate the recovery time Jackson will need, this type of injury is usually season-ending.
Eagles offer intriguing flexibility in secondary
One of the themes of the Eagles this offseason has been change, and it's in the secondary where there is some real intrigue about who will end up playing where, when the chips are all settled.
Expect Eagles to use some 3-4 looks
Eagles defensive coordinator Sean McDermott appears ready to experiment with some 3-4 alignments in training camp.
Center battle could be Eagles' most significant
Some of the more important position battles are starting to shape up, and with new QB Kevin Kolb in place, the Eagles' most significant competition could happen at center.
Eagles sign QB Kolb to one-year extension
The Eagles announced they have signed QB Kevin Kolb to a one-year contract extension through the 2011 season.
Eagles claim OG Murphy from Bucs
The Eagles have claimed OG Shawn Murphy, who was waived by the Buccaneers on Monday.
2010 draft choices by team: Eagles
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller, of "21 Jump Street" and "Lego Movie" fame, responsible for the relaunch
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A well-paced thriller that will have you guessing until the end
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New York Giants
Jason Pierre-Paul - #90 - DE
|6' 5"/ 278 lbs.
|Deerfield Beach, FL
|South Florida
|Years played
|2010, 1st round, 15th pick by Giants
Giants' Ross might get his chance on special teams
Although CB Aaron Ross might be disappointed he's not starting on defense, he might get more opportunities to get on the field because of an injury elsewhere.
Giants claim WR-RS Davis off waivers
The Giants claimed WR-RS Chris Davis off waivers from Cincinnati on Wednesday. He could figure prominently as a punt and/or kickoff returner.
Giants cut five, including Aussie P Bond
The Giants waived five players — DB Vince Anderson, P Jy Bond, TE Carson Butler and LBs Lee Campbell and Micah Johnson — on Monday in order to create space on their roster for draft picks.
Giants lose Hixon to ACL injury for season
The Giants have lost RS-WR Domenik Hixon for the 2010 season with a torn ACL, suffered on the surface of the team's new Meadowlands stadium.
Keep an eye on Giants WR Barden
Second-year WR Ramses Barden, who had a strong training camp as a rookie but barely made a ripple when the games counted, has re-emerged this offseason.
Brother of Giants' Kiwanuka critically injured
The brother of Giants DE Mathias Kiwanuka was critically injured Friday in Indianapolis when his motorcycle struck a car. Mathias, who was riding a separate motorcycle, avoided the car and escaped injury.
Giants' Ross back in fold, but as starter?
CB Aaron Ross returns to cornerback after a tough 2009 season, but he'll have a battle to regain a starting spot with Terrell Thomas coming off a strong season.
Giants TE Boss to undergo surgery
The Giants announced that TE Kevin Boss will undergo an arthroscopic procedure on his right ankle Monday.
Source: Giants no longer shopping Cofield
After he thwarted a deal with New Orleans during the draft, unsigned Giants NT Barry Cofield is no longer on the trading block, a league source told NFL.com Thursday.
Giants WR Hagan signs tender
Giants WR Derek Hagan has signed his restricted free-agent tender, one year at $1.176 million.
Feds: Taylor admits to sex acts with girl
Hall of Fame LB Lawrence Taylor has admitted to paying for sex with a 16-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday by federal prosecutors against the alleged pimp for the runaway girl.
Hall of Famer Taylor arrested on rape charge
The Journal News of New York's Hudson Valley is reporting that ex-Giants great Lawrence Taylor has been arrested for a felony rape charge involving an attack on a 15-year-old girl.
Vets feeling heat with rookies on board
The draft is in the rearview mirror, but here are five veteran players who could be looking over their shoulders with rookies gunning for their jobs.
Giants set for the unknown at punter
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Feagles makes retirement from Giants official
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Captain Blake Hayden is a master at catching speckled seatrout around Virginia Beach and in the Elizabeth River. Despite his notoriety as a live-baiter who has scored numerous monsters more than 10 pounds, we soaked very few livies when he and I got together this past December. Instead, we trolled a pair of Rapala X-Rap XR10 lures, and caught the heck out of these fish –– so many that we lost track of how many we released.
As simple as trolling swimming plugs might appear, it requires knowledge to be successful, including the subtle tricks Hayden employs, which we'll get into later. The bottom line: Trolling swimming plugs is a great way to cover ground and score a wide range of game fish. I've taken wahoo, yellowfin and blackfin tunas, king mackerel, snook, tarpon, seatrout, and even groupers and snappers on them. Sometimes they're better than live bait.
Dial In the Zone
When fish hold near bottom, or deep in the water column, towing a swimming plug near the surface won't do much good. The inverse holds for fish near the surface, if you're dragging a diving plug well beneath them.
Identify where your targeted game fish are likely to be and send the plug to them. Many times, the difference between success and failure is a few feet. Case in point: When I trolled CD18s through Haulover Inlet in Miami with snook guru David Justice, he'd let out enough line so the plug bumped bottom. Then he took a couple of turns on the reel handle to keep the plug just off the bottom, where it would get blasted by big snook. If that plug wasn't swimming within three feet of the bottom, it went unnoticed.
It's the same general rule trolling alongside bridges for snook, striped bass, groupers, and snappers and, of course, seatrout.
Hayden had us trolling channel edges and over mounds. We marked concentrations of bait and trout on our fish finder. We then dropped the lures back and down until they were in the ambush zone. We kept the rods out of the holders, as the upright positions changed the running attitude of the plugs, and raised them above the ambush zone. In the ambush zone, we pointed our rod tips at the surface. The line's low angle of entry into the water minimized influence from wind, and kept the plugs parallel to the bottom. Once we approached a mound, we sped up to swim the plugs over them, or lifted the rods overhead and reeled up a few feet. The key to catching fish on the mounds was to keep the plug right above their contours, including the backsides — where several of the fish we caught were stationing — without snagging the bottom.
The Surface Warriors
One of my earlier experiences with trolling swimming plugs offshore dates back to the early 1980s and a Venice, Louisiana, wahoo trip I took with Capt. Mike Frenette. We were set to troll the fabled rip that materializes here, with our four Rapala CD 18s. Talk about an easy and not-so-fancy trolling setup! Frenette dispatched all four lures at staggered distances, and then watched them for a minute or two. He then took one that appeared to be swimming a tad off in one direction and moved the rods around until all the plugs were trolling straight in an attractive formation.
The wahoo blasted these lures, and we scored eight fish weighing up to 65 pounds before lunchtime, plus a few blackfins and even a yellowfin tuna. Trolling speeds were around 6 or 7 mph, and the plugs were set back so they swam within 10 feet of the surface.
At times, I'll pull these same plugs for kingfish. And to get them even deeper, I use a trolling sinker, attaching the plug to a 10- to 15-foot section of 86-pound-test single-strand wire leader, with a snap swivel at the opposite end. I add an 8-ounce, and sometimes 16-ounce, trolling sinker between the snap swivel on the fishing line and the leader. This gives me depth, and the ability to troll fast and keep the plug in the water.
Many swimming plugs now have elongated and wider diving lips to reach depths approaching 50 feet, models often ideal for grouper trolling. Yet, they do exert excessive drag and require stout tackle. If you wish to use lighter tackle but reach excessive depths, downriggers and high-speed planers get the job done with smaller-lipped plugs. Hayden swears his most productive plugs have orange in them, whether they're stripes, gills or bellies. While I'm sure color matters, I like to play off nature.


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By Lee Howard
Publication: The Day
New London - The Lighthouse Inn had bidders but no buyers during an online auction.
Susan Howard, a real estate agent for U.S. Properties who had been listing agent for the historic property until the Business Loan Center attempted to auction the 4.2-acre parcel, said she watched the online bidding over a two-day period that ended Tuesday.
"It started at $500,000 and went up in $10,000 increments," Howard said in a phone interview. "It was pretty exciting."
In the end, though, "no one had the reserve," which meant that the high bid - which she declined to give out - did not meet the owner's minimum acceptable price.
Business Loan Center held the mortgage on the Lighthouse Inn, a famed restaurant and lodging facility that has been shuttered now for more than four years, when it went out of business. An auction of the property nearly four years ago found a buyer for $1.25 million, but the New Haven businessman backed out of the deal when several break-ins at the inn resulted in missing valuables.
The inn faces a tax auction in June if a buyer is not found. The inn's tax encumbrances have been placed at about $600,000.
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The Binghamton Senators traveled to Rochester Friday night to take on the Americans in the front end of a home-at-home series. It was a back-and-forth battle that saw Rochester blow two one-goal leads andRead More »
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Through fourty minutes, it just didn't look like it was meant to be for the Binghamton Senators. Down 3-0 to the Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins, the BSens appeared to be down and out. ButRead More »
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Detroit Lions
Bill Nagy - #61 - G
|6' 3"/ 308 lbs.
|Hudson, OH
|Years played
|2011, 7th round, 49th pick by Cowboys
Owners, teams react to lockout
Teams and owners released statements or spoke to media members on Saturday, reacting to the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987 and what it means for fans.
Lewand focused on the 2011 season
Lions president Tom Lewand met with Detroit writers on Saturday and answered some questions about the current work stoppage.
Lions release Peterson, re-sign Follett
The Lions re-signed LB Zack Follett and released veteran LB Julian Peterson on Thursday.
NFC North free-agent preview
With the owners and players mired in negotiations, the beginning of free agency is almost certain to be delayed. Yet, PFW is examining the free-agent picture for each club, here featuring the NFC North.
Lions will continue to look at offensive line
The Lions have several options with the No. 13 pick in the draft, but offensive line has to be squarely among the top needs.
Schwartz hints Lions could appeal tampering case
The Lions' tampering case with the Chiefs might not be over just yet, as Detroit could appeal the matter with the NFL.
Reports: Lions sign former Falcons S Coleman
Former Falcons S Erik Coleman has agreed to a one-year deal with the Lions, according to multiple reports.
Lions guilty of tampering with Chiefs, forfeit pick
The NFL has ruled that the Lions have been found guilty of tampering with the Chiefs and will have to forfeit a draft pick.
NFC North 2010 season-in-review team reports
DE Julius Peppers made his presence felt in his first season with the Bears, helping Chicago's defense rank fourth in the league in points allowed as the Bears rose to first place in the NFC North.
Suh credits Williams, Vanden Bosch for growth
In racking up a slew of awards following his standout rookie season, Lions DT Ndamukong Suh has deflected a great deal of praise on others who helped him be so successful so fast.
Suh wins AP Defensive Rookie honors
Lions DT Ndamukong Suh was named The Associated Press Defensive Rookie of the Year on Friday.
Suh wins 2010 Pepsi Rookie of the Year award
Lions DT Ndamukong Suh was named the Pepsi Rookie of the Year on Thursday at a ceremony in Dallas.
Stafford's shoulder will be ready by camp
After initially saying that QB Matthew Stafford didn't need surgery, the Lions followed the medical advice and decided repairing his shoulder was the best course of action.
Stafford called "China doll" by teammate
Lions LB Zack Follett discussed how often QB Matthew Stafford is hurt on a radio interview Tuesday morning.
Raiders' Davis has no regrets in passing on Calvin Johnson
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Here's another update on junior Shabazz Napier (sore left shoulder):
Napier, UConn's leading scorer, practiced Wednesday for the first time since playing at Pittsburgh on Saturday.
He didn't participate in contact drills today as a precaution, according to UConn. His injured left shoulder continues to improve.
The Huskies are off on Thursday.
Team trainer James Doran expectes Napier will be a "full go" for workouts on Friday and Saturday as well as for Sunday's game against Rutgers.
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The Brick Weave House in Chicago
Born as a horse stable, the Brick Weave House in Chicago is all about transportation and transparency. A clever renovation has made it the most compelling architecture on the block and home to a pair of urbanite gearheads and their bevy of cars and motorcycles.
You know you're not in Kansas anymore when the owners of a provocatively revamped horse stable in Chicago stroll you around their quirky neighborhood. Take that yellow house across the street—legend has it that the owner's father won it in a card game. The rest of the block is a crazy quilt of turn-of-the-century worker's cottages, bastardized Italianate three-flats, and clumsily composed yuppie townhouses known (not affectionately) as "Polish contractor specials."
Now this crazy quilt has a new patch: the Brick Weave House, so named by its architect, Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects. Designed for advertising executives David Hernandez and Tereasa Surratt, the house is in gentrifying West Town, about two miles northwest of the muscular skyline of Chicago's Loop. The house's name comes from its most distinctive feature, a tall, two-sided, technically adventurous brick screen that shelters a walled garden and gives the owners the privacy they crave while letting honeycomb patterns of natural light pour inside. At night, the brick screen becomes a dazzling light box.
In the 1880s the house was a wood-frame stable; over the years it grew haphazardly, slowly encrusting with brick additions, a lean-to structure, and some god-awful postwar siding. "During construction, we found large mammal bones—we assumed they were horses', not humans'," says Hernandez, 42, managing director and executive creative director of the Chicago office of Tribal DDB Worldwide. He bought the property in 1999, attracted by its convenient, close-in location; its extrawide lot (40 feet as opposed to the 25-foot Chicago standard); and the high-ceilinged stable space, a perfect spot to store cars and "wrench on projects." Yet the place was so ugly that when Surratt drove Hernandez home on one of their first dates, he had her drop him off a block away so she wouldn't see it.
Phase one of its transformation occurred in 2003 with a made-for-TV makeover by Nate Berkus, Oprah Winfrey's interior designer, who redid the back of the house as a sexy bachelor pad. Berkus punched a big window in the back wall, splashed the floor with orange paint, and threw in Barcelona chairs and other hip furniture—enough, in other words, to look good on TV. Yet Hernandez wanted more. He pondered a restoration that would celebrate the weathered barn doors and other historic details.
But excavation revealed that too much of the original structure was gone to make authentic the rehab he had sketched on tracing paper. "It was too Disneyland," he says. "It was a facade for something that was false."
Instead, he and Surratt, 37, a creative director at Ogilvy Chicago, opted for a complete remake. On the recommendation of a friend, they hired Gang, who had won plaudits for innovative civic designs and will soon complete an 82-story mixed-use Chicago skyscraper, believed to be the tallest building designed by a woman. Her decision to redo the stable—her first completed house—inverted the usual order of architects working their way up from houses to larger commissions. But she was attracted by the prospect of collaborating with two visual types who were passionate about design and promised not to get in her way. "Our carrot is that we'll be the best clients you ever have," Surratt recalls telling her. "Now here's the $5 budget." Actually, it was $140 a square foot, which comes out to about $450,000 for what is now a 3,200-square-foot house.
Gang's first big move subtracted an 800-square-foot chunk of the house's front, making room for the brick screen and walled garden. The screen, which consists of Norman brick with custom-made hardware in the joints, is supported by steel columns and beams that extend outward from the roof as well as horizontal trusses embedded in mortar. It is the latest in Gang's experiments with materials, making what is usually heavy and solid seem light, almost porous. Though the result may not convince those who insist that a house's windows and doors should suggest a human face, it is not anti-urban. "It's not a wall; people come and stare through," Gang says. The house is more social than it seems on account of its street-facing garage, which lets the couple visit with neighbors who park their cars on the street or slide up their own garage doors and tinker with their cars.
Call it "gearhead urbanism."In the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, the route to the front door is adventurous, forcing you to make a couple of turns and pass through the walled garden's soaring space. Once inside, you quickly grasp how Gang met and exceeded her clients' brief: flowing spaces suitable for big parties, integrated storage that compensates for the absence of an attic or basement, a small kitchen, and upstairs rooms that can convert to bedrooms.
To accomplish all this, Gang reversed the previous floor plan, converting the high-ceilinged stable to two floors of living space while placing the new garage on the house's flanks, where before there had been living space. The key is that the vehicle storage and the house are integrated, not separated. From the sleekly furnished dining room, you peer straight into the garage through an opening accented by orange velvet curtains. You'll see a yellow 1968 Camaro Rally Sport or a mauve and black 1966 Dodge Monaco 500. "One of my first boyfriends had this car—same color," Gang says of the Dodge. The concrete floor in the dining room has tire tracks from Surratt's Ducati Monster Dark 750 motorcycle, which is occasionally invited in.