Just finished the Game Theory midterm (I did just fine). I have the rest of the day off. It’s 30 minutes on the road to get back to Chez C.
In honor of Mr. Thompson’s excellent suggestion, here is a harmless post: tell me what to have as my post-examination cocktail when I get home.
Poll closes in 45 minutes.
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Here at Chez Saunders, we are big fans of the classic martini. However, when I’m mixing a drink for just me, it’s always a negroni.
And congrats on getting through that midterm.Report
Pascal’s Wager was one of the questions.
The whole thing was quite enjoyable. I find that I’m a much bigger fan of post-undergraduate education than I am of my college education, for entirely internal reasons. It’s also requiring me to dust off a whole section of my brain that has been re-tasked and un-re-tasking it, which has been educational in and of itself.
I highly recommend going back to school when you’re in your late 30s/early 40s, if you have the means.
I probably would feel differently about this if I had gone from high school, to college, to graduate school (and definitely if you added med school in there, I’m thinkin’).Report
The house cocktail at Chez Likko is the Aviation. Ingredients are a bit exotic, though; you can get them at BevMo but if they’re not on hand you’ve got to do something else.
For something like this, I’d go with a G&T. Tanqueray or better.Report
Can’t go wrong with a gin rickey, the unofficial cocktail of Washington DC.Report
Well, the rickey is the unofficial cocktail of DC. The gin rickey is a thing created because Americans don’t like their own national liquor.Report
Congrats. And I think you have to go with the classic: martini, up.Report
I agree. Though I’ve always preferred my gin martinis dirty with a little olive brine as a substitute for the vermouth.Report
Go with a Dude.
Out of curiosity, how heavily mathematical is the game theory course? When I get into the game theory section of my political behavior course I have to focus on the conceptual aspects and go light on the math…damn political science students hate math. (To be fair, I’m no math wiz myself.)Report
A Dude? In the movie, the Dude called them “Caucasians.” Or are you referring to something else?Report
Nope, that’s it.
It came to mind because A) I was drinking one (although I call them by their old-fashioned Czarist name), and B) it seemed appropriate–if the Dude isn’t in a game theorizable situation, who is?Report
I have to focus on the conceptual aspects and go light on the math…damn political science students hate math.
I would say this experience generalizes.
The instructor is from Chicago. His homework sets are difficult, but he grades pretty easily for the audience.Report
A grasshopper. Blended.Report
The “Vesper” martini is quite good, stirred and never shaken:
Garnish with twist of lemon. Enjoy several.
And I agree completely about latter in life education. Knowledge, like youth, is wasted on the young. It means so much more when you can place some new found knowledge into a context that only comes from having some miles on you. Also, learning for the fun of it is much more fulfilling than just for chasing a piece of paper.
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Anyone else have opinions on the Vesper?
The first one I had tasted too much like gin.
So the next time, I requested one with mostly Voka, but that tasted like nothing.
I feel like there’s a good drink in there somewhere, but I haven’t quite found it. And none of my regular drinking establisments stock Lillet, so it’s hard to expirement.Report
If your goal is to feel it, may I recommend this:
http://blakeb.tumblr.com/post/84943815/purple-margarita-recipe
Here’s the thing about purple margaritas: if you drink one, you will feel very nice. If you drink two, you will feel like the room’s spinning uncontrollably. If you drink three, you won’t feel anything at all. Baby A’s will only sell you two.Report
I will add my voice to the chorus of martini drinkers. But with vodka, not gin.Report
Boyd & Blair vodka is one of the best regional products of the mid-Atlantic — in any category. And it does appear that you can buy it in California.
(Resists strongly the urge to say, “My favorite vodka is pretty obscure, you’ve probably never heard of it.”)Report
Teh Gheys always have the inside scoop on the best vodkas. Will have to give this B&B a spin as I do so appreciate a good potato vodka.
There’s always Blue Ice, another fine American potato vodka.Report
The stuff’s pricey though. Our ordinary house vodka is Three Olives, or sometimes Finlandia.
I’ll have to try Blue Ice.Report
Also I’m trying to wrap my head around that picture: an olive and a twist?
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No.
Olive. Or twist.
“Or.”Report
That’s how I feel too. So what’s with the picture?Report
That picture seems shopped. Why is the olive fuzzy in a clear glass? It doesn’t appear to be a dirty martini. Either that or its a store display glass and the “liquid” is actually a gel that won’t spill.Report
It was the first image result on Google images that was 300 pixels wide. At the time, I had no Photochop.Report
http://www.pixlr.com works well.Report
Bacon bourbon. Two ice cubes.Report
Medium dry gin martini (dirty) wins. Kitty cast the deciding vote.Report
I missed the cutoff, but the house drink here is a bourbon Old-Fashioned, sweet.Report
I also missed the cutoff, but my default at home is a sazerac or an old fashioned.
Martinis are fine enough, I guess, but almost everyone neglects the vermouth to the point that they’re just drinking cold gin or vodka in a glass. Vermouth neglect is a serious problem; we need to get John Walsh on it.Report
I missed it too. Perhaps I can recommend the second (or eighth) drink? I’m presently drinking a beer – a Mayflower Porter to be exact. The darker and bitterer the better, culminating in the liquid perfection that is Guinness, but only if you have a tap in your house. Otherwise, red wine is always nice after stretching your brain (Cabs only – no Merlot). I’m not a huge cocktail guy, but Hendricks gin and tonic is lovely, and it’s hard to resist a nice dry Mojito. Or a good Scotch for that matter.Report
Scotch is always the default. Without voting, I would have had some of the Ardbeg 10.Report
Re: beer…
I like the way you roll, Christopher Carr. Even if you are a zombie.Report
As a dark beer guy, i’ve never really got the appeal of Guinness. Whether on tap or in a can, it has a sort of fluffy-hollowness to it that I can’t stand. I want a beer you can chew, and Guinness just doesn’t deliver.Report
I agree.Report
It’s very, very good in a Black & Tan.Report