Before moving across the country, I left a gallon of kiwi wine fermenting back in New York. Now, after about 4 months it's about ready and very clear (without using tarpon bladder, bone meal or any other disgusting clarifiers and "finings,") and so I thought it would be good to document (as best I can from memory) what went into it.

Ginger Champagne, a tart, sharp but subtle wine is something I started when I moved into a place larger than a shoebox. It started with the following recipe, but after almost a year of aging, I'm sampling the finished product and evaluating how it should change. I'll list changes after the recipe:

Note, this might change if I realize I'm remembering this all wrong.

I decided I needed a whiteboard for a new concept I'm developing (details to be disclosed later). Not everything can be typed, and wasting paper just seems like a...waste.. Hand-writing facilitates the creative process in the same way that white boards force you, literally, into a box. That anyone feels that purchasing an ugly picture frame with a picture of PVC inside is acceptable, amazes me.

But, rather than do something stupid like buy one, I decided to try the materials laying around.

I'll be chronicling my adventures in designing a usable and useful power system, powered by spinning wheels. I'm only just starting out so, though it should be "finished" in a week or fifty, I'll start by outlining my ideas.

1. Neodymium magnets can be found very cheap (by America-or-wealthier standards) and same for copper wire. 32ga magnet wire coiled into tiny giants, epoxied to a PVC circle and being passed within a small brush of the B field from some magnets I've JB-Welded to the spokes, should induce enough current to rectify-ify into a phone charge pretty easily. EMF is related to the number of turns of wire, and the time rate of change of magnetic flux, so I'm still trying to reconcile coil size with efficiency.