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mindexpansion: gold XP hope to see you there! Squaaaarrrrk!

sweet :D so maybe say, channel 11 can be SAB's cb channel :D and i'm rfealy not concerned if anyone from rainbow hears what i say on the cb. Any other festival yes, but not rainbow ;) edit i dont believe that if anyone else meets me and my friends at a location at the festival, that that person will be.. Undesirable. One of the things that make rainbow so attractive to me :D

if you want something good and cheap, try looking into refurbished computers. I picked up an acer 2GHz dual core something with 2GB of ram, 250GB hdd for $300. I know your down for specs and that but if you look into it, you will see how cheap they are. when it comes to bang for your buck you cant go wrong and when at the time, a good netbook was the same price. (roughly 6-9 months ago?) my 2c ;)

today tickets to Rainbow went on sale and i got mine! Woohoo! Anyway, i had this idea that because rainbow is so massive and its so unbelievably easy to loose your friends and not see them till you head back to camp, i decided to get some lil hand held CB radios. So next time we get lost i just get on the walkie talkie and decide apon a location to arrive at. the other advantage is last year, there were some members from interstate who wanted to meet up at rainbow but when i got there i soon realised, there is no way to do this because of the sheer size of the camp site and festival lol so ya, closer to the date i will find out what channels are allowed to be used for just chatting and that and some call signs ;) (as i know nothing about CB radios) mine cost me $150 for 2 rechargable hand held CB radios with a range of 7km from autobauhn. The rechargable battery can also be replaced with 4 AAA batteries if i have no way to charge them. (i have a small inverter in my car that can power the charger tho) dick smith sold a similar unit aswell but with i think a 5-6km range and was uniden brand but for $100. Looking back, i should have gone for them. Oh well. There were some cheapies from jaycar i looked at that used AAA batteries with a 3km range for $20 each but for the extra $$$ i get a charging station, rechargable batteries and over double the range but the options there. I think it would be amazing to, while waiting in the huge line of cars or if i get bored on the first day after setting up, i can see if i can find other SAB members! Cool! So anyway, i know i may be posting this well early, but i just got so excited! :D

phil phil phil phil... Those pod casts.. I'm about 2 in and already blow away. I understand the experiences you want to experience. Dude is pretty clever. Wow thanks alot for them! One down, only a bagillion to go.. Hahahaha

omg.. The food is reason enough to go! Let alone the people! Thanks for all who made this meet what it was. Thanks amazon for without fail bringing some amazing grub ;)

velvet: bring your frind! XP

come on days... Stop crawlin by...

of course your allowed and encouraged! I'll bring a plant for you! :D

shit i thought it was today! Lucky i double checked ;)

hahaha ya. Well i have aquired some 92% alcohol which from past experience is perfect. Remember that fruit has a whole lotta juice in it so that can drop the alcohol down by half usually, then you add your sugar and other additives and it usually drops it down more. Finally, water can be added if absolutely needed but by that time its usually good ;)

nearly there :D

interesting.. Perhaps it may be a matter of doing something like soaking the fruit pulp in the alcohol for a while, filtier soak that alcohol in fresh fruit, repeat untill a reasonable amount of colour and flavour comes thru...

i'm pretty sure if you brew up a sugar water wash its legal, to put that fermented product in the freezer is legal, and to tip it upside down and to collect the alcohol that drains out is also legal too. I could be wrong too. To behonest, i dont realy care :S besides, you'd need a dam strong wash, (not hard to get over 18%-22% if done correctly with the right yeast) and a dam cold freezer to get it freeze the water and leave the aalcohol, especially if the sugar isnt completely fermented out... Anyway, i love the sugestions already! Your making my job alot easier :D

www.nationalgeographicstock.com/comp/MI/001/1147282.jpg holy poop thats a dam sexy fruit :D i like the pink bits

yes, i ment ment liqueur :S specificly distilling is illegal. Other forms of purifying alcohol are fine, like freezing.. And... Umm... Well, thats all i know in terms of purifying alcohol i dont even know how compatible cactus fruit will be as a liqueur, but what the hey, i'll give it a go hopefully the alcohol may help to preserve it. I hope to get it close to 30% if possible so that should help and the low juice content may work to my advantage. Usually i need to use 85%-92% alcohol because if i use just 40% it will come out at 15%-25% which is ok, but if done correctly, will have a much better mouth feel at the stronger alcohol content. If it turns out i plan to bring it to a melb meet :D wont be ready till say, autum-winter meet, but should be worth the wait! :D

yes, i ment ment liqueur :S specificly distilling is illegal. Other forms of purifying alcohol are fine, like freezing.. And... Umm... Well, thats all i know in terms of purifying alcohol i dont even know how compatible cactus fruit will be as a liqueur, but what the hey, i'll give it a go hopefully the alcohol may help to preserve it. I hope to get it close to 30% if possible so that should help and the low juice content may work to my advantage. Usually i need to use 85%-92% alcohol because if i use just 40% it will come out at 15%-25% which is ok, but if done correctly, will have a much better mouth feel at the stronger alcohol content. If it turns out i plan to bring it to a melb meet :D wont be ready till say, autum-winter meet, but should be worth the wait! :D

long story short i had a crazy idea to make a cactus fruit liquor so i need some info. First up! My first thought is to use fruit from the prickly pear because of its abundance, but what other fruits are large, tastey and abundant? When i say abundant, i mean can i get enough of them to fill say, at least a 1.5L jar? Being large is to make it easy to harvest and process. anyway, thoughts anyone? Cheers!

the fact that plain CWE seems more resiny and ethanol extracts are crumbly makes sense. Alot of protiens are not soluable in solvents like ethanol, methanol, acetone etc. If you wanted to remove some of these protiens, fan it for a few days, preverably with dry air from an air conditioner or other dehumidifyer, then once its down to warm honey viscocity, wack in an excess of 70%+ ethanol (the purer the better!) and give it a good mix. It should turn white as it percips the protienes. Simply decant your liquid and evap with a fan! I chose ethanol because its easy to get (bacardi 151 form a bottle shop) its relitively low toxic so if it doesnt all evap out no biggy and it the fumes arent too bad or too toxic ;) i used this method with cactus tea to good effect aswell ;) its my gut feeling the CWE followed by protien percip would be best because there is a chance that goodies may be trapped in the protiens and the ethanol may not be able to penetrate into it, but i could be wrong. In any case, if your worried about such losses, simple harvest more plant material!!!!! :D

thats a lil silly to say. Dmt isnt independantly orally active, but wack some cappi in the brew and happy days. As long as it changes the way the body normally behaves, then IT IS in some way active and thats what i'm interested in ;)

sweet! Food never goes astray ;)

usually around 12-1ish. And thats a big ish. :D any time after that seems to be good

so the protien doesnt dissolve in water?

i like :D

those red rap white stem shrooms look gorjuz :D