1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
I doubt that I will make this tasting so do not count me in.
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i have the time available but am unfortunately still unemployeed and broke-ish.
how can i arrange this to happen for myself yet spend as little as possible?
sorry to be a cheapass.
the only 77 i have is a smith woodhouse but it looks like that's already on the table...
how can i arrange this to happen for myself yet spend as little as possible?
sorry to be a cheapass.
the only 77 i have is a smith woodhouse but it looks like that's already on the table...
you've got a friend in cheeses
Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Table for four booked at Smiths, 18:30 Thursday 28th May 2009, in my name. The lovely Jennifer took my booking she remembered my tongs. She requested a ‟confirmation call” on Wednesday or Thursday morning: +1 212 260 0100.
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I will bring an incomplete box of glasses, probably exceeding 4×7=28.SushiNorth wrote:Julian, can we count on you for glasses? Don't make placemats, I want to give it a try
Placemats: excellent. Please show me your work a few days in advance I might have a suggestion or few.
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Or just turn up with printed copies of the slightly imperfect version and enjoy JDAW's horrified expression.jdaw1 wrote: Placemats: excellent. Please show me your work a few days in advance I might have a suggestion or few.
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Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
SushiNorth is an engineer who takes pride in his work. You, DRT, have used his port garotte: deliberate shoddiness is not his thing.
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I have heard rumors of DRT's labels tho =)jdaw1 wrote:SushiNorth is an engineer who takes pride in his work. You, DRT, have used his port garotte: deliberate shoddiness is not his thing.
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g-man wrote:I have heard rumors of DRT's labels tho =)
That advice was aimed in a particular direction.The author of [url=http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/placemat/placemat.html]the manual[/url] wrote:Choose a small subset of the decorative features to go in the final placemats. Too many flamboyant features looks cluttered and horrible, so be parsimonious.
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1. Cool. I already like this venue even more.By email, Doug Psaltis, head chef at [url=http://www.smithsnyc.com/]Smiths[/url], wrote:I am excited you will be joing us this thursday for a port tasting and dinner. Please let me know if there is anything that you would like me to prepare for your tasting or dinner
look forward to seeing you
2. Any special requests?
Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
SushiNorth: draft placemats?
All: I’m aiming to decant between 1pm an 2pm. Objections?
All: I’m aiming to decant between 1pm an 2pm. Objections?
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Sorry, was straightening some details out.jdaw1 wrote:SushiNorth: draft placemats?
All: I’m aiming to decant between 1pm an 2pm. Objections?
I believe the plan is:
Julian, Jeff, Stephanie, Josh
____77, Croft 77, Guedes 77
Julian: which wine should I put down from your long list? I'm going with Ferreira (which i think puts us all at about the same price point, Port-wise) on the draft placemats. I worked on them the other night, now need to see if I can actually view them!
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Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Draft PlacematsSushiNorth wrote:Julian: which wine should I put down from your long list? I'm going with Ferreira (which i think puts us all at about the same price point, Port-wise) on the draft placemats. I worked on them the other night, now need to see if I can actually view them!jdaw1 wrote:SushiNorth: draft placemats?
Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
All of them, of course.
- Ferreira (JDAW);
- Smith Woodhouse (JDAW);
- Warre (JDAW).
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Well, much to say.SushiNorth wrote:Draft Placemats
- Well done for making them. Hurray: somebody else in New York can cope.
- Far too little port please add W77 and SW77.
- How did the PDF manage to be 3.9 megabytes? Most of mine are about 200k, and even with FillTexts give change from a megabyte. (Edit: ahh, I see. Online GhostScript, which doesn’t optimally handle execforms nothing you can do about that.)
- ‟Smiths - NYC”: either you mean an emdash (‟ ”, /emdash), or a plain comma. But this is not the moment to reach for a mere dash. FWLIW, my preference is ‟[(Smith) /quoteright (s, 79 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10012) <date> ]”.
- ‟1977 Little Vertical”: Horizontal, surely.
- Why did you refrain from switching on the logo, as described in ¶4 of Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners?
- Add to the Circlearrays the initials of the bringer of that bottle.
- The internationally-agreed (i.e., agreed by DRT and myself) abbreviation for Guedes is ‟Gd”, for Croft is ‟Cr”, and for Ferreira is ‟Fr”. (G = Graham; C = Cockburn; F = Fonseca.)
- Which makes the subtitles redundant. But nice anyway: keep them.
- Thoroughly commendable choice of FillTexts I might copy that splendid innovation.
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Oh where to start. First, thanks for the guidance.jdaw1 wrote:Well, much to say.SushiNorth wrote:Draft Placemats
- Well done for making them. Hurray: somebody else in New York can cope.
- Far too little port please add W77 and SW77.
- How did the PDF manage to be 3.9 megabytes. Most of mine are about 200k, and even with FillTexts give change from a megabyte.
- ‟Smiths - NYC”: either you mean an emdash (‟ ”, /emdash), or a plain comma. But this is not the moment to reach for a mere dash.
- ‟1977 Little Vertical”: Horizontal, surely.
- Why did you refrain from switching on the logo, as described in ¶4 of Making Your First Placemat: Advice for Beginners?
- Add to the Circlearrays the initials of the bringer of that bottle.
- The internationally-agreed (i.e., agreed by DRT and myself) abbreviation for Guedes is ‟Gd”, and for Ferreira is ‟Fr”.
- Which makes the subtitles redundant. But nice anyway: keep them.
- Thoroughly commendable choice of FillTexts I might copy that splendid innovation.
3) I have no idea. I'm using pstopdf.com, they all came out that way, using basically the out-of-the-box code.
4) Emdash was the plan, i should have --, but i think a comma is actually more appropriate. I only caught the "London" at the last moment
5) And the name of the tasting. But with 7 bottles (getting to that), we will all be laying on the floor and it will look like a vertical.
6) Ah, i should go read that more thoroughly. will get on there
7) I was actually trying to get them in the title's fill text, but was worried it would seem gauche to have who brought what. Will get it in the circle text.
8) OK, was wondering what to use. I actually guessed at Gd and Fr, but figured it wasn't necessary with no redundancy at the table. will look at the list for SWC and W
10) btw, Gd is sadly Royal-in-disguise (or something close, oh well) and will hopefully not be as bad as their 77 Colheita. But it should be novel
OK, so #2. Realize that we will have far more port than can possibly be drunk. I was debating bringing the delaforce as a surprise, but this makes me think I should hold off. I may instead try to bring halves of both, and fridge the other half of each for an event i have on saturday. I will add SW and W to the placemats, but we should also make an impassioned call out for tasters (with fortitude) to adopt bottles.
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8. Smith Woodhouse = SW, not SWC.
Please let me know when version two is uploaded.
We are three males and a light female, plus help from an enthusiastic chef. Five bottles shouldn’t leave any nice wastage (i.e., if Guedes is terrible, it and only it might not be finished).
Please let me know when version two is uploaded.
We are three males and a light female, plus help from an enthusiastic chef. Five bottles shouldn’t leave any nice wastage (i.e., if Guedes is terrible, it and only it might not be finished).
- Cr = Croft (JHG);
- Gd = Guedes (JES);
- Fr = Ferreira (JDAW);
- SW = Smith Woodhouse (JDAW);
- W = Warre (JDAW).
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Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Yup, we give you grief about it each time. It's perhaps an American thingjdaw1 wrote:8. Smith Woodhouse = SW, not SWC.
Please let me know when version two is uploaded.
We are three males and a light female, plus help from an enthusiastic chef. Five bottles shouldn’t leave any nice wastage (i.e., if Guedes is terrible, it and only it might not be finished).
(Aside to the Brits reading this thread: I have this debate all the time. Ignore it.)
btw, I thought the founding year was fun, other things I considered were composite quintas (tough to determine), current holding company, and release price.
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Looking better.
• No apostrophe in Smith’s. Really?
• Warre (my preference) or Warre’s (my second choice), but not Warres.
• The same might or might not be true of Guedes.
• Croft = Cr. A plain C is Cockburn. (You took several hours between starting your previous reply and posting it, during the first few minutes of which I edited my critique.)
• Stephanie = SYG.
• I’m officially not noticing the need to kern after the Ws of Warre and Woodhouse.
• No apostrophe in Smith’s. Really?
• Warre (my preference) or Warre’s (my second choice), but not Warres.
• The same might or might not be true of Guedes.
• Croft = Cr. A plain C is Cockburn. (You took several hours between starting your previous reply and posting it, during the first few minutes of which I edited my critique.)
• Stephanie = SYG.
• I’m officially not noticing the need to kern after the Ws of Warre and Woodhouse.
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Wasn't paying much attention to the top of the notes pages. Adjusted. Yes, the post was started and one sentence typed, whereupon a guest arrived and I was otherwise engaged for 3 hrs.jdaw1 wrote:Looking better.
• No apostrophe in Smith’s. Really?
• Warre (my preference) or Warre’s (my second choice), but not Warres.
• The same might or might not be true of Guedes.
• Croft = Cr. A plain C is Cockburn. (You took several hours between starting your previous reply and posting it, during the first few minutes of which I edited my critique.)
• Stephanie = SYG.
• I’m officially not noticing the need to kern after the Ws of Warre and Woodhouse.
Warre's, as that's what's on their bottle, but Guedes as it's a family name (and no apostrophe is on the bottle). Sadly, in doing this check it was determined the Guedes has a slow leak. It's still bottom neck, but it has been righted in preparation for thursday decanting. A Graham's below it has been cleaned.
Changes (excluding venue address) are here : placemats[/quote]
But as I suspect we may have one more round of fixes I didn't wait around for ps2pdf's slow update.
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Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Having abbreviations in the form Aa is inelegant; I suggest following the section marked complications in Julian's manual to raise the lower-case letter and place a dot underneath it. Or simply make the lower-case letter superscript.
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Agreed. But the large number of names compels something.JacobH wrote:Having abbreviations in the form Aa is inelegant
Yes, but some aren’t abbreviations. Consider just the r-o’s:JacobH wrote:I suggest following the section marked complications in Julian's manual to raise the lower-case letter and place a dot underneath it.
Ro = Rocha
Rd = Rocheda
Ra = Quinta da Romaneira
Rm = Romariz
Rr = Quinta de Roriz
Rs = Quinta de la Rosa
RsI = Quinta de la Rosa Vale do Inferno
RJ = Royal Jubilee
RO = Royal Oporto
ROC = Royal Oporto Quinta das Carvalhas
Also, consider Xf and Xy: the f and y should have the same vertical offset, and be in the same size (in case those titles are in the same row). Propose algorithm!
Better! Though requires additional code so that the top of the superscript precisely aligns with the top of the capitals.JacobH wrote:Or simply make the lower-case letter superscript.
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All six megabytes are great. Please print and bring.SushiNorth wrote:placemats
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And so the reason I held off...
we are now 5:
Sean (SBC) will join us
we are now 5:
Sean (SBC) will join us
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That reservation expanded to a party of five.jdaw1 wrote:Table for four booked at Smiths, 18:30 Thursday 28th May 2009, in my name. The lovely Jennifer took my booking she remembered my tongs. She requested a ‟confirmation call” on Wednesday or Thursday morning: +1 212 260 0100.
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Re: 1977 horizontal in New York: version 2
Smith's of 79 MacDougal Street between West Houston and Bleeker
Thursday May 28th, 6:30PM
Confirmed attendees:
Ports:
ABCDEFV to 4th st, walk down 6th (~2 blocks), left on bleeker, right on macdougal
1 to HoustonSt, walk east on WHouston (~2 blocks), left on macdougal
Thursday May 28th, 6:30PM
Confirmed attendees:
- Julian (JDAW
- Jeff (JHG)
- Stephanie (SYG) (jeff+1)
- Josh (JES)
- Sean (SBC)
- Doris (DC) (sean+1) (Confirming tonight...)
- Maybe: Jeff, you mentioned there might be someone else?
Ports:
- Warre 1977 (JDaw1)
- Ferreira 1977 (JDaw1)
- Smith Woodhouse 1977 (JDaw1)
- Croft 1977 (g-man)
- Guedes 1977 (SushiNorth)
- Delaforce 1977 (SushiNorth)
ABCDEFV to 4th st, walk down 6th (~2 blocks), left on bleeker, right on macdougal
1 to HoustonSt, walk east on WHouston (~2 blocks), left on macdougal