Monte Cassino: Cocktail Recipe #3
The Recipe The Description This cocktail was created in 2010 by Damon Dyer, a bartender at (the now defunct) Louis 649 in New York City. Damon won the Bénédictine 500th…
The Last Word: Cocktail Recipe #2
My Recipe The Description The Last Word is a Prohibition-era cocktail originally developed at the Detroit Athletic Club. The first publication in which the Last Word appeared was Ted Saucier’s…
Remember the Maine: Cocktail Recipe #1
My Recipe The Description The original version of this recipe can be found in Charles H Baker’s classic 1939 book “The Gentlemen’s Companion, Volume II: Being an Exotic Drinking Book…
TOCS Milestone
As some of you might know, I’m a partner with Brick Mill Games, LLC. We are building an on-line wargame system in a double-blind, limited intelligence environment. We reached a…
Wikitree: Acadian Project
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the Guerins of Acadie for my next blog post. What started as a simple idea blossomed into something pretty major. I use…
Steel & Steam 3.0 Update #1
Work on Steel & Steam progresses at an increased pace. I’ve been going over all of my code and updating it to support two different sorts of games: the US…
C’est Moi: a Guerin of Massachusetts, Part One
This post is the first of a series detailing some of the references of and research behind my own family tree. For this endeavor, I am going to ignore details…
Steel & Steam 3.0
For those who have been following this project, it is once again coming off of the back burner. The experimentation with cargo transportation and with the New England / Canada…
The Origins of the Guérin Surname
The origins of the Guérin surname, whether with or without l’accent aigu, are ancient. As I pursued the mystery of my own family origin, numerous sources kept pulling me to…
Mill #6 is Online
While Le Moulin is the unofficial name of my detached shed / office, built in 2021, Mill #6 is the name of this blog. This blog will serve as the…