What type of Wine Aged well? (Links)

Let get this stated first, I'm no wine expert nor a drinker (of any alcohol drink) unless I have to on those time. My opinion is bases on other expert opinion and come to my own conclusion base on my own gathered information from them. You can come to your own conclusion base on the link below.

• From what I know, an "aged" wine (usually in an oak barrel) for "X" amount of time usually months to years that are store under the best condition by wine maker before being sold to the consumers.
• A wine that you (the consumer) is going to "aged" is wine that is unopened wine that be put in some storage until the later consume. The aged wine will change in flavor (taste) depend on the wine and other factors; not all wine can "aged". 

Here some conclusion (my opinion) base on wine drinker opinions:  

• $20.00 or less is consider cheap wine.
• Wine that aged well within 1 thru 15 or so years , opinions may vary.
• Wine that aged well  longer then 10 plus years, opinions are near similar.

California, USA

How Different California Varietal Wines Age
CALIFORNIA'S TOP CABERNET SAUVIGNONS
On Aging California Wine

World (General)

Wines that Age Well - An Overview by Variety and Region
4 Traits of Wines That Age Well
5 Steps in Deciding How Long to Age a Wine
Wine Aging Chart for Reds and Whites
Which Wines Age Well?
Starting a Wine Collection
Which Wines Should You Be Aging?
How long can wine be aged before it becomes undrinkable?

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Question: What other alcoholic beverage will last a while (as in years), as in unopened and store?
Answer: Distilled beverage (spirit)

According to the my reading and the following the links, "spirit" even in the worse storage conditions will not change (flavor or go bad) unless you do something like put it in the sun [put any alcoholic beverage in the sun for long period of time regardless of what it is, is bad for it].

Links:
Preserving Good Spirits Shelf Life Of Wine, Beer And Liquor Varies Greatly
How to Store Wine, Whisky and Beer: An Easy Guide


       

Edible Fungus, I eaten so far.

Think of this as a list for "edible fungus" I have eaten so far and will update it when I eaten a new type. You can said my interests (currently) is try out (eat) different edible fungus. Depend on where you bought it (and the country you got from) and when (season); they are sold either fresh (I prefer), dry (limit on how you cook it), and canned.

They will be listed in "species" name and then the "common" name where you might see in store or what not. The one with the (*) next to it are the same species but have different common name when sold to the market by either maturity(age), color, and/or how it was rises.  

Agaricus bisporus (*)

• common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom
• Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown, Italian mushroom, cremini or crimini mushroom, brown cap mushroom, or chestnut mushroom/baby portobello, baby bella, mini bella, portabellini, Roman mushroom, Italian mushroom, or brown mushroom
• Portobello mushrooms  

Pleurotus ostreatus

• Oyster mushroom

Pleurotus eryngii

• king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale

Lentinula edodes

• Shiitake, Sawtooth oak mushroom, black forest mushroom, black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, or oakwood mushroom

Grifola frondosa

• Maitake, hen-of-the-woods, ram's head, sheep's head

Hypsizygus tessellatus (*)

• Buna-shimeji, Brown Beech Mushroom , Beech Mushroom, BeechBrown Clamshell Mushroom
• Bunapi-shimeji, White Beech Mushroom, White Clamshell Mushroom

Flammulina velutipes

• [Cultivated] - Enoki, Enokitake, Enokidake, golden needle mushroom, lily mushroom
• [Wild forms] - seafood mushrooms, winter mushrooms or winter fungus, velvet foot, velvet stem, velvet shank

Pholiota nameko

• nameko, butterscotch mushroom

Volvariella volvacea

• paddy straw mushroom, straw mushroom

Agrocybe aegerita

• poplar mushroom, velvet pioppini, Yanagi-matsutake

Auricularia polytricha

• cloud ear, hairy wood ear, black fungus, black Chinese fungus (or mushroom), wood ear fungus, wood fungus, ear fungus, or tree ear fungus

Tremella fuciformis

• snow fungus, silver ear fungus, white jelly mushroom

Killzone: Mercenary - Mission 9 (Exit Wounds): Demolition Contracts (walkthrough)

Contract loadout requirements: Porcupine, STA-3

The mission requirements:

• Kill 10 enemies with the Porcupine
• Kill 30 enemies with STA-3 LMG
• Brutal Melee 4 troops in succession
• Kill the heavies in 2 minutes

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Kill 10 enemies with the Porcupine 

There are plenty of enemies on this mission to do this objective.     
  

Kill 30 enemies with STA-3 LMG

There are plenty enemies on this mission to do this objective.
   

Brutal Melee 4 troops in succession

Recommend you (the player) to do this objective at the start of this mission contracts.

• Will Count: Melee, Melee, Melee, and Melee
• Will Not Count (and you will have to start over "If" you): Melee, shoot, and Melee 

      

Kill the heavies in 2 minutes

 

Recommend using VC9 Rocket Launcher (for direct attack) or M327 Grenade Launcher (for quick attack). Either one will do the job as long as you (the player) aim correctly without getting kill.

If you skilled enough you can do the old fashion way, which is uses a gun to shoot them in the head to make them turn around then you aim for the tiny fuel tank in the back to blow them up.

Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal's Bosses List

Dungeon Travelers 2 Bosses lists (incomplete, as I am still playing it and will updated it). This will list all the boss and which dungeon they from. It will be listed in order of dungeon I unlocked.

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There are mini-boss as I would call it; they are characters that will later join you (party) but due to some misunderstanding or disagreement you will have to fight them or they are monster (regular) that don't usually spawn at the current dungeon you in but later in some other dungeon.

• Dungeon: Prizren Woods
• Character: Conette - fight
• Joined (when): later after the fight 
• Dungeon: Aberdeen Ruins
• Character: Lilian - fight
• Joined (when): after the fight 
• Dungeon: Temple of Wrappl
• Character: Monica - fight
• Joined (when): after the fight 
• Dungeon: Tower of Piertan
• Character: Grishna - fight
• Joined (when): after you beat the boss "Gargoyle" from Tower of Piertan
• Dungeon: Mostar Catacombs
• Character: Lizerietta - rescue from monster
• Joined (when): after saving Foira

• Dungeon: Mostar Catacombs
• Character: Foira - rescue from monster
• Joined (when): after being saved
• Dungeon: Khorramshahr Village
• Character: Souffle - fight
• Joined (when): after the fight 
• Dungeon: Rousset: Imperial Vila
• Character: Eltricia & 1st - fight
• Joined (when): after the fight

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To unlock new Dungeon you can:

• Do the main story dungeon battle and defeat the boss
• Increase your "Quest" rank by doing lots of quest
• Do "Recommend Quest" to to get the special item reward to unlock a locked part of dungeon that is already available to you.

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When I stated: "Naturally have strong resistances to both physical and elemental attack", it mean that boss have resistances to every thing in it stats with zero negative stats.
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Nameless Cave:

• Bubble Slapyon (lvl: 4, HP: 180)

• Bunbuku (lvl: 32, HP: 3300) - Locked Part of the Dungeon, required "recommend quest" reward to unlock it .
• Naturally have strong resistances to both physical and elemental attack.

Prizren Woods:

• Flower Fairy (lvl: 12, HP: 725)
• like to uses air elemental attack

Samara Passage:

Temple of Wrappl:

• Gremlin (lvl: 15, HP: 1075)

Aberdeen Ruins:

• Jeweler (lvl: 8, HP: 452)

• Ooroshi (lvl: 38, HP: 5000) - Locked Part of the Dungeon, required "recommend quest" reward to unlock it 
• Naturally have strong resistances to both physical and elemental attack. Self-heal 150 HP every turn (recommend using non-elemental attack and your strongest attack against this boss)

Tower of Piertan:

• Siren (lvl: 17, HP: 1600)
• like to uses air elemental attack

• Gargoyle (lvl: 20, HP: 2000)
• like to uses row attack and ill-ailment attack

Mostar Catacombs:

• Frankenchan (lvl: 25, HP: 2500)

Khorramshahr Village:

• Girimekhala (lvl: 30, HP: 3500) 
• You don’t get to keep this monster, so you don’t get the data info in your book so. I don’t remember after the battle so I uses the JP wiki info to put the info.

Giant Tree of Tver:

• Tammuz (lvl: 40, HP: 4800)
• Naturally have strong resistances to both physical and elemental attack without using skills. Will have skills that will boost its defenses resistances for all types.  

Rousset: Imperial Vila:

• Royal Guard (lvl: 31, HP: 3000) 
• Irene (lvl: 34, HP: 3400)
• Naturally have strong resistances to both physical and elemental attack, any type of attack has some kind negative effect. Can attack multi of (your) character in its turn.

• Ghost of Rousset (lvl: 36, HP: 4000) 
• You don’t get to keep this monster, so you don’t get the data info in your book but this time I remember to write down the basic stat. 

Marsala Onsen:

(My) Travel time by different transport in single trip

This is randomness out of boredom, but if I’m going to write it then it at least be accurate. This is my longest travel time in different transport in single trip from one places to another whether I driving it or not does not matter. Does not count if you stop over and rest in some hotel or motel over night. Will count for re-fueling, resting (such as bathroom break or rest stop), or crossing the border which require to get out of the transport and present all necessary documents to the border people. Transfer into a different transport or similar transport will not count. Whether you in a traffic, or afloat at sea; these still count because you in that transport, while not moving much.

• Vehicle (car and/or truck): ~5 Hours or more
• Bus: ~3 Hour
• Rail (train, subway, and/or any rail transports): ~4 Hour
• Aircraft: ~15 Hour
• Sea Craft: ~1 Hour, ~2 Hour (don't remember)

Airport, I Been To

This is a random stuff of my, which is "airport" I been to, there may be a few airport I forgot to list because it been a long time ago or I was too young to know or I can't think of it on top of my head.

They will be be categorize as:

• Pick Up or Drop Off
• Picking someone up or dropping them off at that airport, you only stay around the entrance area of the airport.

• Arriving or Departure
• You flying in and/or out of that airport, you go through and see most of the airport.

• Transfer
• You fly in only to get on to another plane to fly out at that airport, you stay around the terminal area only.

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• San Francisco International Airport (SFO) - USA: Pick up, Drop off, Arriving, and Departure 
• Oakland International Airport (OAK) - USA: Pick up & Drop off
• Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (SJC) - USA: Pick up & Drop off
• Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) - China: Arriving & Departure
• Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) - China: Arriving & Departure 
• Incheon International Airport (ICN) - South Korea: Transfer
• Vancouver International Airport (YVR) - Canada: Transfer 
• Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) - China: Arriving & Departure     

How to get detail picture of the moon or Night Sky

You often see very nice picture online or in books of the moon with minor moon landscape feature. I don't remember if I stated in the earlier blog when I stated I wanted take picture of the moon. So did some average research both online and offline (books) to find out what I need beside a camera.
The result are the following:

Books Stated:

• DSLR Camera
• Type of Lens (not stated, but most likely telephoto len), They only stated the F-number, and shutter speed. Not very helpful when this is the most important thing

Online Stated:

•  DSLR Camera or Point and Shoot Camera (But no example of Point & Shoot Picture anywhere online or at least not stated)
• Telephoto Lens (I uses 70-300mm telephoto lens, but it seem that I need an even more powerful telephoto lens beyond 300mm which also been stated they [online] used 800mm)

Well, I have nagging feeling that people uses telescope with the right attachment for the camera to mount on instead of telephoto lens to get those nice detail picture of the moon or the night sky. I know that a camera (depend on the camera) can be attach to a telescope (with the right require attachment equipment) but none of the sources from the above research stated this fact. I finally found my answer a few days ago when it was stated in this [Images] description box.

In Conclusion, if you want detail picture of the night sky or the moon uses:

• DSLR Camera with a telephoto lens higher then 300mm or with telescope attachment
• Point & Shoot Camera or Webcam [these are Maybe] with a telescope attachment [these are maybe since they (most of these type of camera) don't often have the right equipment to attach to a telescope] 
• Remember that camera attachment equipment to telescope are sold separately.