13 Responses for "Open Cola"

1. mark May 24th, 2007 at 11:51 am 1

   Hmmm… “Mix the concentrate with 5 parts filtered water and force carbonate the beverage, or use a soda fountain that will combine the concentrate with carbonated water at the tap.”

   I don’t think I’ll be able to do this at home. We’ll just have to stick with our “sodajuice” - half seltzer and half fruit juice of your choice.

   Where do you buy caffeine?

2. Alan May 24th, 2007 at 2:48 pm 2

   Don’t open colas tend to go flat?

3. wax tablet May 25th, 2007 at 6:37 am 3

   Good one Alan, I snorted a bit of commercial soda on that one.

   Mark, sodajuice? I’d never heard of it. I had Orangina in Paris ca 1988, that was the first carbonated juice I can remember seeing and/or tasting.

   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/OpenCola_soft_drink_recipe.pdf

   In the pdf, it talks about…

   just adding the syrup to sodium-free carbonated water (Mark)

   and

   Tightly sealed glass containers (Alan):)

4. Scott May 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pm 4

   sodajuice is a hack, Bear, not a OEM Product.

5. wax tablet May 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm 5

   You mean no one offers a hack as an OEM product?!?!

   Can we say, Windows ME? There is a linux based one that I was thinking of, but the name escapes me.

6. mark May 29th, 2007 at 8:02 am 6

   sodajuice is the ultimate expression of the Unix Philosophy: small standalone tools that can be combined together to make things that are better than the sum of their parts. Why would I want to re-write grep or manufacture seltzer?

7. pinakidion May 29th, 2007 at 8:35 am 7

   grep seltzer.

   That sounds like a cool band name to me.

   I was going to say something about how Sodajuice would be more like Ubuntu than Debian, but there is a limit.

8. Scott May 29th, 2007 at 2:32 pm 8

   ME was a “patch” not a “hack”.

9. pinakidion May 29th, 2007 at 10:06 pm 9

   If that was a patch, I’d hate to see a Redmond hack.

10. mark May 30th, 2007 at 7:48 am 10

    DOS was a hack. Windows 1 was a hacked patch on a hack. …. Windows ME was a patched hack on a patched hack on a …. hack.

    NT 3.5 was a hack. Windows 4.0 was a patch on a hack. Windows 2000 was a hacked patch on a patch on a hack. Windows XP was a patch on a hacked patch on a patch on a hack.

    Vista is just plain scary.

    (To be fair, Fedora Core 1 and 2 were pretty lame also. As was Solaris 2, 2.1, and 2.2 - it took Sun 4 major releases just to get a stable Sys V Unix release.)

    NeXTSTEP 3, upon which OS-X is based, was just plain beautiful. ‘Wish I could justify the cost of a Mac…

11. mark May 30th, 2007 at 7:53 am 11

    Back to sodajuice: I got spam yesterday (to an email address I had given to ReserveAmerica when we reserved a campsite:

    http://www.sodaclubusa.com

    When I first opened it (since it was “from” ReserveAmerica, I didn’t think it would be spam) and saw what it was, I forgot that it was from them and figured ‘ole pink sent it as a joke…

    If it had a built-in ceramic and charcoal filter, it might be tempting…

12. Scott May 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am 12

    “I’d hate to see a Redmond hack.”

    http://uk.gizmodo.com/bill%20gates.jpg

    Couldn’t resist.