Ardhasker Azeotrope
Bally Town Hall
Tri Still Whisky
Presentation Notes annotated

1. Azeotropic Chemicals from
Beijing on Alibaba
2. Free Typefaces-in-Progress from Roman Gornitsky

1. Talisker Distillery History
2. Driving to Carbost from
Portree

1. PowerNotes — Slide Presentations Revisited (Per
Mollerup)

Hi hi, and thanks for coming.
1. Higgs Boson Announced

And thanks to Bally Town Hall for hosting this conference, and to Weyermann for sponsoring the beer and pizza.
1. Weyermann Introduces
Heirloom Malts

I’m, we’re, looking forward to meeting you all later.
OK, I want to talk to you all about whisky. Does everyone here like whisky?
1. AJAX Spinner Generator

The quandries around the three-year minimum ageing in scotch whiskys marr innovation,
1. How Whisky is Made
2. Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009

and literally block newcomers in the market from establishing a ‘grain-hold.’
1. Preemption of Scarce Assets

We don’t have the culture; 1. What it means to be Orange
2. Ray Oldenburg’s Third
Space
1. Can Whisky Become a Trendy Drink for the
Young? @ Brand Equity
2. World’s Largest Whisky
Culture Embassy Opens in Beijing

nor the estate; 1. Diageo
2. Innovation @ Diageo
3. Breakdown of Distillery
Ownership

nor the heirloom grasses.
1. Malters Bring Terroir to the Bottle
2. Weyermann Malts

We have the tenacity and flexibility of being new, but that won’t see us through three harvests.
1. PIttyvaich
2. St Magdalene
3. 3 of 4 Startups Fail

Clayton Christensen wants us to succeed, innovate —
1. When Giants Fail

— and disrupt,

but that won’t see us through three harvests.
1. Predicting the Unpredictable

Ardhasker Azeotrope are excited to launch the Tri-Still Engine,
1. Distillation Principles
2. A Short History of the Art of Distillation
3. The New Era of Work
Launch

a machine that temporally accelerates the wood ageing process tenfold
1. Home Aging Recipes
2. Does Longer Aging Improve Whisky?
3. Terressentia
4. Backward Compatibility
5. Software Life Cycle

bringing a minimum-age drink to you in three months,
1. TerrePURE
2. How to Create a Minimum
Viable Product?
3. Reducing Congeners and
Hangovers

not three years.
1. What are the dangers of drinking Isopropyl Alcohol?
2. Fischer-Speier Esterfication

meaning our customers enjoy a relaxing drink, 1. What is Supply Chain
Management?

and we can analyse and exchange standardised pot still phenolic quantities.
1. Smokiest Whisky?
2. Fuel Hedging
3. User Driven Discontent

1. How do you get a hard copy of a stock certificate?
2. Pan Am Stock Certificate?
Worth Anything?
3. BF-A on Yahoo Finance

But the world is having trouble with the jumps we’re making.
1. Google Images Redesign
Launch Event
2. Wrangling
3. Responsive Web Design

1. Pot Stills
2. Innovation @ Diageo
3. Redundancies @ Diageo

Why?
1. USA Today
2. Wolff Olins
3. USA Today... Re-imagined

We think the Tri Still Engine disrupts homeostasis, but isn’t against it.
1. Homeostasis
2. Human Homeostasis
3. Disrupting Class

Claude Bernard says, ‘the constancy of the internal environment is the condition for a free and independent life’.
We don’t disagree, although our detractors say our work perverts this condition.
1. Claude Bernard @ Encyclopedia Britannic
2. Experimental Physiology

But, when it’s switched on, the Tri Still engine is a closed system and is internally stable,
1. Autoclaves & Sterilisers
2. Protective Tissues in
Plants & Animals
3. Working at Scale

regardless of any disparaties between the inside and the out. It’s a bit like a thermos.
1. IPO Basics
2. Thermos Technologies

And, we sync the engine via open-source API 1. What is an API?
2. GNU Licensing
3. Who Invented Whisky?
The Scots or the Irish?
4. AJAX
5. Creating a Knowledge
Sharing Culture

to the clock of the Long Now, at 300% speed.
1. The Long Now Foundation
2. Seminars about Long-
Term Thinking
3. List of Oldest Companies
4. Whisky Prices and Age
5. How to Set Business
Goals

It’s a physical cross-rhythm.
1. Simplicity and Order for
All
2. Jack Dorsey
3. AirBNB Social
4. Casa al Reves, AirBNB
Founder’s favourite listing

The contents of the Engine fire into the future, relative to its surroundings.
1. Ultrasonic Whisky Aging
2. TerrePure - A brief overview

1. Nissan Leaf in Islay
2. Drum Scotland, Cullen
Bay

But they resolve inside and out with an underpinning akin to sub-saharan traditional musics.
1. Djembe Fanga
2. Silicon Valley Mania in
Africa
3. Ubuntu
4. African Rhythm & African
Sensibility

So Ardharsker Tri Still 3 Months is a drink for a place that’s (something like) in between the time just beyond now, and the past.
1. Jack Morton
2. Barra Airport
3. Barra Airport (Wiki)
4. Is the Tipping Point Toast?

It’s for the wooden-floored bus with the mobile hotspot installed, or the farm that’s managed remotely using harvest analytics.
1. Bus/Coach Mobile Wifi
Hotspot
2. 032c Rem Koolhaas
3. Goodbye Starchitecture,
Welcome Countryside!

With your help, we feel like that place could be Ballysileachn.
1. List of places with “Silicon” Names
2. 10,000 Likes or 10 Brand
Evangelists?

1. Centralia PA, site of the longest burning mine fire
2. Boycott Absolut Vodka
3. TBWA

1. Pagoda Roofs in Scotch
Distilleries
2. Gravity Distillery

With your help.
1. Displacement Mapping

— Ardhasker Togetherness, with
Azeotrope Disruption.
1. Corporate Culture / Economic Theory

So... you.
1. Against TED

And all the specialised distillery workers in
Ballysileachn here today.
1. Empowering Employees
(on Google Books)
2. Talking to Coworkers Can
Get you Fired
3. Workers Leaving the
Googleplex

Our idea is simple:

we give you a miniature USB device 1. USB on Alibaba
2. Freelancer / Web Development

that transmits GeoTag, time and air quality information back to our AzeoAPI.
1. Wifi Alliance
2. Scotch Whisky Association

1. Motion Blur on After Effects
2. Ken Burns Effect

1. Network Diagrams
2. The Internet is Rhizomatic
3. About Advertising on
Facebook

You go to work.
1. La Perruque
2. Bob Outsources Own Job and Whiles Away Shifts
3. The Quest of Michel De
Certeau
4. How to Add a Fake Sky

When we spot that you’re in range of an Uncollaborated Still, your device will beep.
1. Whisky Technology Production & Marketing
2. AirBnB Office Design
3. Garcia Tamjidi
4. Office Snapshots

Press the top once. Your information will be forwarded to an eLance farm —
1. eLance
2. Amazon Mechanical Turk
3. Running Experiments on
Mechanical Turk

1. Experimental Psychology /
Roar of the Crowd

— where contract workers will look through the window of your distillery using one of the many falcon-watcher cams available online. If your boss is looking away, the device will beep twice.
1. Falcon Cam
2. Falcon Watching
3. Remote Webcams

If you hear two beeps, pour some of our
Tri Still whisky into your still.
1. Whisky Tampering on
Trove
2. Adulteration of Canadian
Whisky

Remember to carry this whiskey in our flask receptacle. We’ve ionised the aluminium material of the flask, in order to preserve the vapour pressure of the liquid within.
1. Official site for Phiten Titanium Bracelets
2. Ionisation
3. Create your own Fake
Store with Amazon aStores

(We’ve seen trace markings that this works.
You’re testing this at scale, though.)
1. MHRA (Regulatory Agency)
2. How We Regulate Devices
3. Delaware Corporation

Pour the whiskey into your still, 1. Flavour Still
2. Rotary Vacuum Evaporator
3. Flavours from Distillation

and click the top of your device again. 1. Flavour Still
2. Rotary Vacuum Evaporator
3. Flavours from Distillation

This will send an email via Azeo
API to the eLance farm, where a worker will tag your still as a partially Collaborated Still.
1. Onomastics
2. Database Icon

Each flask of whiskey adds 6.12% to this value — one tenth the boiling point of chloroform.
1. Health Statement for
Chloroform

1. The Noun Project
2. OFCOM Standards for
Subtitle Display

An Azeotrope, our namesake, is a mixture of two liquids that are mixed to the point that they cannot be unentangled by distillation.
1. Azeotrope

If you try, it simply vaporises proportionately. 1. When a start-up fails...

By working together to add our Tri Still liquid to all batches of single-malt specialty whisky in Scotland, you are creating a totally new collaboration
1. Managing a Remote
Workforce
2. The Future of Work

— the number goes on endlessly, as our favourite things do.
1. More Than A Map — The
Google Maps API
2. Good.Is/Everyone

And we think of this as an Azeotropic revolution: un-entanglable.
1. Visual Complexity
2. del.icio.us
3. Scotland’s 10 Best Walks

1. Bottle into World’s Deepest Hole

If all whiskey is partly sped up, the rules on ageing become ignorable.
1. wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_ laws
2. Keith Rabois
3. Only Two Left in Stock

And we’ve always liked ignoring the rules.
1. Closing Statement from
Future Cities Development
2. Another Blow
3. Clarion Capital Server Error in ‘/’ Application

But we don’t want to run ragged over the existing infrastructure here in Ballysileachn.
1. A Booze of One’s Own
2. Littlemore Distillery (demolished)

We all know the history of this place. 1. Stanford Golf Cart Policies
2. Stanford Sandstone & Tile

In 1891 the Lathrop University began an aggressive program of innovation in the chemical sciences.
1. EaSTCHEM
2. Water for Whisky
3. Detection of Counterfeit
Scotch by Isotope Signature

This program was overseen by Leland Terman, a management psychologist and progenitor to the school of Rene Girard.
1. Eric Schmidt
2. Larry Ellison
3. Rene Girard
4. Steve Jobs
5. Clayton Christensen

Terman’s policies of mimetic isolation called for Ballysileachn to be cut off from the world in order to prosper, guided by ecological and cultural precedents —
1. The Neuroscience of Mimetic Desire
2. Floating Desire?

the beautiful, endemic species of the Galapagos
1. Galapagos Conservancy
2. Invasive Species

and the editorial perfection of stills in the remote isles as examples.
1. Historical Notes

Trade and trans-city routes were severed.
1. Contractors Board Up
Wells Fargo
2. Railroad Sabotage in
Montreal
3. List of Highway Revolts

1. How to build a Dry Stone
Wall
2. Building a Dry Stone Wall

Students and faculty were chosen for their intellectual temerity and their propensity for solitariness.
1. 15 Google Interview
Questions

All recreational and communal facilities were design to orient interactions towards measurable goals.
1. How Will You Measure
Your Life?
2. Life at the Googleplex

A man-made reef, one fathom underwater, was erected within the water border of Ballysileachn
1. Offshore Artificial Reef
User Guide
2. Artificial Reefs Around the
World

in order to wreck incoming and outgoing ships.
1. Ship-Scrapping Prices
Plunge

Terman wanted to create a fruitful nowhere; he dreamed of an eventual landless, stateless, unharnessed zone of innovation.
1. Cloud Computing
2. DNS Root Servers

And such states need a drink.
1. Laphroig Distillery fermentation dregs tank
2. List of National Liquors
3. Simulated Sky / Sun

— A social-recreational underpinning that defines the inside from the out.
1. Eric Schmidt @ Burning
Man
2. Eric Schmidt 2

A communal machine for building an internally stable culture with, and for,
1. How the GooglePlex works
2. Last of Scotland’s Gannet
Hunters
3. Sula Sgeir
4. Buildings of St Kilda,
Scotland

people who like each other and share measurable and meaningful goals
1. Nissan Leaf provides the final link in self-sufficiency for Bruichladdich

that can be bet on and exchanged

and that make us happy.

Can’t Ardhasker Azeotrope Tri Still 3 Months be that drink?
Please?