Comments on: Gran Canaria wrap-up 2: Day 0

By: Chani

Chani — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:37:42 +0000

darnit, someone told me I should come to that whisky thing, but I totally forgot about it.

By: timsamoff

timsamoff — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:19:55 +0000

I’ll have to trust you on the whiskey front — I’m not much of a drinker and it usually takes me an hour just to drink a shot of the stuff.

Actually, we have an Irish pub in town that has a number of different whiskeys on tap. I’m told that they’re very good. If you’re ever in town… :p

By: Dave Neary

Dave Neary — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:08:45 +0000

No sirree, not with whisk(e)y. Last year I had a very nice Glengoyne cask strength, and I have received a delivery of some quite tasty international whiskies a few months back: http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/01/29/latest-whiskey-purchase/ – the Amrut’s very tasty indeed, if you can get a hold of it, and I quite like the Basil Hayden, which maybe isn’t quite as good as Booker’s or Bakers, but I haven’t tried them close enough together to compare. I definitely prefer it to Blanton’s though.

By: timsamoff

timsamoff — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:20:45 +0000

> Yamazaki 10yo

Man, you don’t kid around.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:49 +0000

Regarding GNOME Blog, I’ll note that I see a few patches (and wrote one) that haven’t seen any action. I’d even be willing to write more for it if I felt like the patches were going to ever be looked at it

By: Soroush

Soroush — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:13 +0000

Sarvatt PPA is surprisingly stable on my X61s laptop (with metacity compositing manager enabled). You might want to give it a try:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sarvatt/sarvatt-graphics/ubuntu jaunty main

By: Rodrigo Moya

Rodrigo Moya — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:58:28 +0000

Yeah, the approach to Bilbao is indeed spectacular, as is most of the north coast of Spain. Bilbao is between mountains, all green, so yes, a nice view from the plane.

If you get around here for some visit, just let me know, I’m quite close to Bilbao.