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Gran canaria tidbytes (ala vuntz)

diegoe — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:00:48 +0000

Had an insane long walk trying to find a cuban restaurant, we finally discovered it was 1 block away from Catalina Park. Not really good in the end.
Met a lot of nice GNOME Hispano people already and gave and received lots of hugs, GUADEC is always full of hugs. It’s the hug conference.
The Sponsored by GNOME Foundation badges are awesome, great idea by Germán and incredible artwork by Vinicius (that awesome brazilian guy that gave the green colored UI suggestions talk). If you want one, ask Germán or me.
Seif Lotfy showed me some cool Zeitgeist ENGINE (I’m still trying to pronounce it correctly) stuff, really nice since it’s not really an UI but more like a new concept regarding how we can gather data about how people use their desktop, his talk is today in the afternoon, be there!
Had fun seeing Vincent and Lucas being gringos in the stores by the beach, sort of feels like being at home. Lucas doesn’t really understand Spanish but he believes he does.
Will be hanging around the conference today, eating icecream.

Dear Bastien, I’ll be waiting for you to organize FreeFA

diegoe — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:41:27 +0000

My dear French Colleague Bastien (FCB? Wait, what? Is he hiding something?), I’m glad to accept a bet that I have (and had even before the game) already won.

Anyone interested in FreeFA (our annual soccer match) keep an eye on Bastien’s blog, he will be organizing it

git+gnome

diegoe — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:28:30 +0000

I have been using git for GNOME hacking, it’s great!

I use this script for cloning the repos, it uses git-mirror for the clone, then inits git-svn so you can do commits from your git checkout. It’s creative name is git-mirror and you run it like: git-mirror , example: git-mirror epiphany.

#!/bin/bash
git clone http://git-mirror.gnome.org/git/$1
cd $1
git svn init -s svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/$1 –prefix=origin/svn/
git svn rebase

GNOME happens to be awesome this days

diegoe — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:05:09 +0000

Just wanted to say that.

Pisco Sour

diegoe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:35:07 +0000

FreeDrinkware presents: Pisco Sour

Hardware:

A blender
A cup or a glass (the receipt is scalable, so use whatever you want as long as you always use the same unit)
- Example: If you decide to measure in Tea cups, then just do “s/glass/tea cup/” on the ingredients
A knife to cut the lemons
Some other basic tools

Ingredients:

2 egg white
1 and 1/4 glass of Peruvian Pisco
1 glass of lemon juice (see below to _double check_ what I’m calling a lemon)
1/4 glass of mineral water
1 glass of sugar (granulated, real sugar please… don’t use Sweet’n'low)
1 glass of ice

Procedure:

All the ingredients are put into the blender, blend for a minute or two. You will know it’s ready when the ice has gone frappé (that means really little ice, like on Frapuccinos). Serve immediately so it has foam (note that the foam will lower quickly, it’s advised to serve all the blender glass immediately. If you don’t serve it all, just give it a quick spin to recover the foam.

You can add some cinnamon powder on top to make it look nice.

References/FAQ:

What do you call a lemon?

During GUADEC 2007, we used Brazilian Lemons (called Limes on Tesco markets). Seems like lemons are called limes in Europe. Anyway, don’t use the huge yellow ones since they are far different than the South American lemons.

How should it look like?

Like this:

But actually it might end up looking like this:

It depends a lot on the sugar and the lemons you use, and the color of the light of your room .

I’m a dummy, I need more visual guides

See this flickr page.

I don’t have a blender, I’m a cheap bastard… what can I do?!?!?!?

Blend it yourself, actually the hard part is blending the ice… get an idea from here.