Beer cheers

One of the good things of living in the States is that I was able to discover good high quality beer and learn to appreciate it. Not Bud Light or Miller, that’s canned pee. Beers like Okocim and Delirium Tremens. Learn what an IPA and a Lager are and so on. So I was looking around for beer culture stuff and found the following cheers. I hope you guys enjoy the cheers.

To the holidays—all 365 of them.

I wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
A pocket full of money
And a cellar full of beer!

Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright;
Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white;
Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer;
Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?

In heaven there is no beer…
That’s why we drink ours here.

He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.

Times are hard,
And wages are small,
So drink more beer,
And fuck them all.

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!
–Old Irish toast

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer-and another one!
–Old Irish toast

Here’s to women’s kisses,
and to whiskey, amber clear;
not as sweet as a woman’s kiss,
but a damn sight more sincere.

But if at church they give some ale
And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale
We’d sing and we’d pray all the live long day
Nor ever once from the church to stray.

Blizzard Dec. 2010

Below are some pictures from the December 2010 blizzard in NYC.

125 St. full of snow on Dec. 27

Below is the crossing between Malcolm X and 125 St.

Malcolm X Ave with 125 St.

Having to do deliveries wasn’t really pleasant for sure.

bike with snow

Here is a car completely covered in snow. Looks like the owner had to take public transport.

car covered in snow

Last photo is of a townhouse in 128 St.

building at 128 St.

All the pictures were taken at around 1430 EST.

ASUS 1001P

So I finally bought an ASUS 1001P last month. It came with Windows 7 and I was able to install Ubuntu using wubi. After the installation it didn’t erased anything in the Windows partition. It took 16 GB of an additional extra disk, but still being formated as NTFS. Here is the /etc/fstab output.

[23:51:54] xavi@ubuntu:~ $ cat /etc/fstab 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /               ext4    loop,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none            swap    loop,sw         0       0
[23:51:59] xavi@ubuntu:~ $ 

And here goes fdisk.

[23:57:58] xavi@ubuntu:~ $ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xabf319e9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13055   104857600    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           13055       29094   128834560    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           29094       30399    10485760   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4           30399       30401       17088+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
[23:58:03] xavi@ubuntu:~ $ 

This netbook comes with a 250 Gb hard drive and after the Ubuntu installation everything basically works out of the box. One really nice thing is that the wireless works out of the box. From previous experiences I would have to download firmware and recompile the kernel.

The keyboard is a little small, but is quite easy to get used to it. The screen resolution is 1024×600. It can be a little small if you have multiple windows opened, but this gets compensated with the netbooks 2.80 pounds weight.

I`m really happy with this netbook. I was becoming a weight lifter when I walked around with my 12 inch Powerbook.