Last week I had an “International Beer Weekend #1”. The participants were:
- Latvian blonde “Zelta” - so so;
- Czech (Prague) “Staropramex” - very good;
- Russian Baltika #3 - so so;
- Croatian Karlovacko - so so.
Despite somewhat questionable quality of beers, it was a lot of fun. I loved the idea so much that this weekend is “International Beer Weekend #2”:
- Ukranian Lvivske - didn’t try it yet;
- Ukranian Slavutich - bad;
- Slovak Golden Pheasant - very good;
- British Monty Python’s Holy Ail - worst of all, but “tempered over burning witches”!
Again, fantastic experience. I hope I’ll get around to “International Beer Weekend #3” someday.
On unrelated note, I was scouting runet steppe and came across a rather interesting article from Viktor Shenderovich: http://www.shender.ru/paper/text/?.file=51. It is about political climate in Russia. The prose looks like it was inspired by Viktor Pelevin. In Soviet times author would’ve disappeared without a trace for daring to challenge powers that be.
I’ve printed out an article on Xbox programming from http://www.hydras-world.com/gaming/xbox/retail-to-debug/. It doens’t seem to be very complicated. The article is quite old, so I’ll need to find out what is the latest greatest replacement BIOS that supports debug mode.
I really need to reinstall my home PC. May be I should try a dual boot system with Gentoo on second partition. My buddy seems to be in love with that distro.
Nothing interesting on TV. The soup is warming up. Everything goes acording to the plan.