This is a post in the Belgian beer review series.
A clear pilsner beer with a simple flavour and an unremarkable bouquet. An easy “everyday & everyman’s” beer. Nothing to truly write home about, even though, according to Wikipedia, it’s the most popular beer in Belgium. Sponsor of the Belgian football league.
Chivas won at the Estadio Azul 2-1, in a game where all our goals came from free kick plays. According to mediotiempo.com, the game was not great, but was well played, and our new goalkeeper Luis Michel made some very important saves, stepping up to Oswaldo Sánchez’s shoes.
The goals below.
“Bofo” Bautista (’29)
“Maza” Rodríguez (’73)
3GSM, the largest mobile industry gathering, is taking place in Barcelona this week. I just read in the news that beside the usual product launches from device manufacturers, Nokia and YouTube have announced a deal in which YouTube’s videos will be available for Nokia Nseries users. Being a heavy user of both a Nokia N93 and YouTube, I am really waiting for this.
For more news on 3GSM, you can check out the coverage from the FT, the Guardian, or The Register.
I couldn’t help but notice in Babel the usage of 3G mobiles by deaf people: using video call to transmit sign language. I was very surprised to discover that this usage is not exclusive of Japan, as in Sweden the municipality of Örebrö gives customer service to its large population of deaf people using sign language (link in Swedish). That’s the kind of uses of technology I like: simple and relevant.
Como un ejemplo sobre el relativo peso e interés de las economías China y Latinoamericana en donde me encuentro, puedo compartir la observación que mientras en mi clase sobre Negocios en Latinoamérica solamente hay 5 estudiantes (3 de ellos latinoamericanos) en la clase sobre Negocios en China hay unos 20.
Basically because I blend in with the general population. Unlike in Finland, people don’t usually stare at me in the street.
The Arab soukh is next to the red light district is next to the local version of Manhattan.
Y me dió mucha tristeza encontrarme con un tipo tan solo. El hombre se veía descuidado, despeinado, en chanclas (lo cual estando a 8 grados y lloviendo como ha llovido me parece una locura), y se veía francamente mal. Lo triste es que se le veía que trataba de hablar con la gente, de tener un poco de contacto, pero su apariencia y su estado etílico no lo dejaban. Cuando salí del vagón, después de tratar de hablar con varias personas, lo ví conversando con unos mochileros.
No debería de importarme, pero me da mucha tristeza ver a gente perdida en/por el alcohol.
Heard from one of my English writing teachers:
“Yes, but, and this is a big, big but…” at which point, given that his hand movements resembled a homonimous word with an extra t, everybody laughed.
This is a post in the Belgian beer review series.
Belle-Vue Extra Kriek is part of the Belgian tradition of fruity beers. The bouquet is a light version of that of a regular lager, but the taste is rather interesting, as it has more than just a touch of cherry and is rather sweet, with a slightly salty aftertaste. The colour is a little bit like that of rosé wine, but slightly redder. I had heard before that these kind of kriek (cherry in Dutch) beers are favourites amongs women, but I have to confess I like them too.
However, if you like your beer tasting just like beer avoid these.
