You know sometimes I envy smokers. True they smell and are slowly killing themselves. But they are able to sit outside on a day like this on their own and not have people wonder what they are doing. I spend a lot of my time in a dark room on my own for hours a [...]

Recently I posted in response to Eamon Gilmore proclaim that Labour could get 30 seats an animation from Father Ted basically saying he was in cloud cuckoo land. But if he wants to win 30 seats he need only build on the foundation the Pat Rabbitte laid in Janurary 2006 when he said
“There are [...]

Find here a link to a nicely concise TIME article on the life of Luciano Pavarotti.

There is a bit of a clash between the Greens and Fianna Fail at the moment about Hare coursing. I have never gone hare coursing but I have participated in the catching of hares when I was a kid. Me and a cousin jumped in the back of a van. Were brought to a bog [...]

I must say the name of this website suggests some underground network of hackers stealing identities but the site actually has much more noble aims. It lists various ways of improving how we work and live by making suggestions as to small changes or methods we can utilise, inparticular, IT utilities, to be more efficient [...]

I got a feeling that Labour are going to focus all their energies on the Green party. If they are to get the 30 seats that he wants they will need to destroy the other parties of the left and take their seats. One of the first steps to this is talking about the Iraq [...]

One of the first Sketchs and still hilarious.
Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First.

2 years ago on this blog I wrote the following.

Possible the most famous off all physicist but yet how many people can tell you what hawking radiation is. I have just come from a lecture given by then man about information loss in black holes in the university of Barcelona. Now I [...]

Trying to watch the All-Ireland on RTE.ie but it keeps cutting out. Did anyone load test this?

As I write this I am sitting in First class on the eurostar. As the old saying goes it was far from First Class on the Eurostar I was raised but due to the fact my worked booked me in late I ended up here. It is strange I do not feel at my ease [...]