The best picture I found of the riot in Dublin over the weekend. The Gardai were far too lenient, obviously afraid after the "May Day 2001" malarky they had to put up with.
Dublin Riot
The best picture I found of the riot in Dublin over the weekend. The Gardai were far too lenient, obviously afraid after the "May Day 2001" malarky they had to put up with.
Slim pickings
Not much happening in my brain at the moment, well blogging related anyway. I'm far too busy with my "wonderful" studies and project work! The picture above is my current desktop image; it has been for weeks now! Its one of my own that I took it a few years ago. I like it becuase its like the standard Windows Bliss image but doesnt cut the eyes out of you!
The Jesus Christ Project
I've no problem with Jesus (I think he's a great singer) nor do I have a problem with Chrisitanity in general. To be honest I only made the image above because I was surprised no one had done so already, it's a parody waiting to be made (I own all the rights as of now :). "In October 33AD 13 men [or possibly 12 men and 1 woman] sat down for a last supper together... one betrayed, one denied and one was crucified...." and having the tag line, "If you could fool people today, you could fool them back then".Theres only one religion I follow and thats the law of the land. Thats the only religion to follow and the membership to even that cult has to be revoked at times.
Round Trip
I got back from home No.1 a few hours ago. I had 2 pairs of shoes delivered to there a week ago and decided tonight was the night to collect them. It had a few events on the way. I was to bring a friend with me to show him my home town but at the last minute I get a text from him saying he was going to mass instead (I'm not going to say a word :). So I decide to head off on my own, and for the fun of it, I'd break in some new clothes I had bought... I thought it would be a nice gentle way to do so: wrong as it turned out! I noticed I was running low on fuel and while I had enough to get there, I'd have to fill up for the return journey. It was getting late so I decided to fill up in Cork in case I arrived late at my destination. Here in Ireland most Filling stations close before 11pm... theres an attitude of "sure jaykers, who'd be driving them automobiles after 9 anyway!". So, I'm filling up, feeling slightly overdressed but hey its a Saturday night. I thought to myself, wouldnt it be funny if for the first time ever, the fuel didnt cut off and sprayed all over my clothes... funny indeed! One leg got covered but that was about it. So I head off and then I notice the milage... it was about to turn over 20,000. Yes yes, speaking on a mobile phone while driving is dangerous, but taking a picture is ok, especially when its this sad. So it took this long to get another 5,000 miles up. The guards were out everywhere tonight, and every second car was missing a headlight! I cant understand boy racers going around in their pimped out shitmobiles with a missing headlight. You had LEDs on the washer jets but you cant be bothered fixing your headlights... right!
I got my shoes, they are fine... cheap and cheerful!
I decided to buy shoes as I was sick of washing my runners in a bathtub :)
Some pics I had lying around
Went to Argos a few weeks back with a friend. I started reciting the Bill Bailey sketch about "the laminated book of dreams", he was mortified because he hadnt got a clue and thought I was on about pornography! :)
You'll do some funny things when your desperately trying to sleep. Like making mini movies on your phone all about the alarm clock.
Magma - KA Live
A while back, I managed to got the two pieces Magma performed of K.A. on "france 2" last year. They split the entire extract into two seperate pieces on the night so I decided to try and join them up. Its not too bad actually. The join itself is ok but there is a very slight tempo change, but this is Christian Vanders fault! :)
Christie Hennessey
I was dragged along to see Christie Hennessy in the opera house in November last year. Well it was a really enjoyable night, I thought i might like it anyway but not as much as I did! :)
A crappy pic I took on the night with my phone
The cover of the program of the tour. They had loads of these on display in the foyer and could be seen from the outside of the building. Because it doesnt look like Christie on the cover, I actually had to check the dates on the tickets outside the door because I was worried I got the dates mixed up! :)
I got his autograph! whooo! Funny because he cant read or write! :)
Warm up man, Rob Reynolds. Absolutely fantastic singer/songwriter. I bought his album "Sightseeing" straight away after the show. I can't recommend him enough to all music fans!
A crappy pic I took on the night with my phone
The cover of the program of the tour. They had loads of these on display in the foyer and could be seen from the outside of the building. Because it doesnt look like Christie on the cover, I actually had to check the dates on the tickets outside the door because I was worried I got the dates mixed up! :)
I got his autograph! whooo! Funny because he cant read or write! :)
Warm up man, Rob Reynolds. Absolutely fantastic singer/songwriter. I bought his album "Sightseeing" straight away after the show. I can't recommend him enough to all music fans!
McCoy Tyner Trio
More old news. I went, on a whim, to see the McCoy Tyner Trio perform at the cork opera house last year during the jazz weekend. There as another american act on before them, I couldnt be bothered finding out their name right now. They were very good but too political for my liking! Every song seemed to be called "The Bush Bash" or similar. The McCoy Tyner Trio were great but the drums were a bit too loud!
Intermission
Tyner Trio set up - Click for larger image
Intermission
Tyner Trio set up - Click for larger image
Dylan Moran
I uploaded a short clip I have of a younger (and funnier!*) Dylan Moran onto google video and I’m managing to get some traffic from it! I’m now uploading any old crap I have lying around just for the hits! :)
* I could have been really mean and have written “and funny” but I didn’t want the hate mail :)
We should be still using Punts!
I might have to redo these again. I uploaded them without looking at what the jpeg compression had done; pretty harsh edges. Anyway, there's roughly €180 there in 1 euro, 2 euro and 50 cent pieces. I used anything I could find to corrode the change: bleach, mold and mildew remover, hob cleaner, drain cleaner, oven cleaner... The mildew remover worked best. I only tried the drain cleaner on a few coins (probably down to the misadventures involving drain cleaner and aluminumm I once had...) it gave the coins a very pretty pink hew though :) I'm going to let Barry Scott clean them. "Bang! And the cash is gone!"
I was doing a lot of Coke!
I totally forgot about this promotion Coca Cola were doing last year. Every can and bottle of Coke had a code under the ring pull and bottle top which when you entered it into your account gave you enough credit to download one song. I think each code was worth €1.29 I collected the codes for only 2 to 3 months but I threw away a lot of codes over that time too. Man, thats a lot of Coke! :) I have the occasional one now and then but other than that its all water nowadays! Anyway, my inbox was flooded recently with email warning me that they will be invalid soon. Maybe I'll give them away to someone.
Photoblox
I was looking for a way to show older posts alongside newer ones so I added one of those photoblox thingies to this place. I'll probably remove it in a week. Its not all that great... for one thing its so slow! Plus it doesn't resize images very well. It does have a nice interface though and setting it up using XML was interesting :) What frustrated me was getting it to point to the URL of the XML file correctly. The home page for photoblox had a broken link to a page explaining URL Encoding and I took it that any old URL will do. Nope, you need to URL encode it using a page like this!
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