Car Wash

Just after waxing my car. I find myself taking a lot of photographs with my mobile phone, as kind of preliminary shots for a more serious shoot that I'll do with my proper camera. It never happens though :)

Mash Up Them Songs

Edwin Birdsong --> Daft Punk ---> Kanye West

Doodle...

It must have been a slow day at work

Anne Keane

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

Eye Camouflage

Another mediocre horror film, which values CGI gore over story. Wonderful authentic dialogue:

Sargent Wilson, of the National Guard, begining military radio communication: "Hello..."

At least a lot of the action takes place in daylight. I think it wouldnt have been so bad if they ditched the "Wrong Turn" rubber mask creature effects.

The Hills Have Eyes 2(2007)

Picture of the Week

I was doing some cleaning this week and I came across this unopened £5/€6.35 Euro coin starter pack. I'd like to say it was unexpected or that I forgot about it, but in truth, I hadn't. I bought it 5 years ago with the purpose of holding onto it and hope it increased in value. Well it shouldn't loose its value I guess.

How to get MSN Messenger on your 3 Handset

3 Have told me that no, they didnt sell me a Nokia N73, but instead a Nokia E61

If youre like me, you were sold one phone by 3 and told it was another, and youll find that downloading MSN messenger on your phone wont work (at least it actually downloads now, its just got some funky cert error). You can get the MSN sis files from here.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to make it work! Anyone know? lol

[EDIT] Ignore all that, its some funky version of MSN Live. It might work but theres a simpler official version you can download from this nokia website. And of course theres always AGILE.

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Garda Turbans

If the Guards give in to this one, then they deserve to be spat at on the street. Why should any police force augment their uniform to cater for some religion? If it came to pass, would it mean that non Sikh Gardai be allowed wear the Turban too? Strange, considering that Christian, Jewish, Muslim Guards arent allowed wear items showing off their faith. Sikh's say they must wear the Turban as they are forbibben to take it off, ever!

Where the Sikh argument falls apart however, is on the paradox of police riot gear vs. police uniform. PC Bobby Sikh in Britain does not have to wear the Turban when there is need for a riot helmut... well then, being a member of the Gardai necessitates the wearing of a Garda hat, simple as that. They also have permission to go swimming without the Turban. Wouldnt it make more sense if they just gave permisson to future Sikh Gardai not to wear the Turban, rather than force an outside organisation to change.

What made me post this however was my disgust at a piece given on the TV3 news by some leader Sikh in, some place. The nub of his argument was "The Guards wont allow it because they are racist". Oh please, not the racism card again... anyway isnt Sikhism a religion and not a race? Seems to me that theres one rule for Paddy Irish and another for Johnny Jigaboo! Now thats racism!

Who bombed Fermoy?

I meant to post about this a few weeks back. The streets in Fermoy are seriously fucked, all because of broadband installation. Broadband installation you ask, surely that was done years ago. Not a chance boy! They only did it a few weeks back and it was interesting to suffer 30 minute traffic jams again, throwing back "fond" memories of Fermoy pre-M8. Although I must admit, I was never stuck in a 30 minute Fermoy traffic jam at 11am before.

So they eventually got the work done and of course left the road in a better condition than they found it. Like fuck they did! The streets are hacked apart. The people of Dresden had better streets after the Brits bombed it in WW2. I've seen the same shit all around towns lately, which has made me wonder:

"Ireland must be the only country in the world where they provide one infrastructure by destroying another!"

Cat Photography

Saved these years ago. I'm afraid I
don't know the owners but
I do know that they came from
photo.net, webshots.com and
deviantart.com.

Picture of the Week

If it wasn't for POTW's, I probably wouldnt post at all lol. This is an oldie, probably nearly 4 years old and taken on my Nokia 7650. I was in Tesco and came across these gooey eyeball things in a bag (with an ear and a tongue). They were later featured on the late late toy show. So I bought them as a spur of the moment kind of thing. They were great fun for a week, then they got all dirty and bits fell off. The end.


"I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy!"

VCR Sex

While looking around at videos of performances of John Coltrane's Giant Steps, I found the above video. It's meant to be funny but to be honest its just a bit too silly. It doesnt know what it wants to be; its too dragged out. I have to admit though, the last few seconds did make me lol. Major lulz in the end!

Picture of the Week

It's all gone a bit slow again. Thats reality for you; from time to time it gets more interesting than the internets :) Just like now, with my latest ESB bill. Perhaps the ESB, like An Post, are starting up their own Bank!

Driving to Cork - Time-Lapse Photography

I recorded this time-lapse video on my way to Cork on Friday (via Cahir, via Mitchelstown, via Fermoy). I used my old Nokia 6670 along with a a Python script I downloaded from foozia blog, which gives a detailed instruction on how to do the same. I originally came across the idea on Make:Blog. Their version used Java but you needed to muck about with Java permissions to get it to work. Python scripts are just sweet to code up. Very basic compared to mobile Java. I had to make a small alteration to the script on the blog make it work with my 6670. I've included that version below:

[TimeLapse.zip for Nokia 6670]

I found another python script in the comments section with a lot of handy extra features. I havent tried it out properly yet but if it works it would proove to be an excellent addition!

The music in the video is my own. It was just something that came about while watching the video (inspired from a 2 year old compostion for whatever reason). I would have prefered to have a longer time for layering and crescendo but the video aint that long :)

I used a very expensive camera mounting system for my phone:


A sponge with a slit in it...


Wrap it up in part of a leg from an old pair of black trousers. Just so hide the yellowness of the sponge :) Notice part of my homemade talkbox in the corner, which I still havent blogged about :(


Stick the phone in the slit, put the whole lot in the top tray of your cars dash and you have the perfect mounting system.

I was so pleased with the results I think I might try something similar with my Canon EOS 10D. Probably wont be as much fun though :)

Memoirs

An Bróg again tonight. Was mad eyeing up a wan that looked like Ugly Betty. At one point her and a friend stared back at me and laughed, fair is fair I guess. Using my super sonic hearing I do believe she was indeed Spanish, as opposed to being Polish or something. Sure what could I say to her. All I could think of was the lyrics to the above song by Scooter... "Ola! Una Cerveza? Suavemente!".... which roughly translates as "Hello! One Beer? Gently!", well its kinda relevent I guess lol She was lovely though, but had no arse... the most vital of apendages!

In the Brog looking to find someone special from last week. Trying to get the magic going again but no one to be found. My super amazing contacts are proving to be of no use. I think I'll just hang myself... or try a dating agency, whichever is less painful!

Picture of the Week

One from me this time. I took it on Thrusday and I was kicking myself that I didnt bring my camera with me. Still though, its not bad for a camera-phone.

Memoirs

They played Giorgio Moroder's 'Electric Dreams' in the Woodford last night and it sounded fucking fantastic! It gave me the Tony Montana vibe! The place was so empty though, and if it weren't for the 3 Polish people in the corner we'd have had the place to ourselves. When Electric Dreams came on I tried my best to think of Moroder's first name but I had relapsed into a state of mind from a few years back where I kept mixing up Giorgio Moroder with Ennio Morricone. I ended up with something like Enrinio Moroder.

The bouncers out last night were as usual, the subject of my pity. "Yes please do look at my ID, with the year 1981 on it. I know, that you know, I'm well over 18 by just looking at me, but you need to feel like youre standing there for some reason." There was no problem with the bouncers at the Brog, which there usually isnt but the bouncers at Reardens were another story.

Bouncer: You've had a bit to drink haven't you?
Friend: Yeah loads! Sure you have to because of the weather.
Bouncer: and why do you want to come in here?
Friend: To drink more!!!
Bouncer: You should forget the drinking boy, go in and get yourself some pussy!

Glad to see bouncers handing out some sound advice there. If we did want some pussy though we knew exactly where to find two blabbering vagina's on the premises.

Men flocked around the girl in red like flies, and she swatted them as such. Oh, and I thought I saw Victor Barry queuing for a taxi.

Scottish Fold

As noted by Betty, the POWT featuring a kitten looked like it had its ears taped down. This is kinda true as its actually a breed of cat noted for its naturally mutated flattened ears. The Scottish Fold is a relatively new breed of cat, originating from Scotland in 1961. Breeding offspring from a pair of fold ears is frowned upon because of the high posibility of the offsrping developing a painful degenerative joint disease.

Also, it should be noted that fold ear kittens ar 42.6% cuter than normal kittens :)