Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Month: October, 2008

You just read my mind…

Right, so we’re all familiar with Tommy’s dogs, aren’t we? If we aren’t, they’re called Barack and Charlie. One so called to show support of a certain US presidential candidate, and one because it’s what my Dad used to (and still does) call us (Patrick, John and I) as a sort of pet-name no pun [...]

Bond…James Bond

So, with the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, coming out on the 31st of this month, I tried to imagine what it’d be like. Most of us saw Casino Royale (and if you haven’t, do so. Now. Go!) and know it ended with the mysterious Mr. White being shot in the thigh by [...]

Happy Birthday Lexia

Alexia celebrates her 21st birthday today in Sunny Limerick. contradiction in terms much?. Happy Birthday to her and here’s the obligatory videos :P Alexia is a pretty famous blogger currently living in Dublin. She used a (self titled) Loanershitphone while her beloved iPhone was in the Lower realms of hell being repaired. First saw her [...]

OMG bestpancakesever

So, you know my stance on breakfast and weekends. You eat cereal on the weekdays, so I enjoy stretching my culinary muscles on the weekend. So, seeing as it’s been eons since I last made pancakes.. all of two weeks… but I decided to make them. John was with Dad collecting a car from Shannon [...]

Interesting Thought…

Just in the door from CentreStage. We did an interesting activity involving vocations. If an atomic bomb exploded, killing everyone bar 8, who were in a bomb shelter at the time. Now, we only have food for 3, so five have to go. We all adopted a profession and had to explain why we should [...]

Trust Tommy

Trust Tommy. Now on it’s own server now. It’s a grown up blog. It took its (or it’s?) first big step last week with the buying of a domain, and now it’s taken a giant step for blogkind, and is now a stand alone blog. My dear old mum (gosh, I make her sound 80, [...]

Possibly moving to pastures new

Alternatively titled “All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…“ Tired of people nagging me to move to wordpress, I decided to try it. I set up my blog here and imported everything over. I’m very undecided Pros of moving to wordpress -It’s prettier-Easier-Easy to go from there => self hosting Pros of staying [...]

How did I not see this?!

Back at the time of the ICT ceremony. How did I not see it? Original Link

Pancakes on the brain….

In science today, we were talking about measuring things in foods, like protein and starch. We also discussed how to measure sugar in things. We talked mainly about two kinds; glucose and normal, granulated sugar. Science Teacher: Glucose is in energy drinks like Lucosade and granulated sugar you use in… Me: Pancakes!! Science Teacher: Tommy, [...]

Feeding time at the zoo

Barack, Charlie and Crackers (who -again- haven’t featured enough on the blog) enjoying a light breakfast this morning.