Tommy Collison at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition from Alexia Golez on Vimeo. * The ever-awesome Alexia did an interview with me at the Young Scientist, just before the award ceremony. I’m telling you, she should work with RTE. John always called me ‘a little politician’. Lex! Let us combine our talents and [...]
Read on Rick’s (O’Shea, not Astley) blog about a lecturer of classical literature who has started quoting Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley (more commonly known as the RickRoll song) in each of his classes. As he says.. The project is simple: I’m a lecturer in liberal arts teaching adults literature on a [...]
This news just in.. :) Click to see full size Hopefully it should clear up soon. Hopefully :)
One of the questions everyone asks me is what I want to do when I finish up secondary school. After we get past the joke about just failing Transition Year again and again so I can ride out the recession, the questioner usually stops laughing after a while. “No, really?” Truth is, I don’t know. [...]
It says many things. 1) I am a nerd That’s pretty much it actually. This is how I spend my Friday evenings. Thanks to Steve for the font, and then guiding me through the install process.
For the (from my point of view) crummy posts of the last week-and-a-half. We lost our debate last night :(. If I heard correctly, it was only by 20 pts, but I’m not certain. We did well, I mean, I can’t single out any one thing that cost us it. One thing I did notice [...]
I is happy :) I has no school tomorrow, or the day after that or the day after that! Debate is on tonight! :) Yeah, recent posts have been kind of crap, I’ll try and make it up tomorrow. Til then, wish me luck tonight!
Klara recently held a competition giving away two books she’d funded out of her own pocket, cos she’s awesome. I won first prize and scoooped!* a copy of Blood. Woo! What you had to do was simply leave a comment stating why you wanted to win. I wrote: I’d like to win cos that little [...]
Original Linkie January 26, 2009 – Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced the start of principal production in Los Angeles on the 3D Motion Capture Film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Defiance) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless [...]
I played drums in my double music class again. I’ve done it once before and the kit’s condition, er, hasn’t improved. For some reason, it wasn’t even set up. The 3rd tom was upside down! I was playing along to the rest of the class. That old Irish tune, the one that goes: Well I [...]