Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

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Added my catch-all Twitter Gmail account to Mail.app.

Land Agitation

I assume everyone already learned to remember stats as phone numbers but I just discovered it. The number you require for the number of agrarian agitations from 1877 to 1881 is: 236 4439. (There were 236 incidents in 1877, up to 4,439 in 1881.)

Thoughts on The Hunger Games

Last night, I finished the first book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s been recommended to me by about four different people, so I finally hunkered down and read through it in about a day and a half (I’m a fast reader when I want to be). I have a couple of thoughts [...]

Jazz Guitar

Jared busking on Cruises Street, the main pedestrian street of Limerick. With him is another Killaloe-native, Shelley. This one’s from later on that evening, at Chris’ house. If memory serves, this was when he was playing “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. I sang the melody line with Jared, Viv, and Colin providing their own harmonies.

The Best Steak in the City

Niall Harbison: You could have an ATM spitting free €50 notes with supermodels offering themselves up on the other side of the road and I’d still choose the steak. That’s him giving The Butcher’s Grill in Ranelagh a fairly high accolate, if you ask me.

Meanwhile, in NYU…

gracecar.tumblr.com: This was on the elevator wall in my dorm haha. Oh NYU

Five Words

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. [...]

Green Day Recording New Album

While you were wasting time with flowers, candy and/or restraining orders on Valentine’s Day, Green Day were getting down to business, beginning sessions for a brand-new album. This makes me very happy.

Change of Heart

On Saturday, I participated in a bit of improv theatre with Jared and Kate. It formed a section of a Limerick Youth Theatre’s latest variety show, and while the three songs we did weren’t improvised, the dialogue that filled the space between the aforementioned songs was. We had done one proper rehearsal, the day of [...]

Stop Ruining Your Phone With a Stupid Case

I know that it’s hardly a rare occurrence that Gizmodo publishes something incendiary and with flawed logic, but I couldn’t let this one slide, even if I am late to the party. On January 30th, Jamie Condliffe published “Stop Ruining Your Phone With a Stupid Case”. He surmised each of his arguments under two main [...]