For me, the hardest part of going from a Kindle back to a physical book would be not having a dictionary easily available. There are certain books (such as Nabokov’s “The Chess Master”) where having a dictionary is a non-negotiable necessity. Boyar n. HISTORICAL a member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank [...]
GoComics commenters (or perhaps the subset of those who comment on Peanuts strips) are like the antithesis of YouTube commenters: civil, on-topic, and damned funny. Full comic.
Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn, is going to publish proposals to end discrimination against gay and lesbian teachers in Irish schools in the coming weeks, the Irish Times is reporting. According to the article: Under current equality legislation, schools are allowed to claim that hiring a homosexual, lesbian or bisexual teacher would undermine their religious [...]
From a spam e-mail for “iPad Video Lessons”: Have you noticed that your iPad doesn’t come with an owner’s manual? This is an unacceptable practice, especially considering how the iPad gives you thousands of unique, practical and time-saving features. Personally, I feel that the fact that so many other products are so complicated that they [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about Obamacare recently (it was orally debated for 6 hours in the Supreme Court on March 26-28) and I thought I’d weigh in on the debate. Most of the debates that have gone before have been trying to ascertain whether a federal requirement that Americans buy health insurance is [...]
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
Something tells me that the “It’s time to get off this couch and get ready to go to work[1], but this book is amazing and there’s nothing I want to do more than stay here and bask in the author’s linguistic genius” thoughts I’ve been having are only going to become more and more frequent [...]