The Strange Quark

There’s the saying that everyone has one good book in them and this is exactly how my friend Brian started his book or ‘thoughts on life’. One that he wrote in one sitting on a drunken night and made a few physical copies of.

All were lost but one tattered copy that he gave to me to read. I kept forgetting to have a look but if he stays in his current job these may well be his only written words. They might not be precious to anyone else but they represent a moment in time for him. Youth. Student life. … Continue Reading

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“If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you’re a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you.”

- Rich Hall

If I could figure out how to order from this Japanese website I would totally get some of these cake decorating kits to pimp out my iPhone. I lie - I wouldn’t let that plastic stuff near my phone becasue it would get in the way of basic usability but maybe an old handset or my PSP or laptop.

You could take out your DS on trains and pretend to take bites in between playing games. Psyche out the drunk slumped next to you.

Plus think of the hours of fun to be had … Continue Reading

There goes my sense of connectedness, a chunk of my inspiration and my train of thought for the day … Can I wait for an entire hour? I’m reduced to … blogging. Just kiddin’ - I’ll go do some work now over at GadgetRepublic.

So I was watching old episodes of Teachers and the whole feeling of the series sucked me back into secondary school. I remember teachers telling me off for homework not done or being late for class (and I always suspected they didn’t give a monkeys either but got off on the power thing).

Anyway it got me to thinking: am I the same person now that I was then? Obviously I have changed lots but in essence I am the same schoolgirl? I was a lot of things in school. I was shy, quiet, introspective, teacher’s pet, sometimes outspoken, slightly rebellious, … Continue Reading

Lots and lots of things make me happy so I thought I’d focus on smells because I am a very scent-oriented person. So straying from the wider road of all things smile-inducing to meander along the more specific path of things wot smell nice. As Peter would probably say, it’s nice to stop and smell the roses (although they’re not in my top ten.

• Christmas trees. I like standing in the sitting room in the darkness when everyone has gone to bed and inhaling as much of the tree’s scent as possible while touching its branches (that either sounds completely … Continue Reading
  

… something beginning with R.

So it’s Raptureponies‘ turn to spin the decks in Spy this Thursday and I must say I am really looking forward to her choice of music. The last night at Spy with the Irish Blog and Tweet scene was loads of fun and according to Rick we’ll have an even bigger turn out this time around so put on your dancing shoes (preferably sparkly) and iron your knickers!

But this is kinda like high tech society season at the moment becasue Barcamp Cork is kicking off on Nov 1st with a nice Noodle Nerds dinner … Continue Reading

I am officially obsessed with YearbookYourself.com

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” - Jerry Seinfeld.

So true. Although I think I may have blogorhea today.