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Archive for September, 2008
This isn’t healthy
QoTD
“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.
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Events and such
This looks quite interesting: Trinity ICT Open Demonstrations 2008. It was pointed out to me by Fergal Breen and it’s on in the Science Gallery on Pearse Street. Basically this seems to be a showcase of the cool research and technologies coming out of Trinners IT Dept right now including p2p video streaming and...
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Chronophage and Stonehenge
What an exciting Autumn day! Stephen Hawking unveils a creepy, gothic and deliciously morbid ‘eater of time’ clock designed by Dr John Taylor who said: “I also wanted to depict that time is a destroyer – once a minute is gone you can’t get it back.” The scary grasshopper is devouring the seconds in...
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T’ain’t no sin …
… to take off your skin and dance around in your bones. When my dad said that this was a favourite quote of his I did a double take and looked at him as a person with fears and desires like me and the rest of us. It’s easy to forget that your parents...
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What’s the worst that could happen?
Likes: smashing stuff up Dislikes: creating black holes. This New Scientist blog post sorta sums it all up. I’m hoping for time travellers. Nice to know that amongst the bits and bobs that wil be colliding in the LHC tomorrow will be strange quarks as well as various other flavours such as cherry, sideways...
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‘Off the record’ and ‘insider knowledge’
Just two things that have been on my mind today. First off, I hate when you do an interview and the most interesting thing about it is the ‘off the record’ bit, which today led to me getting all riled up about the anti-competitiveness of certain sectors in Irish industry, where one firm rules...
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Always starting, never finishing
I’m writing this post partially out of frustration with myself. It’s been an entire month since I updated and it’s not because I forgot – I get home after a day’s writing and most of the time just think: ‘Sod this. I couldn’t be a**ed writing anything,’ which is really frustrating because I’ll be...
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