Date: November 2010
Monday — Dublin Bus is really pissing me off. Missing buses on the 37 in the morning and afternoon, and bad traffic on the 39 in Blanchardstown means it takes me nearly two hours to get home. I thought this was the future and we should all be telecommuting by now. Sigh.
Tuesday — Day of administrivia: I need to change my address on the electoral register, lest I miss my chance to get that shower of gobshites out of power.
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Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday — First two days of this week are a write-off. Wednesday I’m up earlyish, cold still getting me down. I briefly flirt with the idea of going out to the shops. But then I remember the Tesco delivery guy is coming, which puts those silly thoughts aside.
The day ahead is reserved for Getting Better: WoW in the afternoon, followed by an Apprentice double bill in the evening, and Skyline chili for dinner. That’s what I call good medicine.
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Part of the paper's film season which ran recently. Like any such list it's subject to much debate, but it's not bad as an introduction for novices. #link
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Margin note: Fringe culture in general is misunderstood; always has been and always will be. #link
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AKA Science is awesome. #link
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As he writes himself: "We are growing more comfortable with doing business with invisible things." It's not just 'business', of course; it's interacting with the world in general. But we're still quite a ways off yet. Indeed, how many of us actually have smartphones in a world where this is the most popular phone in the world? #link
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Can Detroit be saved? David Byrne thinks it's too late for restoration, but maybe something better can come out of it. #link
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Eleven years on the interweb and this totally passed me by till now (possibly NSFW). #link
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Actually the title of this piece is a bit misleading, as the point is that we're all media cyborgs now. #link
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Space panda! #link
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"Images of the New York Subway by NYT photographers. See that first pic, the 7 train in Queens? I've been right there. #link
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Monday — Work at the office is blah, and cold. I skip out early to beat the rush and finish things up at home. I’m finding that work is eating into my thinking time. Can’t let that happen; don’t want to get stuck in that rut again.
Tuesday — Time to return to the world (of Warcraft) and patch my game install ahead of the Cataclysm. But what should be a straight-forward process, maybe an hour or so for a 5GB file, ends up lasting the whole day and night. In fact my download doesn’t complete until 1am, with the installation taking another 90 minutes. I’m convinced the culprit is our ISP throttling the torrent, though of course I have no evidence of this, other than my righteous indignation.
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Monday/Tuesday — I wake up feeling rotten on Monday. Time to take a sick day. (The fact that it’s officially the first day of winter is just a coincidence.) I worry for a while about catching up at the end of the week, but you know what? I’m ill and I’m entitled to look after myself once in a while.
So I spend the day watching crappy movies, getting annoyed that the Kindle cover I bought off eBay is in fact the size of a bleeding iPad, and later providing a running commentary on the Irish Apprentice with Bee (if there’s one thing that show has taught me, it’s to never take a job working for Bill Cullen).
I don’t sleep well Monday night: bad indigestion and weird abdominal pains when I try to lie on my side. Another day of bad movies and timeshifted TV is required.
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Truth is, the commenters on this piece are providing a far better list. #link
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The 'Cultural Catalyst' bit is the perfect description. #link
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The drum transcriptions are pretty much spot on, too! Wish I had a band like this. #link
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Is there a book about this? If there isn't there should be. (And if there is, please let me know so I can add it to my wish list.) #link
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Some of these look very faked to me. You'll know which ones I mean. #link
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