http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

An outsiders view of the situation we are in now. Obviously some of his sources are dodgy, but it makes for a very interesting read.

It's snowing. My tree is up. And I am listening to a Boney M Christmas album.

I'm sorting presents before bringing them home to my mothers.

I love this time of year.

Got the standby flight so heading to Heathrow in a few minutes. I'll try and keep this updated as I progress.

Edit: Landed safely in Heathrow, to find flights to Dublin cancelled. Happily now on board a Virgin train to Bangor, North Wales, presuming that I'll be able to make it to Holyhead from there, to a prebooked Ferry at 2:40 am.... Total costs ( Read more... )

As in bound to Vancouver. My flights via LHR were cancelled yesterday, and so I patiently rang the number I was supposed to, waited over and hour and got the least helpful person in the universe on the phone, who took my number and suggested that I would be put on a list... And that was it. So, I got off the phone, booked the hotel I was in for ( Read more... )

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy Lime Juice in supermarkets at home? You know, something similar to Jif Lemon except with limes?

Well, mostly ( Read more... )

Just watching some daytime TV here in NZ. OMG.

There is a quiz show where 4 back bench MPs are quized on news items of the day... They didn't do that well, and were particularly rubbish at questions that had anything to do with international news. Seems to be aimed mostly at students. Looks like it was recorded in a pub... Awesome idea.

Wow. I thought I had seen commercialism in Hawai'i when I had watched TV ads and gone to a local mall. Not even close ( Read more... )

Aloha!

For those of you that don't know, I am currently in Hawai'i.

It's an interesting part of the world. Obviously VERY touristy, which isn't my bag really, and also consistently hot, also not really my bag, and yet I do like it here. My survival requires only thinking about going out in the early hours of the morning (for dawn) and in the evenings ( Read more... )

From bastun_ie

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets and comic book authors can be included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag everyone, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

(In rough ( Read more... )