My brother injured his neck snowboarding en France ( Read more... )

Things to do in Dublin when you're drunk:
A story of comeuppance and retributionAn acquaintance of mine was walking across the Ha'ppeny bridge over the weekend and happened upon a group of inebriated "tourists" from the mainland (ahem... the UK) who were jeering and abusing a homeless beggar. These guys were being totally unruly, even going so far ( Read more... )

new stuff
i've just ordered this buddy ranger TD bcd from simply scuba. It will hopefully arrive before the first dive trip of the year to Donegal which is in just over two weeks time.

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But my boss says even funnier things.

I've never met anyone who mixes up catchphrases so much, who else in all seriousness could say things like :
"You're a veritable minefield of information"
"It's so quiet you could hear a mouse drop"
:'oD

Mulligans on Poolbeg street, that's where the weekend started. David was home from Boston with stories of guns in classrooms and the difficulties of teaching biology to creationist kids ( Read more... )

truly this is excellent

The Human Clock

next time i'm having a data timing dilemma like is GPS time 13 second AHEAD of UTC or 13 seconds behind i'll just check in at human clock and put it all in perspective ;-)

One of my work colleagues has just brought me a tall latté and a toasted croissant on his way in to the office...
how sweet!
Even though i'm trying to cut down on caffeine in a major way, one mustn't look a gift horse in the mouth...

So am i a romantic cynic or a cynical romantic ( Read more... )

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happy st. valentine's day...

So it seems that this righteous dude

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