Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Hillary’s speech at the DNC
Brennan wasn’t all that impressed but I thought she was pretty great, if I’m honest!
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Ted and Michelle at the DNC
If you haven’t seen either of these yet, be sure to give them some time. Each moving in its own way.
Ted Kennedy addresses the Democratic National Convention:
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Michelle Obama delivers the daily keynote:
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
In DOD We Trust
Well done to the fabulous David O’Doherty for his success over the weekend at the Edinburgh Fringe!
Stand-up comic David O’Doherty has been handed the UK’s most prestigious comedy award.
The charismatic Irishman scooped the Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards 2008 - and £8,000 prize money - for his show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Nica Burns, director of [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
The Onion strikes gold. Again.
The latest: Michael Phelps returns to his tank at Sea World.
“Those seated in the first 14 rows should be prepared to get soaked,” Bowman said, admitting that Phelps’ powerful dolphin kicks would be added to the new program. “Also, Michael’s two friends, [Olympic swimmers] Ryan [Lochte] and Jason [Lezak], will open the show with their [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Marty’s Musings…
Our pal Marty (the Betty Boop) blogs the following from Beijing:
I have been asked in recent days was it true that I met Cindy Crawford here in Beijing. Of course I did. She waved to me and asked who did I think would win the All Ireland this year. And pigs will fly.
Anyway here are [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
How do you know your friends?
Know that application on the Bepo (what Mam insists on calling it!) and Facebook, where you can clarify how you know your friends? Here are some of the more amusing things my friends have to say about me, and how we all became friends:
1. Ciaran (Tayto) - the best friend
Fate brought us together
The cunning, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in memes by Ciara
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Motivation
A tetchy subject of late. Needless to say that with the date of death fast approaching, that of Ciara-v.-the Constitution ever looming over me, like a big looming Constitution-shaped loomer, stress is FE1 like, and yet motivation is on a sabbatical. (I’ve tried to find a better adjective, but nothing can really surpass ‘FE1 like’ [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The Lego Olympics
Via Declan - a pretty amazing Flickr set of the Olympic venues made of Lego.
Stunning stuff.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
It’s Arrived…
My 6×6×6 V-Cube (”not quite Rubik’s”) arrived this morning - only ordered it last week, and it came from Athens to Dublin in 18 hours but I wasn’t in when they tried to deliver on Friday so I had to wait another three days afterward.
Still, it’s here now, and I’m ruined for the week ahead…
Huge [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
A Different Kind of Olympics
Not so long ago, Alexia wrote a post about the places she’d most like to go to on holiday, and one of the places she listed was Electric Town in Japan. It didn’t take long to get me thinking that the fact I’ve been to Japan - and indeed to Electric Town - must be [...]
