Apr 22 2008

Trumpets blow

Published by Fence under Musing

Well. So much for my much heralded return to blogging eh. Still, we can hope for better this week can’t we? There is always hope after all, unless you are busy dying, as whatshisface in that Stephen King film[1] once said.

In recent weeks I’ve been adding a fair few feminist blogs to Google Reader[2] And I think maybe they’re brain-washing me, cause every time I watch the telly lately I see nothing but the patriarchal oppression of the feminine[3] Or some such. And it is far too much hassle. I mean, isn’t it easier to just say ah well, things are a lot better than they used to be, and so what if there is still some amount of sexism going on, isn’t it on its way out, why bother making a fuss[4]

Tut tut. Terrible thing to think.

But you know, me = Teh Laziness.

A lot of them also make reference to racism and how under-represented POC[5] are in films where they really should be in the majority. So when I went to see Step Up 2: The Streets[6] the one thing that really struck me was that both the main characters were white. Sure, they had friends of different colours and races, but why were the two main ones white? Hmmmm.

Bloody political[7] blogs making me think things. That just isn’t right.

Linknotes:
  1. Shawshank, duh ↩
  2. RSS is totally wkd ↩
  3. dont worry I will never spell woman with a y ↩
  4. - straight face! ↩
  5. isnt that a nasty acronym. I certainly think so. But *shrug* it requires little effort with the typing ↩
  6. yes. I know. Yes, it was a silly film. But I can go see crap if I want. I don’t have to justify my choices to you, imaginary person who is accusing me of going to watch crap ↩
  7. in the sense that the personal is political not the whole election-y type stuff ↩

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Aug 29 2007

She was dancing so hard She danced herself into a diamond

Published by Fence under Music, Musing

I already mentioned that recently I’ve been listening to Bill Callahan, well, lately I’ve been focusing my attentions on Diamond Dancer. I love this song,[1] I could listen to it all day long. You can also listen to it on You Tube.

The only problem is that it really does get stuck in my head and I go around humming “diamond dancer, diamond dancer” to myself. But on the pro-side, it is really great song to walk[2] to work listening to.

Over at Stainless Steel Droppings Carl has a lovely reflection on Jenn See and how the internet allows us to make connections with people we might otherwise never know. There is also an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Jenn and the people she knew online.

And although yesterday’s post may have been slightly tongue-in-cheek about how great the internet is, the truth is that wwwland can be a wonderful place. You get to meet new people, as a lecturer once put it, create new communities, that otherwise you might never do. So while there is stilla huge perve factor to a lot of the internet I think we should all realise that, like life[3] the internet is what you make it.

Linknotes:
  1. downloadable from here ↩
  2. and sway as you wait for the lights to change ↩
  3. diffuse the sappiness by including a random sarky observation of your own here ↩

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Feb 19 2007

Somehow I’m not surprised

Published by Fence under Irishify, Webby stuff

We didn’t make the short list, but there are some great sites there[1] so I’ve decided to copy and paste the list of short-listed blogs, just so you can go visit.[2]

Best Blog

Best Blog Post- Sponsored by Hosting365

Most Humorous Post - Sponsored by Beecher Networks

Best Photo Blog - Sponsored by Pixenate.com - The online photo editor

Best Arts and Culture Blog - Sponsored by Poetry Ireland

Best Political Blog - Sponsored by Technofutures

Best Group Blog - Sponsored by PutPlace.com

Best Personal Blog - Sponsored by Interactions - Creative Strategies for Business

Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog - Sponsored by Edgecast Media

Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere - Sponsored by FirstPartners.net

Best Technology Blog/Blogger - Sponsored by Bitbuzz

Best Designed Blog - Sponsored by Equisoft

Best Sport & Recreation Blog - Sponsored by Boards.ie

Best News/Current Affairs Blog - Sponsored by the Sunday Tribune

Best Specialist Blog - Sponsored by iQ Content Ltd

Best Newcomer - Sponsored by Edelman

Best Business Blog - Sponsored by logic+intuition

Best Music Blog - Sponsored by Clubbing.ie

Best Podcaster - Sponsored by Microsoft

Best Podcast - Sponsored by Newsletter.ie

Best Videocast - Sponsored by Cork Internet eXchange

Linknotes:
  1. obviously none of them are as great as this site, but you know what they say about recognition in your own country ↩
  2. Dont say I aint helpful ↩

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Nov 20 2006

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy

Published by Fence under Ramblings

What is it about the Irish blogosphere that we seem to be constantly saying there should be more women blogging. Pschaw. Who needs more bloggers? Let alone more women bloggers. If they all just came here and left inane[1] comments on my blog, well that’d be all to the good wouldn’t it?

And as for this expert list, or list of experts if you will[2] well, I demand to be listed. Course limiting my expertise to just one topic would be tough. We[3] all know that I know everything[4] there is to know about everything. And then some. Possibly I should be the Jack-of-all-trades-expert. But that sorta implies that I’m not really an expert, when clearly[5] I am.

This, therefore, is your challenge, to come up with a classy and not at all silly title for my personal expertedness.

And while I’m here and typing, isn’t it weird what some spellchecks insist aren’t real words. Blog, for example. Bloggers is another one. And expertedness, when clearly that is a word that is most definitely real and not at all made up!

Linknotes:
  1. to lower the tone of course ↩
  2. I just needed the extra words for the linkage, see ↩
  3. okay, okay, I know ↩
  4. i know, too much use of the word know in the one sentence, but I don’t care. And you already know that, right ↩
  5. I can see you all nodding in agreement ↩

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Aug 31 2006

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother’s Day

Published by Fence under Ramblings

I’ve been a neglectful blogger lately. I’ve thrown up the odd post, but for the past two weeks I haven’t really been commenting as much as I should. I have however been reading all the blogs, I”m subbed through google reader, and I’ve been starring all the entries I feel I should go back and comment on. Only I don’t think I’ll get around to it.

We are still getting IT and phonelines sorted at work, though I suppose I could go online at home and catch up thataways, but I was at the kino with NM on Tues, last night I had to ring home for de mudders birthday and then got distracted by those two cleaning wans, whatsherface and Agi[1] as they investigated the cleanliness of Easling Hospital. Verdict: People in general are walking germ factories, and no one washes their hands properly.

But what I was thinking was that this is a modern western hospital. So a fairly high standard of cleanliness, all things considered. What would it be like if they swabbed a hospital in a “developing[2] country”

Back to my point, I’ve a feeling that I won’t be visiting all my starred blogs, so if I haven’t left a comment on anyones most recent postings, I’d just like to say, Hello, how are you. etc etc etc.

Although I have been thinking that I’d like to join in with Carl’s reading challenge. Will wait til after this weekend[3] to decide though. If I remember.

Linknotes:
  1. I don’t think that is how she spells her name, but I don’t really care. ↩
  2. use of third world is no longer acceptable, dontcha know ↩
  3. Im away in Sligo this weekend ↩

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Jun 23 2006

It’s raining like a Nick Cave song

Published by Fence under Musing

The blog’verse can be a weird, weird place on occasion. You visit random links and blogs, reading what other people write, sometimes interacting, sometimes just lurking. Some bloggers you never get to know, you just read but don’t engage. Elsewhere you might leave comments and get to know bloggers. You see the comments they leave elsewhere, you see their name pop up in different places.

You may never be close but you know them.

And then you get an email telling you to take a look at their blog. And the whole suddenness and unpredictability of life in general slaps you across the face.

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May 17 2006

Sail away with us, on a boat to Wales

Published by Fence under Irishify, Ramblings

EDITED Looking for the Gift Gub Munster Song? Click Here, but is missing the very beginning and was just recorded from the radio, so quality might not be the best.

There is this meme doing some of the rounds of the Irish Blog’verse, asking are you an Irish conservative? I’m not doing it cause its all about yes no questions and I don’t do yes no questions. Well, I do when they are the sort that ask do you do yes no questions, and i answer no. But you get the general idea.

I especially don’t answer closed question when they aren’t in fact closed but wide open to interpretation. Are taxes too high for instance. Too high for what? Which taxes? See my confusion set in?

So I’m not joining in the fun. Sides I know what I am; A Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey! Erm. No, that’s not it… Oh yes, a liberal, authoritarian, left-leaning, conservative, cherry-picker. See. Easy.

On to the non-political part of today’s post ;)

Today at lunch I went for a walk.[1] You’d think I’d have gone sometime last week. You know, when it wasn’t raining. But no, almost every other day I just do the 10/15 minute walk to wherever I’m eating and back again. But today, with the rain, I decided it’d be a good day to take a random wander in the opposite direction to the way I always go. I don’t know why.

Still, it is nicer to walk in the park when its raining, less people out enjoying the weather you see. And it isn’t like it was lashing, just a soft rain so I didn’t get soaked or anything.

Maybe I was just in good humour cause Veronica Mars has been greenlighted for a thrid season. Or because Paul O’Connell looks like being fit. Come on, its only a few days to go, you didn’t really expect me to say nothing about the rugby now did you? I was going to link to this morning’s Gift Grub, but for some reason whenever I upload my copied version it comes back with a file error. So I’ll have to wait till after work and see what I can do from home. It was Daniel O’Donnell and Ronan Keating singing a Munster inspired song all about Daniel O’Connell and Donncha O’Dulaing. [2]

I’ll leave you with a letter stolen from today’s Irish Times:

Madam, - Fine Gael, reverting to its Civil War roots, has decided that the teaching of Irish should no longer be “compulsory”.

Yet party leader Enda Kenny has suffered compulsory English throughout his school years (13 years or so), and still offends against its grammar and syntax.

Perhaps it is time for us to admit that the teaching of English (and of mathematics, if many third-level science lecturers are to be believed) has also failed, and to declare that all currently “compulsory” subjects will in future be optional. - Yours, etc,

Linknotes:
  1. and I was right not to organise to meet you NM cause at just after 12 I got a call from Minion saying he wouldn’t be in due to illness. So I had to take my lunch early while Minion-eile was still here. See, genius am I ↩
  2. (yeah yeah, you furriners don’t know any of these people (some of you anyways, I tried to footnote this footnote, but it didn’t work ) but that’s funny right.) ↩

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