Technical Problem
Posted on November 30, 2006 - Filed Under Tech | 5 Comments
My PC won’t read the disk for a game of mine. It has difficulty reading some others too, although it reads most of them perfectly well. I’ve tried cleaning the game disk, but if anything that’s only made matters worse and created small scratches on it. Is there some way of cleaning your disk drive [...]
Jon Stewart Vs. Bill O’Reilly
Posted on November 25, 2006 - Filed Under Funny, Politics | Leave a Comment
A while back Jon Stewart appeared on the O’Reilly Factor and then Bill O’Reilly appeared on the Daily Show. In fairness to O’Reilly, he gave as good as he got during his Daily Show apppearance, and Stewart wasn’t able to humiliate him on his own show like he did with Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. A [...]
Torture Essay Ideas
Posted on November 21, 2006 - Filed Under Philosophy, Politics | 6 Comments
I’m considering doing an essay on torture for a philosophy module, and I’d like to put this blog to a useful for once. Without getting bogged down too much in the issue of morality (of course, a brief mention of it is fine; the whole argument turns on this point after all), can anyone suggest [...]
Doonesbury
Posted on November 20, 2006 - Filed Under College | 2 Comments
I’ve just stayed up all night writing an essay on Marxism which is due today at 4:30. Given my experiences of essay writing last year, I should really know better than to leave it to the last minute. I’m incapale of deciding whether or not it’s any good because I’ve spent the last 8 hours [...]
Ferenc Puskas
Posted on November 18, 2006 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Ferenc Puskas died yesterday. Known variously as ‘Little Brother’, the ‘Galloping Major’ and the ‘Booming Cannon’, Hungarian-born Puskas was one of the finest footballers of the 20th Century. Over the course his long career he scored 357 goals in 354 appearances for Kispest Honved, 512 goals in 528 appearances for Real Madrid, and 83 goals [...]
YouTube Videos
Posted on November 14, 2006 - Filed Under Funny, Politics | 2 Comments
There’s no point in me pretending that even the slightest bit of effort went into this post, so here are two YouTube videos. The first is of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann attacking Bill O’Reilly for getting his facts wrong (fish in a barrel anyone?), the secoond is an advert that was banned in Korea (the South, [...]
Steven Colbert Portrays Asian Character
Posted on November 13, 2006 - Filed Under Funny | 1 Comment
I thought that Comedy Central had ordered YouTube to take down all its Daily Show, South Park and Colbert Report clips, but it seems not to happened, or at least not yet. While they remain, here’s Stephen Colbert on the subject of Asian character. It cuts off too soon, but it’s funny nonetheless.
Obama and Clinton in ‘08
Posted on November 13, 2006 - Filed Under Politics | 6 Comments
Here’s an interesting piece from the Washinton Post about Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospects for the Presidency in 2008. It’s going to be fascinating seeing who eventually wins the nomination. I’m still hoping Al Gore pulls it off and saves the world more or less single-handedly, but it’s looking increasingly likely that we’re [...]
Nice Article on Donald Rumsfeld
Posted on November 10, 2006 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
So the Democrats have taken the senate by now too. The first casuality of the Republican collapse (besides the candidates who lost their seats) has been Donald “Rummy” Rumsfeld. There’s a reflective piece on the language of his tenure as Secretary of Defense (including his memorable “unknown unknowns” exposition) here, and it paints him in [...]
For the Sake of What Happens When you Google “Cian Boland”
Posted on November 9, 2006 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments
This is a most excellent blog.
While browsing through my Site Meter referals, I noticed that googling my name brought up a post that wasn’t a great advertisment for this blog. Hopefully this post will fix that. I’ll merely mention my name, Cian Boland, and then this post should top the list. Just add kind words…
This [...]
US Midterm Elections
Posted on November 8, 2006 - Filed Under Politics | 3 Comments
So who else stayed up until after 5 a.m. watching the results and exit poll predictions of the US Midterm Elections. Anyone?
I can categorically say that it was not worth it. While I did become better acquainted with some of the various MSNBC, CNN and Fox News pundits and anchors that Jon Stewart regularly pokes [...]
George Galloway at the Philosoph
Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under College | 1 Comment
This is a shamefull admission on my part, coming as it does well into my second year of college, but tonight was my first time attending a meeting of the Philosophical Society, which is UCC’s debating society. It seems that this was one of the more lively ones…
The motion was that “this house believies US [...]
Naked Man Arrested for Concealed Weapon
Posted on November 4, 2006 - Filed Under Funny | 1 Comment
I generally try to keep this blog somewhat high-brow, or at least out of the gutter, but sometimes incidents like this come up that demand attention. Long story short, a naked man was found masterbating on a tree-stump by a nature path and then, on being arrested by police, revealed that he had an awl [...]
