Randy Pausch
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
Apologies for posting yet another YouTube video, but I just finished watching this and it definitely deserves a mention. Sometime when you’re online and have an hour or so to spare, look up this video on YouTube (or watch it here). It’s a lecture about achieving childhood dreams delivered by a professor with terminal cancer. [...]
American Psycho
Posted on July 26, 2008 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
I saw this for the first time last night and I love it! It’s very funny, and Christian Bale is typically outstanding.
Obama’s Berlin Speech
Posted on July 25, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, Obama | Leave a Comment
“Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii” Deemed Inappropriate Name For Child
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under News Item | 1 Comment
From the BBC: A judge in New Zealand made a young girl a ward of court so that she could change the name she hated – Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. Judge Rob Murfitt said that the name embarrassed the nine-year-old and could expose her to teasing. He attacked a trend of giving children [...]
John McCain Doesn’t Know What “The Surge” Is
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, College | 5 Comments
This story has been running for a few days, but I didn’t blog about it because it’s kind of technical. It relates to events in Iraq over the past 2 years. Basically, McCain doesn’t know when ‘The Surge’ (an increase in troop levels, and the adoption of a new counter-insurgency strategy) began, even through he [...]
Latest Phoenix Cover
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under Ireland, Politics | Leave a Comment
This is one of their better ones in recent times.
Doing Medicine
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College | 1 Comment
I wrote a post about my reasons for wanting to do medicine and upon finishing it I was too embarrassed to publish it. Suffice it to say, they were not particularly lofty, commendable or good. Methinks a reappraisal is in order…
X “Could Care Less”
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under Language, Media | 1 Comment
I’ve been meaning to blog this for months, but I kept forgetting about it, despite how much it pisses me off. The title refers to a common American phrase, for instance, “John could care less about his neighbour”, which is intended to mean “John doesn’t care about his neighbour”. All arguments about linguistic evolution aside, [...]
Colbert on Obama’s Foreign Trip
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, Funny, Media, Obama | Leave a Comment
\o/ He’s funny again! \o/
Eye See You
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Personal | 1 Comment
Sitemeter never sleeps…
Batman Begins
Posted on July 21, 2008 - Filed Under Film | 5 Comments
I saw this film earlier tonight on Sky One, and I swear it will be the last time I ever try to watch a movie on that channel. The ad-breaks are about 10 minutes long, and just when you think that you’ve seen the last idiotic commercial for their dreadful programming, along comes an advert [...]
Help Me Video
Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Music | 1 Comment
I posted this a while ago, but the YouTube clip was subsequently taken down. It’s getting harder and harder to find embeddable music videos on the site, which makes it harder to promote bands that you like, and so I don’t see how this policy of disabling embeds benefits the music industry in anyway.
Guitar Buying
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under Music | 1 Comment
Is it foolish to buy a guitar online, especially if it’s an Epiphone, since their guitars can be a little hit and miss? I want to play heavy, detuned stuff more often, but my Strat can really handle lower tunings because of how it’s set up at present, and anyway Strats aren’t really metal guitars, [...]
More BFMV
Posted on July 18, 2008 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Artist Site More Videos They don’t sound like an emo band to me… (If there are ads attached to this video, then you are doing it wrong and must not have Adblock Plus for Firefox. Google it.)
Traitorous Hleb Jumps Ship
Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Alexander Hleb has left Arsenal for Barcelona for £11.8 million. At 27, this makes him the best bargain for years in my estimation. Barcelona clearly think more of him than Arsenal did, since his buy-out clause has been set at over £70 million. While it’s true that he wanted to leave, surely Arsenal could have [...]
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