Megan McArdle on Veganism

Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Life-In-General | 2 Comments

One of the Atlantic blogging team explains why she blogs about her vegan diet from time to time, and how being a vegan or a vegetarian does not automatically mean that you hate meat-eaters:
Is it possible to be a vegan without judging other people? It had better be, because I just don’t have time [...]

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. [...]

Too Much Blood in my Alcohol

Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

If anybody has some information on how my night was, don’t hesitate to share with me…

Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism

Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Life-In-General, Media | 2 Comments

Towards the end of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and having just quoted disapprovingly from newspaper he encounters in Las Vegas airport, Hunter S. Thompson offers the following appraisal of journalism:

Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not [...]

PROTIP:

Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

If you think your sideburns look at little unkempt, do not go over-zealously adjusting them with the back of a Gillette razor head. Trust me on this one.

“Athens Trent Boland” Redux

Posted on April 10, 2008 - Filed Under Funny, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

This NYTimes article on awful names caught my eye, given my recent musings on the subject of names for a child that I never want to have. The article itself is entertaining enough, but the comments are where the funniest names are to be found. “Dick Blower” and “Boner Stayhard Evermore” are among the more [...]

Athens Trent Boland

Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under Funny, Life-In-General | 7 Comments

I don’t plan on ever having kids, but the one good thing about having them, as far as I can see, would be coming up with cool names for them. So if I had a son I’d call him Athens Trent Boland, because that’s an awesome name. If I had a daughter I’d leave my [...]

Low

Posted on April 5, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 4 Comments

Bad day; bad week.

The Inconsistency of Irish Import Duty

Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 1 Comment

I collected a package from the Post Office the other day. It was an batch of T-shirts I had ordered from the States, and I had specifically asked that it be marked as a gift so that no price would appear on the package, so that I couldn’t be smacked with any import duties or [...]

Missing Phone

Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

I have no phone at present. I don’t know where it could be either, because I don’t have any recollection of the tail end of last night. So please use internet-based forms of communication if you wish to contact me in the coming days.
Update: I left it in the Taxi I don’t remember getting. I [...]

Time Gun Inc.

Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General, Stuff I Want, Tech | 9 Comments

I’ve rambling incoherently to a few people about this in the past week, so the time seems ripe to blog it.
Imagine that you have too many things to do and too little time to do them. Not very hard to imagine, right? For instance right now I have two essays to write for Friday, another [...]

A Question of Appreciation

Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 5 Comments

If you help someone out but do it badly (e.g., agree to their request for a lift into college, but show up a slight bit late), are they entitled to feel resentful, especially if you have a well-known difficulty with being on time for things? And if not, are you entitled to feel resentful if [...]

Motivation

Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Career, College, Health, Life-In-General | 7 Comments

Since yesterday, practicing this has been the overriding goal of my life.
Come on cynics, what say you of my latest plan?

Opening Hours

Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under College, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

If your sign says you’re open until 7:30 then stay open until 7:30. Or else change your damn sign to 7:22…

Small Consolation

Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment

I thought my iPod was broken, but it turns out that the problem resides with my previously awesome headphones.
Yay…

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