For anyone living under a rock, Saturday was Shamrockfest, and I had scored several free VIP passes (thanks Jamie) which meant we drank for free, had no beer line, got free pizza and got fancier rest rooms.
The pictures of the day are up in a Flickr set here. A good time was had by all – it was a beautiful day and we rounded it off with a trip to Julia’s Empanadas (my first – what took me so long?
I was going through some old comments on Flickr when I came across this picture (again). I did ask Son (left) if she could remember what she had said, but unfortunately the answer is as lost to her as it is to me (center) and Jenny (right). Shame…….
Anyone want to make up a conversation that would generate such a reaction?
Technorati Tags: pictures, AOL, party, shocked, conversation, Son, Jenny, Adam, Flickr
A lot of the things I end up turning into “guides” start life as an e-mail or a forum post where I try to help someone with a technical issue. Once you get past a certain point, the effort needed to transform the post/e-mail/whatever into a more generic guide becomes quite small. Such was the case with this one – this started as a verbal explanation, then morphed into an e-mail and now finally becomes a general guide on the subject.
Made cooler by me – both by my presence in the shot (naturally) and by turning it Black & White. Why do some pictures just look so much nicer when you remove the color?
Anyway, here is the shot (click for larger) taken on the escalator in Dupont Metro as we left the recent blogger meetup in search of more alcohol.
Just for comparison, you can find the original here.
First off, Loo = Lavatory for you American heathens The toilet paper used in the work rest rooms has changed recently and some clever dick has posted a rather amusing warning sign due to the more abrasive nature of the new paper (click for larger):
The text deserves a zoomed version to make it readable…..
Well, it gave me a laugh anyway Technorati Tags: toilet, lavatory, pictures, loo, warning, toilet paper
February 24th 2007, the English national anthem played in Croke Park and the most significant game in the Irish rugby calendar was played. I honestly believe that a lot of Irish people would prefer to beat England than win the 6 Nations outright (assuming mutual exclusivity – both would be gravy). This year, with the venue and the historical significance that number probably increased to something approaching 100% of Irish people – even those that don’t care about rugby.
With AOL enabling OpenID for anyone with a screen name, I decided to try it out – it represented almost zero work on my part and my AOL account is quite secure because I have to use 2-factor authentication. So, I added the required 2 lines to the source code of this blog and attempted to log in to Livejournal. The result? Worked like a charm, as you can see from this cropped screen shot (click for larger):
Joe has often posted about getting behind in his picture posting, but I have always been fairly good about getting pictures up quickly, at least since I upgraded to a Flickr Pro account. However, I am over a week late getting the latest rugby pictures up, and since I cleaned up my camera over the weekend to make space on the memory card I’ll have to wait until I get home to upload this weekend’s activities.
The excellent BBC series Coupling, which I have been watching recently brings about this question. In explaining how well he knows a friend of his, one of the main characters (Jeff) explains that they are “porn buddies”.
He goes on to explain that being someone’s porn buddy involves making a pact so that in the event of one of the buddies untimely demise, the other buddy will get to their house and remove any pornography before the parents arrive.
While I was waiting for Jen to get home from carousing with her workmates I started playing around with my page (space?) on MySpace. The attraction to it has always puzzled me, I mean the interface is terrible, most of the pages look awful and you get a lot of Spam…..
However, after playing around a bit I think I can see the attraction – it is very easy to play around with, the picture uploader is very simple and they make it easy to integrate a nice slideshow for your pictures.