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Archive for March, 2009

The Great Egg War of 09

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Joey the Yolk is a dealer. His father, Joe the Egg, was a dealer before him.
Joey, like all dealers, lives off misery. In his case, numerous hens are enslaved in his garden in forced ovulation.
He plies his trade in the village pubs. The price for a 12-spot is a pint.
I was clean once. Clean. Never [...]

Chicken-fish, yellow juice and a 4-year-old fugitive

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Lunch is always eventful with Seán. Less so with Oisín.
Oisín will eat anything put in front of him and much of what isn’t. Small animals scurry away from him.
Seán on the other hand has to be coaxed to the table just for a minute, coaxed to just taste the food, coaxed to eat just one [...]

High Stool Musical

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Track © Colm and Jim Jim

What the Internet has taught us

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Even for people like myself who have been involved in the IT industry in one form or another for 30 years, it can be difficult to comprehend that it was a mere 20 years ago that Tim Berners-Lee presented a document to his boss entitled “Information management: A proposal”.
Four years later I was in charge [...]

Earwigged(ish) gems #7

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

In the shop
Me wallet’s as empty as me grandfather’s grave.
Good fek! Don’t say grave robbers!
No. He’s not dead.
In a neighbour’s kitchen
I wrote on it with an indisputable marker by accident.
You mean indelible marker.
Yeah. But if you can’t rub it out it’s indisputable too. Right?
When the starter at Cheltenham calls another totally unnecessary false-start
Would ya look [...]

Blacknight Hoodie

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The folks over at Blacknight rock! They really do. They may roll a bit too, but I’m not sure about that.
Late last year I was becoming increasingly frustrated with my hosting provider. I had been happy before then. More than happy. They were even hosting this blog for free! I know that wasn’t a great [...]

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