Damn, that is special.
Superquinn Kimmage today.
(Thanks Sinead McGouran)
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Abraham Lincoln’s lavish menu for his second inaugural ball in 1865.
Smoked tongue en geleé.
Get him.
An Inaugural Memory: President Lincoln’s Food Fight (NPR)
Earlier: A Limerick Every Four Years
Google has spent $1 billion (€750m) buying a 2.4 acre plot in central London where, the company told Reuters, it plans to build a new million square-foot UK HQ by 2016. Construction starts later this year and the facility is due for completion in 2016.
“This is a big investment by Google,” said Matt Britin, Google’s VP for Northern and Central Europe. “We’re committing further to the UK — where computing and the web were invented. It’s good news for Google, for London, and for the UK.”
And a nice tax move for the enormously cash rich company whose massive property investment means the money doesn’t have to be sent back to the parent company in the US where tax would be due.
http://vimeo.com/57838572
Remember doing this?
Remember when you were HAPPY!?
Brendan O’Driscoll writes:
If you are looking for some homegrown fun in the in the Dublin snow – look no further !
A photograph OF a photograph?
Yes.
Not the actual photograph itself, so to speak?
No. A slightly blurry photo of a photo with a sticker on top saying ‘Anthony’.
Oh, go on then.
Thanks Steenmbc
[Click to enlarge]
Mieke Vanmechelen’s farm in Kenmare, Co Kerry, this morning.
Thanks S
The nCycle – an ‘e-bike’ prototype designed and created by Skyrill and Marin Myftiu with integrated brakes and lights, a folding design, a retractable pocket built into the top bar and a lock mechanism where a steel tube extends from inside the handlebars to close around a pole or railing.
Full design schematic here.
What you may need to know:
1. It’s a sequel to Red. We would have gone with Red Part 2, Redder or
Red 2: Scarlet.
2. Bruce Willis (58 in March) can do any amount of old shite, and still
rock the house. He had a career re-booting 2012, with three hits in the bag:
Moonrise Kingdom, Looper and Expendables 2.
3. That said, this might be the most superfluous sequel Bruce has done
since The Whole Ten Yards (2004).
4. That said, he’s all about the sequels this year, what with A Good Day
To Die Hard and GI Joe 2.
5. Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.
6. Unspoken Rule Of Sequels: adding Catherine Zeta Jones is never, ever
a good idea (see 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve, which, come to think of it, also
featured Bruce).
7. Anthony Hopkins is extremely choosy when it comes to accepting film
roles these days. He must be paid a massive fee, and in advance, to
boot.
8. We’re still holding out for Hudson Hawk 2.
Release Date: Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfDAIqn6KE
“It’s a great looking door.”
Irish Folk Furniture – an animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland.
Tony Donoghue writes:
I’m writing about my 8-minute film Irish Folk Furniture which is playing at the Sundance Film Festival this week. The festival had 8,102 short films apply. From this number they selected 65 short films. This is the only irish short film selected. it would be wonderful if you could bring the film to the attention of your audience.
From the synopsis:
In rural Ireland old hand painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty and with a time many would rather forget. Because of this association much of the country’s furniture heritage lies abandoned in barns and sheds. In the making of this film 16 pieces of abandoned folk furniture were restored and returned back into daily use.
Directed by Tony Donoghue. Funded by The Irish Film Board, RTE, The Arts Council.
Interview with Tony Donoghue (Steven Galvin, Film Ireland)
Killorglin, Co Kerry, this morning.
By Michael Ledwith Thanks Tim Clifford