Monthly Archives: June 2013

AngelAngel, above, a beautiful Lurcher, was found in Cork in a horrendous condition last week.

But she’s getting better.

Cork Dog Action Welfare Group writes:

Angel has had her wounds stitched up today and has come through the surgery well, she is still very shook. We still don’t know if we will be able to save her back leg or not. I saw her in the vets today and she is a sweet, gentle girl. We need to get her strong before we can contemplate further surgery.

We are looking for two things, firstly a foster home where she can recover from her ordeal and secondly donations toward her vet bills. If you can help with a foster please contact us on 0863457488 or info@dogactionwelfaregroup.ie or if you would like to donate please do so through our website (below)

 

Cork Dog Action Welfare Group

JOyce

The play Mr Joyce Is Leaving Paris, by Tom Gallacher, is being performed every evening in the Back Loft Theatre (7-11 Augustine Street, off Thomas Street) except Sundays, until August 24.

What’s it about?

The blurb:

“Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris is a play about James Joyce when he was living in Trieste in Italy with Nora Barnacle and their children.  He was teaching in The Berlitz College and was also the opera critic for the local newspaper.  His brother Stanislaus comes from Dublin to support them as they were living in dire poverty while Joyce was drinking and not writing.

“The second part of the evening is set in Paris in 1939 as the Germans are advancing on Paris and Joyce is about to travel to Zurich in Switzerland.  He is now an ageing, nearly blind man and he is confronted by ghosts/friends from his past that he has used in his famous novels –Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and The Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man.”

Anglo-two-layers

Fitzgerald and Bowe

The funny bits:

John Bowe: “As me granny used to say, you must be therapeutic.”

 Peter Fitzgerald: “Eh what does that mean? Can I work the computer is it?”

Bowe: “Therapeutic, therapeutic. I was just ringing you.”

Fitzgerald: “I’m ambidextrous as well. It means I can walk on land and water.”

Bowe: “You can drink, you can drink beer out of both hands…”

 

Badum tish.

Tip your waitress.

Claim it back, etc.

Pat Neary [Financial Regulator] impersonation at 4.12.

Earlier: To Cut A Long Story Short

Drummer, Dumber And Dumberer

Berlusconi

“Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from holding public office for life after being found guilty of abuse of office and paying for sex with a woman allegedly working as an underage prostitute.”

 

Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to seven years in jail in bunga bunga sex trial (Daily Telegraph)

 Pic: Dealbreaker

BikenickBut that’s all.

Brian McNamara writes:

“I know you don’t normally do this…… but last night while at work, both my housemate and I had our bicycles stolen. We both work in bars on South William Street {Dublin] and had them parked just down from Grogan’s on Drury Street. It seems a few bikes were stolen at the same time last night.

The  picture  (above) of the same model as my bike except mine was all black.

My front wheel was still there so in the off chance that anyone sees one being sold with a different front wheel then maybe they could let me know.

Also, life must go on, so if anybody is selling or knows where to get some good second hand bikes (and a new lock) could they let me know below.’

moores-law-for-apple-1 Chip-Speeds
From the first of a series of articles by Memeburn’s Graeme Lipschitz explaining why Moore’s Law (which states that the performance of semiconductor chips doubles every two years) – tied in with Kryder’s Law (which states that storage space doubles and its cost halves every 14 months) – no longer applies.

The improvement in chip speed, storage space and even pixel size in digital cameras has left an indelible effect on the global economy. Well, apparently, that’s all going to end: we’re hitting the limit of the number of electrons that can fit in a certain area.

It’s all down to May’s Law, apparently.

But you knew that.

The End Of Moore’s Law: A Brief History (Graeme Lipschitz, Memeburn)

Theoretical physicist and Jedi master Michio Kaku explains it all rather well.

(Hat tip: John Gallen)