What to remember

We're all moving through history. Individually, it's meaningless. Altogether - we are history - we create history. We define history, now.

So be careful nobody sees you when you steal your neighbour's magazines. Someday your grandkids might get famous and end up on "Who Do You Think You Are".

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Meandering on making plans

I went through a period of disregarding all future plans, and embracing a form of life that I thought was completely free, unpredictable, interesting, and refreshing. 

Is it feck. 

I'd completely no idea what to do with myself. I'd hate to say it was intended to sound bohemian, since i'm as "bohemian" as beans on toast. I just thought, if I expected nothing of life, i'd get more out of it. I'd appreciate things more. Open to all instances. All experiences.

No freakin' way!

What I found was maybe my true self, at least at this point in time. Quite boring, quite lazy. A barstool philosopher. At times, it's like looking at a life from the outside-in.

Not always a great feeling to "find yourself". Maybe you needed finding though.

Anyway, what i'm enjoying now is planning a trip to the US later this year, hopefully before the summer. Never been to the states, so why not?! Damn Hell Bitch! 

Initial plans, New York, Boston and Chicago. A while back I got somewhat interested in Irish emigration in history, and the effects on local history (abroad). I don't know how I got to like this topic, maybe I just like to see the impact we had as a somewhat nomadic race, abroad. That strain has somewhat died though. Now we seem to just blot the beaches of Australia and Thailand. 

I wonder if the people of Australia and South East Asia are absolutely sick of us?

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What I do be reading...

Thought i'd shtick up a few more links to blogs i've been following for the last while. I never said I was interesting enough to write about myself.

http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/

Been following this for a few months. The shots are absolutely stunning. Must get a few prints of them for the house.

http://www.headrambles.com/

"Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad" is the masthead for this one, and it's certainly fitting - sure what else would it be? Interesting, funny, refreshingly honest and therefore often insightful. A favourite.

http://kottke.org/

I've pointed to kottke before, but I still love it for a random link when i'm bored. 

http://www.mentalfloss.com/

More random articles. I always find these kind of sites are really good for starting you off on a tangent of researching (I use that term very loosely) something you'd never had looked up before.

http://www.pixel2life.com/

Loads of tutorials, from programming to graphic design to animation. Very useful.

http://www.thegoodmoodfoodblog.com/

Great for simple, cheap and tasty dishes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/browse

Finally, TED talks. Interesting people, speaking about interesting topics. Plain and simple.

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Thought of the Day!

I was thinking about living and dying and all that fun stuff, and was considering the mind from a biological viewpoint. The mind - as a consciousness - has to be biological, since I remember nothing from before I was born? Hence, when I die, who is to say any of my consciousness is to go on to another state? 

No. We'll live and die and that's the end of it.

This week i'm watching Twin Peaks and finally going to actually sit down and make myself finish The Road.

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I love nutters

Seriously, the fact people like these exist brighten up my existence. Just to offset the massive amount of God-botherers and politicians in the world who are supposedly "right".

We all know it's 99.9% likely he's wrong. But I always wonder, at what point do conspiracy theories become conspiracy theories, rather than just being theories? 

Boards.ie Conspiracy Theories board

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Links post

Random links!

Nathan Sawaya is a Lego Artist...

Famous movie quotes that are also the movie title. Bit of an overload on first viewing.

Via Kottke, a NY chef who wastes none of the meat.

I recently met Peter Mathews who has some great views on the issues within the Irish economy. Recently he's discussing NAMA in realistic terms - no spin here.

A psychological review of Twitter...

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Sandwiches

Life less than slow motion, moving as fast as it’s pushed.
A sedentary Atlas has fallen
Under his globe.
A world behind a door that opens inwards,
But the doorstop’s wedged tight.
Thick jam blood moves through these walls.
Crooked picture frames, shelves of ornaments.
Shirt buttons.
Cups of tea swirling.
Thick jam blood moving slowly.

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