Archive for March, 2007

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Tonight myself and several friends spent the afternoon / evening at Rose & Thistle to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
I woke up early after dozing off early last night and spent the morning tinkering around the house, and at 2pm got cleaned up and started walking the three miles to the pub. I met Snooks and [...]

Pouring the perfect pint of Guinness

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Since Guinness now flows at my office, I thought it would be nice to make up a nice 'how to' sheet for folks who have never poured it and are only used to domestic microbrews. What you see to the left is my enhanced illustration of an old metal sign image I found online (here's [...]

Guinness at the office

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

As of today, my office has Guinness on tap! The keg arrived on Monday, but due to the multitude of bits that the company needed to track down to go from the common CO2 keg to the Nitro-driven, European-fitted Guinness keg, the assembly was delayed. However, today it was all assembled and shortly after 5pm [...]

Shoes

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Yesterday a coworker sent me a link to a funny video titled Shoes, by comedian Liam Sullivan. Thought I'd share it, and a couple of the other Liam Sullivan videos I found on YouTube, though you can download them from his site (even in iPod format) if you want to keep them around. Enjoy!
Shoes, Muffins, [...]

Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I was listening that old school form of media, something called radio, just now, NPR, and they started playing a slightly truncated version of the journalist Bill Moyers' speech at the National Conference on Media Reform. Found them on YouTube, you should watch / listen. It's very interesting.
Part 1 and Part 2