They are playing Edinburgh in August and I’m sure their arm could be twisted to include a Dublin date. The download section of their own site includes a lot of music videos so you can get an idea of just what they are like. They sound line a ruder version of the Flight of the Conchords and this Australian band might be your thing if you can’t get the New Zealander’s tickets.
Just wondering, given that so many people have been trapped in their homes due to the cold weather, with freezing pipes and heating breaking down; will there be a baby boom in September?
I might stick out like a tomato here, but I’d like a food camp.
And I do mean a FoodCamp, not a big food based party, but hands on classes followed by a bloggers dinner, cooked by bloggers. The germ of this idea seems to be Laurent Haug. He proposed the idea of getting Grandmas to cook a dinner for bloggers. The Grandma who loves to cook gets to take over a restaurant, kitchens and all, and cook up dinner for a hoard of hunger bloggers. I found out about this due to CBC’s Spark podcast, who are trying out the first Canadian Grandma Dinner on June 9 in Toronto.
So I asked certain food blogger, Ms. Grannymar who pointed out the obvious; she didn’t think she would be able to cook for a clutch of toyboys let alone a hoard of bloggers.
So I have a slightly different position… a FoodCamp (I’m sure that a CampBar for wine, and cocktails is possible). This is there food bloggers get together, and offer to teach the making of a single dish to a group within an hour plus clean-up (baking and roasting which take longer could be timed so that another session could take over the kitchen in the meantime). So a lot of people who love food, get to learn how to make their own good food.
So at the end of the day, there is a lot of food. So let’s have a bloggers dinner to get everyone around, alternatively arrange the food to be delivered to a charity (or invite a few reps from the charity in question to present and pick what they want).
The first solution to be found, is to get an idea if there is any interest?
Is it a wining idea?
And the next thing is, should this take place in a restaurant kitchen (which tend to be small) or a school or college with better catering facilities? And would or could you suggest a location?
This entire point was sparked by a discussion on people feeling uncomfortable leaving a comment if they don’t blog themselves.
Nonsense. Your opinion is just as valuable even if you don’t have your own electronic soapbox to shout from. In fact, especially if you don’t have your own blog, as your opinion hasn’t been expressed before.
One of the little things that happen at the Cork Open Coffee are the demos. On April 27 the attendees got a pre-release demo of Pat Phelan’s new project … Twitterfone.com
The idea is rather simple. Ring a local telephone number (currently US, UK and Ireland) and leave a 15 second voice message. Be careful what you say (or cough as Michael Arrington discovered), and your message is converted to text in a tweet on your twitter account. In addition a recording is also available (via a tinyurl), which is handy if your message doesn’t fit in to 140 characters of less. Yes we talk that fast in Ireland.
Its a useful service, especially if you are in a crisis situation and can’t talk for long.
While a digital photo can be whisked to the other side of the planet in an instant, a printed photo can be displayed on a wall or held in a wallet.
A pdf can be read on screen, but a book with an inscription can be passed from a long dead great great grandparent to a newborn.
Which would you rather your child have. A video (file?) of you talking to her, or a bundle of letters?
Physical has two meanings. And those meaning are intertwined.
There is also the simple matter of getting your data off the devices. I know lots of people who use their phone cameras, but few ho can do anything with those bits in there. Remember the BBC Domesday Project from 1986. I think it was the 900 year anniversary of the Domesday Book, so the BBC created a new version for the digital age.
Unfortunately by 2002 they realised that there was hardly anything left which could read the laserdiscs that the project was stored on. So the BBC worked on a project to make a web version. The irony was that the original velum bound book was indeed still readable over 1000 years later.
Sometimes the simplest, physical solution beats the latest digital one.
Yes, someone is nicking content off my blog in order to give themselves a higher ranking (no idea why). However it seems that babynourishment.com (no follow condom in place) copied part of my favourite invention and mobile phone privacy post thinks I am the “Cobain Music Community”.
I don’t even own a Nirvana t-shirt. I remember the band, which probably makes me too old to wear the t-shirt now.
So I’ve been copied… Does this mean I’ve been noticed now?
) so its easy to see how you can have your say.
