"I still believe in Bewley's"… I think that's the only line you would need to change to do a version of this in any Irish town or city. I still believe in Sir Henry's, I still believe in King John's, I still believe in Eyre Square…
So take a walk through very late night Dublin City, with salty (NSFW) language and a fundamental truth, "there are ten good reasons to go, but a thousand tiny ones not to, and you can't tell which is which anymore."
The icy weather across the country has broken for rain. And I'm playing catch-up with the Loose Bloggers Consortium, again.
The missed topics are "Rains", "Doom and Gloom" and "Music" so the song below comes to mind. "When the Rain Falls" by Eleanor McEvoy.
This song first came to my attention when the "A Woman's Heart" CD came out. This was an all female, all Irish, compilation of songs and the title song sung by Mary Black was written my Eleanor McEvoy. Unsurprising as she is one of Ireland's highly accomplished songwriters (I really hope there is a league table hidden away somewhere for this title). The album released in 1992 spawned a few sequels and spin-offs and a couple of tours. Poke around YouTube and you'll probably catch a few of the tracks.
The song its self is a jazz, well blues, influenced number. "I woke up this morning" isn't how it starts, but its a collection of minor disasters following a break-up. The coffee's run out, the milk has gone off, the heating won't start, have trouble getting on-line, and when she does, the nasty reminder awaits.
It seems like months ago that a US based TV crew came to film a Coder Dojo session and interview a few of the participants.
Well folks the video is up and it shows sessions in the NCS Cork and the Science Gallery in Dublin.
There are Coder Dojos all around the world now, we really need to see if Coder Dodo Antarctica is possible (I suspect a "R" workshop would be best there).
And yes that is me, looking terrible as usual, in the clip. But its also some amazing minds coding, modding and creating.
CoderDojo.com for details of your nearest Dojo. Above all, be cool…
Makes you wonder why the games are not combined, or at least interleaved… For example, have the Mens Olympic 100 meter final followed by the Men's Paralympic 100 meter (part and whole) events. Why not?
Coder Dojo celebrated its first birthday by going to Dublin. In act it went to Leinster House for DáilDojo (The Irish Houses of Parliment and its "lower" house) and have a Dojo between Leinster House itself and Buswells.
A few TDs (Irish Member of Parliament) and Senators showed up, some with their kids, to learn coding. We also had Minister Ciarán Cannon and an Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Enda Kenny. I doubt either of them learned even Scratch, but its a start.
I still want to force a Minister to solve the Blockly Maze demo (no I wasn't let).
Alex from the +Chicago Music Exchange plays his way through 100 riffs of Rock and Roll from 1953's Mr Sandman by Chet Atkins through to 2011's Cruel by St. Vincent. Someone should do a 100 riffs podcast where you try to interview the people involved and the reactions at the time.
However a non-stop uncut riff through 100 riffs is worth seeing. Its also the table quiz music round from hell.
Naturally its being done in the hopes of going viral (so my little push) with a give-away to boot, but the page behind it http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/100riffs/ lists all the details, the gear used and the songs and keys featured.
Fund:it is an unusual site. Essentially its an Irish only Kickstarter.com Kickstarter clone. What makes it unusual is that large amount of funded projects for such a small population.
I suspect that its the Irish version of the 6 degrees of separation. The theory is that all people are separated by only 6 degrees. In Ireland, with its small population and, well, habit for talking to complete strangers when bored, its about 2 degrees of separation.
That means that if you check in on the projects, you'll likely see someone you know. Like +Ophelia McCabe .
OpheliaMc is her stage name, and its an actual stage name because she stands on stages and podiums at hip-hop gigs performing. She also works with youth projects, essentially creating a +CoderDojo for rappers, MCs, singers and hip-hop producers. She teaches the mostly female group (I expected a lot of guys) about lyricism and vocalism since 2008.
Which is how I met her. She is one of the good guys. I would say she rocks, but I don't know if that's right for the genre. She is an excellent artist.
Red 5 Studios are creating one heck of a First Person Shooter MMO. Oddly, a large portion of Red 5 Studio is made from former Blizzard employees. Guess who has their European headquarters in Cork.
Welcome to Cork Red 5 Studio.
Based on what the Extra Credits crew are saying, you are going to be a shining addition for Cork (for Browncoat shiny at least).
What can I say, I like mash-ups. And with a subject like “Breath” the Eamezey track “Lose my spitfire” came to mind.Its a mix of “Loose my Breath” by Destiny’s Child and “Spitfire” by The Prodigy.
The video itself isn’t that good, but Beyonce sounds better with a rocking electronic track.