Wednesday, August 04, 2010

What I've missed talking about

Watching the World Cup final on the big screen in the Aviva - http://picasaweb.google.com/tetsujin1979/2010WorldCupFinal - the Dutch tactics, and the result itself. Congratulations Spain.
Casillas kissing his missus on live tv, turnabout is fair play after she asked him what went wrong in the Swiss game
Glenn Whelan's rumoured move to Liverpool
The fallout from the Back to the Future "futureday" hoax from TotalFilm
I never knew the Wu-Tang Clan covered While My Guitar Gently Weeps as The Heart Gently Weeps - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72nMAIJkno
Creating crowd sourced playlists on songvote.com
Google using youtube to create a documentary on what happened on July 24, 2010 - http://www.google.com/landing/youtube/lifeinaday/
Getting 66.67% in the Shrek quiz on movies.ie
Scoring the team try of the competition in the last game for the Randomers
The acts who refuse to put their music on iTunes: http://www.edibleapple.com/musical-acts-not-on-itunes/
Tony Stonem from Skins joining X-Men: First Class as Hank McCoy (Beast)
Through no action of my own (that I'm aware of anyway) I was awarded the bronze helper badge on twithelpme: http://twithelp.me/profile/tetsujin1979 http://twitter.com/twithelpbot/statuses/18148173923
iTunes randomly deleting 19 albums from my HD (I'm blaming iTunes anyway)
VG Cats's friendship strip: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=297
Using the phone in my house gave me a headache, because the smokers in my house use it, it's collected carcinogens (sp?) in the mouthpiece and had to be cleaned
Missing Ed Hally's birthday because I was in Limerick (sorry Ed)
Steven Reid retiring from international football. Really disappointed me actually, but I understand why he did it
Prankster's giving Sepp Blatter the most appropriate middle name ever - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7891632/Sepp-Blatter-given-embarrassing-nickname-on-World-Cup-award.html
computer games VS skaters and snowboarders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVljiwwqwfc
Inadvertently seeing another user's details when creating an account on momentumscreenings.co.uk
Brian Quinlivan getting married - Congrats Quindy
Missing the Hot Press Toy Story 3 screening in Dundrum on the 18th - hope you enjoyed it Phebes and nephew
Getting 64.71% in the Chris Nolan quiz on movies.ie, although I did guess Marilyn Manson (which was correct) and then told it was incorrect
Wonder if these machine gun robots come in white?? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20010533-1.html
System of a Down - Toxicity as played by a string quartet: http://www.emok.tv/videos/toxicity-cover-mit-streichquartett-klavier.html
American History X - The Game: http://www.phun.org/newspics/funny_friday/4658.jpg
The new N3 layout moving the bottleneck from the Blanchardstown Village/N3 interchange to the Navan Road/Auburn Avenue interchange. Did the planners learn nothing from the N1/Collins' Avenue junction??
Owen Garvan's proposed move to Palace, now completed. Their first signing in two years.
What if Bebo had a facebook "like" button?
Buckfast icecream?? Are you fucking kidding me?
Thierry Henry retiring from international football - we will never forget
Jenna from Barstool Sports getting well over 5 million views on youtube
Seeing Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders in the Academy. First time seeing a drummer as a lead singer
Missing first thursday night football game since March
The first pictures of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. I think it looks ok, the suit is supposed to be organic, and it looks like a nervous system. Not sure about the mask though
Fight Club/Ferris Bueller's Day Off mash up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMuj85ngEo
Find out who's unfollowed you on twitter: http://who.unfollowed.me/
Picking my fantasy football team for the new Premiership season - David Silva and Joe Cole or Fabregas and Andy Reid?
Just when you think you're going to go into football withdrawal, preseason kicks off
The Beyond Black Mesa, Half-Life fan film: http://beyondblackmesa.com/
Valve releasing Alien Swarm for free: http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/
4chan ruining Rachel Wissner's and Jessi Slaughter’s lives. Because they can.
If Robbie Keane plays in the Champions League for Spurs, is he the first Irishman to play in the CL proper for two different clubs - Liverpool and Spurs
Hasbro release huge new toy AT-AT: http://comics.ign.com/articles/110/1106714p1.html
Steve Kilbane in top 10 Irish players: http://www.the12thmanblog.com/2010/03/top-10-irish-players.html
Civil unions being officially recognised by the Irish State
Noel King being announced as the new manager of the Irish mens U21 team
Pat Dundon's evil twin: http://nyc.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/does-this-look-like-the-face-of-a-bisexual-djgay-porn-actor-with-a-british-accent-and-a-lingerie-fetish-model-who-would-smash-a-tattoo-shop-owner-in-the-head-with-a-sledgehammer-at-a-sex-party/
RedEye mini, turn your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a universal remote: http://thinkflood.com/products/redeye-mini/
Not sleeping and reading the weirdest stuff on the football365 forum at 3 in the morning
Bohemians' exit from the Champions League at the hands of TNS
First rumours coming out of Namco VS Capcom using the Tekken 6 engine and Capcom VS Namco using the Street Fighter 4 engine
The Pirate Party (of Pirate Bay infamy) launching their own ISP in Sweden. They're not keeping logs of user activity, and thus any record of illegal activity cannot be provided to law enforcement
Getting 76.47% in the Toy Story 3 quiz on movies.ie
Explanation of the Dyson Air Mutiplier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w Looks like a video from Ok Go!
Kristen Bell as Harley Quinn (fanart): http://www.cinematical.com/photos/batman-fan-art/990582/
Congratulations Jennifer and Adam on getting engaged.
Former professional footballer Mike Trusson blogging about becoming a FA-certified coach: http://www.grassrootscoaching.com/blog/
Dr Simon Tam, MD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JutAnhS0tB0
After dropping to a 34" waist during the year, I'm back up to 35 or so. 34 is too small, and 36 is too big. Grrr
The facebook terms and conditions statement is longer than the US Constitution
The US Library of Congress is going to archive every tweet from 2006 onwards
Darth Vader robs a bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgu2rJfHMCU
Watching The Karate Kid without subtitles. Well, without English subtitles. Ok, it had Chinese subtitles. My old housemate Graham looks disturbingly like the kid Will Smith's son fights at the end of the new Karate Kid film
Seeing Aston Villa play Bohemians in Dalymount Park. Despite it being my sixth or seventh time in Dayler, it was my first time seeing Bohs play there. Quietly impressed with the Bohs keeper, left full, and both Bohs goals. Villa had all the possession but couldn't finish.
Comic-con attendees VS The Westboro Baptist Church: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/ Things like this make you proud to be a geek
The DC Universe Online intro is pretty cool: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-who-dc-universe/702050
Congratulations Cornelia Horohan on the birth of your first child, Conor
Rangers signing an Irish U19 goalkeeper, Alan Smith, from Crumlin United
Follow up to This Is England, called This Is England '86: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/video/2010/jun/29/shane-meadows-this-is-england-86
Jailbreaking an iPhone declared legal by the US government: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20011661-38.html
Anytime a movie fanboy claims Zack Efron is only in a movie because of High School: The Musical, remind him he started in Joss Whedon's Firefly
After hearing Ava Adore on Phantom, I was inspired to listen to Adore on my iPod for the first time in ages to see if it has improved with age. It hasn't disimproved. Read into that what you will
Getting 81.25% in the A-Team quiz on movies.ie
The CAS upholding the right of players born in Northern Ireland to declare for the Republic, regardless of where they, their parents, or grandparents were born, because they qualify for an Irish passport under the Good Friday Agreement
First there was Sarah, now there's Steven - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/kanye-west-follows-only-one-ndash--but-who-is-steven-of-coventry-2041208.html

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