Forgive me if I begin to sound loquacious, but, brothers, this is a monumental day in our history. Today, it will all change. Apparently we men are doomed to slightly lower grades on average than women, and there doesn’t appear to be any slowing of this trend. Hark, for I bring you knowledge of the threat, and the steps we must take to extinguish it.
Archive for the ‘Diary & Events’ Category
Why Girls Get Better Grades
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Twenty Three
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Thanks to the guys from Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net!
A Complaint re: Match Security
Saturday, August 25th, 2007The following is the full text of a complaint I have made, addressed to the Cork City FC Club, regarding the behaviour of security and Gardaí at last night’s (24th August, 2007) fixture between Waterford United FC and Cork City FC in Waterford.
I am now Uncle Gav
Friday, August 10th, 2007
This is my sister Michelle, her boyfriend Keith and mostly importantly, the little bundle of skin and fun that’s just made them a family – Adam Patrick.
He was born around 7pm on the 9th of August, technically yesterday. I can’t wait to meet the chap!
Heres a video of him doing… not very much at all really!
$Baby = new Baby(”Adam”);
$Baby->say(’Hello World!’);
The times, they are a-changing
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Last Friday we bade an emotional emphatic goodbye to university life – at least for now – and so, the job hunting begins. I’ve submitted my details to Monster, Eolas, Jobs.ie and I’ve began looking for connections on bebo social professional networking community, LinkedIn. Did you know your average CEO has 29 direct connections on LinkedIn? Well, I have 2. More to come hopefully!
Another upshot of this job search is that GG.com will probably have to change. It needs to say “Hire Me!” rather than “argue with me about ethical issues of suspect importance”. CV and Portfolio sections will be added soon I guess.
What is your stance on religion?
Sunday, May 20th, 2007I stumbled upon an interesting, if flawed, test on Quizfarm about what stance on religion suits you. Predictably, atheism and Buddhism scored highest for me (after all, Buddhism is atheistic) since I’m atheist and find Buddha’s teachings to be more helpful than “thou shalt not take the Lords’ name in vain”. If I’m atheist, and Buddhists are atheist, and I agree with Buddha, does that make me Buddhist? Any excuse to wear a toga!
Be warned, including atheism in this is a bit silly since the scores for individual religions are based on moral or ethical dilemmas, whereas your atheism score is calculated from painfully obvious “Do you believe in God” questions. As such, my rejection of church authority and opinions on free will seem to have pushed Paganism and Satanism into 3rd and 4th places respectively. Still, it beats your average bebo quiz! Anyone bored enough to be reading this, feel free to leave your scores in the comments section.
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Digg Rebellion
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Atheism
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Recently I’ve been doing that most pointless of things – arguing on the internet. It is a fault of mine that I cannot abide sitting idly by while someone lies or misinforms. And so, I entered one particularly long debate on everything from Yahwehs existence to evolution. I even had to sit through some ridiculous Youtube videos of muslim clerics asking “if monkeys turned into humans, why are there still monkeys?” This type of foggy, ignorant thinking abhors me enough to continue an argument. Finally, after monotonously explaining all of these laws, processes and theories, we came to the point where the Creationist had become a Pantheist – believing in nothing specific, but rather in some all powerful force. This is the denouement of that argument. (more…)
An Open Message to “Dr” Phil McGraw
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007This one is slightly more serious.
Dr Phil,
You have a lot to answer for.
You went on national television a day after a tragedy took place at Virginia Tech and, unjustifiably, diagnosed the gunman. You had no idea what the motivation for his actions were and yet you made assumptions about what led him to commit these atrocities. That in itself is ethically reprehensible. This isn’t your little made-for-tv family arguments. In doing so, you lent yourself to the side of Jack Thompson and the like who shamelessly place the blame for these epically tragic events on the gaming industry, and showed true disregard for less easy-on-the-ears reasons for the killing.
