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Happy Winterval Everyone

Damien Ryan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:06:44 +0000

Shame what turned out to be a very gentle ribbing was pulled from tomorrow’s Jonathon Ross show. Looks like Peter Fincham is afraid to lose another job.

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Chasing Unicorns

Damien Ryan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:57:09 +0000

Somebody give Carl Rinsch $200 million dollars and let him make what he wants. Easily the most imaginative entry in Philips’ Parallel Lines competition.

See the rest of the winners here.

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Don’t trust your peripherals

Damien Ryan — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:45:44 +0000

The brain’s perceptual systems are very easily fooled. You’re probably already familiar with the Thatcher Effect (where oddities that are very noticeable can’t be detected when the face is upside down) and the McGurk-MacDonald Effect (we hear with our eyes).

The Flashed Face Distortion Effect, noticed by Tangen, Murphy, and Thompson, shows that you can’t trust your peripheral vision either:

Next time you’re out in a nightclub, maybe take a proper look before writing the place off.

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J’suis seul dans ma cuisine/Et je bois du café

Damien Ryan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:56:34 +0000

In the early nineties (1985 in Ireland years) my uncle shipped a percolating coffee pot over from America, which sat in the middle of the kitchen as we tried to figure out what this Cray supercomputer of a kitchen implement was for. It looked like a giant kettle with piping that led up to a mesh basin, which is where the coffee went. Up until then coffee came in a jar, tasted like willow bark, and was only every drunk under protest. Even Anthony Head’s on-and-off romance over a jar of Gold Blend couldn’t make it any more palatable. Gold Blend? We weren’t made of money.

Once we’d found some ground coffee (what do you mean Arabica – I want coffee) the pot was watered, loaded, and put on the gas. Within ten minutes of hissing, pffting, and all manner of steampunk noises this Dr. Snuggles-like machine produced what I can only describe as stimulant heaven. No more Mellow Birds for me… until the mesh corroded.

Ever since, like a heroin addicted J.R. Hartley jonesing for one last fix, I’ve tried to find a replacement. Times have changed and all you can find are french presses, cafetieres, and coffee makers. Until now!

Thanks to the Argos of the middle classes I’ve found a replacement.

I haven’t slept since.

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1. Copy, Transform, Combine 2. ???? 3. Profit

Damien Ryan — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:28:36 +0000

Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson’s documentary, Everything is a Remix, has just been released. Enjoy:

Part 1 and Part 2 are still available.

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Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste, ná Béarla cliste.

Damien Ryan — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:25:00 +0000

Move over John F., Ireland has a new favourite son.

It’s taken an American president to make me think Ireland’s worth saving.

Is féidir linn.

(via iGaeilge)

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Happy Christmas Everyone

Damien Ryan — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:11:35 +0000

May you be given Leonard Nimmoy’s DNA and a healthy ovum.

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Two Nations Divided by a Common Language

Damien Ryan — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:24:54 +0000

Dara Ó Briain recently posted this video on Twitter to show just how different the Irish and British are in spite of a couple of centuries of speaking the same language.

In the early days of living together, I asked Ang to put the messages in the press. While simultaneously trying to figure out when I’d installed a device for receiving emails into an iron and dialling NHS Direct to get an ambulance sent out she didn’t realise that her first forays into Hiberno-English were occurring. Nowadays things are regularly grand in our house – to be sure things are rarely things any more, but yokes – and the expletive of choice is feck.

In return I’ve started saying “Ta ra!” and Tidy, which sound quite daft in a Dublin accent.

At least I didn’t mention the Immersion.

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