"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
-- James Thurber

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
–- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose."
-- Darrin Weinberg

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
-- John Andrew Holmes

"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more."
-- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

"I think my imagination's broke...wait, let me think of the greatest thing ever....eh.....beef....stew. Yep it's busted alright. I'm gonna ...go....place."
-- Strong Bad

"An infinite number of monkeys using an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, could not produce the complete work of Shakespeare, unless they have read it."
-- Karl Pilkington

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!"
–- Terry Pratchett, The Truth


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too scared to laugh."
-– Voltaire

"The NRA says 'Guns don't kill people, people do'. But I think the gun helps."
-- Eddie Izzard

Hey, so ok.
I went on two weeks holiday around Ireland during which nothing remarkable happened......But since i'm bored i'll tell you some unremarkables.
We, eh, stayed in:
* Tramore, Co. Waterford
* Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
* Bettystown, Co. Meath
* Virginia, Co. Cavan
* Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
* Clifden, Co. Galway (x3)
* Tully Cross, Co. Galway
* Salthill, Co. Galway
* Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
* Doonbeg, Co. Clare (x2)
* Ballyheige, Co. Kerry

We:
* nearly got into a fight in Clifden, defending a euro for pool
* got Podge drunk in Doonbeg
* talked to some dutch people in Clifden
* talked to some americans in Doonbeg
* talked to some barmaids in Kilcullen
* talked to two Tipperary girls in Ballyvaughan
* went clubbing in Tramore and Clifden
* formed a band called 'Parish of Edgar'
* Myrhen tried to set me up with a married korean woman in Bettystown
* played Pitch 'n' Putt
* found a four leaf clover

Alright so i'm gonna blog myself now (if that's the correct conjugation of the verb.....now i'm worried about the correctitude of 'conjugation')......correctitude?! NEW PARAGRAGH!

Anyway. Today, something of note happened in this sorry series of unconnected events i call life. I got my degree! So that's five years of my life i won't have to do again.

P.S (Just so you wo'nt have the embaressment of asking, it's in computer science).

P.P.S heh heh. Pee Pees