And everything is all too fast / Just add water, nothing’s built to last That was certainly the case when my sixteen month old Nook Simple Touch e-reader starting acting the twat last week. Not overly-used and rarely leaving my bedside, I was left with an unresponsive screen once it was disconnected from the mains. I […]
While watching Katie Taylor batter another peer in to irrelevance this week, even my extreme dislike for patriotism and jingoism was put on hold. Katie is such a legend that I’d happily let her beat me around the head (maybe not the face directly) with her big gloves while she repeatedly told me that I […]
Rascal Flatts. The musical act who, until a few short weeks ago, I thought was a rapper What do you do when someone offers you a free ticket for a band – the aforementioned Rascal Flatts – you’ve never heard before? I mean I’ve turned down free tickets before, notably to see The Corrs (after all, […]
Phase Atrix About 15 months ago I dumped my (small, well-formed but anemic) Blackberry Bold 9700 for the sexy, dual-core world of Android – namely the Motorola Atrix. The Atrix was the most powerful smartphone at the time – two big fat cores (which means it goes fast), lots of RAM, a slick four inch […]
Has anyone ever gone to Fitzpatricks Hotel in Manhattan on the basis of that advert that has been running before in-flight movies for seven years? I fast forward even though sometimes I go too far and end up far forwarding in to my movie. Which makes me resent Fitzpatricks even more. I know it is […]
I thought mobile phone companies in Ireland were bad until I came over to the US. My experience so far has been with AT&T and, in spite of the best intentions of the eager foot soldiers in the stores, the company itself leaves a lot to be desired. Right now they are in the news […]
I woke up from a short nap on Saturday afternoon, concious of the fact that I needed to get moving as I was meeting friends later on. Then I got this curious sensation. There was someone not just in my apartment – there was someone lying in bed behind me. I was on my side, […]
Where do I start with this American Dream thing I started living a few months ago? I suppose the whole driving thing is the best place to mock myself. I revel in telling people how much I hate driving – and they usually revel in telling me that I’m a dumbass and that driving is […]
I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what it is about American tourists that winds people up. Right now I’m sitting at my gate, waiting to board a flight to Chicago, and a middle-aged, wheelchair-bound American to my right is providing me with a check-list. When I offered my seat to him and his wife […]
Every time you enter America as a non-immigrant you have to make a series of declarations about your background and your physical and mental well-being so the state feel assured that you are an asset to them and not a mad man of some sort. Now some of these questions make sense such as whether or […]
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