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No.. not today, The Election

Despite 1212 people signing the petition against it, Bertie has announced that polling will take place on Thursday 24th May.

And via Irish Election comes this extremely relevant quote from the man himself (from 2002, after polling date for Nice Referendum was announced):

Interviewer: Why did you pick Saturday as polling day?
Taoiseach: The view of the government…was we should give Saturday a chance…We have never done that in this country so hopefully we can maximise a very high vote. There is a lot of third level institutions in this country now and Saturday brings them home. there is a lot of other people around the country working all week and Saturday will bring them home to their constituencies
Interviewer: Isn’t that a risk with so much apathy?
Taoiseach: This should help them, young people particularly the students unions and others have said they need to be facilitated…by going on a Saturday it gives them an opportunity to turn out

So the Cheeky Little Divil (© Blogorrah.com) can’t claim he didn’t know the effect of holding voting on a Thursday…

Amazing Stuff:

via Random Good Stuff

Yes, I know I’ve neglected the blogging. Sorry about that.

Went to the opening of the new skate park in Greystones, which Wicklow County Council’s blog (yep, they have a blog) [UPDATE: on further investigation, the blog appears to be a commercial thing] likes to boast is the biggest in the country. It involved lots of skating, BMXes and rollerblading, aswell as some live music. Took plenty of photos.

Couldn’t get Kick, Push by Lupe Fiasco out of my head while processing them

Few of my favourites here, then more after the jump.

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First attempt at Bhalash’s Bleach Bypass technique.

Steorn has announced the rather-ominous-sounding date of Friday the 13th as the date it will reveal the next set of rather vague details about Orbo, their self-proclaimed free energy solution.

I couldn’t resist raiding the now-static (sob) TCAL archives for the following image:

18-55mm lens at the wide end.

Shot not quite from the hip (more like the chest), but without looking through the viewfinder. I think my aim is improving.

In case you’re one of those weirdo-nutjobs who believes that we’re all descended from apes, I present to you the inescapable proof of intelligent design… The Banana.

Before you go into the fact that the bananas we know and love only look like that after centuries of careful breeding in order to improve their ergonomics, have a read of the hilarious comments over at the video page

They include such gems as:

Pineapples anyone?

can an omnipotent being create a task he can not complete?

and:

If you hold your banana backwards when eating it, does that disprove the existence of God?

And yes, there really is a GodTube. Some good commentary on that issue over at TechCrunch, including my comment:

How dare you claim that GodTube is a rip-off of YouTube!

GodTube CREATED YouTube and all the other similar video-sharing sites (several years after the scientific evidence would show them to have been created) and controls all goings-on at these sites (including the huge financial success of YouTube, relative to GodTube)

(via Mulley, TechCrunch and Gratuitous Common Sense)

Oh, and Happy Easter.

Babydave’s lead singer/guitarist helps bassist tune up. (Sorry, don’t know their names)

The gig on Tuesday was the first time I’ve filled my (2GB) memory card in one go (with a little over 500 photos). I’m currently processing the rest of the photos, and they should be up on Flickr soon enough.