09:51 RT @Metafrantic A really excellent article: RT @rosalarian I wrote an article: Writing Gay Characters / tinyurl.com/yf7zjck #
09:52 @green_knight You travel by plane with a boat? That's novel! :-) #
09:53 @slovobooks It was still pretty embarrassing #
11:37 Can't believe it! The man is actually coming TODAY to fix the window! That's EARLIER than he said! And he is IRISH!! The end times are near #
11:39 @annafdd Yeah. But try Irish schools... #
11:40 I seem to be dissing Ireland this morning. Sorry! I'll diss some other nation later. #
11:43 Well, I often think Irish "mountains" are laughable, but then I think of the Netherlands... (this ok @irinarempt?) :-) #
11:43 ...oops, I seem to have managed to diss Ireland *again*... I'll do better next time, promise :-) #
11:44 As for Irish mountains, as my ex says, "people die on them, therefore they're proper mountains". Fair enough. #
12:17 @irinarempt I'll remember this for appropriate conversations :-) #
12:36 Yay! I have a window that locks again! ...and it's been fixed by the manager of Athlone Town FC! :-) #
15:46 @LadyCrow You put tiny little wheels under it, like a skate. Sheesh! :-) #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter12:08 Dear self: You know your moka pot is silent. You also know you don't like fried coffee. Try to remember next time. #
12:45 There are an awful lot of items in $FastFoodRestaurant, and all of them need to be translated. #
14:59 @annafdd 36.6 is normal temp. Do you mean 37.6? #
15:02 @annafdd Ahh yes, demonic body weight would explain it #
15:08 @annafdd Lovely! (Thanksgiving is a time when I'm happy not to be American. Bein
g thankful, nice idea, but the foundation of the feast...) #
21:45 @green_knight Actually, Novella is not an entirely uncommon name in Italy... (the noun is less common, it refers to medieval lit usually). #
21:53 @RFLong Wd be good if the article gave a hint on how they dated the weapon... #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter11:01 I'm finding out in detail everything that can possibly be wrong with $FastFoodRestaurant (from the point of view of the franchise, that is) #
13:02 @annafdd Placebo is good for you anyway :-) (But vitD is fat-soluble, check max safe dose?) #
13:04 @annafdd (oh and BTW if you occasionally eat fish, iodine shouldn't be a problem. Even living by the sea tends to be enough...) #
13:34 @annafdd Cool. Note that you also get vitD from food though :-) #
13:35 @annafdd I can relate to that feeling... :-) #
14:42 @annafdd Can you smell the sea? :-) #
14:58 Had food. Now I'm sleepy and getting bored with the list of all the things that can be "clean and in good condition" in $FastFoodRestaurant. #
14:59 @matociquala #wip I'm having trouble visualising the movement. Just FYI... #
15:18 @annafdd That's not the sea, that's fried greas
e! :-D #
15:32 [Bishop] is particularly critical of [...] Away in a Manger, asking: "How can any adult sing this without embarrassment?" [1/2] #
15:32 tinyurl.com/y9ohybt [2/2] #
15:59 @_gmh_ Probably offended to find a crotch where normal-sized people have a belly... ;-) #
19:35 @alexmc6 I think the cat flap must have been invented by some ancient cat lady, myself... :-) #
20:37 Mmmm... kimchi! #
22:30 @dduane @natural20 Glad to hear they're still good! Haven't been there in a while... #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter11:31 The weather is über-lousy. Sorry, Fidelio Trio, won't be there today... #
12:25 @RFLong MAGPIE?? They're clever, vicious creatures. You sure puss isn't a puma or something? :-) #
12:26 Hmm, time to restart the computer maybe. It's been a couple of weeks, I think... #
12:59 Computer back up, all curtains back where they belong (only clean), geraniums drastically diminished, weather still lousy. #
15:23 The kitchen is cleaner than it's been in a good while. Time for some heavy-duty hand cream... #
16:04 @annafdd Ohh, THAT tap! ...I thought you were having problems with upstairs neigbours... :-D #
16:09 RT @davedevereux: Rob Holdstock didn't make it. Shit. He was a thoroughly nice guy, a real gent and a splendid writer. I'll miss him. #
16:10 @annafdd If I had focused, I would have remembered that you're the top floor... #
19:32 Cauliflower green curry sounds good. I think cauliflower and coconut milk will really hit it off. #
19:33 First, catch your cauliflower... Oh ok, I did that yesterday. So, next, clean, cut and briefly steam your cauliflower. #
19:37 Actually. First, wash enough dishes to have (a) the required tools and (b) the required space to (c) cook. #
19:43 Warning: organic cauliflower may not be entirely suitable for vegetarians. Remove non-veg parts before steaming. #
19:55 Next, chop 1 scallion, wash the rice and make the coconut milk. #
20:13 Next, fry shallot with green curry paste. When the whole house smells of green curry, add cauliflower. Start the ri
ce cooker. #
20:13 After a couple of minutes, add coconut milk. Remember to stir occasionally. #
20:19 I forgot to mention a splash of soy sauce, to add with the cauliflower (this curry paste does not contain fish sauce and is not very salty) #
20:22 Once everything is cooked, serve rice and curry with a generous squeeze of lime juice. Curl up on the sofa with a computer and eat. #
21:19 @annafdd I always rehome the little slugs to the garden. Maggots have to fend for themselves in the rubbish bin. #
21:22 (Note that the rubbish bin isn't that bad, since it contains a lot of veg matter, incl. the discards from the food the maggots came from...) #
21:22 @annafdd Cool! Carrageen? #
21:22 @annafdd ...one of their greatest gifts to Woman, presumably, being men who make puff pastry... #
21:26 @green_knight Cock brand from Thailand tinyurl.com/yaec2xl, comes from a London importer so should be available in UK... #
21:38 @green_knight URL not terribly informative I'm afraid, but you can see what the tub looks like and what the cock brand looks like... #
21:39 @green_knight Ah: note that Mae Ploy brand has an almost identical tub, but has fish sauce. #
21:50 @annafdd Hai la tosse? :-) #
21:51 @annafdd Ahh, alien goop grows just across the road from me. The river is tidal :-) #
21:57 @annafdd Oh no! You may just have destroyed an example of primordial soup, demonstrating the origin of life!! #
23:48 I'm significantly behind on my LJ reading. Again. And every time I'm caught up, people write more posts... #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter09:42 Why do I find this mildly funny? "Libertad para todos los Socialdemocratas del mundo!!! Muerte a los extremismos!!!" #
11:26 Oooh fog. But no rain. I think I'll risk going to the market. #
12:14 Yay, got veg! ...now I only have to make sure I do some actual cooking, and then I'll be al set... #
12:16 My choice of veg is probably a bit of a giveaway that I'm not really Irish... I did get a collie too, though :-) #
12:18 The veg man in the market feeds raw fennel to kids under 2 yo as a hobby. They love it. Apparently they stop lovin
g it after age 2. #
12:19 Also, met ex's daughter w her mum at the market. This time the kid didn't hide when she saw me. Grown out of it, or only hides with dad? #
12:22 American nuns snubbing Vatican: tinyurl.com/yjhzo76 #
13:15 Ex's daughter actually recognises me, which I wasn't sure of. (She told him she'd met me). Nice :-) #
13:16 @irinarempt It may be specific to Irish kids... ;-) #
15:46
@clanwilliam The best one was in a hotel north of Dublin, where it also had gummy bears. GUMMY BEARS??? #
15:56 The olive oil I bought this morning at the market has now thawed. Took long enough... #
16:01 @clanwilliam Your mind is less guttery than mine. I kept coming up for specific uses for the gummy bears... #
16:01 Question from Language Log: is your husband's sister's husband your brother-in-law, or not? #
16:02 @clanwilliam for = with #
16:03 @RFLong At least you won't be wondering why he doesn't pick up your call! :-) #
16:21 @irinarempt Well the majority of responders on Language Log agree with you actually #
18:06 I really can't think of many places where I could have put a tape measure... #
18:10 Ah. It was in the OTHER drawer. Sometimes being organised is bad for me. #
18:32 Alternative Saturday night activities: cleaning all
the window frames and washing all the net curtains in the house. #
18:34 @irinarempt Sorry, no -- and Z's iPod wasn't there either... #
18:35 @RFLong I hope you aren't going to a fish restaurant! #
21:51 RT @dduane It's snowing in the Wicklow Mountains... #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter20:45 @Paul_Cornell It still improves your genetic fitness. More of your genes around the world! Congrats :-) #
23:01 I didn't even know about the toy show! -- but is it something only girls watch? #
23:06 @wyvernfriend Right -- just that I'm hearing about it from several grown up girls, but no boys at all... (grown up or not) #
23:24 Ha, caught a grown-up boy watching the toy show. Fair enough :-) #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter18:47 Ohh goody, looks like another late night working... Sigh. My fault, again. #
18:48 Ok, but I'm going to have pizza for dinner. Going to the shop right now to get one. There's better food, but this is hot, filling and LAZY #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter11:46 Staff manuals for fast food restaurants are SCARY! #
16:16 Most Italians don't seem to understand the concept of "vegetarian". OTOH, they don't put bleedin' dead cows in their confectionery! #
20:35 RT @FakeAPStylebook Your Thanksgiving edition should have a front-page story assuring people that someone else is feeding the homeless. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter10:59 The Origin of Species is 150 years old today. And a good, very readable book too. Available on Project Gutenberg. #
12:09 @annafdd If you did that in Milan, you'd probably be shot :-) #
12:15 @annafdd Yay for stubborn pigeons! (Is there any other kind?). But afraid you're becoming too British. #
12:41 @annafdd Well, I was wondering about the average Londoner's attitude to pigeons... #
14:08 The wind just brought in an ama
zing smell of flowering lime trees. It is November. I must be hallucinating. #
21:35 RT @_gmh_ The MUSKETS of FORNICATION sing God Save The King. #18thCenturyPop #
21:49 @CherylMorgan Do they go back to previous size after the holidays? Inquiring minds want to know... #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter12:53 Miraculous apparition in Dublin this morning. People standing on the street looking incredulously at the SUN! #
12:55 RT @dduane ...it turns out that the center of the Galaxy tastes faintly like raspberries. #
13:07 @splinister Good to hear! #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter12:58 Who would put a jump of an 11th from D3 to G4 in a Christmas song? There's a good reason why "eleventh" isn't a common term in music. #
18:22 Going to a concert tonight: will I manage to stay dry while doing so? I'm considering giving Paddy Powers a call... #
22:09 Concert was v. good, and I got only slightly wet. Now food! #
22:14 @LadyCrow Not even a small, minority one? :-) #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter10:54 Yesterday it was sunny in Dublin. Today the weather decided to show solidarity to Cork & Galway. No veg market for me... #
11:39 Project Steve ncse.com/taking-action/project-steve #evolution #
11:55 Brenda, the trans woman killed in an Italian political scandal, was "la trans" on La Repubblica yesterday, but is "il trans" today. Blah. #
12:03 Actually, different journalist on La Repubblica seem to gender trans women differently. No editorial policy? #
12:18 It g
ets even sillier. Some journalists on La Repubblica can't make up their minds on how to gender a trans woman in the same article... #
12:48 @Antiqueight Who stole the top of the Xmas tree??? :-) #
13:51 RT @_gmh_ oddlyspecific.com/ - good for a giggle or two. #
15:06 I just flashed the crowd on the Ha'penny bridge. Luckily I was wearing the new leggings under this --ing skirt. No casualties. #
19:52 @annafdd icanhascheezburger.com/2009/11/17/funny-p
23:44 @wyvernfriend It probably means you're me #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter12:13 If there is a better smell than vanilla, I haven't found it yet #
14:20 1-st hand photostream of Cork city streets today: tinyurl.com/yequeg7 (via Mark on Facebook) #
14:33 @RozKaveney #tdor Oh fuck. #
14:42 Texas accidentally banned all marriages tinyurl.com/yz6uxh4 #
15:10 @RozKaveney The Italian paper I read gendered her correctly. This was surprising from an Italian paper
. If it is any consolation :-( #
17:48 @annafdd hmmm I would disagree. Though I love that too. And vanilla coffee, mmmmmmmm.... #
17:54 @irinarempt cinnamon nice, but doesn't even get close to vanilla in my own taste :-) #
18:04 @green_knight The smell? The taste now, ok, but the smell? (I may be influenced by having grown up next door to a chocolate factory) #
18:06 @green_knight, @annafdd, @irinarempt -
- funny how everybody mentioned food-related smells... :-) #
18:08 I'm really tired, for no very clear reason. I'll go back to the sofa to read some more about junk DNA and stuff. #
20:18 Character sheet resume tinyurl.com/yjn253n #
22:04 RT @Antiqueight: Traffic diverted in Limerick after a 110ft Xmas tree broke free of moorings and collided with the Shannon bridge<-- ;) #
22:10 Large Hadron Collider is up tinyurl.com/yfxzgqx #
22:22 @RFLong Well, i do feel fine -- if slightly sleepy... #
22:27 @RFLong Ahh but I don't think it's doing the actual magic stuff yet. Just running a beam. Conspiracy theories still possible until then :-) #
22:31 RT @Antiqueight RT @RFLong: We're going with LHC flooding People's Republic of Cork <-- and unmooring trees in Limerick #
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11:24 My doctor is off sick. #
12:10 How to check that your O2 probe is calibrated before you attach it to the patient: it should read "21%" :-) #
12:11 @RFLong Torn between wanting to burn the Baroque horrors and my horror of burning books. The others are great :-) #
12:43 @RFLong Ohh fascinating! Hadn't noticed. Allergy to Baroque probably due to being Italian :-) #
12:59 @RFLong Neat! (Hope the portraits are well secu
red + won't fall on people's heads...) #
13:24 @Antiqueight Ew, guess I shouldn't complain about Dublin weather then... #
13:47 I think I'm turning Korean. I hope Immigration doesn't find out. #
13:52 @splinister As @clanwilliam said, indeed! #
16:07 @clanwilliam Heinz is to be praised for their contribution to kids' creativity in the choice of rude words #
16:08 Admittedly, omitting H as well would have been more effective. #
16:21 @clanwilliam The only obvious one with K but no H or U I can think of is a perfectly normal boy's name... :-) #
16:35 1st draft translation finished, going to splat for a while then come back and revise. #
20:14 Ew, moldy olives! Fortunately (a) it was the cheap green olives and not the taggiasche, and (b) I found out before adding them to the sauce #
21:35 @dsgood I don't want to be cooked! :-) #
22:51 @annafdd applauso a scena aperta :-) #
22:54 Whee! Job finished and delivered. Now for the VAT return... #
23:12 VAT return done! There, that wasn't too bad, was it? #
23:19 @Antiqueight @wyvernfriend very funny indeed #
23:20 RT @wyvernfriend cuts a little close to the bone in parts: tinyurl.com/yjd3s93 <--but very funny #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter10:42 @ce_murphy I'm sure that beats soggy grey weather. Have a nice trip! #
11:04 There's a man on the roof across the garden. In the rain. On a slanted roof. I hope he has safety equipment. #
15:18 Why am I so tired? I slept last night, and I didn't have a huge amount of lunch, either... #
15:21 @annafdd Ah yes, it makes sense, especially in Hibernia... :-) #
15:21 @annafdd Write a cheerful novel! #
15:24 @annafdd No? Now, that's surprising! :-) #
17:19 RT @stephenfry [...] I might make an airfix model of a Virgin train. It will be lifelike in its total immobility. #
21:09 Oh yes, another Ireland-France match tonight. Hearing something about it on twitter, it seems they're even on the aggregate ATM :-) #
21:21 Job packed and delivered. I now know a fair bit more about CO2 monitors for medical use. #
21:59 "And the Irish rendition of their anthem, The Fi
elds of Athenrye, is being met with whistles and jeers." Nobody told me the anthem changed! #
22:07 @natural20 Yay for tiny cousins! #
22:10 Sounds of celebration can be heard. Extra time to be played. Evidently the Irish didn't believe they'd get that far... #
22:12 @clanwilliam says ARSE, people shout, my news page seems to be a bit behind because it doesn't tell me why... #
22:16 @Antiqueight So-called "live" web page is very slow
. Still not reporting. Anyway, yah, arse... #
22:18 Ah, searching for #ireland on Twitter much more immediate than so-called "live" web report #
22:21 RT @TygerKrash ah.. the french think we're playing gaelic #ireland #
22:34 awww :-( #
22:37 @clanwilliam Well, the shame is still not on Ireland... #
22:41 @clanwilliam Yeah, I know what you mean #
22:45 RT stefdefrejus #freire J'ai honte ... Il aura fallu une prolongation et une main pour se qualifier ... La gueule de la grande équipe #
22:45 RT @david_reguer: On a volé! On a volé! On a volé! #aurevoirdomenech #franceirlande #freire #
22:46 RT @JacopoJo bit.ly/367hWz hand help by #henrytricheur #
22:47 Forget about my previous tweet. Link is wrong. #
22:47 Sorry I didn't check link in advance #
22:53 Anyway -- if it's any consolation, it sounds like most of the French people on #franceirlande think it was robbery, too... #
23:07 @CherylMorgan Too high up for using the window? #
23:11 @CherylMorgan Ah! Fair enough. Need house-sitter :-) #
23:44 @RozKaveney It's fun, but suspiciously like a spoof... :-) #
00:08 RT @daraobriain One for the Irish RT @gezmond: @bigboyler I will always order 'saoirse' fries in McDo
nalds from now on. #
00:16 @matociquala Has the head been shaved? ;-) #
00:23 @matociquala Uh! "processed in accordance w Buddhist beliefs that require head and feet remain on eviscerated poultry." [1/2] #
00:23 @matociquala tinyurl.com/y8vbccy [2/2] #
00:24 I don't think I like the "automatically split long messages" function on this client. Esp. when it doesn't count right. #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter13:00 Hungry. I could cook! Now that's a revolutionary idea... #
13:23 @stephenfry You've broken Twitpic! :-D #
13:45 @stephenfry My apologies. You had in fact only broken TwitPhoto. Twitpic is fine :-) But -- Was that REAL?? #
15:38 O the delightful November weather! ...well it better stop before I have to go out tonight... #
18:18 Off to choir practice! #
22:07
Ah! The crowd that made Grafton street almost-impassable around 18:30 was about Westlife switching on some lights. #
22:30 The real difference between “between” and “among”: tinyurl.com/yhoy62p -- it makes SENSE! #
23:48 New adventures in Going To Bed Early! Now actually before midnight! #
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter11:02 Looking at Aer Lingus booking page, considering going home for Xmas instead of in January #
12:08 @RozKaveney Well, if you have to hate, better to hate something rare than something common :-) #
13:05 Booked flights! I'll be in Milan from 21/12 to 9/1 #
16:08 I can haz long leggings! #
16:10 Going to eat some barfi to celebrate. (AKA The Sweet That Really Needs Rebranding, Like Now) #
22:04 QOTD: &qu
ot;Despite the fact that it’s located in Minnesota, Minnesota actually seems like a nice place to live." (tinyurl.com/nsmojl) #
23:16 RT @FakeAPStylebook ATM machine - Machine that makes ATMs. #
00:10 Hey, actually going to bed *almost* before midnight :-) #
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Apparently, this is the actual meaning of the original Czech, too. But still funnily paradoxical.
(One commenter explains: "The sign is posted outside a castle in the Czech Republic, not far from Prague, that is a tourist attraction. The prohibition against “translating” is to do away with noisy tour guided groups … but apparently even some Czechs find the sign kinda weird.")
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