Brian Condron
@briancon.bsky.social
I am a chartered civil engineer and a PhD student at UCD. I live in Dublin.
I enjoy brewing beer, reading books, playing old video games, and watching old sitcoms. I wish I was on a train.
I enjoy brewing beer, reading books, playing old video games, and watching old sitcoms. I wish I was on a train.
Show up half an hour early for work pints - sitting on my own at the reserved table for two hours before the next person shows up.
Show up ten minutes late for work pints - everyone is there when I arrive and the table is full, meaning I have to stand for the night.
Show up ten minutes late for work pints - everyone is there when I arrive and the table is full, meaning I have to stand for the night.
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Show up half an hour early for work pints - sitting on my own at the reserved table for two hours before the next person shows up.
Show up ten minutes late for work pints - everyone is there when I arrive and the table is full, meaning I have to stand for the night.
Show up ten minutes late for work pints - everyone is there when I arrive and the table is full, meaning I have to stand for the night.
Articles like this annoy me when they start quoting journey times as if they are universal understood to be unacceptable. My normal commute by bus this morning was 1 hour and 10mins door to door around Dublin. It was 9.4km. There are no plans mooted that would shorten it.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
'We've done all we can do to fix M50,' warns TII
Transport Infrastructure Ireland says there is almost nothing it can do to address traffic gridlock on the M50, while accepting that the road has reached capacity
www.rte.ie
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Articles like this annoy me when they start quoting journey times as if they are universal understood to be unacceptable. My normal commute by bus this morning was 1 hour and 10mins door to door around Dublin. It was 9.4km. There are no plans mooted that would shorten it.
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
I've been watching Tintin (the 1991 series) and...that is not the the voice for him that I remember seeing on The Den. Not just didn't remember him being so Canadian, but its jarring this is not my Tintin. There is no mention anywhere of another English dub. Am I going mad?
youtu.be/_CLlyJRMui0?...
youtu.be/_CLlyJRMui0?...
The Adventures of Tintin - Flight 714 (Full Version)
YouTube video by Talking Storybooks
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I've been watching Tintin (the 1991 series) and...that is not the the voice for him that I remember seeing on The Den. Not just didn't remember him being so Canadian, but its jarring this is not my Tintin. There is no mention anywhere of another English dub. Am I going mad?
youtu.be/_CLlyJRMui0?...
youtu.be/_CLlyJRMui0?...
Agus anois ar Bealach a Dó, tá sé in am don Nuacht.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Agus anois ar Bealach a Dó, tá sé in am don Nuacht.
Let’s go, ghost busters!
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Let’s go, ghost busters!
Tell you what, leaving for work in the dark and not getting home until it’s dark, not the greatest is it?
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Tell you what, leaving for work in the dark and not getting home until it’s dark, not the greatest is it?
Anyone else tired?
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Anyone else tired?
My self scheduled cable TV system is taking shape.
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My self scheduled cable TV system is taking shape.
Remember the days when some evening there’d be a documentary on BBC 2 on giraffes and whatever way it was scheduled everyone watched it and the next day in work we’d all be experts on giraffes.
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Remember the days when some evening there’d be a documentary on BBC 2 on giraffes and whatever way it was scheduled everyone watched it and the next day in work we’d all be experts on giraffes.
Well that was helpful, I tried the Indo’s tool to find which presidential candidate agrees with me because I’m torn between too “perfectly cromulent” candidates. They both agree with 70% of my views. Grrr.
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Well that was helpful, I tried the Indo’s tool to find which presidential candidate agrees with me because I’m torn between too “perfectly cromulent” candidates. They both agree with 70% of my views. Grrr.
The "mystery year" on @rtegold.bsky.social this morning was 1996, now they are playing some Alanis Morrisette and I am 14 again! And crying over my lost youth.
October 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The "mystery year" on @rtegold.bsky.social this morning was 1996, now they are playing some Alanis Morrisette and I am 14 again! And crying over my lost youth.
Guess I’m not getting home any time soon.
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Guess I’m not getting home any time soon.
Children of the sun, see your time has just begun. Searching for your way to adventure every day.
Every day and night, with the condor in flight
With all your friends in tow
You search for the cities of gold.
Every day and night, with the condor in flight
With all your friends in tow
You search for the cities of gold.
September 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Children of the sun, see your time has just begun. Searching for your way to adventure every day.
Every day and night, with the condor in flight
With all your friends in tow
You search for the cities of gold.
Every day and night, with the condor in flight
With all your friends in tow
You search for the cities of gold.
One for all and all for one can sound pretty corny. If you got a problem chum, think how it can be.
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One for all and all for one can sound pretty corny. If you got a problem chum, think how it can be.
80 days around the world. Though we wont say a word. Before the ship is really back.
September 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
80 days around the world. Though we wont say a word. Before the ship is really back.
In every wish and dream and happy home. You will find the kingdom of the gnomes.
September 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In every wish and dream and happy home. You will find the kingdom of the gnomes.
sitting here, realising how much I miss @leinsterrugby.bsky.social in the RDS. Lansndowne or Croke Park arent the same.
September 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
sitting here, realising how much I miss @leinsterrugby.bsky.social in the RDS. Lansndowne or Croke Park arent the same.
Beer fest at the RDS!
September 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Beer fest at the RDS!
The day after my daughter turns 9!
The NTA has launched a new Leap Card for children, giving free public transport up to their 9th birthday.
Around 263,000 children are now eligible, with applications open today on leapcard.ie.
#VMNews
Around 263,000 children are now eligible, with applications open today on leapcard.ie.
#VMNews
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The day after my daughter turns 9!
Sometimes, you can do everything right and still lose.
August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Sometimes, you can do everything right and still lose.
Stuck in a world of nostalgia, my life is all millennium 50ps, cartoons on TCC and Batman trading cards with rock hard bubblegum. Send Opal Fruits.
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Stuck in a world of nostalgia, my life is all millennium 50ps, cartoons on TCC and Batman trading cards with rock hard bubblegum. Send Opal Fruits.
Well ChatGPT told me I was pretty!
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Well ChatGPT told me I was pretty!
Believe it, if you like!
August 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Believe it, if you like!
Once I called a guy in work Hugh but his name was Ciarán. To cover up my mistake i started mispronouncing the word “you” as “Hugh”. Ciarán probably thought “ahhh he didn’t get my name wrong he just has a weird accent”.
Success!
Everyone else probably thought it was the first sign of brain damage.
Success!
Everyone else probably thought it was the first sign of brain damage.
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Once I called a guy in work Hugh but his name was Ciarán. To cover up my mistake i started mispronouncing the word “you” as “Hugh”. Ciarán probably thought “ahhh he didn’t get my name wrong he just has a weird accent”.
Success!
Everyone else probably thought it was the first sign of brain damage.
Success!
Everyone else probably thought it was the first sign of brain damage.
Phew. What an ending. Come on the Lions.
July 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Phew. What an ending. Come on the Lions.