Already seen it...
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Already seen it...
Murrough O'Brien led a parliamentary army against the Confederacy at the Battle of Knocknanuss, County Cork in 1647. O'Brien had Sir Alasdair Macolla Ciotach MhicDhòmhnaill and his Gall Gàidheal followers put to death after they had surrendered. One way to get an earldom...
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Murrough O'Brien led a parliamentary army against the Confederacy at the Battle of Knocknanuss, County Cork in 1647. O'Brien had Sir Alasdair Macolla Ciotach MhicDhòmhnaill and his Gall Gàidheal followers put to death after they had surrendered. One way to get an earldom...
Computers have always been bad but people never learn.
September 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Computers have always been bad but people never learn.
September 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Give me Saeko Sensei from Japanese Office XP multilanguage pack everytime.
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Give me Saeko Sensei from Japanese Office XP multilanguage pack everytime.
No mention where all the water will come from for cooling & fire suppression. A single datacenter building uses millions of litres of potable water a year. It needs to be clean. Curragh acquifer isn't. Public money to build infrastructure to pipe water to datacenters in the East rather than housing?
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No mention where all the water will come from for cooling & fire suppression. A single datacenter building uses millions of litres of potable water a year. It needs to be clean. Curragh acquifer isn't. Public money to build infrastructure to pipe water to datacenters in the East rather than housing?
The granny, a Macdonald of Rhunahaoirine, called ragwort 'Stinking Willy' in honour William, Duke of Cumberland, victor of Culloden.
August 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The granny, a Macdonald of Rhunahaoirine, called ragwort 'Stinking Willy' in honour William, Duke of Cumberland, victor of Culloden.
Plus ça change...
August 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Plus ça change...
Dietrich: "Barney, By my mid-teens the writings of Schopenhauer and Kant had begun to dominate my epistomological outlook."
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Dietrich: "Barney, By my mid-teens the writings of Schopenhauer and Kant had begun to dominate my epistomological outlook."
'Gille-Màrtainn' is Scots Gaelic for 'a fox' (genus Vulpes) and also 'a cunning person'. Gilmartin is the demonic supernatural figure in Hogg's ' Confessions of a Justified Sinner'. Taboo indeed.
July 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
'Gille-Màrtainn' is Scots Gaelic for 'a fox' (genus Vulpes) and also 'a cunning person'. Gilmartin is the demonic supernatural figure in Hogg's ' Confessions of a Justified Sinner'. Taboo indeed.
Bàt' aiseag - lit. 'Restoration boat'
Is buaine dùthchas na deòraiche.
Is buaine dùthchas na deòraiche.
July 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Bàt' aiseag - lit. 'Restoration boat'
Is buaine dùthchas na deòraiche.
Is buaine dùthchas na deòraiche.
WWI soldiers of the East Lancashire Regiment got a taste for Bénédictine liqour while stationed in France - People in Burnley still drink Bénédictine with hot water, known as "Bene 'n' 'ot", and Burnley Miners Club is the largest single customer.
Deo Optimo Maximo indeed.
Deo Optimo Maximo indeed.
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
WWI soldiers of the East Lancashire Regiment got a taste for Bénédictine liqour while stationed in France - People in Burnley still drink Bénédictine with hot water, known as "Bene 'n' 'ot", and Burnley Miners Club is the largest single customer.
Deo Optimo Maximo indeed.
Deo Optimo Maximo indeed.
Majority of women depicted in Dublin's statues are figurative or fantasy women. Anna Livia, Molly Malone, 'Ladies with shopping bags' etc. The 3 Fates. Not real women. That speaks volumes too.
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Majority of women depicted in Dublin's statues are figurative or fantasy women. Anna Livia, Molly Malone, 'Ladies with shopping bags' etc. The 3 Fates. Not real women. That speaks volumes too.
I prefer the original and the best - Microsoft Bob..
June 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I prefer the original and the best - Microsoft Bob..
"From Middle English thrang, throng (“dense, thick, tight, constrictive”), cognate with Old Norse þrǫngr (“narrow, close, tight”). "
May 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"From Middle English thrang, throng (“dense, thick, tight, constrictive”), cognate with Old Norse þrǫngr (“narrow, close, tight”). "
Is he a Wexford man?
May 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Is he a Wexford man?
Great episode. The tangled webs we weave. Hope you will also be exploring the war nobody has ever heard of (>20 million deaths) - the Taiping Rebellion - partly caused by that other opiate, Christianity. The work of another mandarin - and featuring Empire's Austen Powers, Maj Gen Charles Gordon.
![Alleged[d] drawing of Hong Xiuquan, dating from around the early 1850s
Ford & West Lith. • Public domain](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmxzn7vcuhiqpf37eo3dpy5n/bafkreicimxcrlzyqggbmj6mfxgoznfi2ar237ljs3zwkgpyu75cyxngh6q@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Great episode. The tangled webs we weave. Hope you will also be exploring the war nobody has ever heard of (>20 million deaths) - the Taiping Rebellion - partly caused by that other opiate, Christianity. The work of another mandarin - and featuring Empire's Austen Powers, Maj Gen Charles Gordon.