Book Fight!

Hello! I've been meaning to post here about podcasts for the longest time. And so, let me ramble about ... Book Fight! I started listening to Book Fight! not long after moving to Dublin. Moving there was an adventure, but it was difficult, especially at the start. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but … Continue reading Book Fight! →

Riverdance

I saw Riverdance with my friend T-- at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre back in April. They perform it every summer at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, I think; it's something I meant to see before I left Ireland, but I didn't. So when it came to town, I scooped up tickets as soon as they … Continue reading Riverdance →

Pride and Prejudice

I'm making a bit of an effort to read more lately. Jane Austen was one of my blind spots, so when I saw a copy of Pride and Prejudice at a used book store, I picked it up. And... I'm sure this comes as no surprize, but it's a good story. The plot has fairly … Continue reading Pride and Prejudice →

Mass Effect, slayed

I bought Mass Effect for USD$10 back in late 2009. Nearly ten years later (roughly a month ago, now), I finally beat it. Thoughts: First things first, it has to be said that there's a lot of wonkiness in this game. Most of the time the game is "fun" to play, aside from when you … Continue reading Mass Effect, slayed →

Motown

Gavin kindly invited me to go watch Motown when it was in town, and it was good. There's a story there about Berry Gordy and his life, and breaking black music to white America, and racial strife; but to me it was mostly an excuse to watch performances from all sorts of famous acts (done … Continue reading Motown →

Year in Review: 2017

Previously: Year in Review: 2016 (plus late 2015) #YARRLAND @ Two YARRS #YARRLAND @ One YARR Personal Deets Nothing too much to say. I used the phrase "settled down" for my entry about 2016, but in truth I remained unsettled for most of 2017. I don't talk about my work much because it's internal, but … Continue reading Year in Review: 2017 →

Three Times I Didn’t Vote

Not necessarily times I could vote, mind. In reverse chronological order: 1. I checked out the anti-Trump protest in Vancouver tonight. That was a crazy election, eh? I didn't vote, because of course I can't: I'm Canadian. American elections are strange to us, because we're so closely connected as countries, yet we have absolutely no … Continue reading Three Times I Didn’t Vote →

Macbook Data Recovery

Last summer the hard drive on my Macbook suddenly stopped booting. After panicking, I took it into work and was able to figure out a way of recovering my data, formatting the hard drive, and restoring Mac OSX without too much trouble. Guess what happened again last night. Stuff needed USB storage (hard-drive, thumbstick, whatever) … Continue reading Macbook Data Recovery →

I contributed to CPAN!

I spend a lot of time dealing with Perl at $WORK (as you can tell by the word "$WORK"). One of my projects is updating our legacy code, which mostly runs on Perl 5.8. When I tried running things under Perl 5.20, some unit tests broke because as of Perl 5.18, the return order of keys … Continue reading I contributed to CPAN! →

Back in Vancouver

I'm back! I'll write something more about my travels at some point, but in short: they were grand. I've resumed working for my previous employer, and aside from finding an apartment of my own, have gotten relatively settled. YAARRRRR!!