Oscar wins his category in Bandon Show
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Oscar got best Handwriting Prize for Junior and Senior Infants for
all schools in Bandon and environs at the Bandon Summer Show! Next
year - best Aberdeen Angus impersonator.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Elephant No-Show Shocker at Bandon Show
Oisin O'Neill (3) of Old Chapel Bandon, registered his utter disgust this past Sunday over the non-appearence of elephants at the 2005 Bandon Summer Agricultural show. Proceedings have been served on Conor O'Neill (37), also of Old Chapel Bandon, for mis-leading advertising regarding the nature of the beasts which would appear at the show. Disappontment was also expressed over the lack of tigers.
On a positive note, none of the attending O’Neill family had ever seen bulls that large despite the elder family members having seen calves born in the farm across the road in Ratoath in 1972 at the age of 4.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Gender Confirmed by computer
Just in case there was any doubt, [The Gender Genie](http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) confirmed that I'm a bloke. Huge sighs of relief from my wife. Interesting wee tool actually (The Gender Genie, not me). I just cut n paste some blog entries and it gave 247 male vs 146 female. We’re off to the Bandon Show in an hour or so. The last time I was at anything like this I must have been in my mid-teens and my parents took me on the annual pilgrimage to The Spring Show in the RDS.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, May 22, 2005
Is that a bullseye painted on your back?
I can't help myself. I know they are world's easiest targets. [Twenty Major](http://twentymajor.blogspot.com/2005/05/eurovision.html) had tears rolling down my face talking about what a pair of utter mingers they are. But then I found the lyrics - dear god, is English even his first language? “Love can make you happy, love can make you cry”?
Coincidentally, I found this site which sings lyrics for you. So I entered the first verse. A massive improvement I think you’ll agree.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, May 20, 2005
Has Flickr always been free?
I thought it was pay-only the last time I checked. Excellent, I now have a hosting site for any piccies I want to link to. Just looking through the features - bloody hell, I can see why people are raving about it. Can upload pictures via email, so I can send direct from my camera phone to Flickr. Can get it to automatically post the pictures to my blog, so straight from camera phone to blog.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 18, 2005
This wouldn't be Conor's blog without
Baby Announcements!!
We just found out that Maria and Maurice had a baby girl back on April 17th. Baby Ellen is an absolute cutie and either has dark red hair or bright red hair depending on whether you ask Claire or Ethna.
Oh, and the Pierce’s finally named 3 of 9: Rianna Gail Pierce. That’s a very cool name. I’d nick it only for the fact that our next one is a bloke.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Recording Streaming Audio for later listening
I’ve been trying to figure out how to record streaming audio so I can listen to it later (and start/stop when I like). Actually it’s specifically for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Quandary Phase. I didn’t really enjoy the last radio series and the repeats of the TV series aren’t that great either. But it became a technical challenge that I wanted to get to the bottom of. I finally cracked it today.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 17, 2005
MMMmmmmmmmmmmmm
The top 50 things every foodie should do.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Mock-Tudor Edwardian Georgian Castle with Irish Bar
Ah yes, those Sheraton folks in Massachusetts really know their architecture. Our hotel was only bettered by the one we drove under which straddled the Massachusetts Turnpike. I’ve always wanted a room with cars whizzing past 20 feet under my floor.
Shopping disaster - only had time for Toys R Us. Kids happy even if I’m still without a new keyboard and mouse.
On the other hand, we had some very successful meals.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Greatest Failures in Engineering
Seems to be mainly focussed on Civil. Interesting enough tho
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=95907&page=1
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, May 16, 2005