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(Mostly Not) Irish Observations

I'm back for my trip. I have photos. I have observations. I have . . .

October 25, 2005 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS

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So, I'm back from Ireland. It was quite a whirlwind tour of the country and I'm feeling recharged. If you happen to be interested, I've posted some photos over at Flickr for your enjoyment.

Rather than giving some boring rundown of my trip, I decided to just copy some observations from my journal. Most of them are completely unrelated to Ireland, but that's the fun, isn't it?

Mostly Non-Irish Observations

  • With so many people using cellphones as a watch, when you get onto a plane and can't use it, no one knows the damn time. It's crazy. I couldn't find anyone around to let me know how long we'd been flying.
  • All of Ireland is under construction.
  • The hacker and designer are kind of parallel figures. Both are looking to achieve a certain elegance in what they do, whether it be code or design. They are trying to do as much as possible with only as much as they need. (As a side note, less is not more. Less is more implies less for less' sake. The goal is not less, but rather elegance -- a point inspired by Neal Stephenson's excellent The Diamond Age.)
  • There seem to be fewer pay phones than ever because everyone has a cellphone. That's a serious problem for travelers. It seems like a good opportunity for a low priced mobile phone rental business. Imagine if you could rent a shitty phone for like $50 and it included something like 200 minutes to America. I'd do it. Not sure if it's viable, but it seems like it shouldn't be that unreasonable. (That's probably completely untrue.)
  • There are a lot of bars in Ireland.

Thanks a bunch to my mom for covering for me while I was gone . . . you did an excellent job. Now that I'm back all you readers can expect a return to the regularly scheduled boredom. Hope you enjoyed the hiatus.

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1barbara

LOVE the landscapes! As amazing as the rainbow is, though, I could look at the composition with the cow all day.

October 25, 2005

2Noah Brier

Thanks. Glad you like it.

October 25, 2005

3jeff

now aren't you glad i made you two fools take a hundred pictures of the cow?

October 25, 2005

4Noah Brier

I was taking photos of it before you started the "competition"

October 25, 2005

5jeff

i love the guiness glasses shot...is that at whites?

October 25, 2005

6Noah Brier

Definitely not at whites, can't remember where it's from. I've got another photo from the same bar at home with the name of it on there, I'll check for you.

October 25, 2005

7Noah Brier

Windsor Bar??? Don't even remember where that was.

October 26, 2005

8jeff

windsor bar was the delicious dinner in dundalk.

October 26, 2005

9jeff

you took that picture downstairs before we headed up for rabbbbbbbbbit

October 26, 2005