TRiG_Ireland

I completed a short computer networking course just earlier this year, and token ring was mentioned in almost as much detail as ethernet. (Frankly, we weren't given a great deal of detail on either: it was very much an introductory course.)

Currently taking a brief break from the History of Middle-earth series (The Lays of Beleriand is astonishingly beautiful) to read a fascinating book called Fascist Yoga, about how the wellness movement has some surprising links with white supremacism.

X for cross has very old pedigree, dating back at least to Victorian railway stations, such as King's X.

I found a Firefox plugin which does an automatic redirect to XCancel.

His dad is the king's brother, isn't he?

> We cannot attribute any moral judgment to Bieber as a human being; we can only answer the moral question as posed in the song.

As a semi-off-topic little rant, why do we always assume that pop singers are singing about themselves and their own experiences? Can a song, as a work of art, not have an independent existence, much as a novel may? Pop, rap, and maybe country songs are all now assumed to be about the artist themselves.

The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.

"It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process."

No. Very much no.

Certainly every older house now has one. (It can take a few months, and there's currently a delay, so some newbuilds may not yet have one. I believe the advice is to apply well before the house is finished.) How much they're used varies. One house near me has a plate on the gate giving the name and eircode. I think that most people use them most of the time. I don't know whether there are any stats available on that.

Of course, if you've been subscribed to a monthly magazine for fifty years, you perhaps haven't bothered to update your address on file to add the eircode.

Pick-up artists are not going to behave like decent human beings.

In Ireland, it isn't only rural addresses which have no house numbers. Plenty of houses even in towns had non-unique addresses before the introduction of eircodes. On my road, all the original houses (each standing on an acre plot) have numbers, but all the infill ones don't. You'd think the house built on the corner of 502's land might get 502A, but no. When my parents bought this house, the address was the same as many many others on the same road. They gave the house a name, so it would have a unique address, though the previous residents had managed fine for twenty years without one.

I had friends who rented around the corner. They had to give their address as "care of" the landlord's name, though the landlord didn't live there. That's because An Post knew his name, but wouldn't know the names of tenants.

I got made redundant shortly before the release of LLM code generators, so I've never used one, but I did occasionally do this for short snippets from tutorials and suchlike.

I think that it's often true that Americans don't get British sarcasm. And it's similarly often true that British people don't get American sarcasm.

So you've not heard of Gaelic football?

Hawkeye in GAA games is sponsored by Specsavers.