A sign in the window of a Dingle pub. ‘Ceol’ is the Irish for song or music. There is, however, a lively etymological debate about ‘craic’. It is conventionally taken to mean fun and/or bonhomie (often fuelled by alcohol). But some authorities hold that it derives from ‘ag buaileadh craiceann’ or ‘beating skin’ — a reference to “a highly private inter-personal (and usually inter-gender) activity which tends to promote mutual enjoyment, and sometimes progeny”. Er, I couldn’t possibly comment.
Explains why I don’t like goldfish. They remind me of venture capitalists.
My kids, with remorseless logic, have pointed out the critical flaw. After all, they reason, Toys ‘R Us sell toys, so this store obviously sells babies.
Photographed on Dingle Quay on Sunday.
As you can see from this nice photograph, poor Quentin is slumming it in San Diego. (He’s speaking at the FiRE conference.) It’s tough work, but someone’s got to do it.
These trees just outside Dingle have always fascinated me. They’ve withstood Atlantic gales for as long as I can remember. I’ve always wanted to photograph them but never got round to it — until yesterday.
Photographed by Pete on the Dingle Peninsula, May 22.
Note huddled masses in the bus queue.
Yep. PhotoShop CS2 is out, with even more features than the CS version I use. I’ve worked out that if I learn how to use one CS feature a day, (there are apparently 494 separate menu commands) I will have mastered the program by the end of 2006. And now the goalposts have moved.
(Thinks… Ostrich posture best strategy: don’t upgrade. Pretend CS2 never happened and hope Quentin doesn’t notice.) David Pogue of the New York Times claims that there are “at least 95 Photoshop how-to books, 3 Photoshop magazines and 4 annual Photoshop conferences”. I’m not surprised.