This is the plaque outside of the Department of the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach (pronounced "Tee-shock") is the Irish prime minister. What I find peculiar about this plaque is not that the spelling seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the way the word is pronounced -- that is pretty much standard for Irish.

It's that the Irish and the English version of the inscription have two different spellings for "Taoiseach".

I think I'll be staying in bed.

The best possible light being either at night, or during sunset.

For your viewing pleasure: First a picture of Customs House at night, snapped on the way home from a recent dinner party. And three pictures of the Guinness brewery, taken today from the roof of my apartment building.

Happy yuletide, winter solstice, saturnalia, festivus, kwanzaa, hanukkah, crimbo, or whatever else you happen to be celebrating! And all the very best for 2008 -- may all your wishes come true.

Pictures from MFF are starting to surface -- here's some of Fred (the bunny) being assaulted by various predators. The didn't eat him in the end though; instead they were very very nice to him! Great big hugs to jaeger_fuchs, terkwolf and gaz_a! Oh, and tiger_sammy, you're hogging the camera! We all know that you didn't catch that!





I'm collecting the pics I can find on the web in this album:

Fred@MFF

In Chicago for the weekend for MFF (great time meeting old and new friends), flew over to SFO this evening and staying in the bay area till 12/05.

Maddie McCann as a stencil, found under the railroad bridge on Pearse Street, Dublin:





If you made it this far, you are truly part of pop culture.

Kitty time only has two distinct times of day: "high time to go to sleep" and "far too early to get up".

... posted on Flickr!

Some of my favourites:




The pictures on Flickr are about 100 from over 1300 we took at EF, mostly from the fursuit parade, the variety and the pawpet show. The Flickr thing is more of an experiment; I usually store my online photos on PicasaWeb, but I thought I'd give Flickr a try. I might get a pro account if it turns out that I like it.