Climbing a wall

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Indoor Wall Climbing
Nice activity wednesday evening after work: Indoor Climbing...
Game take you birthday date (exclude the year) and pick in Wikipedia: 3 events,3 births,3 deaths.

Events
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.
1965 - In Naples, Italy, France Gall wins the tenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (Wax doll, talking doll).
Births
43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director and actor
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
Deaths
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist (b. 1642)
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)

B-movies

Reference site about B-movies: Nanarland

• Last B-movies seen:

Ready to Rumble: the story of two sewage workers wrestle-fans on a quest to help their hero, a fallen wrestler champion.
Westworld: A curiosity directed by Michael Crichton, with Yul Brinner about futuristic leisure complex full of robots.
Thunderpants: The story of a farting boy who has his best day ever ever, when he flies in space with a ship propelled by farting.


My favorites B-movies:

• Orgazmo
• Turkish Star Wars
• The Cat
• Robotrix
• Joe's Appartment
• Whitefire
  

Bike....

Pub: 0 ; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Bought a Bike

Finally, I've bought a bike in Ireland, hopefully I should be soon be able to cycle to work... but not tomorrow because of the Indoor Climbing Initiation and not Thursday because there's Salsa....
I've also realised than there is a lot of topics I want to discuss in this blog:
GAA, Hurling, Gaelic/Irish, W.B.Yeats, Irish 1916 events, sailing....

I discover this fantastic website : http://www.chronique-gaelique.com/index.html while I was trying to find the origin of the famous french song "Les lacs du Connemara" from Sardou ( just to prove that Michel Sardou never put a foot in Ireland...)

Killarney Lakes ....

Sunday
Pub: 2; Alcohol Units: 3 (1 Guinness, 2 Murphys); Activities: Bicycle, He or She, Seesighting
Heading to Killarney with M&N... rent some bike and cycle around Killarney Lakes...
Ross Castle:

Muckross Abbey:

The Waterfall:



There was an exhibit of vintage tractor/farmer machine:

Some quite old:

On the lake watching the making-of of a ninja movie....

Evening: Restaurant and few pubs in Killarney

Night: youth Hostel without any swedish girl ....



Monday (Bank Holiday)
Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0, Activities: Seesighting, beach, car

Leaving Killarney, through the Upper Lake and the Gap of Dunloe (Black Lake), and then afternoon on the beach.... Kells (Part of the ring of Kerry)

Where some people enjoyed wrestling:

• Global Thematic of the Week-End: SpongeBob SquarePants
• Things learned:
  
1. Marsupials are mammals.
2. Chicago is not near New York
3. Women are complicated
4. Do goldfishes have a memory longer than 3 seconds ? Yes...Busted myth according to the Mythbusters
5. Claude Francois did not write the song "Cette Annee la", the original song is "Oh What a night" written by Robert Gaudio and Judy Parker.

• Unanswered questions:
• Is the memory of a goldfish a conscient act or an inconscient one ? (Asked by Patrick)
• Quotation of the day:
  "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage from Mythbusters

Paella....

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 2-3 (sangria, vine); Activity: ??

Nice and international party at Laurent House to celebrate his wedding. And thanks to Ruben who cooked a fabulous paella....

Fun, when I came back from, I check out Flickr and saw that someone put a comment on one of my Lego pic, and linked it to the Adventures of the dinosaur and the robot.... LOL !!!!

And here's the blog of the guy who posted the comment: http://dunechaser.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow Killarney....

Lego - Day

Pub: 0; Alcohol Units: 0; Activities: Shopping, Garden, Lego building
Main activity of my day: build LEGO numero 7903.


UPDATE photos removed from FLICKR

FYI:

• LEGO has a new service Lego Factory, you build your model within a CAO software and then you can order the pieces you need to build it in real.
• Mindstorms .... are coming this summer.
• LDRAW a free CAD software for Lego
• Adult Lego fans: http://www.legofan.org/brickjournal/
• Stop Motion Movies with Lego http://www.brickfilms.com/

Except that, today was a lot of shopping, and I've started to grow some plants in the garden (mint, thyme...)

Lazy day

Pub: 0 ; Alcohol Unit: 0 (good friday) ; Activity: Mown my lawn.

A bit of culture with some of the differents local Beers you can drink in Ireland:

• Beamish : stout, Brewery: Beamish and Crawford (Cork)
• Guinness : stout, Brewery: St James Gate (Dublin, Diageo)
• Murphy (Murphy's Irish Stout): stout, Brewery: Cork
• Smithwick's: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)
• Kilkenny: Brewery: Smithwicks (Kilkenny)

Some beermat (coaster):




And finally tonight TV movie: Ghostbusters , in summary: "Do not cross the streams !"