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Galway 6am

Heading home.

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Thank You NUIG Lit & Deb and Comic Book Soc

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Update From Galway

Local mobile data network just died, and hotel wifi is terrible, so chances are I'll be on silent running until tomorrow morning. If you're trying to email, I will hopefully find some signal eventually, but it might be a while.

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Down In Ireland

Galway is bloody cold. All else running smoothly. Onstage tonight at 8-ish, I think?

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Post-Interrogation

Some six hours of shooting later, I'm done with my being interviewed for Captured Ghosts. DVD will be out in autumn, they say. I have to leave for the airport in seven hours or less, heading on to Galway to be interviewed onstage. Voice is shot. This will be interesting. Or disastrous.

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Bookmarks for 2011-03-07

CR Newsmaker Interview: Dan Nadel, Tim Hodler Of TCJ
comics journalism
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Jay Babcock: Arthur Set To Close For Good On March 15
magazine
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Bookmarks for 2011-03-07

Building biological computers
"New research shows that genetically modified cells can be made to communicate with each other as if they were electronic circuits."
(tags:comp bio )
The Social Printshop Introduces An Instagram Trio: Prinstagram, Instagrid, and Instawar
"It's only been a few weeks since social photo-sharing app Instagram released its API, but developers are trying their hand at it and coming out with new photo-linked services. Today, the Social Printshop is releasing not one, but three Instagram apps: Prinstagram, Instagrid, and Instawar."
(tags:web )
SAS and MI6 officers released by Libya's rebel commanders | World news | The Guardian
"Libya's rebel commanders have freed two MI6 officers and six SAS soldiers captured by farm guards on Thursday morning, after the British government vouched for their identities."
(tags:pol war embarrassing incompetent )

whitechapel 7mar11

On my message board right now:

* Mixcloud Mixes

*  Warren In Ireland, March 10

*  BRIGHTON UK AREA: The Outer Church March 10

*  The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Mar 11)

*  Artists: How Do You Set Out Your Stalls At Shows?

*  grinding.be

*  Dr Sketchy's House

No Sleep Til Galway, Apparently

It is Monday. That cannot be helped.

I have been interviewed by The Setup about the hardware and software I use. Previous interviewees include Stephen Wolfram. Odd company to be keeping. You can find me ranting at this link here.

On Wednesday I am off to London to be interviewed again for that bloody DVD. I am still getting over this cold, so if there are sections of the DVD where I sound like I'm gargling with maggots from beyond death… those bits were shot this Wednesday.

On Thursday I am off to Ireland, where I am appearing that evening at the University Of Galway, to be interviewed onstage about comics and things, and apparently to receive the University Literary & Debating Society's President's Medal. Previous recipients include — I swear I am not making this up, even though I still suspect the whole thing to be a gag — Noam Chomsky and Desmond Tutu. Which is also odd company to be keeping.

I will be flying out of Galway at the crack of sparrowshit on Friday morning.

Oh, and the chicken died. Not in any discomfort, mind you. Beating the respiratory infection just took too much out of her, and we couldn't put energy back into her quickly enough. As an ex-battery hen, she didn't have much stamina to begin with. Died in her sleep early on Sunday morning. But the other two are still going strong. And Gertie, who died, still had six months more than she would have done if we hadn't rescued her — after 18 months, battery hens are usually turned into dogfood.

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Bookmarks for 2011-03-06

U B U W E B – Film & Video: Buckminster Fuller – The World of R. Buckminster Fuller (1974)
"This film by Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Snyder, like his other documentaries on "the greats" (Michelangelo, Henry Miller, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Casals, among others), transports the viewer into Fuller's mind and soul. Told entirely in his own words, the film is an intimate, personal and inspiring message from Fuller to our fragile world."
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