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Events

FOWD Tour Belfast tomorrow – who’s going?

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  • Ying Meets Yang: Marrying creativity and logic to create better designs for everyone
  • How to Design in the Browser

So that’s the schedule. Looks awesome and I’m really looking forward to it, despite the early start from Dublin tomorrow morning :)

There’s still some tickets available via the site and they’re only £67.85! If you’re going along, say hi – I’m the one with specs, pink hair & hugging her coffee for dear life.

Random

Anagrams

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Caster SemenyaYesterday @irishstu tweeted an anagram of his name - Wry, cuter star (Stewart Curry). Today I decided to throw my own into the internet machine and see what came back.

Stephanie Francis =  If praise enchants

After I tweeted it, I got a bunch of replies with other name anagrams ranging from the awesome to the ridiculous and I thought I’d share some of them…

@christianhughes – Raunchiest highs

@gavreilly – Vanilla grey, Relying lava or Vaginal lyre

@alancostello – Atonal cellos

@Wexxie – A lone milky

@blogtackular - A margarita lash

@curlydena – A lead wanker

@EmilyAm – I’m my healer

And seeing they were so amusing/bemusing I decided to throw a few more names in…

Darragh Doyle = Or hardly aged

Danielle Huntrods (@dhuntrods) = Insulted halo nerd

Michael Anthony Francis (my dad) = Half-shy maniac or cretin

Jenni Prosser (@coloradojenn) = Porn jeers sin

Lance Armstrong = Strong clean arm

Brian Lenihan = Hen nail brain

Mary Harney = Hymen array

New York Times = The Monkey’s Write (via @tiredhack)

Caster Semenya = Necessary mate OR yes secret man (via @mark_coughlan)

Ah, the internet…

Thoughts

My first album – Mariah Carey. What was yours?

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My first musical purchase
Mariah Carey on cassette

When I go home to Clare, I often find myself taking a trip down memory lane in some way.

Today I was poking around looking for something when I stumbled upon the first musical purchase I ever made. It’s Mariah Carey‘s album Daydream on cassette. A bit scratched and dusty but still playable. Released in 1995, I remember buying it just before Christmas and playing it to death on the giant stereo in the living room to the point where my sister wanted to unravel it.

The musical snob in me is disgusted and disappointed that it’s not something awesome and hip but after listening back to it, I forgive myself – it’s seriously catchy stuff and it is so typical of the era. I’m slightly shocked that I remember nearly all the words and every Mariahesque lilt but then again I’ve always had a weirdly accurate memory for musical things.

Here’s my favourite song from the album (for shame!). I challenge you not to start chair-dancing to it with me. If you’d rather the roller-blade, crop top, 90s-fest video, here you go.

So come on, spill, what was your first album/single you bought? Could it be any more cheesey or embarassing than Mariah Carey?