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The Savoy

25/11/2022

Lovely old photo of the Savoy in the 30s from Fiona Forde.

I noticed that the marquee shows If Only You Could Cook (yikes!) playing that day, which I’m going to watch to put myself further into the moment. :)

View of the Savoy #Cork in the 30s #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday with a few bike @jklong14?Shorten Family pic.twitter.com/KISt7AHuey

— IrishFamilyDetective ???? (@Fiona_Forde_Irl) November 25, 2022

1902 Tram Ride from MacCurtain Street to Patrick’s Bridge

19/02/2022

Back In Time, To 90’s TV

25/09/2018

This is terribly, awfully accurate: My 90’s TV

“The Climate Has Changed Before”

13/09/2016

The next time you see some clueless dickhead on the web trying to deny climate change by claiming that we’ve had temperature changes in the past and sure and begorrah we’re still here aren’t we, show them this XKCD. It’s mildly amusing and abjectly terrifying.

Things You Have Probably Forgotten #324

10/06/2016

Jesus wept, it’s Mandy’s! I had completely forgotten about Mandy’s! And that led me here, and then I was reminded of Burgerland; I loved Burgerland!

Thanks Donncha.

Orkestra Obselete 1933: Blue Monday

12/03/2016

New Order’s Blue Monday played using only instruments that would have been available in the 1930s. More details at the BBC. Via Kottke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2tSJZ8NPU

Men on the Moon

16/07/2014

Amazing set of photos from In Focus commemorating the moon landing 45 years ago. You’ll have seen some, but I’d guess not all. I couldn’t help but look at several of the photos, like the one below, for several minutes. There’s just so much to take in, and then you think, my god, it’s the Moon!

Quad Flight Over Cork

24/04/2014

I can see myself watching this daily for a week, looking for more and more of Cork’s oddities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRgYuK4epfM

What I love most about perspectives like this is the inside of city blocks, the cramped mess of buildings that they end up, but usually with little cubbies of light and even greenery. Speaking of which, I had absolutely no idea there was that much green behind Shandon. None. Really must pop in there some day, I’ve put it off for years.

Well done that man. I’d love to know what quad he has, the handling and video are, again, superb. The comments say it’s DJI Phantom, but given the flight time and distance, I’m skeptical. Whatever it is, it puts the cheap Chinese heap I bought to try to shame. :)

Pana Around 1900

23/01/2014

Donncha posted this photo of the Father Mathew statue from around 1900, but feck that, look at Pana, it’s barely recognisable!

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