Grandad October 29th, 2011
My “Technical advisor” [Hah! Nerd is more like it] has asked me to write something for him.
He has rightly fucked up his own site that used to be theotherfellow.com. He has moved it to apipeandakeyboard.com but has somehow screwed things up [as only he can do] so that the old address won’t work at all.
He has asked me to ask any of you lot who visit his site to change the address if you have it bookmarked. I told him it was a waste of time and that he would be better off letting the site die a natural and humane death. I also pointed out the the new name was far to long, but would he listen? Would he fuck!
Anyway, I have passed on the message. I have earned my three pints.
I drive a hard bargain.
Heh!
Grandad October 17th, 2011
I can never remember exactly when I started at this scribbling lark.
It was somewhere around the 17th or 18th of October 2006. Maybe it was the 23rd? Who cares?
One way or another, it represents five fucking years of wasted time.
Five fucking years! When I think of all the things I could have done instead of wasting my time here, the mind boggles. Herself never misses an opportunity to tell me that it’s a complete waste of bloody time and that nobody reads it anyway. I just point out that so far nearly half a million people have read it [actually it's 457,630 but who's counting?] and that can’t all have been searching for a bit of porn. If I eliminate the porn seekers, that still leaves nearly 10,000 visitors which isn’t bad.
Apart from three very sharp angles, 5 is a nice round number. Not quite as round as 0 or 6, or even 8 for that matter. Come to think of it, 5 is the least round number apart maybe from 4? Anyhows, it is still a notable number and I think it deserves a few pints tonight in celebration.
I suppose it’s about time I put its name down for secondary school?
Grandad May 13th, 2011
A mail just plopped into my Inbox.
It was a comment on my little rant the other day about Ireland being a nation of sheep.
It was off topic, but I think it deserves a little examination…
MartinW writes as follows -
Most of the impact of that essay is lost through the swearing, which only serves to indicate a poverty of thought and language. If the author would desist from the use of the F-word, then his posts would enjoy a much wider circulation and listener sympathy.
Apart from the fact that I didn’t swear [much] in that post, he raises a question that I can’t answer. How can I possibly know peoples attitude to the sparse cussing that goes on on this site? I presume I could answer that MartinW’s comment is the first complaint/slap on the wrist that I have had in quite a few years.
I tend to write as I speak. If something annoys me I tend to let rip with a few choice words. It’s nothing to do with poverty of thought or language; it’s to do with my feeling a little better, and anyway a good adjective or two can nicely express my feelings.
As a little aside, one thing that does annoy me is the expression “the F-word”. It smacks of cowardice as we all know what “the F-word” is, so why not say it. Unless of course it’s a different F-word in which case it is damned confusing.
So it’s up to you lot. You are the people on whose behalf MartinW is writing, so only you lot can reply. Let’s hear your opinion.
And I hope you all appreciate how I didn’t use the word ‘fuck’ once.
Aw shit!
Grandad May 1st, 2011
It’s an old question but it keeps cropping up.
Why the fuck do I bother with this site?
It takes a chunk out of my day where I could be otherwise doing sweet fuck all. I could be napping? I could be staring at the clouds trying to make pictures out of them? There are lots of things I could be doing, but instead I am sitting tapping out nonsense.
Do I do it for your sake? Hah! I bet if I charged a wee premium for reading this shite, you’d all soon disappear. I don’t kid myself.
Do I do it for the money? Well, that helps, but this site has been in recession for the last two years, with each month seeing a reduction so that I am getting less than a quarter of what I was getting a couple of years ago. Even the housing market hasn’t fallen that far. I wonder if NAMA would be interested in buying it?
Do I do it for myself? I dunno. Do I?
All I know is that most days I promise myself that I won’t write anything as I have nothing to write. Then the fingers get twitchy and the laptop looks at me in that accusing way it has, and the next thing I’m tapping out another inanity. Sometimes I read what I have published and cringe. I wonder why the fuck I wrote that but it’s too late to do anything about it because as soon as I press the Publish button, it flies off into feed readers or Twitter or something and I can’t call them back. So I am stuck with it.
I have made myself a wee promise that I won’t write anything if I have nothing to write about. Today, for example, nothing has happened yet. The newspapers are full of shite that isn’t worth writing about so I am devoid of ideas. For that reason, I won’t be writing today. I’m taking another day off.
Hang on……
Shit!
Grandad April 12th, 2011
I started this site four and a half years ago.
Since then I have been musing away for my own satisfaction, and if others want to read it too then that is fine by me.
When I started, I discovered the delights of RSS for keeping an eye on other sites and I started a collection that I read every day. That collection grew as the months went past and it ended up with a couple of hundred sites. Occasionally I add a new one, and occasionally I delete one if I know it’s no longer in use.
Over the weekend I was mucking about and decided to clean out my RSS reader. The rule I used was to delete any site that hadn’t posted in the last year. I thought there would be a few, but to my surprise, I found I had deleted around half the feeds and was sorry to see such once excellent sites being consigned to the bin.
Looking through the remainder, one thing struck me – how few of them are Irish. Only a handful remain and it’s a damned small handful at that. All the rest are in the UK, America or various other outposts of humanity. Where the fuck have they all gone? And more to the point, why?
Of the remaining sites, only around half a dozen are posting on a regular basis and half of them are relatively new at the game.
I blame that fucking Twitter.
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