Derek Coward's Noise » life http://www.kafraco.com/blog The personal blog of Derek Coward, the founder of the Deliberate Noise Network. This will focus on a bunch of stuff that I find interesting. Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:43:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= My Thoughts On St. Patrick’s Day http://www.kafraco.com/blog/2010/03/my-thoughts-on-st-patricks-day/ http://www.kafraco.com/blog/2010/03/my-thoughts-on-st-patricks-day/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:57:20 +0000 Derek http://www.kafraco.com/blog/2010/03/my-thoughts-on-st-patricks-day/ St-Patrick day 2004 in Cork City. More picture...

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My thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day are quite simple. If you refer to it as “Amateur Night for Drinking”, then most likely you are an asshole and have a drinking problem.’

Beyond that, I don’t get gifts or the day off, so I don’t care.

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Milk
Corn
Rye
Beans
Peas
Pepper
Brewer’s Yeast
Eggs
Codfish

UPDATE: Tomato. I can’t believe I forgot that one.
UPDATE 2: Garlic and lamb should also be on the list.

I’m pretty sure there may be at least one more, but I cannot remember it right now. I will update this post if I can remember what it was.

Does anyone have any recipes that doesn’t include any of these ingredients?

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What should I eat afterwards? Any suggestions?

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I think it is easy to say that one of my biggest fans is my son Stephen. I am learning how to use my new (to me) Wacom Bamboo and it is going slow. I am not a very good drawer under the best of circumstances and learning to draw on something other than paper has taken my “skills” and marginalized them even more.

However, every time I start drawing a picture, Stephen comes over to me and tells me that it is awesome and he wishes how he could draw like me. I am really honored that he likes it but more often than not, I restart GIMP and mutter “Sorry son, but it sucks.” Each and every time.

I need to remember that he watches everything I do because I notice that he has been throwing away unfinished drawings because he is totally dissatisfied with how they look. I wonder how much of that is because he is trying to improve and how much of that is because he is imitating me.

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OR

I can stay at home in my nice warm bed and sleep.

Guess which one I am going to do?

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And if they ask for the personal number, I will tell them “I’m sorry, I can’t give out personal information on the business line.”

And so on and so forth.

Yes, I want to be an asshole when I grow up.

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Me: Cuz we think it’s funny.

She: …

Note: I do not endorse leaving the seat up if you have women in the house. Or fat men prone to explosive diarrhea.

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Them: (moments after saying something ridiculous that they took very seriously) Well, what do you think?

Me: I think you’re full of shit.

Them: (staring blankly) …

Me: (feeling slightly guilty but not enough to apologize) Don’t worry about it, we all gotta be full of something.

It’s a wonder I didn’t get punched more when I was younger.

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