Brooks Running has a new “Brite Green” range of hi-viz running gear for the dark evenings. Hi-Viz gear seems to keep moving through different colours as one colour becomes too prevalent (yellow was first, then orange and I’ve seen pink too). I went to their Stockists Locator page to see if there were any retailers […]
Laziness
Red cold, blue hot
I joined my former college classmates for the early portion of the Jim Finn Stag pub crawl, before everyone got incoherent. In the third pub, The Hut in Phibsborough, the bathroom had a sign about the incorrectly coloured taps. The blue tap gives hot water, the red tap is for cold water. That reversal must […]
Road to nowhere
Residents with Fingal County Council as their local authority may know about their often bad road design and brutal signage. The Roads Department isn’t good at implementing pedestrian or cyclist facilities in thoughtful ways. There is a gem of an example on Blanchardstown Road South, behind Power City. There is a nice footpath and off-road […]
Crooked ruler at Fingal County Council
Looking at the pedestrian crossing points at a nearby roundabout it looks like the Traffic Engineers at Fingal County Council have a wonky ruler. The dished parts of the pavement on either side don’t even nearly line up. Even a kid would draw a more straight line freehand. This was designed by the department whose […]
Smoking impacts dexterity
I was walking through the business park on the way to work and saw proof that smoking affects dexterity. Most businesses just have the tall, thin bin for cigarette butts. The smokers at this company obviously have difficulty fitting their cigarette butts into the holes in the bin top. I must come to the only […]
Is the site actually finished?
This weekend my wife and I are attending an ante natal class at the Springfield Hotel in Leixlip. Off to the website to get directions. Nice looking site. I clicked on ‘Maps’ at the bottom of the page. Nothing happened. The url in the status bar showed a ‘#’ so I waited for a popup […]