Tales Of The Gurrier

It’s all over folks. The BBC calls time on the boom years, ‘Irish economy goes into recession’. It’s been a grand ten years or so, more or less. We’ve had some good times, ate some flat sambos*, enjoyed many a pot of the green sauce. Bought a shit load of stuff, ran up some eye [...]

Rialto Internet Exchange
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.

Wonder why you’re not getting those super fast broadband speeds down here in Rialto? It might be because the doors of the subexchange are held together with electrical wiring and the inside is stuffed with rubbish and dead birds.

(image by John Picken)

In the long forgotten depths of prehistory when the internet was run on steampipes and hand cranked babbage machines, there existed a site known and feared amongst publicans throughout the land. That place was BeerandLoathing. The men who laboured alone and unloved in that bleak place are now long dead. [...]

I saw thing on holiday, a terrible thing.
A mighty, hairy, flying thing.
More monster than moth,
Pale eyes aglow on furry stalks,
Feathery proboscis slurping at the night’s dark shore.
Twitching in Plutonian ecstasy,
It saw my luminescence and came for me.
Not fluttering, but vibrating across the darkness.
I shrieked and ran, hearing the beat of the fiend’s leathery wings,
And then [...]

So that’s what he was doing in the backseat of Airwolf.

Tinkering around with the site today.
Things may look broken.

Item - One single edged hunting knife, slightly used.
Item - One copy of Teklab by William Shatner
Item - One dvd copy of Triumph Of The Will by Leni Riefenstahl

Where in the world is The Gurrier you may ask?
No, it’s not Sarah Palin’s secret hunting lodge deep in the Alaskan wilderness where Dick Cheney smears himself [...]

Signs the good times are well and truly over, Tesco Value Pesto.
The Celtic Tiger’s dead and gone,
It’s with auld Bertie in the grave.