Notices by Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)

Funny story about the shop on Shandon Street (very near where my mam grew up) that sold a $250m lottery ticket. All heartwarming, lovely, I’m a customer here for 50yrs, Cork’s great local spirit, salt of the earth etc. But then, killer real-talk closing quote: “If I won it, all of my children and myself would be gone”.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/06/20/centra-store-in-cork-city-revealed-as-250m-euromillions-winning-ticket-seller/

Cursèd Cultural Artifact for Irish Persons of a Certain Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7jIVQHXuk

The thick layer of UV film on this window gives a Super-8 feel to the world outside, right down to the scratches.

Happy Bloomsday! Enjoy your grilled mutton kidneys. As always, if you’ve ever bounced off the book then I can’t recommend the 1982 RTÉ full-cast, unabridged performance of the text enough. It’s so good. It brings out the musical and literally multi-vocal character of the novel so beautifully.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1517040628

Summary of post-parade assessments

We live in a world of lies and false promises, a contunuing series

Made a new sticker for the laptop.

You might ask, “What could be more American than someone whose parents moved from Mexico and met in LA, who went to MIT, worked as an engineer, got into politics in response to immigrant issues, and eventually got elected Senator?” And the answer is “Reactionary nativists and their henchmen.”

We live in a world of lies and false promises.

Taking a look at this new beta OS with colored icons and re-sizable, movable windows etc

"We call this one ‘The Color Czar's Frozen Corpse’”

Workout Buddy! Oh noes, it's your cheery, supportive, encouraging California friend who just wants the best for you and sends you kind and inspiring messages! You hate them more than anything in the world

I'm not ̶l̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ on hold with you, you're ̶l̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ on hold with me

The LAPD Tactical Donut shot works quite well as a cover for all kinds of classics, tbh

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with current “Very large numbers of Americans live in big cities, that’s one of the main reasons why they are big, you see, it’s just, like, science man”, discourse, with real Census data and everything.

Just last week, and entirely to make a stupid joke online, I fired up my Lisa to draw a couple of stacked bar charts. The precursor to Atkinson’s QuickDraw toolbox for the Mac were the LisaGraf routines he wrote that were at the heart of the Lisa’s GUI. https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html

RIP Bill Atkinson. “-2000 lines of code”

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

<Steely-Eyed Lieutenant General of Extremely Online Air Command, the merest hint of a suggestion of a catch in his voice> Gentlemen, moments like this are why our Instant Bits and Gags Wing is kept in the air twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, year-round, without fail.

As part of my ecumenical and open-minded series “English People Who You Have To Admit Are Great, In Fairness”, here’s Tim Hunkin. First in his classic ‘80s “Secret Life of Machines” TV series, and second from his “Secret Life of Components” series, made a couple of years ago in his shed. There’s also a series of shorts on the extremely analog, often very funny, and again really very English arcade machines he makes

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3Ry8ZUvKff3

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OSp47pHuQmj3Ol

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAO5K9giPepC7ulcgnS4gRKv

Blaise Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Pedro Pascal
https://mastodontti.fi/@pahoittelemme/114530233028183925