Alan

@apertum.ie

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Moved to Ireland from the UK, I do technology stuff (web, 3d printing, electronics) and a bit of tourism hosting on the side.

"The pub urinal at the centre of Count Binface's bizarre manifesto" The hand dryer is between a urinal and a sink.
M.C. Escher exhibition down stairs
29-jul-1948 29-jun-1976 30-jun-1976 02-jul-1976 13-jul-1983 18-jul-1989 29-jun-1995 18-jul-2006 27-jun-2018 28-jun-2018 29-jun-2018 18-jul-2022 13-aug-2022 12-jul-2025
"name": "Shannon", "temperature": "30", "symbol": "01d", "weatherDescription": "Sun / Clear sky", "text": "\"Sun/Clear sky\"", "windSpeed": "7", "windGust": "-", "cardinalWindDirection": "S", "windDirection": 180, "humidity": " 37 ", "rainfall": " 0.0 ", "pressure": "1025", "dayName": "Tuesday", "date": "26-05-2026", "reportTime": "17:00"
"name": "Shannon", "temperature": "29", "symbol": "01d", "weatherDescription": "Sun / Clear sky", "text": "\"Sun/Clear sky\"", "windSpeed": "7", "windGust": "-", "cardinalWindDirection": "E", "windDirection": 90, "humidity": " 50 ", "rainfall": " 0.0 ", "pressure": "1026", "dayName": "Tuesday", "date": "26-05-2026", "reportTime": "15:00"
A signature page with several Kennedy signatures
all time max wind generation 4,718MW for Ireland
pie chart showing how Ireland's electricity is being generated. Renewables 74%, gas 24% other 1.54%. No coal in use.
A map showing a point in the sea off Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, latitude 0 longitude 0
The use of a house, part of a house or unit for short term letting purposes is a material change in the use of the house, part thereof or unit, as the case may be
The Taoiseach The Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026 has nothing to do with short-term letting.
Carlow, Counties Carlow & Laois Dublin city and suburbs, Counties Dublin & Meath Balbriggan, Co Dublin Swords, Co Dublin Celbridge, Co Kildare Naas, Co Kildare Newbridge, Co Kildare Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny Portlaoise, Co Laois Drogheda, Counties Louth & Meath Dundalk, Co Louth Navan, Co Meath Mullingar, Co Westmeath Athlone, Counties Westmeath & Roscommon Wexford, Co Wexford Greystones-Delgany, Co Wicklow Bray, Counties Wicklow & Dublin Ennis, Co Clare Cork city and suburbs, Co Cork Tralee, Co Kerry Limerick city and suburbs, Counties Limerick & Clare Waterford city and suburbs, Counties Waterford & Kilkenny Galway city and suburbs, Co Galway Sligo, Co Sligo Letterkenny, Co Donegal State
A neolithic portal tomb in gingerbread
a steaming pile of nonsense from AI search results saying a mixture of "it is a USA thing" and "it was repealed in 1984"
A Newfoundland dog groomed to give it a mane and tail with end floof. It is being petted or perhaps arrested by an Irish Garda.
The white house in a dystopian future
Voltage 2.4E+2 Volts
A chicken house and run with an amber star, black rock, spackle moran and Rhode island red chicken
A double socket with fairly severe scorching on the left side.
The turbine hall. The blue and red things are magnets in a north south alternating pattern on a turbine being serviced
Spark Plugs Replace spark plugs if applicable (though this is less common in electric vehicles)
8 jars of strawberry jam on a baking tray
Sunset over the sea with islands in the background and the Doolin Ferry fleet in the foreground
Once the final crews depart the ISS, NASA plans to allow the station’s orbit to further decay over 12 to 18 months. Then, a final deorbit will be facilitated by a modified version of the highly successful SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. This one-off craft will be larger than a standard Dragon, have six times the propellant, and four times the thruster power. The deorbit Dragon vehicle will use 46 Draco thrusters to perform several propellant burns to shift the orbit ever lower, as well as undertake a final burn to precipitate the ultimate descent of the station.
screenshot of a flight map, showing a flight from Shannon South East across Europe over Egypt and Saudi Arabia then Oman, avoiding Yemen and heading West up the gulf of Aden in the direction of South Sudan
What can I do if I have a mole in the garden? Moles are a protected species. They may not be caught, injured or killed. There are numerous methods to drive them away. Methods that attack the mole's sense of smell or hearing are particularly promising. For example, spreading buttermilk, garlic water or mothballs on the ground can help. The sound of a wind chime can also often help.
Moles are a natural part of the Irish ecosystem, playing a role in soil aeration and nutrient cycling
screenshot of google maps, in the middle is St Flannan's Holy Well + Unusual Treet
screenshot of the Aldi flyer showing a robot mower on grass
A jar of barley malt extract
tweet from The White House "DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED"
customer service conversation where they confirm that you can't have a family in Ireland.
Limestone karst landscape
Sea Lilly fossils possibly
Grass fed cattle munching away with no hormone injections.
Incandescent bulb with weird two prong connection
Two robot mowers on a rough grass lawn
An array of 20 barrells planted with strawberries, rhubarb and othe stuff
things tagged as postbox in openstreetmap data in the Dublin area
map screenshot showing "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
A car battery and solar charge controller connected to a charging laptop from the one laptop per child project as a test load
A car battery connected to an inverter powering a usb c fast charger