If you’re involved in any form of social media, you’ve probably run across your fair share of awareness campaigns.  Seemingly every day is a “Day” for making the world aware of something or other.  And whether people are “standing with” a certain group, flying a virtual flag, adorning your profile with digital ribbons, or simply […]

Ever hear of an anticyclonic air mass?  Neither had I, until this week.  This is a meteorological phenomenon that, while not being extremely rare, sees storm systems spinning the opposite direction from what you’d expect.  I don’t know what causes it, but I can see the effects quite clearly.  Where Irish weather patterns are typically […]

My birthday is a few days away.  I won’t say how old I’m turning, but it does mark a full quarter-century since I came of legal driving age in the States.  In a bizarre symmetry, I’m working toward getting my license again, this time in Ireland.  Now I won’t deny that, in the last 25 […]

[Photo and movie quotes copyright someone else!] Twenty years ago this summer, The Truman Show hit theaters.  Did you see it?  I think I did.  If you didn’t, there will be spoilers, so consider yourself warned, decades late. Jim Carrey plays Truman, a man who has lived his whole life in a simulated existence – the […]