The Repository of Excellence

Updates

I joined twitter the other day. I also got a Wii. The Wii is the greatest console in the history of the universe.

Photoedits

I have been playing about with photoshop for a few days… here’s some stuff I made:

http://www.therepositoryofexcellence.com/?page_id=10&lzkfile=edits%2F

Adventures in Dublin Zoo

I adopted a tiger called Turlough for Fiona a while back. Today we went to the zoo to see him. A year and a half ago, Turlough became famous for all the right reasons, which makes him extra excellent. Here’s a picture of him that I took, standing beside one of his girlfriends:

I also took a few other pictures, including the new baby Elephant…

…and two Penguin’s going at it:

Albums That Don’t Exist

I was browsing StumbleUppon and came across this site. The concept is that you pick three random variables from sites on the net, giving you a band name, album name and album cover picture. I thought the result was good in an “interesting way to waste ten minutes” sort of way.

Unfortunate Picture Placement

I spotted this in the Herland AM the other day. Reading it on the train at half six in the morning, it took me a few seconds to realise the headline and picture were unrelated.

Greasemonkey and Pagerization

I have heard about the Firefox add-on called “Greasemonkey” a few times and it sounded pretty good. It allows you to add additional javascript functionality to any website. You can download other people’s scripts or write your own. I finally got around to installing it today and the first script I added was called Pagerization. It detects if there is a “next” button on a website, and then autoloads the next page at the bottom of the one you are currently viewing, as you scroll down the page. The first place I tried it out was Google, and the results were pretty cool. I’d reccomend you give it a look.

Here is a video demonstrating what the script looks like in action.

Back from Amsterdam

It was pretty good. We even went to the zoo. Videos below.

• Dancing Elephant
• Sea Lion Feeding

Update:
I was so curious about the dancing elephant, that I looked on YouTube to see if I could find similar videos. A user commenting on one such clip posted a link to this webpage. I had thought the elephant might be dancing because it used to be in a circus act or something, but it turns out its a sign of the animal being in distress. Which sucks.

Seals in Howth

I went to Howth today. There were some seals, and I took pictures.

• Seal #1
• Seal #2