Electronic media like wheelbarrows, bikes and duct tape can add TREMENDOUSLY to the ease of living life. Full Stop. Electronic media only takes over your life if you chose to let it. Not my problem, and indeed not yours either. If you are one of the members of humanity who is so ´inflicted´; it is your choice. So now that you have all heard my take on the internet and humanity´s experience with same....
..The following are my favorite internet sites - at this moment in time at least.
Built Dublin http://builtdublin.com/http://builtdublin.com/ was created, clearly with love, by Lisa Cassidy a student of architecture. The site presents delightful architectural nooks and crannies around Dublin. One look in here and you are hooked!
This next site is all about love & peace and get on your bike.
http://www.eurovelo.org/http://www.eurovelo.org/
The site links to 15 cycle trails developed, or are being developed all over Europe, linking the whole continent. So you have the Iron Curtain Trail Route 13 for example, which is a bike path running by the border of former communist countries.
My two favorites bike paths are No. 15, and No. 6. The Rhine Route No. 15, follows the Rhine from its start in the Alps to Holland where it flows into the sea. I also like No. 6. The Atlantic - Black Sea Route. Self explanatory.
And why do I love these bike paths, I hear you all ask!!!
Well, No. 15 passes right by my home, and the No. 6 route I cycle when going to work - how cool is that! Every time I am on these cycle paths, I think that I could just keep on cycling and end up in a great travel adventure. This year for the first time I am meeting cyclists traveling the whole trails. Great folks for an interesting chat.
Ted Talks - Be entertained and learn: https://www.ted.com/talks/browse
Every day an interesting 18 minute talk, the range of topics is very diverse. The only thing that the talks have in common is that they are all interesting. No more to say on that, just check it out.
Purr n Fur: http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/
Warm, fuzzy and fun pictures of cats, and their humans too sometimes.
Seventeenth Century Lady
As with Built Dublin https://www.facebook.com/SeventeenthCenturyLady was developed with love, and in joy. It is a beautiful place to learn about life and times in the 16th Century. So, if you absolutely immediately need to brush up on say your Rococo - this is the GO TO website for you!
Frugal is a lifetime choice I embrace with relish; it gives me the freedom to make choices as to how to allocate my time and $$. I refer to many sites for tips on how to ´do´ life cheap: http://www.everydaycheapskate.com/ is my ´flavor of the month´frugal website at the moment.
Sports wise as far as I am concerned, nothing but nothing beats a good game of hurling or camogie. But, I do enjoy watching any sport played at its best, a pursuit where excellence and integrity win out over winning. This You Tube links to moments in sport where integrity was the order of the day. Enjoy.... but I warn you, there are some links for which you will need a double dose of Kleenix on hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tAjxs__nkk
CELT: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/about.html
Celt blows my mind. It is a project where they are putting on the internet all early Irish writing, literature and history. All of it. I repeat, all of it. And not just for access for academics; moi found with ease information on several documents written or copied by Irish monks on the Island of Reichenau near where I live here in Germany.
All this ´electronifications´of old Irish texts is happening down in University College Cork U.C.C.
Lest you think I exaggerate, read CELT`s mission statement as found on their website.
Mission Statement
To bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly and user-friendly project for the widest possible range of readers and researchers. CELT (the Corpus of Electronic Texts) caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world. Texts are accompanied by introductions, background information, graphics, translations where possible, and scholarly bibliographies. CELT is integrated into the teaching and research community of UCC, and far beyond. It draws on the resources of that community and contributes to its work. UCC has charitable status, i.e. donations which help CELT continue its work can be made tax-effectively from Ireland and the USA (see Donations webpage).The languages used in Ireland in the historic past were many. Languages known to us through extant texts include Irish of all periods, English, Hiberno-Norman French, some Old Norse (including some runic inscriptions) and Latin. Other languages were used by clerics, political leaders, scholars, merchants, diplomats, or emigrants (Spanish, Italian, modern French, Provençal, Dutch, Danish).
So now dear readers, there you have some choices for browsing on your computer for those summer days where the days are not ideal for going out to live the world!
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