Posts by Lennard Ramone
A Recap of 2025.
Congratulations! You’ve reached the end of 2025! This also means that you reached the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. And that in itself means that pretty much all of you who are reading this were in the very special position to watch the turn of a century and you were in…
Read MoreWelcome!
Hello, and welcome to my new website! We worked on it for quite a while and I’m excited to get going! What can you expect? There are going to be stories, both long and short. There are going to be reviews of beers, bars, books, restaurants, movies and other things I come across on…
Read MoreMerry Christmas!
The season’s upon us, and everybody is gearing up for Christmas. This has thrown Whamageddon back in focus, as pubs, shops and malls play festive songs all day long. But! As as a cultured individual (you’re reading this, after all) you might occasionally get sick of hearing Wham, Mariah and Slade for the gazillionth time…
Read MorePlease don’t go!
As most of you know by now, I have recently started a new job and left Google after 7 years. The question that I get from a lot of people is: Why? Google is generally regarded as a very desirable company to work for and people don’t understand why I would give up a senior…
Read MoreThe Culchies guide to Dublin
Last Sunday, I was walking down the street, on my way to the pub, when a guy in a Kilkenny hurling shirt walked up behind me and shouted “UP THE CATS!!!” at the top of his lungs at about 4 inches from my ears because he saw someone across the street who was also wearing…
Read MoreSquid Game – Unanswered questions.
Unless you have been living under a large rock in the Line Islands for the past 9 months, you are probably aware that there is a hit tv show called Squid Game. To give a quick plot summary for the 4 people in the world who haven’t seen it yet- the show tells the tale…
Read MoreSo you want to be a craft beer bar.
Craft beer has been all the hype in recent years, so we, the insiders in the industry, thought it would be practical to set up some regulations to ensure the industry doesn’t get infected with cowboy entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck. Therefore, if you want to call yourself a craft beer bar, you…
Read MoreHostel Life – Part 1 – The types of people you meet in hostels.
Hi everyone, As life has been going back to normal in recent months, travel also became a possibility again, albeit with a stiff amount of research before booking, due to the ever shifting COVID regulations. After being locked up in Dublin for a year and a half, I finally took the bus to the airport…
Read MoreThe history of the Atomic Wave
The history of the Atomic Wave. When I was living in Holland, I was a member of a heavy metal fraternity at the University of Enschede, a city near the German border. Mind you, I never went to school there, I was just enrolled because a friend of mine was the founder of…
Read MoreStand and Deliver
In order to get to the main point of today’s story, I first need to explain something to you: the Irish postal system. Or, rather, the postal code system. Or, to be even more precise, the 2 postal code systems, because it’s Ireland so we have 2 systems for something that every other country has…
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