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Filed under 'scotland'
➠ January 16, 2010
Scots 'drink 46 bottles of vodka'
“People in Scotland drank 25% more alcohol per head of population than individuals in England and Wales.”
Is it wrong that I read this and felt a sense of nationalistic pride?
➠ August 4, 2008
Deep Fried Scotland
Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.
➠ June 13, 2008
What is a Munchy Box?
The culinary minds in Scottish chip shops that brought your the deep-fried pizza have a new creation. (They can give me American nationality, but since I’m sorely tempted by this, it’s clear they’ll never take away my Scottish heritage)
➠ May 16, 2008
➠ August 28, 2007
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: More from Glasgow
Fake Steve takes on the Scots: “The real winners in all of this are the phone sales reps who work for Apple in California. Until now they been given the unlucky job of trying to take orders over the phone from Scotland. They’ve never been able to understand what the fuck these miserable Scots are asking for. Have you ever actually talked to a Scottish person? And not one that’s been living in America for a while and has learned to speak English, like Bono”
➠ August 13, 2007
Real Life Comics - comic strip for August 10, 2007
I need to get myself a t-shirt with a traffic cone on it, clearly.
➠ May 4, 2007
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Review under way on voting chaos
Who would have thought that having three different voting systems (First past the post, regional list, and STV) on one ballot paper would cause confusion? Gah!
➠ September 4, 2006
Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map
My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.
➠ September 3, 2006
Highland Cows
On the way south from Inverness, Joy finally managed to spot some Highland Cows. She hopped out with the camera, and I discovered that she likes cows the same way I like penguins.
➠ August 31, 2006
G005 DUK
My dad's license plate. Makes sense if you know he's a wildfowler.
Interactive Art
A painting of a bored marriage, flanked by LCD screens where visitors can add what they think the subjects of the painting are thinking. Watching previous and new entries going by was great fun. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Rabbie Guevara
Scotland's national poet, in a t-shirt meme stylee. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Donald Dewar
Sculpture of the first First Minister of the Scottish Parliament. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Six Million Dollar Tiger
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
St. Michael’s Sushi
Things have changed -- Marks & Spencers sell sushi next to the sandwiches?!
➠ August 24, 2006
Pygmy Hippos
Rhino
A great one-horned rhino.
Penguin Nests
Fact I learned at the zoo: Gentoo Penguins expell their shit out their arse over a metre, to keep it away from their nests. It's really quite breathtaking to behold.
Fringe e-ticket Tent
A vast improvement over the mile-long queue at the High Street box office -- You just surf the Fringe website on one of forty PCs, order online, then pick your tickets up at the desk.
➠ August 19, 2006
Joy, Asleep, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
Joy hadn't had enough sleep, and her epilepsy was playing up, so for her, the walking tour of Kilmainham Gaol was more of a napping-and-leaning tour.
➠ June 29, 2006
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say: Where next for national identity?
Fascinating bitchfest on the BBC discussion site around Scottish folks not supporting England in international sporting events. Interestingly, most of the kneejerk racist comments are from the English, accusing Scots, amongst other things, of being “bitter miserable idiots”.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.