Category Archives: Heroes

The Monday Morning Quote #341 – November 2015 – Steve Jobs #1

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I haveContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #341 – November 2015 – Steve Jobs #1”

The Who – Spero ante decessero senescunt.

THE WHO today confirmed that they are postponing all remaining dates on their “THE WHO HITS 50!” North American tour.  They had initially postponed FOUR shows on doctors orders after Roger Daltrey contracted a mystery virus.  Initially it was hoped that the rest of the tour might proceed, but after extensive tests the seriousness ofContinue reading “The Who – Spero ante decessero senescunt.”

Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks has died in New York. There is a full obituary in The Guardian here. I read the piece (below) in the New York Times earlier this year after listening to a review of his autobiography. Like most of us I would like to think that I could be so eloquent aboutContinue reading “Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.”

A Doctor’s Sword

Susan & I went to the multiplex cinema in Bantry last night to see the documentary film “A Doctor’s Sword”. The late Pete McCarthy wrote that, “you should never pass a bar with your name on it” and his travelog “McCarthy’s Bar” features a (photoshopped) photograph of MacCarthy’s bar in Castletownbere on the Beara peninsula.Continue reading “A Doctor’s Sword”