Dublin

So, was thinking about aranging a trip to Dublin next term.

Any one interested?  Any particular dates?

Will be approx £40 flights, £20 a night accomodation + beer and food.  So say £200 total.

Was thinking about the 28th Feb.

http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/10734.php

The Fallen

I have previously watched a programme on Sky 1 called Ross Kemp in Afghanistan and I have just watched a programme on BBC 2 called The Fallen tonight that I seriously encourage you all tonight to watch. The first is an account of life for a soldier on the front line and the second is documenting the effects of the deaths of the 300 military personnel killed while on operation in the past 7 or so years. Effectively Iraq and Afghanistan.

I feel no shame in admitting that I cried while watching both.

I felt quite ashamed at all the pain and suffering that could have been prevented. Don't misunderstand me here. I am not trying to make a political point here about being at war in the middle east or the legality of the whole thing, that is an argument for another day, however I have serious concerns about the conditions in which we are expecting men to wage war.

So I have made two decisions tonight. One inconvenient and one with serious ramifications. First I am seriously appalled at the conditions in which these men are expected to fight. We have sent them to a land thousand of miles away to fight and die for us, and we do not give them the finance and the equipment needed to do the task assigned to them.

While politicians may argue that defence spending has increased the past 10 years, we were not fighting two separate wars on the other side of the world 10 years ago and the budget has not increased nearly enough. There was a story a few weeks ago that the government was releasing a few tens of million of pounds to buy new vehicles. That seems like brilliant news, until you realise that the vehicles should have been replaced 5 years ago when it became apparent that we would not be seriously involved in northern Ireland in the foreseeable future and we were going to be fighting in the desert for quite some time. There are no where near enough men, supplies, helicopters and the quality of ammo and equipment is way below what it should be.

So I plan tomorrow to write to every person I believe could be in a position to effect some sort of positive outcome on this situation however unlikely it may be. I do not normally sign or agree with petitions or masses of letters because they are done in such large numbers for such insignificant things, however this is something that I am willing to fight and argue for in the strongest possible terms.

The second thing I plan to do is joining the TA. I planned to join the Territorial Army a few years back but never got around to getting into shape and being fit enough to pass the inevitable exams. However this is something I will change quite rapidly, and I am telling you all to try and gain your help in making sire that it happens. I shall join the TA and train as much as possible in the next two years. i shall refuse for the next two years to go to fight because I believe my degree is more important and I shall be in a better position to help more people when it is completed. However after I have graduated I shall have no problem with going to Afghanistan or anywhere else to lend a hand in defending our country and our freedoms and our way of life. Yes I may die, but if I die others will live, and I wish to do as much as possible to keep people alive.

So I am effectively writing this as a letter of my intentions so that I will not back out, and to ask for all of your help in achieving this and encouraging you all to join me to try and make the world a better place and keep the men who have volunteered to keep our country safe alive to fight another day.


J

Hypocrisy

Pope criticises pursuit of wealth

Anyone else see the giant golden stick?

Debatable

A slight variation on a common quote from a someone on XKCD forums.

Biologists think they are Biochemists
Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists
Physicists think they are God...


and God? He thinks he's a Mathematician.

Stats

So I signed up to a stat counter thing when I set up this blog, just out of curiosity really, and every coupple of months they send me an email with some stats. Here is one of the readouts from the last email.

Now obviously the ones from the UK are expected and the unidentified ones I assume are from the UK also, but there are issues with me seeing where they are, and the ones from the US can be possibly explained by Samir being there a while back. But who is looking at this in Ontario, Tel Aviv, Republika Srpska or Jiangsu????

Seriously, I want to know.

LHC 2

I have heard that some people believe that when the LHC is first used it will create miniature black holes that will devour the earth. Now I have thought about this, from a physics point of view, for a good 1o minutes and have decided that it is not going to happen and they are being daft.

I have also decided that from a quantum mechanical point of view there is no reason that the scenario set out in the 'Lynx 3' advert could not happen in reality - two colliding wave functions constructively interfering - and that 'Lynx 3' some how magically increases the probability of such an event occurring, and so I shall continue to buy it just in case.

LHC

Spore

Spore, so I went down to GAME yesterday morning to buy Spore on release day.

I have been looking forward to spore for ages.... and to be honest I am a bit disappointed.

It started off awesome, developing through the stages was fun and exciting acquiring DNA points and spending them to make yourself better. I have played the beginning stages twice, once as vicious and aggressive carnivore, and then again as gentle soft and cuddly omnivore. Both were fun in different ways, but both very similar, instead of ferociously building things to destroy something you ferociously build things to trade with something.

The space stage was very repetitive and required far to much micro-management, was way to awkward and took far to long to change viewpoints all of which became very frustrating very quickly. And seriously, only one ship? You can get more donated by your allies as the game progresses but they just follow you around and help out a bit. I want several (at least) ships that I can leave places to look after things, so that I can go exploring without having to race back to solve problems every 2 mins. You may get more ships as you travel through the game, but I don't know if I can put up with it for that long.

For a more thought out and better written review read this. I agree with it completely.

It was good and I will play it some more, I want to reach the galactic center, but in a few months/years time and I feel and urge to create a civilization and see it grow over time I think i will always reach for Sim-City 3000.

Things I wanted / expected from spore:

• The Cell stage to be longer (could be optional), there were bigger and better creatures than me when I "chose" to evolve legs, but when the option to evolve was given no matter how much I ate I collected no more DNA points s could not get bigger/better/stronger.

• The triabal stage to be a lot longer, more complex and more like Age of Empires in general.

• The city stage to be a lot longer, more complex more options for buildings, better control for the military/economic options, more options over all really, and in general a cross between Sim City and Red Alert

Notice a pattern? The game was good, but when you break it down into individual stages there are games that are better. Spore should have been at least as good as all the individual games but then linked them together, but it just is not.

Red Alert

Surprisingly I only heard about this a month or so ago, and to be honest I was not too happy about it. I expected that EA would make a hash of it by trying to make a sequel to the best game of all time. However looking at the trailers and reading some beta reviews it may turn out to be surprisingly half decent.

The graphics look good, without being to busy or complicated and overwhelming, they have kept a lot of classic Red Alert 2 things around. Such as the voices and the music, which still sound as brilliant now as they did 8 years ago, the maps and terrain have the same sort of look to them, they are open and bright and seem somehow familiar.

There are two things I am slightly worried about. The inclusion of a third faction, C&C have done thisfor a while now and I don't think they have ever gotten it to work all that well, The Scrin were just annoying, although it did add an interesting aspect to the game play when you are fighting two different factions at once, Generals was too shit to play to see if 3 factions worked well however there is always the exception of Yuri's Revenge, which was just an expansion to Red Alert 2 so borrowed a lot from its greatness and slightly improved graphics. The second is the emphasis on the naval warfare, I am not a big fan of it really, but judging from the videos and the walkthough they may have done it properly and it may turn out to be amazing... I just hope they do not do the same thing as Age of Empires 3 and make the water so visually intensive that even on the lowest settings a decent PC could not run one of the levels because of the sheer amount of lag created. The release date is the end of October, by which point I shall have my new PC, so hopefully the water will not be an issue.

I am actually quite looking forward to it. And now back to waiting for spore to be released tomorrow.

EVE

This exactly mirrors my experience with EVE. I was a bit bored a few weeks ago and decided to give the 14 day free trial a go. After 2 hours of staring at tiny buttons with no obvious labeling or organization and deciphering unintelligible sub menus in the space port only to buy missiles that I could not attach to my ship because I had the wrong something (not entirely sure what, attaching skills possibly) I gave up and went back to watching repeats of Top Gear on Dave.

Woah

Seriously weird.

http://www.jeffbridges.com/images/somethingtodo1.gif

Hancock

I watched Hancock yesterday, and was really really disappointed! I was expecting a lot from the film with all those amazing trailers floating around the interwebs.

I think the main problem with it is the length, it was not given enough time to have a decent story. Seriously, name a decent film that only last 1:20.

Next main issue (spoilers by the way) is the random introduction of the woman superhero / villan / wife.

All in all what could have been an amazing film turned out to be terrible. I would advise torrenting if you really want to see it and not spending any sort of money on it.

Put some music on your food

Good news all!

Subway have started selling subs with reggae reggae sauce!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae_Reggae_Sauce

Concerned

What is going on in the world? Seriously, one of the new Coldplay songs is not actually that bad.

Expect frogs, locusts and water turning to blood any time soon.

Hmmm

I have this really weird feeling in the bottom of my stomach right now. I cannot decide if I am feeling guilty for something, but cannot remember what (there is a lot to choose from), or if it is yet another symptom of the huge hang over I had today.

Either way I do not like it and would really rather it would stop.

I am

Stolen from http://friendlyatheist.com/2008/06/18/i-am/ who in turn stole it from http://dcberner.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-am.html

I live in a world of people, animals, places, things, ideas, time, space, matter, energy, forces, galaxies, quasars, mesons, and bosons. I live in a universe that seems self-sustaining and acts a whole lot like there’s no God in it. I am an Atheist.

I believe I have not yet sufficiently investigated the myriad of religious, spiritual experiences others claim to have had, and that there are too many well-educated, intelligent people who claim religious belief without a hint of shame, to discount the existence of an otherworld completely. I am an Agnostic.

I believe the teachings of Christ regarding positive social change and mercy to the oppressed are just a bit too clear a message of the gospel to be swept up as a minor sub-plot to securing an eternal country club membership for oneself. I am a Christian.

I believe that by and large, suffering is brought on by the mindless pursuit of people’s desires, and that suffering can be mitigated by increasing one’s awareness, tempering one’s desires, and following a couple relatively intuitive guidelines. I am a Buddhist.

I believe that in small and loosely organized groups of people, the voluntary sharing and distribution of wealth provides badly needed assistance to many without the means to achieve or produce it on their own. I am a Communist.

I believe that governments should not prevent human beings from doing whatever they wish, so long as they are not a danger to others. I believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, not just those who have the means to afford it or who act a certain way or whose skin is a particular color. I am a Liberal.

I believe in the right of all people to seek monetary gain by their own means and increase their standing in society through honest work. I am a Capitalist.

I believe in responsible control of public funds over increased taxation. I support the use of force to prevent one human being from harming another. I am a Conservative.

I believe that no self-sufficient living organism should have to fear a superfluous death for the selfish desires of another. I am pro-life.

I believe that an acorn is not an oak tree, and that what could have been is not what is. I support the right of a family to decide when raising a child is right for them, including in the early weeks of pregnancy, without fear of backlash. I am pro-choice.

I am a person who despises labels and categorizing. I am a whole person with many beliefs and views (some of which are contradictory and conflicted), hopes and dreams, worries and fears, qualities and quirks, delights and aversions. I would prefer that you take the time to get to know me rather than try and pigeonhole me from something someone said about me or something I wrote on a blog at one point or another.

I agree with those definitions, and I am Atheist, Buddist, Communist, Liberal, Capitalist, Conservative, Pro-Choice and Pro-Life. I also could not work out how to turn itallics off after the quote.

Reader

Has anyone else's Google Reader stopped working? For the last few hours now mine has not been allowing me to see feeds. It tells me at the top how many are unread, but then will not actually load any.

Strange.

And yes, I am aware that if you all use Google, and they are all broken, that no one will answer this.

Doctor Who

As predicted, this weeks and last weeks episodes were awesome!

I now predict that next weeks will be quite good, but the one after really quite bad.

To be honest, so far Tate has not been as annoying as expected, but that just goes to show how annoying I expected her to be.

Iran

So, I have been reading a bit about Iran recently, and things seem to be kicking off again. But I am unsure how I think about this, I do not know enough about the situation to have a proper opinion. I was extremely angry when out sailors were held by them last year, and if i were in command Tehran would be a crater now.

But I have been thinking. They want nuclear weapons (supposedly), why should they not have them? What is so special about the UK, US, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel? I agree that the less nuclear weapons in the world the better (up to a point) but what right do we have to deny Iran, or any country, the right to have all means of defense at their disposal.

Some argue that they would just use them to bomb Israel, but why? The whole point of the weapons is that if you use one on another nuclear power you will be destroyed. So then people point out that if a radical jihadist were in control they would not care, but then look at America and how many religious fundamentalists there are(both in power and not) and we have been OK so far.

So, surely is not better to let countries who want the weapons have them out in the open so that the safeguards and program itself can be monitored and made safe and secure, rather than forcing them underground into the hands of the fundamentalists.

So my point really is that if Iran, or anyone else, really wants nuclear weapons they will find a way to acquire some. So surely it would be better to encourage them to do it in the open, rather then threatening to invade if they try to gain the technology, hence forcing them into hiding and increasing the risks of an accidental detonation or some splinter group or faction getting their hands on them.

Opinions? Arguments? are all welcome.

The Empire Lives

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3041/six-degrees-of-wikipedia

- Awesome!

About Me

I do not have Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

WTF

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-japan-closet-woman,0,3514188.story

HeHeHe

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa74/harrowlawl/sciencevsreligion.jpg

Also, I still despise Thermo. However Statistical Physics is slightly easier to get along with.

See y'all on the other side of the exam.

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2279/2386684684_9db54ab0e2.jpg

Dr Who

Watched Eurovision last night, it was actually quite fun but I would have liked Dr who to be on in the interval instead of the basketball/ice skating stuff. We turned over and caught the end of Shrek before the voting.

But good news people, the next two were written by Steven Moffat and from the sounds of the spoilers it should turn out to be another Blink.

Defenses

The walls are going up!

Google

Check this out (possibly NSFW)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=will+of+god&btnG=Search

Politics

So, I am quite interested in politics. I have even considered it as a career on many occasions, and probably will continue to do for a long time.

I consider myself a Conservative, but a slightly unusual one. I do so because I believe in the general ideas behind the party (I genuinely get annoyed when people insists on supporting something simply because of the man at the top) , lower taxes, less bureaucracy, smaller government and just generally leaving people alone. This especially worries me. I do have one grievance though, I think Grammar schools are amazing. I do not care what anyone else thinks, I would not be here without them.

So onto the long rambling points of the post.

1, Labour are now polling third, after even the Lib Dems!

2, Something that makes no sense to me...

The campaign slogan for the election Labour will loose on Thursday(?) is

"Do you want a Tory con man or a Dunwoody?"

Now this confuses me. I have read in the papers and have seen many pictures that the whole labour campaign has been about the Tory candidate coming from a well off family, hence he has inherited most of his good fortune. So the argument is that if he were not born into the family, he would not even be considering running for the position.

I am curious, how is this different than a hereditary passing of a seat in parliament from Mother to Daughter? With the only reason she is being put forward is that she was born into the correct family.......

Idiot

I forget whether it is Insanity or Stupidity that is defined by doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result. Anyway, I expect both really apply in this situation.

Fortunately I am not completely retarded and noticed that I was doing it before anything became too seriously ingrained. Nothing shall change externally, but my intentions, expectations and state of mind shall.

Yes, I am being cryptic, and Yes, it is intentional. This is just a public admission of my stupidity, which will hopefully help me avoid such things in the future.....

Also, on a lighter note, when I mis-spelled different "differant" earlier in the post, Firefox gave me two spelling suggestions.

1, Different

2, Differ Ant

Just found this a bit unusual.

Also, how is exam prep going for y'all??

Unkown Debt

Apparently I owe the Pope $30500.

http://holysee.biz/Papal_Indulgince/indulgence.htm

Shopping

I seriously underestimated how much 5 KG of pasta was, along with 3 KG of meat. It would have been easier to just have a cow, and a pasta tree, in the back garden to occasionally take chunks out of.

Annoyances

My laptop has developed the annoying habit of turning itself off when it gets hot. This is particularly annoying because after being turned on for an hour it reaches approximately the same temperature as the sun.

Firefox has also developed the annoying habit of occasionally refusing to load any new pages until it is completely shut down and a new window opened.

My right eye is also very dry this evening, but I do not expect a solution to that.

Hmmm

Have you ever known a person for ages, and really liked them (friend or otherwise) and then met them again after a coupple of years and been really disappointed that the things you liked most about them have not gone, but on the contrary become much more pronounced and made them completely different from your memories and expectations?

I don't like change, and I should not meet up with old friends that I have not seen in 2 years.

There are of course exceptions.

Also more thoroughly testing posting in the future.

Have I Got New For You?

Well, Yes. I do actually.

First off, future posting does not work. I posted something 24 hours in the future, and it still showed up in the RSS feed. Kind of takes the point away.

Also, you should all watch Have I got News for You. I went to see the recording on Thursday and it was hilarious. Although I suspect much will be cut out for legal reasons. Watch out for the Elvis material, for every minute you see there were 20 others. It may be on Saturday or Friday, I am not sure. If you missed it grab a torrent or watch the repeat. I may even be on iPlayer.

Rome

So I went to Rome and it is actually the most amazing place in the world. I plan to buy a holiday home there at some time.

Things that are different in Rome :

The traffic is mental, I was nearly ran over so many times. The green walking man seems to be more of a guide line than a rule, along with lanes, zebra crossings and stop signs.

The Tube / Metro. In London the first rule about the tube is, you do not talk on the tube. The second rule of the tube is, you DO NOT talk on the tube. This does not seem to be the case in Rome, and can you guess what film I watched recently? There are also TVs showing adverts on the Metro, which is just annoying, on the train and the platform. They are really loud, big posters are just much better.

Ate loads of Pasta, Pizza and Ice Cream. I went to this one restaurant type place right on top of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, a place I had never heard of before but it is Huge and hosts the tomb of the Italian Unknown Soldier. And you could see the whole city, I have pictures at home somewhere. It would take to long to talk about everything that was amazing there, it just all was.

I had my first £120 meal in Rome (between 2), and it was actually the best thing I have ever eaten. I brought lots of presents. My sister a Prada handbag, my Dad a box of cigars and a crate of wine. It then brought a lot of stuff for myself. Coffee, Cheese, Cigars, Wine, Crazy Lemon Liqueur, Chocolate, Suit, Sunglasses etc. etc. I think the funniest thing, which I did not buy, was the pasta in novelty shapes. They had any shape you could want, and I do mean any. (Yes Penis shaped is very much included)

If you have not been you should go. I can imagine it would be an amazing place to take a girlfriend for a holiday.

If you do go, stay in a place called Suite of Rome, I can give you the address. Cheap and excellent service.

Late

I wonder if you could sue Tesco if you died of starvation while waiting, if the food you ordered was late being delivered.

London

I am back in London, poker at the weekend anyone?

Sexy Prime

So, apparently prime numbers can be sexy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_prime

Also I just got Rickroll'd for the first time while following a link from XKCD trying to find the hard drive techno track.

EDIT:

I followed another link from the forums and got to this. It is so bad it is hilarious.

Home

I am back, did you all miss me?

Problems with Fun

Okay, I have realised what my problem is with not having fun. I am not the most hardworking of students, but I found myself thinking when how to organise such fun

"I have exams soon, how am I going to fit it in before Exams? I shall have to do it next term, but wait. It is my last year then, it is worth a lot of my degree I need to work"

Now this is one of the many reasons I want to do another degree, I feel I have wasted this one by not being enough of a student. Unfortunately I may not do another one, so all you helpful people out there have got to stop me wasting this one.

I find myself too easily just spending a night watching TV because it is too cold or too far to go to go out. This needs to change.

I also need to do some exercise and go to the gym and stop eating so much pizza and ice cream, but I shall think about that more later..... after I get back from eating lots of ice cream and pizza in Rome. When in Rome......

Fun + Rome

I am off to Rome in a few hours, which should be good fun. I enjoyed it the last time I went years ago and am very much looking forward to it now.

My intention to spend the week dressed in a Toga was overruled by the people I am going with, I was only trying to be authentic. Unfortunately I was not trusted when I tried to convince them that everyone else would be wearing them. I also intend to use the phrase "When in Rome....." as often as humanly possible while there.


Also I need to have more fun in London. I just received an email from a friend slightly further north, at a quite a good University (To stop the argument the worse uni you go to the more fun you have) and from the email there are all sorts of things happening on what I must assume is a weekly basis that I do not remember being part of in London. There is always the possibility I was too drunk, but I doubt I have ever been drunk enough to forget what has been described.

So when we all get back we need to arrange some women, some cider and some cards. To start with anyway.

South Park and Doctor Who

I still maintain the South Park is the only TV show to get better the longer it goes on. To begin with it was just 4 kids messing around with Kenny dying every now and again. Then around seasons 5 to 8 there were eppisodes such as Scott Tenorrman must die, A Ladder to Heaven and The Return of the Fellowship of the ring to the Two Towers. The last one being about getting some LOTR porn back from butters and some 'big kids'.

Then who could predict it could get even better?

Season 10 onwards has rewarded us with greats such as The WoW episode, the British trying to recapture the US, Imaginationland, Cartman getting Aids and giving it to Kyle and so on.

Then the three most recent episodes, which I watched last night, were three of the best so far. The first was a parody of the Holocaust using cats, and Cartman ironically trying to save them by hiding them in his attic (and actually at one point telling one of them to write a diary). The next was about Canada going on strike, and in turn reunited us all with forgotten internet fads. Who can remember this guy?




Then the most recent episode was about Mr / Mrs Garrison. For those not familiar with South Park, G started off a straight guy, then decided he was gay (hence introducing Mr Slave who at one point put a live hamster in his ass), then got a sex change to be a straight woman (at one point creating an atheistic future with Richard Dawkins), then became a lesbian (in a 300 parody) and now has just got a sex change back to a man again by growing a new penis on the back of a mouse.

Seriously the two guys who write all this stuff are just geniuses.


Now Dr. Who. Predictably again it was rubbish, there are two or three decent episodes a season and this was not one of them and I don't expect the next one to be either. I am personally looking forward to Silence in the Library in a few weeks. There are no details about it yet, but being written by the same guy as Blink it should be awesome.

Also I thought Caecilius died in Pompeii. Or I could just be remembering my year 9 latin incorrectly. I did spend most of the 45 mins trying to work out how they were going to save Quintus (who I remember surviving).

It is incredibly interesting how much everyone knows about this one family. Especially considering how long ago it was. I suspect I know more about Quintus and Caecilius than anyone else from that time, mythical or not. I also distinctly remember him being a banker or a merchant, not a marble craftsman.

TV

In case some of you were not aware, and i was not until a minute ago and looked it up out of curiosity, there are now new episodes of South Park, Scrubs, NCIS, and CSI with House and Shark starting at the end of the month.

Unfortunately I read somewhere a while back that Heroes will not be back until the end of the year, someone please tell me that I am wrong.

Inconsistency

Why do things change?

There was a time that on a Friday night I would automatically know that I would be out later. I cannot remember one in the last 3 years or so that I have been at home and have not been. The group is beginning to break apart. One person has decided to stay in Scotland for the holidays and another came back only for a week. So I am now wondering if this is the point where the life before London finishes disappearing.

I am also about to move house again, for the 5th time in less 18 months. Yet more change.

But then again, maybe it is a good thing. I always remember things before being better than things now, but were they? I only remember the good things of the past, yet I remember the good and the bad things of the present. Perhaps it is just inevitable that the small group of close friends I had then will be replaced by the small group I have now. And then they in turn are replaced when I leave Imperial? Moving house and changing groups of friends often seems like a good way not to get attached to anything for too long, which I suppose is a sensible strategy even if it is mostly unintentional.



I also discovered today my old chat logs for MSN, I had a program to record all the conversations I had for future reference. I spent a large amount of time today reading a lot of old conversations, and mostly thinking what an idiot I was. I will give no examples because the conversations I read were quite personal, but I am sure all of you have heard me say something incredibly stupid that if I were to remember it I would regret saying it. The only difference between then and now is that I was sober then. So perhaps I am learning.

Which makes me wonder if there will ever be a point in my life where I will look back to 6 months or a year previously and not think 'Jesus Christ I was retarded then.' I am already starting to do this with my first year in London.



Tech part - I have no idea what the difference between Atom and RSS is, I simply ticked the box telling google to put a link for a feed on the page. However I was warned before doing so that it is still a beta feature of the site, so may break.



Also you should watch this:

It is part of a Newsnight I watched a while ago. The first part was about 'Brain Gym' which is being taught in schools, which tells us that if you press parts of your body it makes blood flow to different parts of the brain, allowing us to learn different things better.






Now I have never liked biology and avoided it as much as possible after GCSE, I even dropped chemistry post AS, after learning there was a biology module. But even I know that it is bollocks.

Unfortunately this does not come close to the stupidity in Andy's post about the universe fitting into a small space so there is no mass only energy, and using that and some random string theory in your ears thrown in along with Stephen Hawking being on a mission from God it is possible to revert people back into previous energy states, hence curing disease with water while presumably charging lots of money.

After watching you really need to wash yourself with some Feynman.

Sleep Deprevation

Why?

I still have no idea why I constantly deprive myself of sleep. Even in the holidays when I can sleep when ever I want, I still feel the need to stay up very late and then sleep until mid-day. Why not go to bed at a reasonable time and then wake up at a reasonable time????? I am doing nothing now that requires being awake at 02:00, in fact I am slightly procrastinating to avoid going to bed.


This is also testing the 'future post' thing Google have added in. It should be posted 8 mins after typing. Also note the RSS box now on the right, if it does not work blame Google.

Interesting + Deja Vu

So, first off. Something that I had not planned to write about. I just got a huge Deja Vu while typing in the Tags for this post. I am now going to look it up in Wikipedia, to try and find out what it is. I get them all the time, and while a kid always wondered if I was dreaming the future and just could not really remember them. I then spent ages trying to remember all my dreams and write them down and every few days cross checking to see if any of them had happened.

Music, you should all listen to this:



It is not in English, but is hypnotic and actually quite cool. Stolen from http://noiseandruckus.tumblr.com/

Also, something interesting I have learnt today. Elephants are actually afraid of mice. I always assumed it only happened in cartoons, but it was tested on Mythbusters and apparently they actually are.

First Post

So, I feel an introduction and explanations should probably come first.

I am Josh, but if you did not know that email me. Seriously, I want to know if anyone reads this that I do not already know.


So, why start a blog?


Well I often think of amazing and interesting things to tell people and then forget to tell anyone, or only tell some people and then assume everyone knows. So now I can simply write things here and then, assuming everyone I know or will ever meet reads this, I have no need to continually tell different people the same thing. Which will in turn further reduce my need to socially interact with others, which is always a good thing.

So when I decided I wanted a blog, the first thing I did was go to blog.com which turned out to be rubbish. So then predictably I turned to google, which supplies everything else useful and easy to use on t'internet. If I continue with this for a while I may learn some code and create something decent, but don't expect that to happen any time soon.

I have an imaginary list of things to talk about to start off with that I will probably forget about by tomorrow. I will also throw a small, slightly metaphorical, party if this lasts more than 10 posts.

You may also notice the ads in the top right. They are there because when setting this up, I saw a box to tick asking me if I wanted to make money from adsense. You should click on them every now and again. All of your own free will, I am sure they will all be interesting.