Sunday, September 11th, 2011
As another Summer ends, the new academic year approaches, and I for one welcome it with open arms. While I enjoyed having a break after exams, four months of doing little of note has been a tad monotonous…
I must own up to having finally replaced my ageing laptop, as it had become somewhat of a counter-productive tool. That is not to say that the old laptop is now useless – it will most likely be employed as a Plex box when I move back to university. Anyone keen on using digital music/video content on their television via a computer should check out Plex, a most excellent open source project, whose homepage can be found here.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
As my many faithful readers may have noticed, there has been a distinct lack of new content on my blog for the past few months. To be honest, my life has been fairly boring, with little to write about.
Therefore, I have summarised the past few months in bullet point form:
June
- Received exam results
- Stopped driving for the following twelve months
- Realised there were no summer jobs left
July
- Celebrated my birth
- Worked on a farm
- Went to see James Taylor, at the O2
August
- Wrote my first haiku
- Renovation work for my parents
That’s all there is to say really! I may come back and edit this post if I realise I’ve left something out.
For those interested, here is my first attempt at a haiku, written as a birthday message:
Birthday time for you,
Enjoy gifts, cake, joy and food,
On my way home after seeing Uncaged Monkeys with my housemate Rhys. It was pretty damned awesome. I have a new appreciation for particle physics etc. – things I haven’t really learned about during my formal scientific education. There was still coverage of statistics and other related disciplines applicable to my career path.
I heard criticisms of this kind of event, with suggestions that the scientists aren’t ‘real’ scientists, but ‘pop’ scientists. Even if that was true, the importance of educating the general public audience overrides the snobbery of classification of scientists…
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
I came across this recipe online, not quite realising the quantity of chocolate it required…
Half a kilo of chocolate later along with some peripheral ingredients, I began my suicide by chocolate. In all honesty they are very good and rich, you wouldn’t realise they featured creme eggs unless you were shown the recipe…
Fortunately, I have kept up my new bout of running, ensuring some kind of equilibrium between gluttony and health. A total of approximately 16 miles since the 14th of April now, which I am fairly chuffed with. Paula seems to have abandoned me, leaving with me with Lance Armstrong to congratulate me upon my ever increasing distances covered.
I have made the observation that a lot of professional athletes seem to be caught making silly faces. This makes me feel like an athlete, as my face is permanently silly…
Everything has been too quiet lately; I think it may be a precursor to exams, and I may just have been lulled into a fall sense of security.
I decided to attempt Nike’s 26 mile challenge last month, but of course failed. I did manage to increase the frequency of which I had been going for runs by about 500% though, so in my eyes I’m still a winner…heh.
I was most disconcerted when Paula Radcliffe decided to congratulate me on my ‘longest run so far’ on my Nike+ running system this evening. Having done some investigative Googling into this disturbance, I have to admit I am now looking forward to Tiger Woods offering me words of encouragement as I smash through the boundaries of another running milestone, though what relevance he has to running, I don’t really know…
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Its not even because I’ve been busy, I’m just impressively lazy, if I may say so myself.
Not too long till exams now and in traditional student fashion I am nowhere near ready! I guess the customary deletion of facebook and other distractions will occur soon enough. My condolences go out to Toby, who probably has far more work/revision to do/blag!
Peace…
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
I hate you all!
…only kidding. Just some of you…
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
I realise I haven’t ‘blogged’ for a while, I’ve been quite busy with university work and trying to keep warm/healthy.
Now I have returned home to London, so hopefully I can waste a bit more time with blog posts, photography, eating etc.
Oh, by the way, I’m snowed in…photos later, maybe…?
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Does anybody know of a good way to make work disappear for a while? I want to enjoy being ill and prescribe copious amounts of bed rest, sleep, and reading…
Friday, November 5th, 2010
I’m heading off to Somerset tonight, in order to see the Bridgwater light festival again. Hopefully the weekend won’t end as tragically as last year when I managed to smash my camera lens on the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Oops…
I’ve nearly finished Catch-22 now, I see myself in Yossarian quite a lot. My facetious tendencies are very endearing…just ask my parents. He he he…
