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A House, A Community

So, I thought about this a while ago. You always hear about those houses stuffed full of computers, but I have my doubts on their usefulness. Even though that's the case, here's some ideas for one:

They've got to the socks!

What is it these days with disposablitiy? Everything is disposable, and so everything is meant to be disposed of quickly. Strange logic, I know, but alas it seems to be that way. Even socks are now disposable it seems. Some of my socks are at least 3 years old this Christmas, probably more for some pairs. And yet the ones I got last year, every single one of them, has sprouted holes and thus needed to be disposed of… Why? Is it impossible to make socks that last longer than 2 weeks now? Has some sort of regression in technology left the sock factories using a particularly poor quality pattern? Nope….its just everyone expects to be able to be rid of things quickly…shame on you people, shame on you

Excuses

Yeah, I know, I havent been round much as of late…., too much doing shit all tbh. Havent had chance to program, havent had the motivation to do anything. I’ve read far too many books, spammed too many forums, and generally been too relaxed.

I doubt I will pass this year at uni and tbh, I couldnt care less… its doing nothing for me, I’m not even really enjoying music and computing societies THAT much. I didnt even attempt to go in for the last week of term.

I emailed my last summers work again, to see if he would take me up again this year. He hasnt emailed me back and its been about a month…guess that shows how good I was.

I’ve had programming tasks swimming round in my brain for a while, fleshing out. Some of them I would love to see made/used/etc. but I have absolutely no motivation to sit down and work it out. Whenever I do, I end up getting sucked into configuring my server a little bit, or writing a library to reinvent the wheel.

I also have tried to make a few scripts for things like exposing a forum database as json, and backing up a thread, but nobody wanted them, so I gave up and went home.

Man, I miss having fun.

Uni-eed to here this!

So, I went back to uni last week, (after like 4 months or something) and last year, after enrolling, I got an email saying I hadn’t enrolled on the right Computing modules. I do Computer Science and Maths, so there is two sets of modules to enrol on. I thought this strange considering that I just accepted the default set of modules, assuming that they would all be present and selected. It turns out I missed off two. Another problem was that I seemed to be over subscribed (I had too many modules), and this is where it gets interesting.

On the Friday before term started (a week and a day ago) I went and saw both the Maths and the Computing department administrators, The maths dept. said I was on all the right courses, and the Comp dept. said they would sign me up to the two missing modules once they had access to the system (it was down for maintenance..). So I though everything was fine, I constructed my timetables accordingly, and went to lectures and had a generally fun time.

I also signed up to the music society and its orchestra, and the computing society :D. I attended the first practice of the orchestra on Wednesday, in a slot usually taken by a Computing practical but which doesn’t start untill week 3, in two weeks time. This will mean I wont be able to practice with the orchestra at all…which is shit :(. They have the freshers concert tomorrow, where all the music groups go and show what they do, I believe it is mainly for the people that havent played in an ensemble before, but I cant wait :D. I also have an audition on Monday, which I have no idea how its going to go down…having no piece to play, and probably not being able to play anything anyway. I can only play whilst ‘behind’ an orchestra >.> but it will be a good time to bring up what the heck I will be able to do… it will be a pity if I cant do it because of a lab session :(

Then, yesterday, I had an interview with my academic tutor (I think thats her title), in the maths department, and she looked at my course listing, and found that I was on completely the wrong set of courses, AND I was over subscribed by 3 modules. So I dropped Probability and Statistics (YAY!!!!) and also Complex Analysis and took up the module I was missing and the following module. So now I hope I am sorted. :D

Well that’s about it. Bye for now

Well well well...

Its been a while, hasnt it…

And many a thing hath ‘gone down’ hehe.

For one, I got a job, spent two months walking to work through the English countryside and creating a Sonar program in C#.

After which I spent around a month doing very little, apart from screwing with my server so now it doth-not work.

And for most of that month (from the weekend that I finished work to about 2 weeks ago) my internet was down/flakey as hell. On the Saturday after I finished work, our phoneline got struck by lightning. Our phoneline magically gained a massive dose of intermittent static. It took 5 phone calls to my ISP, 3 of their technicians and 2 BT technicians to fix it. Eventually they replaced the ancient wiring between our house and the pole, and after that it was pretty much clean.

Whilst I was with no nets, I read a selection of books, including Alastair Reynolds’ epic in Relevation Space, and then the Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix which I thoughtfully enjoyed. I then headed for the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, reading the last book, Brsinger, for the first time.

After getting back web-side I caught up with my feeds, which were OVER 9000!…only kidding, though they were probably close to 5k, with at least 2k of which being tech-news. And over 300 were comics, which was great, I laughed for a prolonged period

I also re-discovered Dragonmount and their spam boards, upon which I met some great people. Upon one of which this post was inspired and is dedicated to. Her nickname is Meesh, and her caricature a squirrel. She spammed with me, and I spammed with her. (Now I know what your thinking…but alas! Twas not so! :D )

We added each other upon MSN and became avid chatterers, both major WoT fanatics (obviously) and also great fans of fantasy fiction in general. Her in love, and in a LDR, me in not very much at all. She a fresh(wo)man starting courses in many interesting subjects, me a computer-science and maths second-year. Her interested in psychoanalysis, me in need of a shrink ( :P ). So yeah, we have been talking quite a bit for about a month and a bit.

Then she comes on today and starts saying stuff like “you’re awesome” and “its been great” and I am like…”shıt, she thinks I fancy her, or I am being overbearing or something”. It turns out that would have been a simpler situation, and at least one I would have experience in dealing with. Lets just say she has now got me blocked pending a time upon which she stops considering me a threat upon her welfare. That sounds so bad, but dont worry, it was I that suggested it. I cant help but feel responsible in part to this, due to my over-enthusiastic (maybe??) complementation of her…Ahh well, I am happy to wait as long as she isnt unhappy :)

I just realised

I just realised that I wont be able to go and spend an awesome time with some awesome friends, to go on the first expedition I have ever been invited to and wanted to go on because I have a job that I dont really care about. I have the job to earn money I dont want so I can pay off a loan I dont mind having. I miss all the fun in the world in the name of money.

Money: Destroying fun since its creation.

An experience and 2/3....

So I started this day off thinking about blogging about my fathers ‘maturing’ mental state. He is seriously starting to cause suspicions towards me, and that’s especially worrying as he is a psychiatric nurse. Ahh well. That was at the Fish Steps, waiting to be picked up.

After getting in it started to rain, quite heavily, and then hail, and then rain some more. So we decided to forgo the price difference and park in a multistory. And heres where it began. Our driver, the awesome Corkers, doesnt know how to bay park, being newly passed. She kinda knocked her wing-mirror off 0.o, but luckily it just popped back on. By the time we escaped the carpark it had stopped raining, so we wondered round town for a few hours. Went to Juicafe for a quick shake, and a few games of Othello, Jenga, and Connect4. Then we set off home, scraping her car on the way out (damn bollards).

This is where it gets interesting, she was quite tetchy (understandable, after hurting her precious car) and the two in the back (I was in the front) were being quite childish, throwing things round and being a tad hyper, not that surprising after eating eee numbers..but hey. Corkers got angry, at them/us and at a few drivers that were quite annoying. She then tried to overtake a caravan wanting to get in the lane we were in…quite an experience :D

Ahh the joys of life.

Eating Logic

Yep, just decided to (after eating a chocolate cornflake cake) quantise my eating habits. And can I just point out, that my mother makes the most AWESOME cakes ever. She is a top notch baker/chef. I once thought saying “Its like a party in my mouth -“….wait, oh poop I have forgotten my awesomely witty change to that quote… damn. I think that was regarding some awesome batch of bread she knocked up. It caused me to “wow” to myself.

So, I was looking at noming either a cornflake cake, a bread bun, a slice of Christmas-ish cake (IE crimbo cake that was neither made to celebrate that particular event or being eaten/made at that point in time), or cutting into a banana bread. The fact that the banana bread was still complete and whole made me not take any of that (due to not wanting to be the first, and because I am lazy). The Christmas-ish cake is “running out” so I didnt take a slice of that (its also ontop of a cupboard, and I am lazy). The bread is a rarity (there’s a limited number of rolls) and I like it more than the cornflake cakes, so that left said cornflake cakes. I dont particularly mind running out of them, because they aren’t my favourite (chocolate generally isn’t, to me) and because they were the most plentiful (they were also right in the way). Another thing that I can eat without remorse is fairy cakes (which are especially awesome, cause I eat the mixture before washing the pots up, hehe)

Also, coincidentaly, I was playing portal.

PS: Whilst typing this, we had dinner, and we ended up cracking into the banana cake, and I have a slice right here with me now :D.

Letting Someone Down

I want to cry…. in fact I did start….but stopped soon after…cause soon after starting, my mother and her sister would have ended up questioning me as to what was up…. and I cant exactly tell them its their fault. Well most people probably could, but not me. I am far too shy to actually talk to my parents about anything serious. But the thing is, I would sometimes like to tell them stuff, but its just too hard, it really is…oh now I have started crying….

Its just not right, that I am scared of my parents, so scared in fact, that I cant even just go downstairs and put back the chocolate that I “stole” this morning for giving to a friend that I now cant reach cause I am too scare to leave the house, as not only will it raise questions like “ooooh, do you fancy her” and stupid chiding remarks like that.. but because my mums sister +family are here… leaving today (hopefully soon, but I doubt it) after an Easter weekend break. Considering the previous few times they have come round have resulted in some of the worst times of my life (I am swelling up just thinking about it) I am not particularly enjoying this weekend.

And I haven’t (really) even got onto the subject of this post yet. Its a pretty pathetic reason really, no I shouldn’t say that. All I wanted to do was take some chocolates that I had promised to a friend. This friend happened to be a girl. I consider her one of my best friends, seriously awesome, she is. So, I have some chocolatey cakey stuff all wrapped up in my room, waiting to take around to hers and stuff… but then, as its a bank holiday, there aint no buses to round hers. Oh, and my relatives are still here, which would mean …

WAIT, I am just making up excuses, I am terrible.

Simply put, I am sad cause I cant make myself leave the house to deliver some rocky road to a friend because I fear the jesting comments of my family and the disapproval of my mother at me not socialising with my cousins, who I dont even want to see.

Maybe I am just manic depressive, or maybe thats just another excuse

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!

My house set on fire today… smoke everywhere, flames licking at my window even as I type this… the firemen are desperately trying to keep the blaze under control..,
Heh, had you for a second didnt I :p Just the chimney setting on fire, quite a bit of commotion, so much so that my mum is even now hoovering up where those dirty firemen stepped all over her carpet.
In other news, I am quite annoyed/saddened to think my best friends have probably/possibly gone out “on the town” without me, probably doing something fun while I am stuck on the internet doing f *, I wish they would stop assuming I wouldn’t want to come just cause they are going to the pub. Though I guess I could be being paranoid…..