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Laser Questing

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Let’s write something marginally interesting then shall we. Last Wednesday I went to play a couple of hours of Laser Question with some of the CSS. This was probabily the best time that I have had in a long time. I haven’t really got my score cards with me at the moment, but from memory I have gotten alot better as I have progressed.

I think it was this: 55, 109, 155, 243 (give ±20 in the latter two). Not bad for my first time playing, and not as Si, no, I must represent Techious so my name was TCHS in the games. Oh yes, and not last for any of the games! (First one last bar one, but meh, I still like).

 

In other news, I gave a really bad presentation embarasing Techious for all it’s worth, well I needed to give a presentation on something technical I’d done. Technical, umm Techious yes that works! Anyway I’ll try attaching it as a PDF to see if this system allows it.

Coding is becoming more interesting, I’m currently writing an over the top method for my latest coursework, I’m sure theres easier methods, just mine works for lols!

This is about it

 

Attachment: Techious Presentation

Really, don’t drink and drive!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3277826/Student-wrecks-Mini-in-Italian-Job-prank.html

Now really, this is really stupid. Personally, I think that people who do this should be banned from driving for ages, not that that will stop them. Some people just don’t care.

A £10,000 new car?!?!? What the fuck?!?! Why on earth would someone be that stupid? I mean come on, if I had a new car like that I wouldn’t mistreat it like that at all. Going to Bristol Magistrates now, I really think that is when you know that you are in some shit. Well, at least it’s close to the University, driving better not be an option to get there, someone else should drive there.

It’s also on the front page of the Epigram (not suprisingly), theres the link:

http://www.epigram.org.uk/view.php?id=2835

I’m not going to comment much more on this but hey, doesn’t show our Uni in too good a light now does it :(

Piece of Pish Exam

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Now really, this is something that could be taking the metaphorical piss, exam today. We had three hours to do it in, and it was well, done in about 20 minutes, and half an hour in the room was half empty. Now exams that easy, worry me a little, because it’s almost like something has been overlooked, but I would be really suprised if something has been overlooked, but hopefully I should get my results within about a week so that should be good :)

One month on…

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Well, I haven’t really blogged in over two weeks, and well, noones commented in the last month, so something must seriously be wrong. I’ll look into that later.

Anyway, incase anyone actually is listening, well reading, this is what the last month has really been like. Great. That’s it, but yeah I’m sure more details are requested than that, so I will give you some of them.

Lectures, have still remained interesting, this is very good, cos I was concerned that even thought the first week was good, they would start getting dull and not very interesting, luckily they have remained to still be very interesting, which I am very glad of. I have learned quite a lot and unlike Sixth Form which basically was a bit boring at times, all these lectures have remained interesting to me, as it is all stuff I am genuinely interested in, which should be helpful when it comes to exams, because I’m really interested I should naturally work harder to learn more, just to help fix my morbid curiosity over such things :)
Apart from lectures, well we’re starting a little pool tourney type thing with a couple of people in my flat, it will be fun if we can ever deceide on when to do this properly. So far I’m second with a 50% win rate, someone has 100% and another 0%. Well, from 2 games each, those are the only possible outcomes so yeah, maybe we will all do better later once it gets to the 20 or 30 games played each stage, and umm I still only have 1 win lol.

I perhaps haven’t been going out partying or whatever as much as some other people here, or even as much as some of the people from us back at school, but the way I am seeing it, really is that the most important part about Uni, getting pissed each night so blindingly drunk that you cannot remember anything that has happened the night before, and other stuff like that. But hey, I’m having fun doing what I am, if life is about enjoying yourself (which it is) surely it doesn’t matter what the things you are doing are (unless its illegal in which case thats bad), I am enjoying myself, if people don’t like it, then they don’t like it.

I have noticed that University seems to be the one place where the credit crunch really hasn’t hit people. I suppose this is because as students we are screwed and poor anyway, so being more poor doesn’t really affect us. Maybe we’ll sell the big issue, because there seem to be alot more of those people areound these days, and they’re getting more clever, hanging round near ATM machines and stuff.

I haven’t completely blown all my student loan yet. No, not entirely just most of it, so far my text book bill has gone up to about £250, and a couple of those books are just for the first semester, when Week 13 comes, I’ll need more. All I can say is thank fuck for the student discount that there has been at Waterstones for the past month, cos that really has helped. Also, thanks to the NUS Extra Card, 5% off at Amazon also helps a little. I hope I don’t have to spend too much more on text books, otherwise I will need to start magically finding money in places to help pay for them, and yes I know Skillers, I still need to magically make some money for Techious, but I’m sure we can find a way of getting some!!!

That is the main bits of what has been going on, I will try and post more regurally on this now but would help if stuff works round here.

Anyway, work is calling, dammit :P

Fresher’s Ball

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Right, well I’m back and well, writing this just before I fall asleep or something, so apologies if I just die half way through this blog post. I am back, I have fought, and I have conquered (sleep deprivation). Anyway, to sum it all up in one word, it was AMAZING!!! I just had the most brilliant time I have had in such a long time, it was just incredible (or incredibubble or something), but yeah this is brilliant. Lots of different things happening on each floor, different music playing in different areas, and us all enjoying ourselves and socialising, lots of drinking, and of course, me taking a trazillion and one pictures.1

1 Trazillion by this definition equates to 162.

But hey, it was amazing, though we left at about half an hour before closing because we felt we had enjoyed alot, and yeah we had, it was flipping amazing.

I’m tired and well cba to write too much more, I can’t just word it properly, but here we go, the gallery picture thingymabobby:

Fresher's Ball 2008

Ooh, magic link.

Week Down

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Ok, that’s almost depressing already, one week gone already, Jesus Christ, there’s only 24 teaching weeks in the year and ones gone already?!?!?! Man, time flies fast. Wait, two years has gone since writing that sentence, naa just an exaggeration of sorts.

But yeah, woo awesome week of first lectures and stuff, still the basics, but I’m finding that really, I’m getting very interested in everything that I kinda lost the interest in for a while, but here everything seems all new, even if it’s not so it’s all awesome and stuff :D

Tuesday was lectures and tutorial, Wednesday was more lectures, Thursday was a couple and the “Introduction to Oscilloscope Skills” Lab, so we got to play with some nice new shiny stuff <3 I suppose it will come in useful at a later stage when I need to build circuits and stuff, which I will be doing soon building a security system, well a rudimentary one. Should be fun playing with assembly code and stuff :) Friday was just more lectures to wind down the week.17

This week I have had 3 9 o’clock wake ups. Unfortuantly this increases to 4 in 2 weeks when one of my other lectures start, so it will be a battle, me versus sleep, but hey more interesting, as long as I don’t sleep through my lectures, which I doubt would happen with them being this interesting.

Tonight is the Fresher’s ball, which is going to be awesome, even though it is like a 300 mile trek to the student union building, £20 the ticket cost, but I’m sure that it will be worth it, the entire student union building just to us, with chocolate fountains and stuff… we’ll I’ll leave that to another post when I get back…

This weekend, is basically just relaxing and reading some stuff in the text books I have bought already, and waiting for more to arrive, and other stuff like that basically. Anyway, as long as things stay as they are Uni should be great!

Right, I need to get ready :P

First Day of Lectures

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Well, thats one day down lol! Only two trillian to go. Naa, actually I found todays lectures to be quite interesting, even though they were basically just the classic “welcome to unit XXXXnnnnn” of whatever you want to call them. My Procedural Programming work was interesting, we’re just going to dive into C and just start there. Best tip ever I had, “you can’t be taught a programming language, you just have to pick it up as you go along“. Call me a bit stupid, but I had never written a piece of code in ANSI C before, so this meant that this should be interesting, learning to code properly, because well really, I probabily have picked up from other programming stuff a million and one bad habits that I need to get shot of first so that will be things to learn, but still fun :D
Engineering mathematics was also the only other thing that happened today. Now that is a double lecture, this means that regardless of the weird Bristol Hour, its a two hour (1h50 or something maybe) lecture so we cover more stuff in that time. Again being the first lecture it’s more, “this is what you will be doing” and “we assume you have forgotten everything so here we start”. But hey, vectors are easy, annoying as feck but still easy so hey, that’ll do for me :P.

Already bought one text book out of six trillion and submitted my first piece of coursework already, “write a script that does Hello, World!” now come on that isn’t particuraly difficult now is it?!? If I don’t get 100% on that I will be shocked.

Well, thats one day of stuff, I thankfully have an 11 o’clock start tommorow instead of 9, which should be good, and I also get to meet my tutor (twice, hes my first lecturer tommorow) which should be interesting.

Now for more TF2…

Woo Steam Works!

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Yup, it seems that steam works quite well, being that I was able to play Team Fortress 2 last night, and it was quite a good game too I have to say. Today I am just relaxing after the move, and will probabily spend some of later just going out looking for where some of the buildings that I need to be at this week are. Thankfully they gave me a map which should make things a bit easier :P

For the lols, here is a nice picture of my internet’s speed here:

Edit: I’ve added a picture of it being even quicker ;)

Well, I better go off finding stuff cyas,

University Unpacking part done

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Right, this is part of the main unpacking done, obviously knowing me, the first thing I’ve tried to do is to try and get my computer on the internet. After fiddling with their security software, I’ve finally got it online, and it seems quite fast. I haven’t tried Steam but hopefully that should work later. If not then that’ll be me out of TF2 games for a while, though more importantly for Techious we’d better hope it works for skillers tommorow because if it doesn’t then that really is the end for Techious’ server, being that he pays for most of it.

Holy Shoot, It’s Tomorrow!

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Well, that’s it, last night of proper sleep for a year as yup thats it I leave my house and move into University. Well, I say move into Uni, my Student House is about one and half to two miles away from the main University precinct, so won’t that be fun lol. Everything’s packed and ready to go (some is even in the car already) so I’m ready for an early start; my aim is to get there for the start of the moving in time (10am) because there is like 4 car parking spaces if that for 200 people, so I really don’t want to be caught in the rush, that would just be utter chaos. No gaming for me tonight, the pc is in pieces ready to be built and I’m writing this on my laptop anyway.

How am I feeling about it? Well, to be honest I don’t know what to think, I’m really nervous about what I will find and will happen when I get there. The way I see it, one of two things will happen, either I will move in and instantly find people who become my friends, or I spend the entire year being completely and utterly isolated from everyone. Now, I know I will probably still play my games (alot) and work (alot) but I do not want things to come to the state where my room is just some door that is locked 24/7 with no one knowing who lives there, though knowing my luck, it’ll be a little that, but hopefully not that. Also, for the sake of everything we’ve done so far, I hope Steam works at University, otherwise the future of Techious and everything might be at risk, then again it is really Mark who it must work for being he seems to be paying for 90% of the server.

Uni itself, I’m not too sure, I haven’t actually done any work for real in months so the first couple of weeks are going to hit me hard. By the fourth week I’m sure I’ll have everything under control. Keeping in touch with everyone from Newent is also a priority for me, it seems even during the two weeks or less since the first people moved, things have started to drift a little with noone talking to anyone much. But hey, hopefully we’ll keep in touch, hence why I had the nice little “Our Group” forum on Techious, we can use that to keep in touch at least, even if we can’t do just Teamspeak or Skype or large group conversations on Windows Live (but dead) Messenger.

Anyway, I spose I better get off to bed for that early start (which soon 3pm will be an early start :P)