Thursday, November 09, 2006
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Restaurants should be banned
Today I went for a great curry with some mates. About £7, bring your own beer, traditional Indian fare! Actually I had to wait ten minutes after everyone else to get my Rogan Josh as they 'forgot' about me! Seriously restaurants need to be banned. Still, can't complain. It was cheap and tasted gorgeous.
On the more positive side it was only 2 minutes walk from our flat. My friends had a 20 minute walk to get home, and it's freezing tonight. *evil laugh* In fairness last year they used to live as close in to Leeds centre as I do now whilst I lived nearly 5 miles out. The times they laughed over me (and Dom) walking home (well smiled to themselves then!) makes up for the times I am ribbing them this year :)
Exams!!!!
I had the first 2 exams today! The first was OK (control systems) as I remembered most of the Laplace transforms (ugh!) and the rest was common sense. Maths was harder. The first half was vector calculus which is really tough stuff. But fortunately the second half was A-level standard statistics (or at least could be solved by those methods) so that kinda rescued it.
These exams are worth 20% of the marks for each module this semester so 60% plus would be a good marker and take the heat off in January.
Tomorrow I have programming (easy), embedded systems (simple) and Electromagnetism (*cries*). I hate that last one - really it's physics not Electronics. I sit through the lectures and it seems like a foreign language. Those first 2 are great though, my type of 'bespoke' electronics. Programming I find especially easy, I tend to soak up these computer languages and my good knowledge of PHP really helped with this module!
I say, Extraordinary film!
I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen again tonight, with Sean Connery starring in it! (he really is the best Bond) not bad but a little corny :) although I found out too that it is based on a comic book series so I might have to check that out - though Wikipedia does say it's very different to the film..
People seem not to like the film incidentally, I really don't know why. Sure it's corny and the special effects look a bit archaic at times but it's a wonderful romp through 1899 Europe! The only let down is the ending (from when Venice gets bombed onwards) which isn't so much weak as predictable and drab. They could have pepped it up a bit!
At least the bitter end is suitably tear jerking!
And tomorrow?
Tomorrow I will have to get my flatmates to clear up the flat. I went away for the weekend (3 days) and they 'trashed the place. Tonight one sloped off out with some mates and the other went to his (apparently not but blatantly so :) ) girlfriends house. Tomorrow they won't escape....
Today I have been...
... Watching - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
... downloading - District 13 (interesting looking French action film)
... buying - A card for my Mum's 50th!
... hating - My flat being a complete mess (not my fault)
On the more positive side it was only 2 minutes walk from our flat. My friends had a 20 minute walk to get home, and it's freezing tonight. *evil laugh* In fairness last year they used to live as close in to Leeds centre as I do now whilst I lived nearly 5 miles out. The times they laughed over me (and Dom) walking home (well smiled to themselves then!) makes up for the times I am ribbing them this year :)
Exams!!!!
I had the first 2 exams today! The first was OK (control systems) as I remembered most of the Laplace transforms (ugh!) and the rest was common sense. Maths was harder. The first half was vector calculus which is really tough stuff. But fortunately the second half was A-level standard statistics (or at least could be solved by those methods) so that kinda rescued it.
These exams are worth 20% of the marks for each module this semester so 60% plus would be a good marker and take the heat off in January.
Tomorrow I have programming (easy), embedded systems (simple) and Electromagnetism (*cries*). I hate that last one - really it's physics not Electronics. I sit through the lectures and it seems like a foreign language. Those first 2 are great though, my type of 'bespoke' electronics. Programming I find especially easy, I tend to soak up these computer languages and my good knowledge of PHP really helped with this module!
I say, Extraordinary film!
I watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen again tonight, with Sean Connery starring in it! (he really is the best Bond) not bad but a little corny :) although I found out too that it is based on a comic book series so I might have to check that out - though Wikipedia does say it's very different to the film..
People seem not to like the film incidentally, I really don't know why. Sure it's corny and the special effects look a bit archaic at times but it's a wonderful romp through 1899 Europe! The only let down is the ending (from when Venice gets bombed onwards) which isn't so much weak as predictable and drab. They could have pepped it up a bit!
At least the bitter end is suitably tear jerking!
And tomorrow?
Tomorrow I will have to get my flatmates to clear up the flat. I went away for the weekend (3 days) and they 'trashed the place. Tonight one sloped off out with some mates and the other went to his (apparently not but blatantly so :) ) girlfriends house. Tomorrow they won't escape....
Today I have been...
... Watching - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
... downloading - District 13 (interesting looking French action film)
... buying - A card for my Mum's 50th!
... hating - My flat being a complete mess (not my fault)
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