I'm in a mood to sigh

*sighs*.

I like to write down lyrics as my headphones sing them to me. It feels like I've achieved something.

I like being in a large empty room, because I can't be judged, and only my hair knows that it's stupid.

I like listening to music when walking, because it becomes your theme, and you can find its intricacies.

I like to pretend.

I like to be good enough friends with people that you can insult each other jovially.

I like long words where there should be short words, and short words where there should be long words.

I'd also like to think that Ad and Stu aren't gonna mock my soul for this post.

Luckily I hear the best format of defense is attack, so I shall premptively suggest that "they don't have their respective faces".

Places I'd like to live(i.e. my lecture notes)

Oh Snap

This blog has no purpose. Please move along.

bitches ain't shit, but hoes and tricks

or so says my homey Dr Dre. So it appears I suck at blogging, I blame this on Rex having an awesome blog now. Damn you rex, damn you to helvetica!!! *font hi-five*

I also have dolphin death/black death/black lung/man flu. Nuff said. I'm also currently poaching fish, but I wouldn't wanna get to in depth with that, because it cod get shrimply tiresome, fins just don't seem to have a purpoise these days. *gaffaws*

anyway. This is no plaice for puns.

new Top Gear. Funny. Watch.

I leave you with this

Too gangsta for your face

Whoa

http://www.clemenskogler.net/film/grandcontent.htm

Bar FTSE

I'm sure by now ladies and gentleman you know what a wonderful event this is. Drink price fluctuations, alcohol coming out you're eyes. The whole shabang. With added skillery me and stu went into the Lemmy at 5.30 to start our night of drinking. Little did I know the pain that would ensue.

By 9 the market opened, and drink flow increased. Chloe and Alex also turned up and we carried on the consumption. Soon after this the lemmy was the shut and we paraded off to my abode for a higher rate of beverage. Apparently Stu was insulting Chloe, I have no doubt. We ended up drinking till 6.30am, which = way to late to stay up to drink.

So now I feel like a monkey has snuck into my stomach and bred lots of ickle half monkey half alcoholics in there. The bastards.

British Mac Ads with Peep Show guys

I was like cool

Then I realised they were crap cos they just copied the US ones poorly.

*sighs*

I wish I was doing something awesome with my life instead of wasting it doing not much. Like I know I'm doing my masters, but meh I just seem to spend half the time watching youtube(kitty and more kitty) or getting nothing productive done.

And now I'm jealous of my mum cos she might be going rambling all around the world, like Australia, New Zealand, Singapore etc. Talking of New Zealand, young Rexxor has just penetrated its border with great success. *tips hat to rex who he is also jealous of*

However I did watch Brick today which was seriously good, cheers Icelandic Dan for suggesting that. I also watched the latest ep of Smallville which blatantly rips off an episode from Buffy.

SWEET!

I really wanna see the Green Wing Special that I missed. But the DVD is mad wack expensive.

Look

There's a considerable difference between being atheist and being anti-Christian. Learn it people.

Some people get almost religious, with a fanatical hate for religion. Thats not the way to be, unless you plan to enter the miss/mr ignorant pageant 2007.

Where are my elephants?!

Said Tony Jaa after knee fucking you in the skull. Cos thats how he rolls. I bought Ong Bak today for 4 quid from Virgin. now thats bargainous. I also got ripped off my streetsonline (woolworths) so I shall have to beat them up, as I will now end up with a duplicate order sent to me.

Sports Update: Arsenal came back to destroy Man United, so I am feeling the win. Except van persie somehow broke his foot between the end of the match and the dressing room. O'Sullivan got back to his old awesome self and one the Saga Masters. And Murray lost to Nadal, only because he fell apart in the 5th set.

crazy? I'll tell you whats crazy

The amusing interludes of one Tom Barker, back then everyone had a specialty. I for one am a blogger, watch me leap through this hoop of wit:

That's right! It appears my browser is running slow, so I need to clear off some of the tabs I was gonna put in here, so first of all

Not Safe For Work In Your Eye

And then, for all my blind readers (sniggers), check this out, u can see with your tongue!

FACT: Dog owners lead healthier lives.

FACT: I want a punch bag

FACT: I hate websites that won't let you send things to your non-card address. down with the system.

darn wizz, run out, er.......Play me off Johnny!

Objection!

I can see this being very annoying for the length of time its on my front page....

It was, so now instead:

CLICKY

oooh arrrrr

Saw Miss potter last night avec Sam and Alex, twas surprisingly good, especially for getting free tickets cos we got seated at the front when we specifically stabbed them in the face with a knife made of the middle. I not sure I wanna see Smokin' Aces anymore cos I hear its a bit like dirty dirty granny pants

Then we chilled back here with some bevvys and family guy, cos thats the way we roll. and then I woke up at a 'tard time this morning. Grr.

To cheer me out, check out Brand New on Letterman:

My In-complete list of hot red-heads

Alyson Hannigan
Kari Byron
Cocoanino
Jennifer Morrison
Lindsay Lohan

Now let me finish my Neural Network coursework you god damn hippies

So dear reader

It would appear that all the file servers on campus broke. This sucks if you saved your coursework on your user space.

If, on the other hand, you are consistently awesome, like me, you saved it to your usb stick so can carry on unaffected. *nods and wins* So I managed to get some of my Neural Networks done, but to cheer you up check this out:

Okay stop checking it out now. I'm going to see the Pursuit of Happiness. Will Smith makes me jolly.

Whoa, now that's pretty

omg rofl

Gory fight extravaganza, hilarious

So....

Computer Science has as much to do with computers, as Astronomy has to do with telescopes.

And Artificial Intelligence has as much to do with robots, as Computer Science has to do with computers.

Computer science is not about fixing computers. Or making computers. What is it? If I could describe that I wouldn't be telling you what it isn't. Wikipedia on the other hand says:

"Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems."

In relation to this, choose me a project to do! From here

Like OMGz !!!11!!!one!11!1!!

In late august of 1972 in a town near Staffordshire, a small orphaned girl who lived in dire poverty was desperately searching for some water for her terribly parched lips. She stumbled into a wooded area, where she found a well, she was about to use the last of her strength to pull up the bucket from the bottom of the well, when an evil and wicked local businessman savagely butchered her. All that was left of her were her eyeballs and her beloved teddy bear. Her ghost now searches this earth for all who live immoral lives.

Now you have read this message you must play this awesome game and steal ten people's underwear so they may know her plight, otherwise you will hear a knocking on your bedroom door at exactly midnight, 2 days from now, and the spirit of that girl will butcher you and steal your soul. You have 48 hours.

The other morning

I had a mug of coffee so strong that I seemed to fall out of the realm of existence. I fear they've replaced caffeine with some other drug that creates internal clarity but prevents me from focusing on the world. Which turned out useful when trying to work (not sarcasm).

Also what's "rules OK!" about, why does no one graff it anymore..... oh yeah cos it sucks.

Like mike, I've recently been addicted to my DS lite, which I should note rules, especially nadal tennis. But I'm thinking I should either find or create a word processor for it, cos I could do very mobile work then.

I also wanna get a brand New t-shirt, but it needs to be emo enough. Also I want a laptop, as I keep saying, but I realised that getting a big screen is NOT actually good in the slightest. Is it worth getting a refurb'ed Macbook? Discuss

And finally, when reading journals it appears that 50% of the useful information is in the introduction and 40% in the conclusion. The rest is just gumpf.

Ze weekend

Had a dope weekend, which started out with some excellent traversing from exeter to Bristol in my so called "Automobile" once there, I stabbed Adam, and stole his corpse and cory in my car. Soon we were gliding down the m4 towards the orp de porp, where we drove into the Harvy and caused mass carnage.

I also had an alcohol free beer...

Then to the sleep, and onwards in the morning to try and get some work done (which I didn't) and then out to the Harvy as ya do for a weekend celebrating Rex's departure into the unknown. and his birthday. From there we went to our normal Rileys spot in Victoria, then onto KFC and a jazz bar that we decided not to go in O.o.

So we went to Llyods and chilled, good day. Then on sunday I attempted to get some work done. failed. so we back on first class train, cos I'm dope like that. And worked from 9pm till 5.30am with the Midnight Muskateers (me, stu and dan). Nuff said.

It would appear

my ipod shuffle has replaced my old mp3 player without me really planning it to. It's just so light and sexy. It even has built in protection for a variety of events, for instance if it becomes unclipped it won't fall to the floor cos its so light the headphones can suspend it in the air.

Not only that, but if u stupidly drop it in your washing up bowl... like I did today, it floats and hence reduces the amount of water it touches. I think.

Assuming its still working....

Blam

What I like

Walking home from campus at night with fantastic music in my ears, with a light level of rain, which is just "sprinkly" enough so that the wind whips it around in small vortexs and is reflected by the orange glow of the lamp-posts.

Is scared.

Like that time. When there were two drunk girls. And no similies or metaphors could save him

It's alright, I've got my affairs in order.

Ruffle is to carry out mass genocide to avenge my death.

Sorted.

UPDATE: Don't worry I may get out of it with my excellent wit and this jar of peanut butter.

New Years Resolution

Without any jokes, it is ACTUALLY 1440x900, because I got my new monitor today. I'd say more but well, there's not much you can say about an awesome 19" widescreen Acer monitor with 5msec response rate for £139.99 from Amazon, is there?....

New Years Resolutions:

1. Sleep at 11pm, get up at 8am
2. Take care of my heart: Go to the gym at least 5 times a week
3. Plan and do work in advance
4. Do Project365(as mike suggests) -
5. Do things even if I can't be bothered/am scared.
6. Use spare time productively i.e. to increase my knowledge
7. Be Better
8. Keep my room in a tidy, workable state
9. Play the guitar regularly
10. Don't use campus vending machines
11. Enjoy life.
    

I think there were more, but I can't remember them for now. Thats probably enough to be getting along with otherwise it'll just turn into my 43things. I think the first one will help all the rest.

I'm not fucking listening to the spice girls

okay yes I am. Damn you all. So matlab has totally foxed me beyond belief, so I'm gonna do the only thing that seems sensible, and try and force Stu to drink beer.

as I always say

If you have not much else, at least have a damn good blog. Unfortunatly mine has wavered a bit in quality, but don't worry, fear my insane ramblings to come and beyond.

Soon I shall post my new years resolutions, and no crazy ass white trash computing jokes either. However I shall hail this week, the week of the headbanging trilogy.

1. On Tuesday I bang my head on the corner of my door as I walked into it
2. Yesterday I smashed my eyebrow on the corner of a cupboard above my wardrobe
3. And today I walked straight into my Kitchen's roof.....

From this you may have indeed infered I am in the Ex again. And you'd be desperatly right.
Now back to matlab you distractingly seductive fools.

What?!

Not Safe For Work!

Neither Is This!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

my new year's resolution? 1024x768.

haw haw...

*sighs*

Many people would say to me

"Tom, what DVDs do you have, and what DVDs do you want"

I would then reply, "why? and also you forgot a question mark there."

To which they would say "shush foul being. For I have a vested interest/want to get you presents/love your choice of films"

Anyway, I made a list, mainly for my use, but also mainly cos I have floppy hair. Its not really in alphabetical order yet, cos the site I used is pants at doing that. Error on my part:



- will come later, cos I left my list at Uni *shakes fist*

Let there be film trailers

and there was. And they were only good. Check out some films I am suspecting may be sexy next year in trailer format:

GrindHouse


Smokin' Aces


The Number 23


Ghost Rider


Zodiac


300


TMNT


Hot Fuzz


Transformers


The Simpsons Movie
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/trailer2_large.html

Dan's Birthday Extravaganze

Unfortunately I can't seem to upload photos at the moment which is a tad annoying but I shall publish them at a later point. Went out to bromley last night to celebrate Dan reaching another 365.25 days older. We had a damn good time, and a decent amount of alcohol was embraced and now thanks to Simone's house placement I could get dragged home moderately safely.

Actually I wasn't really drunk so was cool.

bo yeah

More later, but for now I've testing out a new firefox extension called Performancing (for la blogging).

woo I just bought team america, moulin rouge, memento, butterfly effect, fight club and dodgeball all for an average price of £4.42 as well from ChoicesUK. Thanks to their sexy sale and a 5% off code. Goooooo credit card!

"Sometimes the world needs to shut up a bit"

Geek fest arama

Had a grooby night last night involving an xbox 360, a Wii and an N64 round the twits house. I think I proved I'm highly pants. The wii seemed a bit disappointing though it gave me and Dan a splitting headache for some reason, though that may have been the beer at the Harvy before we started gaming. We stayed the night then ran away to our own abodes. rock on.

!HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Your impossible, is my "just a sec"

I have decided its time to stop laying back and not getting stuff and time to be pro-active. Not till after Christmas though ;) you knows it.

So what have I been up to? fucking shit up, that's what. We had a highly hilarious time in the Harvy on Friday night, many an innuendo and sexual joke was made and we all heartily laughed over a number of bevvys. Damn foggy as well, though I got a lift there (from Simunge's mum) and a lift back (from young Daniel).

Onwards and the next day we went avec our cars to the Estuary of Whitsable to meet Sir Rex, and no sooner had we arrived than we perambulated to a really nice pub with the best lager in I've had for ages (XXXX). After a couple of pints we returned triumphant and a Thai Green Curry was constructiminated by Adam and Rex, which was of the highest standard. Following this we drank in a relaxed manner and various 360 and Playstation games were played. good times by all, though would have been nice to do something more as a group, but still good.

Shazam

It's like that time when I used Shazam has the title. and the other time I did that. and the time before that. ad infinium.

You might be thinking "Tom, my eyes need to feast upon some ever so slightly changing pictures in sequence to create the illusion of movement and animation" NO FEAR!. well actually you should fear some stuff, like lawyers and cats with lasers on their eyes and those suspiciously flexible dwarfs. But don't fear the previous thought, for I will provide you with... the new transformers trailer!!!!... oh yes baby

further more, check this out. It made me laugh:

Serious Post: Part II

hey you sexy sexy people, if, like me, you read my blog frequently and with an avid enthusiasm you may well see the title of this blog and fear the worst. Unfortunately the worse is here.

Over the past week or so my dad's been in the hospice (in Penge - like a hospital except for terminal patients), well since Sunday or so my dad's pain became much worse and they had to administer an even stronger cocktail of drugs that normal, indeed worse than a Woo Woo. So he became unconscious the whole time so he couldn't feel too much pain, my mum's been staying in the hospice 24 hours since then. Well until now,

I left the hospice around midnight this morning, that's about 6 hours ago, shite its nearly 6am. Anyway, stop distracting me u temptresses, so I messed around on the net, mocked Stu and read some comics in the bath, as you do, on my DS. at around 3ish I was in bed but heard a taxi outside, was my mum.

Dad died at around 2 something am this morning. Now I come to think of it I should of said that straight away, but you know me with my stories and use of humour as a coping mechanism *nods*. I've not told anyone yet, mainly cos all you lazy fools are asleep now, but my blog seems the best way to tell people first.

So please, if you read this, tell other people, trust me its easier to know from someone else than from the guy whose just lost his dad. I imagine anyway. Luckily I was prepared so I'm doing alright, and yeth I'm still going Rexxor's on saturday, cos ya can't keep me down :P

Just as a reference this is the original post from 2nd august. Love ya kiddies.... thats me loving you lot, not lovin your children, damn your eyes.

hey gorgeous

that's right, its time to go to the land of Orp. Where dreams are shattered and livers stabbed to destruction. no fear though, not only has my computer been on for 56 Days, 22 Hours, 22 Minutes, 40 Seconds but I leave you with this collection of interesting facts to digest:

100 things we didn't know last year

ROFLoobies

apparently denise richards threw some journalist's laptop off a balcony and it hit an 80 year old woman in a wheelchair. I drew you all a picture to help you imagine it.

Disclaimer: old woman was okay

and so the ipod juggernaught continues to eat into our lives

OhMiBod

randomly

do you think the Wii has the technology to be able to run Half Life? what about Half life 2? I'm one of the last to say that graphics is the be all and end all, but there's being focused on gameplay and there's ignoring technological advancement?

either that or cats.

Spot the Difference

Awesome 2 days

On Sunday we traversed via an automobile to the far off pubular house of Double Locks, where 50% of our AI group didn't turn up because they thought it had been burnt down. Burnt down my ass..... not that it was actually burnt down inside my ass, cos I doubt not only would it fit but would be wildly disturbing for anyone participating. Or in fact just knowledgeable of the event.

Was a nice chilled luncheon and a drink or two. In ze evening I invade the house of Stu and we cube'd (thats the ghetto way of say we played upon the Nintendo Gamecube console). We also saw a shizer episode of torchwood.... stop thinkin about my ass!

Yesterday went to see The Holiday with Katie and Claire which was pretty awesome mainly cos I'm 50% girl and twas very much like Love Actually. Plus it had Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black in, all of whom are a veritable feast of good. We then went on to the Firehouse which was stupidly Christmassy and cosy, coulda stayed there all day.

However we didn't and I went to the impy avec Nick and Kath and Stu for Kath's b-day celebratory bash, after increasing our group number we went to Stars, which serves the goddamn best ribs ever. mmm ribs. I have no doubt some shocking photos will appear online later. We then chilled round my "gaff".

Holy Cute Panties!

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

a very christmassy game for a very christmassy season

Lollerheros

you, loyal reader, need a face

And so I'm off to Double Locks, for luncheon and AI based discussion.

Currently Creaming myself over:

Death Cab for Cutie - I will follow you into the dark

Exotic Sunsets:

Wait, dammit I spelt Exeter as "Exotic" my bad *winks to the camera seductively*

Zeus says to stop bugging him

So I got back from campus at 9am yesterday, which was nice, I then slept from 10am till 10pm, and have been up ever since. I need to SLEEP during the night, seriously. Ah, well, I'll sort that out 2nite, I spent the night watching Bones and stuff.

Death Cab For Cutie, are awesome, their new album Plans is "cushty". So take that.

Ad humourously rang me drank last night, and then I made him buy like 3 games on ebay with my floppy hair. It looks a nice day today, so I might get out the house and explore the world.

It also may be time to tidy my room like a crazy ass motherfucker, and poss gym if I have the energy.

Hey

Can't chat I'm on the phone to Zeus, chatting about that time it was 4.30am and I was on campus beating the crap outta Ares while cutting down my essay.

Yeah now bitches. Caffiene is failing me, I suspect more coffee is needed. Its slowly being reduced and I've just about done my matlab. Stu and Dan as company rock, though the fact I'm giggling quite often in a high pitch voice may help.

oh yes.

A small update for you lovely lovely children

Thats right kids, I've peaked at 5500 words, though 500 of that is references, so in fact 5000. Then I cut it down to like 4000, but now I've written more so its up to like 4500.

Stupid amount of stuff to write, even me seducing Ed failed to increase my word limit. Which I note is 3000 + 10% lee-way + as much as I can get away with but don't tell Ed

Now I shall work my ickle socks off. away with thee

hey you. aren't we bashful today

You'll be glad to hear I've just got back from the old library basement where I've been working on my essay since 9.30, thats 6 hours and I've managed to write 3000 words.

Whoa tom, you might say, "awesome, you've finished" unfortunately not fair maiden for in the confusion I've only written half my essay in those 3000 words, and I have so many papers to include my soul is destroying me. And before anyone mentions "blah blah blah only need to use a few blah blah blah you don't need to use them all" yes I bloody well do. So there.

So in conclusion, you, me, a bucket of AI papers and the department till late. You knows it. *sigh*

I need to go organise my papers on my floor now cos my brain can't cope with them in a folder. oh and in case it all feels futile, check out my 43Things and 43Places linked to on the right after all the links.

hey I've got a new challenge for David Blaine

Try not to be a prick for 5 minutes.

Whoa dunno where that came from, bit scathing really. Check This:

That's a pile of UK Wii's don't ya know it.

Yes I know I should be working, I'm just having some lunch cos apparently the electricity in the cafe Ritazza is the sort that doesn't charge my electric. The non-existent kind.

Experiment 1

Aim: To see if I can work all day, efficiently and continuously from 9am till 11pm.

Assumptions: That I do not get distracted by, my DS, the internet, moving objects, breasts.

Minor objectives: Write my essay in full, so that for the next 2 days I'm just improving the basic content.

Requirements: Sandwiches, Caffeine, Skillery and no tom-foolery.

whoa

New Halo 3 trailer makes me wanna get an Xbox 360:

it was like that time I did no work and wondered why I hadn't done my essay

just like that time I went "BOOM" and a hundred kids died and then there were people crying and screaming. Understandably really as I'd just murdered 100+ kids in plain sight of everyone, and the mess it would cause, professional cleaning is so expensive these days. Have you noticed? I mean what do they do more than I could do with a mop and some sponges. Okay so kid blood is slightly adhesive, but seriously, with all the tears it'll stay wet before someone grabs some kitchen roll, and then you can DAB PEOPLE DAB, don't rub for fucks sake. Useless, maybe this is why we need professional cleaners, anyway I then had to find a way home as the blood had run onto the tube tracks and thats always a safety hazard. So the tubes were delayed AGAIN which had a knock on affect for the trains, and the buses, and I'm suspecting at this rate the rollerskating community. I don't know why I bother sometimes.

So how was your day?

ROFLicial Intelligence

check this out, if you haven't, funnie:

I also thought I would include this little humour from Weird Al's site that cracked me up (from a FAQ):

Kevin of Lexington, Ohio asks: I thought I had heard a rumor about the upcoming album being your last one. Is there any truth to this?

Absolutely not. "Poodle Hat" was my last album. My upcoming album is my next one. I don't know how these silly rumors get started.

Artificial Intelligence Joke of the Day:

LOLcycle Pump

Sexual Consent (pssst its a link y'all)

you, my dear, smell of face

I'm tired. but awake. take that buddha!

Luckily my next port of call is the Cafe Ritazza in about 5 minutes, for coffee and to wash some clothes. Not that I'm gonna wash my clothes in the cafe, cos that would be stupid, and lacking in class. So instead I'll wash them at the next door laundry room.

Today is my day to write notes on all my research, after this I plan to write 3000 words tomorrow. Then on monday do my matlab. Then on Tuesday fix the 3000 words of crap that I wrote on Sunday. then on Wednesday panic because I probably haven't followed this plan of action in the slightest and will still have 3000 words to write.

Rumour has it I also have to go the fabled Old Library today. I don't know if its even open though. oh wait yeah it is but staffing ends at 12.45, crap.

I think I have smoothie up my nose.

Films to See:

• Saw 3
• Borat
• Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny
  
• Eragon
• The Holiday
• 300
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Transformers
• The Simpsons

Luckily I'm going to see The Pick of Destiny now.

Hey Kids

It doesn't matter how much Stir Fry ingredients you buy it still won't make you suddenly own a frying pan/wok.

I sometimes feel like I spend the day keeping my life sustained, i.e. washing, food, lectures etc. and then use the evening to work my socks off. I'm sure somehow I'm not using time effectively.

I can't help but also feel that although scarves are practical, they're very stupid at the same time. Also I'm sure sleep was only invented so there is a time electrical gadgets can be charged with minimal fuss and inconvenience.

Interest Statistic of the Day:

I have spent £1806.67 on ebuyer in my life time. Those lucky devils

"Marketing Slogan made up by Icelandic Dan" of the day

"Don't starve, dead men don't DS"

A quote I've liked for a while:

"I was walking along a path with two friends-- the Sun was setting-- suddenly the sky turned blood red. I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence. There was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on, and as I stood there trembling with anxiety, I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature." - Edvard Munch

So take that Zeus

Tom's Out of Date Technology collection:

That's right boys and gals, lets check out what technology I still use that is ridiciously out of date and hurts my soul:

1) Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen 20gb

About 3 and half years old, it's actually a laptop harddrive in an mp3 player metal shell. My screen backlight hasn't worked for over 2 years and its battery time is getting a bit suspicious but I love it with my soul. Possibly the most indestructable mp3 player ever, I've dropped it onto concrete by accident before and dents can be easily hammered out by unscrewing the shell. No stupid DRM software, just plays my mp3s with skill and clarity. Bonus.

2) My Dell m770 CRT monitor
Nuff said. Sucks, probably burning my retinas, though its lasted me *thinks* probably 6 years?







3) My PC
Again 3 years old, with a graphics card that can't physically play the latest games and sometimes has a hissy fit. A processor that's lasted me well but is severely behind the times and one of the hard drives has a fetish for deleting my mp3s during its trimonthly crashes. Somehow its still stupidly stable running Windows XP Professional, current uptime is 41 Days, 1 Hours, 10 Minutes, 43 Seconds. Take that global warming. (disclaimer: photo not of my PC, experiences may vary)

4) Panasonic VS6
Due to me being a stupidly poor student, instead of getting the latest nokia I had to get this heap of cheapness when my K750i broke. Its surprisingly good value for money, but lacks a screen on the front so I have no idea who is calling and can't ignore it when people like Stu call. It also has a crap amount of memory and its software is slightly pondersome.

4) HP-Compaq nx9005 Laptop
Over 3 years old it has the power and skill of a spaktarded dead baby lemming. Though it still has its uses when working on campus, it can barely run two things at once and has a suspiciously reduced in power during its lifespan. There was a time when it could play Vice City. I won't bore you with the specs, but needless to say, the battery lasts about 1.5 hours. Shit cakes anonymous. It also weighs 3.6 tons and is larger than my love for tuna.

5) Casio EX-Z4B Camera
Not that bad, 4 megapixels, but I can't fecking record more than 60 seconds of vid before it stops. Whats the damn point in that?! plus I can't hack it. Still its pretty good, except I got ripped off cos I bought it from Dixons. Yeah that girl is in my room. BAM.

Shazam

Check out the new mac adverts, not exactly selling the macs as such, just quite jolly and funny:

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

Flash skills

Whoa, some dude has made the a very small section of the original halflife playable via Flash. Its pretty impressive, although not much u can do as its like an alpha.

New Review

70 Pennsylvania Road

Why I love Brand New:

Well Jesus Christ I'm alone again,
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Cause this problem's gonna last
More than the weekend.
Well Jesus Christ I'm not scared to die
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after.
Do I get the gold chariot?
Do I float through the ceiling?

Post grad Christmas Party

Seriously, I need to stop with the alcohol, it hurts my soul, my kidneys, my liver and my heart. Stupid everything. Awesome party though, some odd music to start with but that soon got fixed and then there was drinking and gaffawing. Not to mention many a mince pie.

Then me and Stu started to do shots from the pretty hot bar woman and it ended up like this:

New things!

So I'm feeling janker than Jank McJank from the Jank clan, but check out these new things I have:

Ipod Shuffle

Which on a scale of 1 to sexy, just yes. And its 15g!, how stupidly cute is that. Was only 55 quid which ain't too bad, and will be good for exercise etc.





The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Not only one of the best titles of an album but also totally incredible. Brand New's latest album, took a while to get into, now I can't stop listening to it. Expect a review soon.





The Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D's new album of wonder from their film of the same name. Ownage, though maybe not as good as their first effort. Check it though.







External Harddrive

I also got an uber cheap (39.99) 160gb harddrive for when I got home at christmas to store stuff on and the such like as I'm not probably driving home.

A swarm of updates to smite you with

Check this: I got 95% and 98% in the two courseworks I worked in the ungodly hours to do. They were worth 20% and 40% of modules respectively. AWESOME. Now I'm bored of updating, I'm going to Thursday Night Live 2nite, take that along with these updates I did:

• Housewarming of Adam and Cory (12th)

• Less Than Jake (14th)

• Right in your pie storage cabinet (17th)
  

• sandwich fetish yes/no? (19th)

Pooled Co-variance matrices

hello dear friends, your faithful tom, has something he must confide
Look at my hands, they're vastly weird, there's chickens growing inside
you can scream right now, you can scream tomorrow, but while you're standing there
could you pass that bucket, oh blast it and fuck it, I wish I didn't have to swear
but your too slow to help, and quite suspicous at that, you see it is too late
I've exploded all over, your cashmere throw over, some say what a terrible fate
But worst than that, is this rhyming shat, with no consistency throughout
of syllables or rhymes, and a plethera of crimes, of english grammer no doubt

zOMG matHAX!

All you budding mathematical crazy people, check out this:

cool eh? Alternatively check out Russian/Peasant multiplication for all your mathematical needs

yeah take that, along with your face

Bam... and still didn't update

I, like many a straight male or lesbian, probably like this idea:

http://www.speedbandits.dk/

yeah I didn't do enough

eat this:

“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.” - Douglas Adams

Per heaped teaspoon

so... I suck don't I? I still haven't updated. Here's my promise to you, I'm gonna go away and work now, if I get a decent amount done by say, 10/10.30 I'll update like a king of the mofos. Otherwise you're all doomed to eternal lack of my updates. Check this after the jump:

*jump*

'Playing on facebook is like sitting in a fridge, cool but pointless.'

sandwich fetish yes/no?

Moderately quick update: This weekend mikey J came down to the Ex and we rolled all over the town drinkin like mofos until ending back at my place with Chloe et Stu, drinking our weight in vodka and snackerals. Love Tesco. We played stupid games like Ring of Fire. Which hurts people

In the morning extrapolated some breakfast and then cruised around town for a bit. Finally we went to see Casino Royale... more on that later you sexy bunnies.

Right in your pie storage cabinet

You remember those times last year when I used to work non stop all night on campus, and come back dead and hallucinating? Well do you? no? then you should fecking read my blog more.

Anyway last night started work at around 8pm I think (though I'd been working all day as well I think) on Neural Networks and Generic and Transferable Skills. At around 9.30 I sprinted to Clydesdale house for 30min to see some of Thursday Night Live. Then ran back and finally finished at fecking 6.03am, which is more stupid than a lot of stuff. Luckily Dan was up on campus till 4am to keep my sanity. Stu was there as well, but I kill him with my shoe.

Then for the next hour I tidied my stupid room, and went to bed at 7am, to be woke up at 10am by room inspector. After this I got an email around 12 just before some lectures from Tammy saying I didn't hand one of the courseworks in. With good reason, I flipped out and ran up to campus and slapped her and ron around till they found it and loved me for being awesome. Then that I had lectures and shit to go to, and fell asleep this arvo.

IT SUCKS. I better get a good grade.

Indeed

A sane man may claim I've only just arrived back from campus (Time check: 06:51) and I've had so much caffeine that not only are my arms shaking but I'm not actually that tired yet. I have however managed to finish my work.

Yes I'm behind on updating. Much more later. In the mean time just wait refreshing this page.

Less Than Jake

Awesome gig, totally sweaty as a fucktart. I must have drank about 10 litres of water or something stupid. Don't combine gigging with beer. The lead singer nearly started on the bouncers for beating up some kid. Sam even got to go on stage, check it foo:
POW!

ZAP


Ahem well yes. Look I'm gonna be honest I'm updating this on the 23rd Nov. So here's a snippet of info we found out tomorrow. Turns out Sam cracked a rib in the mosh pit, which is quite impressive really.

WOOSH.

Housewarming of Adam and Cory

Once upon a time my dear chums, I ventured forth to the magical land that is the drug infested cest pool called Bristol. However it turns out all my preconceptions of this derogatory land of mischief were wrong.

I met the one they call Adam at lunch time and we chilled in some pub that wasn't owned by Wetherspoons. That may shock you, but thats the way we roll. After a few pints of amber nectar we skipped and we hopped through a very nice part of bristol if I do say, the main street anyway, to his abode. With some sexy timing we met Rex, Andy, and Simone outside, and soon progressed inward.

Damn nice apartment tbh, made me feel like I should sort my life out rather than just sucking at Java tests for the 3rd year. I got 65%, yeah its a merit but I wanna be the best *stamps feet*

Anyway, uber apartment, and then we went and got some alcomohol and curry. mmmm after gobbling it all up the party began, with drinks, and strange people with the same name as me who drink way to much for their own good. Yes it sounds like me, but not any more fellow journeyman, I am a sexy reformed character. or something. Finally we went off to some pub/club that was expensive and packed, but was alright

In conclusion: Great weekend and spent lots of money that I don't have.

BAM!


BLAM:

Is it wrong to live on a diet of caffiene?

Yes. Of course it is. What sort of question is that?

I'd like to in-joke you

right in the eye. Today I have mostly been buying Richard Dawkin's - The God Delusion , I'm hoping it'll be interesting if slightly overzealous in its point. Only £7.95 as well, more bargainous than Xenu himself.

I saw two dead people yesterday. Though their bones were amalgamated into one, which resulted in a very short person somehow, and not 4 legs as you might imagine. Thats right I went on our weekly (or so it seems) AI social in the Well House Tavern, much hilarity was had and I didn't drink too much which is always a bonus for my probably dying liver.

and so...

BAM:















The only good photo from my disposable camera, I think it got Fuxxored.

I just had a jacket potato with tuna mayo

Beat that.

It's celebration time you fiesty people, this is my 568th Post! You know what that means - that's right I've run out of things to say...

BAM!

and there were ferrets everywhere.

DAN! DAN! ICELANDIC DAN!

As you can probably infer from the title I did indeed go to the Death Fest which is Ottery St Mary. And although it was freeeeezing cold and my eye juice froze I had a great time in the end. I went on the Dodgems with Kath - who is a driving maniac, went on a spinny spinny ride, which was freezing but awesome. and I also saw Alex and his posse and Katie/Claire/Dave de la Hardcore/Andy which was dope. And I bought a can of beer from a playschool, which was probably good thing as that was one less that the 12 year old kids could buy or the retard drunkard emo kids.
There Was Fire:














There was Stu and Kath:














There were signs:














And there was danger:

If I was a woman I would rule the world

With the combination of my awesomeness (ahem) and a woman's effort I do believe the leaders of this world would cower at my very presence. Similar to the "Boing" guy I met in WHS smiths who walked into the shop with a toy train in his hand and exclaimed to me sincerely a single word. Which was "Boing" as u may have guessed.

Is it also possible to reach the limit of your intellect? On Friday I totally fucked up a Java exam, like afterwards when peeps were talking it seemed as though I had got EVERYTHING wrong, not sure how I managed that. And it was worth 2% of our degree. GOD dammit.

I forgot to mention, as I haven't blogged, that we had an Applied Artificial Intelligence social on the day of Monday in The Olde Firehouse. Was good fun and even the ledge who is Ed turned up for a few beers and hilarity.

Finally check out my review of Hoodwinked, the 3D laugh fest of the autumn.

Things you didn't know about Tom:

I've never owned a Hi-Fi system.

Omg Google rule

Oki so bigger better posts later for now, I just used Google Scholar. and it must have detected my IP address being from the University of Exeter and some articles have the link "find at Exeter" next to them. Awesome.