So once more I conquered time and against all predictions survived one more year to celebrate it in style. And in style we did, with much glee we began in the Ram with a drink here, a drink there, a drink in my face. Then from there we whisked ourselves back to our house where I was presented with an cake of fantastic proportions, along with lots of awesome presents (more later). From here we traveled at high speed towards town to a mysterious and unknown location, at least for me.
So... you would think with the impending deadlines I have looming over my well crafted hair, I'd be doing large quantities of work. Well, foolish ignorant reader, I haven't in the slightest. Yesterday I managed to get up at around 11.30am, then me and sam decided to "screw the world" and grab luncheon down the double locks. Which was jolly nice, I had some crazy Chicken Sicelliene device, and large quantities of generic brand cola (it was actually Coke). A humourous puppy also fell into the river/canal/locks which was chucklesome. I also got scared by the crazy narrow plank of metal u have to cross to get to the pub, hidden away it is.
We then came back, and I proceeded to faff around with some matlab, and not do much in the manner of effective work. Luckily a trip to the ritazza, nearly fixed that, tho my laptop's battery is akin to a smurf. That would be short then. And then me and sam gave up with the world once more, and watched 4 episodes of Spaced. Dude tis awesome. If you haven't watched it, watch it.
Tried the new hotmail. Plargh. Gmail still arouses me more.
Today, I have a plan to do my selected topic's presentation and play badminton at 12 avec Alex and Katie.
Out Now: Spiderman 3
Out Now: Wild Hogs
24th May: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
4th June: Live Free or Die Hard
8th June: Ocean's Thirteen
15th June: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
29th June: Shrek The Third
13th July: Harry Pothead and the Order of the Phoenix
27th July: Transformers
27th July: The Simpsons
10th August: Rush Hour 3
17th August: The Bourne Ultimatum
26th October: Saw IV
Unknown: Grindhouse
when a large amount of interesting things happen, I'm way too busy to blog. But then when I have time to blog, nothing interesting happens. Its a vicious cycle, that only vast sums of whiskey and enough emo to make you puke can solve.
Unfortunately, I'm currently undergoing a non-strict alcohol boycott. Even more unfortunately for everyone else, there's no emo boycott. Check out Cute Is What We Aim For, they're a kinda power-pop-emo mash up with a side order of "lacking in masculinity".
In other news, I'm infused with Brand New. If you don't know them, you obviously haven't listened to any of my mad ravings about them the past 2 years. Shame on you.
oh. and I'm addicted to facebook. So same old really.
More later. Less laterer.
11th May: Selected Topics Presentation
14th May: Pattern Recognition Project
18th May: Particle Swarm Optimisation Presentation
21st May: Tools and Techniques: Java
28th May: Nature Inspired CA3
1st June: Selected Topics
4th June: Pattern Recognition: 7 workshop reports.
Things I have achieved so far today:
Woke up
Ate Breakfast
Showered
Voted
Sorted a Birthday Present
Had a coffee
Bought Jesus
Bought Kerrang
Listened to Cute Is What We Aim For
Things I haven't done yet today:
Worked.
Things I haven't done for 2+ weeks:
Blogged.
I appear to be writing this well after anything happened, but so I vaguely remember what I used my life for, here is what I may have done:
Friday Night: Traversed to Bromley for alcohol consumption at ye olde wetherspoons of Bromley, and then I think we came back to Orpington. Where we were all jolly and some such thing like that. Possibly.
Saturday: We attempted to play football, but everyone was rubbish and failed to turn up, so we were like pfft. Then there was the food festival of the year "I know what you ate last summer", needless to say there was food, and beer and much jovality.
Sunday: Easter. Not much happened I think.
Monday: I organised a lesbian mud wrestling bonanza on the church green.... no wait, that wasn't monday. What we actually did on monday was go to bluewater to extrapolate some clothing, which was jolly nice, and then chilled round ruffle's wit some games and some hoes...
that wraps it up. Plus its hard to type this and Lost at the same time.
"because it beats doing work"
mediamaster* lets me stream a radio, which is nice and is available below and to your right ->
It's a mish mash of my favourite albums, so u'll get hit with the likes of emo, punk, rock, jazz, soul (or whatever Norah Jones is) and possibly anything else random on there. It loads in your chosen media player... I think. Maybe someday I'll get some embedded shit on there.
Not that its much use to anyway, but could be a nice backdrop to reading my slightly delirious blog posts as the year goes on.
UPDATE:
I got a flash player. If you don't have Flash. well I pity the fool. I have blatantly stolen this player from Spud's Blog, where he has an awesome interview with the BBC. I'm not sure if he wrote this, or got it from somewhere else, I'll ask him next time he's on "da net" (don't worry I hosted it myself)....
Oki so I've changed the site I use to put my DVD collection on. It doesn't have all my films for some reason, but it's a hell of a lot more intuitive to view than that list site:
Reminds of that time in warehouse where my trousers fell down and Katie was like roflmaolollerskates....
I win by getting travel insurance for a week in Spain for £5.70 with lots of millions for all sorts of shindigs that could happen to me and my limbs.
Moving on, its so sunny I accidentally managed to waste the day again. Luckily though I didn't discover www.mediamaster.com which lets u upload ur entire music collection (unlimited space) and then u can stream it from where-ever you are. Useful in situations I can't quite think of now but I'm sure will come to me at some point....
Sick and tired of not having sexy automatic updates? Try SyncBak. Its fun and quibble free...
Anyone have Death Cab For Cutie's "Photo Album" album? as I need it or I will implode.
Reminders: On Friday tax year rolls over, so people can put money into their Cash ISAs again. Woo!... Plus in the budget turns out the taxing of cars changed. Which is good for some people with low CO2 emmissions, some people can get tax for just 35 quid or free! Others... like me with a Fiesta 1.6l Ghia gonna have to pay £140.00... damn. 0-60mph in 10.2s comes at a cost.
Enough now.
k gangstas, I need people's suggestions for improvement of this so called "blog". Not so much about content but more about the design of the page etc.
I quite like the colour co-ordination, even if it goes against my dark backgrounds policy, but it looks a bit "default" if you know what I mean. Obviously I've hacked up the side bar a bit, but any other suggestions?
I warn any "l337" people out there that blogger tends to fuck up a lot of the javascript I put in the template, as I tend to have an "ad-hoc" manner of coding it.
GO! comment away you scally-wags.
In your face. I made it up on campus by 8am, which was a little bit crazy of me, now I'm starting to lag as apparently I need more a mid morning meal to keep me from passing out.
Perhaps coffee will help....
or this cute video of a polar bar cub
It's 7.25 and I've already woken up, shaved, showered and now I'm eating breakfast. And, dear readers, we must remember I am a student.
I feel a bit too awake as well.
I have a sore throat and I need to get up 7am. These may not seem related facts, but we can use them to infer some statements:
I've decided to coin a new phrase:
Novel Gadget Overloading, or NGOing for short. This occurs in the unlikely event that you get too many gadgets in a short period of time and don't appreciate each one long enough before a new one comes along.
Well that was geeky. In other news I did some work today, which was a bit shocking on all accounts, and resulted in most betting agencies losing vast sums of money. William Hill's stocks have plummeted 75 points in the last 30 minutes alone.
Time to play Pro Evolution 6 in the bath. Cos thats the way I roll.
it's quantitive. Apparently it doesn't exist. It means, what I can only imagine, quantitative means.
at how dull it is writing about water regulatory boards. But it is.
No matter, excitementnewspartyfuntab!!!! Tony Jaa's sister's cousin twice removed from a pot and placed next door to me is back and in the mix. Though I haven't actually seen her, I've heard her and witnessed the destruction of my kitchen's personal space. For all I know she may now be severely disfigured and it might just be someone who stole her keys.
I'm tired of April Fools Day, too many people attempting to fool are fools themselves. Apart from google, they rock.
Back to work....
Google Tisp
Google Paper
World of Warcraft Tinfoil hat
Thinkgeek's latest gadgets
Voice extrapolation from walls
The Pirate Bay's transisiton
Robo-Girlfriend
and check your Facebook news feed.....
Dual Monitors. The set up of Kings!
This children, is the PSU that committed attempted murder on your hero...
I like how I've managed to capture a "semi-lens-flare" here, and the trees have some crazy focus going on...
Blue + Tree = pretty
See how the Great Hall offsets the landscape? That's Photography that is.
An interesting quote I have blatantly stolen from Slashdot without even a hint at acknowledging the author (emphasis untouched):
"Everyone's a sheep. Modern neuroscience pretty much confirms that most of us run on autopilot most of the time. The real question is, who's your shepherd?
I think the average Slashdotter mostly agrees with Jesus about this. The difference is, the average Slashdotter believes that he's not a sheep, and sees this as insulting. Well, reality check. You are. But who's your shepherd? If there's a single most important decision you can make in your life, it's this. Is it Jesus? Mohammad? Richard Stallman? Pamela Jones? Jimmy Carter? Al Gore? Brad Pitt? Your parents? A good friend? A friendly and knowledgeable professor at school?
A little bit back on topic, is anyone else disturbed that unwavering belief in the theory of evolution has become a litmus test for intelligence?"
I was born in a city in Bangladesh
All my homeys agree I'm the best
and the young fillies say that I'm fresh
but I wasn't really born in Bangladesh
I was born in a city in Sri Lanka
All my homeys agree I'm a wanker
and the young fillies want me to spanka...
but I wasn't really born in Sri Lanka
I was born in a city in Dubai
All my homeys agree I'm super fly
and the young fillies grin oh so wry
but I wasn't really born in Dubai
I was born in a city in London
Actually I wasn't it was in kent, and it wasn't a city, and in theory, although I say Folkstone it was actually Ashford hospital.....
I succeeded again in very little yesterday except to organise a meeting with Ed for today. I think he hates me. I see it in his eyes. Even though I haven't actually seen him yet.... I suspect its my constant stupidity and lack of knowing what I'm doing.
Which could be awkward as I'm going to ask him what I'm meant to be doing today. Interestingly I'm only in Exeter for another 7 days and with nothing achieved already, everything's going really well.... IN SARCASM LAND
Tesco lamb rogan josh is lush. Eatage. If only Ryan gigs was English. I also need to get my hair cut. What? I don't need to logically link sentences, that would be a ridiculous waste of my limited intelligence.
What is a good use you ask? Well getting 75% on a piece of coursework I did in a night, and then lost a load of it, at 6.30am and having to re do it. Classic getting away with it skills there. Which means the two modules we've actually completed, I've averaged 90-sommit and 79. Though the 90-sommit module will no doubt be scaled down cos they hate Caucasians. And who could blame them.
are jolly nice. I ordered the Creative Zen Vision W 30gb mp3 player from them for £145.55 a few days ago (+ student discount and free pnp) but then yesterday the price went down to £139.99. Emailed them and within an hour I got refund for the difference (£5.56). So in total I got an mp3 player which has more features, better compatibility and higher visual and sound quality than an ipod, for only £132.72.
*thrust* woooooof
more info on their price drop policy here.
Brand New's "Your Favourite Weapon" and "Deja Entendu" double album pack for just £7.48.
So bargainous I may have to buy it. Oh I did.
Today we have kindly been joined by Mr Irony, to deliver a post of the up most staggering quality:
Interestingly, while utilising what is commonly known as "Orange Wednesdays" for the purpose of extrapolating two motion picture tickets, to allow admission to the artistic venture known as 300, for the price of one of these aforementioned motion picture tickets, we were approached by a sprightly young lad in the employment of Vue Entertainment. He announced to us if we may partake in a scheme that had recently commenced, with which members of the proletariat may act as watchers on behalf of Vue Entertainment's work force. These chosen few should assist, with limited enthusiasm, the act of observing the fellow motion picture viewing ensemble to assess for unscrupulous members of the community who greatly despise Copyright legislation. If these selected outlaws of society are found wanting in possession of image recording apparatus and paraphernalia then hence forth the chosen spectators will report, with much haste, the preceding act of treasonous villainy to the nearest authoritative figure in the employment of Vue Entertainment. On completion of the task in hand, irregardless of eventfulness of the specified duration of observation, Vue Entertainment will relinquish the treasure-like assets of two motion picture tickets for any moving image production in the continual future.
So in conclusion, we got 4 tickets for the price of 1. Shay zam mon ami, shay zam.
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Heavens - Patent Pending
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Jamie Cullam - Twentysomething
Norah Jones - Not Too Late
and
The Corrs - Dreams: The Ultimate Corrs Collection
meh, don't judge me, its helping me work.
All over your 'fro
[insert generic comment about not doing any work yet]
Turns out the PS3 is the fastest selling console. I there was me thinking it did crap cos it was still on the shelves. Turns out they made a lot.
Right well I have no inspiration and I suspect my computer may do that mysterious clunky thing at any point. So I'm off to campus, and then seeing the 300 avec la Stu and the nice people at Orange
Tip of the Day: If you have orange and want Orange Wednesdays, don't text them. It costs you 35p, if you just ring 241 its completely free and u get the text exactly the same. Winner.
I'm sure at some point today I worked out an awesome introduction to this blog in my head. Unfortunately my head has the retainablity of a sieve.
Things that have made me annoyed today:
A Heartwell Ending....
you know the drill, pop emo myspace band. Teen angst times 7. Seems good? Can't find their album yet though or even a wikipedia entry. One of their songs called "If Loox Could Kill" reminds me of the ye olde Brand New lyrics:
"If looks could really kill, then my profession would be staring...."
you may be quick to jump to your "informed" decisions, thinking "oh that tom there, he's only just got up at 10.51am, he's a lazy good for nothing rodent". Surprisingly although you'd normally be right, today I have thrown aside normal stereotypes and splashed water in the face of omnipotent prejudice to wake up at 8am, have breakfast, a shower, do my weekly Tesco shop at big Tesco and fix my computer from crisis already. Take that.
Needless to say, I see it fit to continue this marvelous venture without delay. Except to write this. and a bit more drivel first. For instance, did you know I can't even fill up my car for £25 when there's still some petrol in it. Thats blasphemy. Well it isn't but you get the point.
Right, now I plan to go to the long lounge to do a bit of work, as I have a suspicion that they serve tom yum goong (though I may be wrong) which is a Thai dish with prawns which is also actually the original Thai name for The Warrior King film. If I didn't rule so much I'd suck...
Addiction: Dr Pepper
Guilty Pleasure: Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...Comes Around
Phone: Offline today, due to number swappage.
taking a pot noodle on to campus with me, but if I don't have any utensils I have to frickin' attempt to drink boiling hot pot noodlie goodness. Note To Self: I like the word frick. Use it more often.
Returning to our old foe, Daylight Savings, its also not even sunny, so the earth is not actually utilising this new daylight to the best of its abilities. Plus they haven't altered the time-restricted vending machines, just to mock me at 4pm.
No matter, thanks to actually doing some work, looks like I finally understand why Ed suggested (feel free to phase out, none AI people) to use Genetic Programming for building decision trees. The main reason I was like "w00t?" was because I didn't think he meant for doing that, so when I shot him down and he agreed with me, he must have secretly thought "duuuude, this boi be wack". Or some other gangsta related slang.
Now away with thee, I have to continue my data mining research.
Though I suspect I'd regret that, cos I do like my daylight. I just also need my sleep. How did my plan go yesterday you ask? Well I reply, craply. I lost. *le sigh*
Right. So what would you do if ur kitchen bin has maggots in it?... I'm thinking of leaving it and running away? Or I could pour hot water in there *ponders* Some of them appear to be on my floor as well. Dammit.
Luckily I found a dust pan and brush...
And defeated their perimeter defenses, with one eye kept on their castle fort (bin). As any cub scout will tell you, "fuck off you old twat". With that in mind, I was luckily well prepared and had a pre-boiled kettle at hand....
Then Act 3 was a toilet scene, but for common decency I will not show that before the watershed you lucky lucky folk, much to Sam's dismay I'm sure. Ah... the life and times of me. This is how I don't get any.... SHIT PASTA... phew, its oki, and I have a nice caeser tuna salad now with no maggots in. At least I can't see any.
I lost at life again, or to be more specific waking up at a decent hour so I can go to the gym and get a decent amount of work done. As now the same thing will happen as it always does, and that is I apple fritter the day away, without a care for my future.
Well not today slightly less loyal readers than 2 months ago! I'm back from black and I'm going to rehab... or whatever that crazy woman says.
You may have noticed I put a very pretentious new side box called "Greatest Hits" where I put a small selection of my best posts. Cos well, it was better than working. Its definitely not finished, as I couldn't remember 95% of my posts and I didn't have the time to go through them all. So if you're up for doing that: comment with your favourite posts.
Plan for the day? Well if you're asking:
you say? Supposedly so, though many a myth was created in my absence where mighty foe were defeated by quick wit and an impeccable amount of poor updating of blogs. Luckily not as bad as everyone else I know, but that is nairely (<- I made this word up) the point. I decided that although I've missed a lot of updates, the longer I wait to do any, the more I'll have to do. So hopefully I fill in the space later and link back to them. If I can remember what I did.
So what have I done recently? I shall tell you via the medium of images. And words.
Tom's Past Week In Picture And Word Format:
On Saturday I went home to Orpington
with Sarah
for Mother's day
There was a tortoise
I got a new phone (k800i)
On Wednesday I returned to Exeter
and Alex and I
went a drinking to Ye Olde Firehouse
then watched my new copy of The Warrior King - Awesome...
Today Stu and I
went to la Cinema to see TMNT. It was pretty awesome
So take that. I updated. Now I must do something productive like sleep and wake up at 7 to go to the gym and then work all day like a rancid motherfucker. Which is ironically quite similar to how a normal person would work, just with more rancid motherfucking....
this guy totally wins, 100 year old kung fu man.
Current Status: Finally fixed my Evolutionary Algorithm, turns out Java has referencing/copying shit. So I had to clone some arrays. Bastards.
