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Monday, 28 February 2011
Sunday, 27 February 2011
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Day 29 ⇝ Goals for the next 30 days
- Finish Leverhulme Trust application
- Update wiki at work
- Start training runs for the next two papers worth of research.
- Start next round of funding applications
- Finish the Changeling chronicle and the Changeling ebook
- Start the Mage chapter of my ebook
- Start writing up Fading Suns material for submission
- Record stuff for the Darker Days podcast and prepare ideas for it when I get to co-host the podcast.
Day 30 ⇝ Your highs and lows of this month
- Finishing some major programming
- My wedding anniversary
- Money issues
Friday, 25 February 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Fuck I am behind with this
Day 19 ⇝ Disrespecting your parents
I guess the closet I have come to doing this came when I was a skateboarder (yeah, for real!) when I was about 14-15, and stayed out late. That and I hated my father's attitude towards what I did and knew. Like I was always somehow wrong. Such as with the computer when I knew a lot more than he did.
Day 20 ⇝ How important you think education is
I have a PhD, my wife however doen't. She does not have a degree, or A-Levels. What does this mean? Education can be performed by one's self. Having an education does not equate to intelligence. What is important is that all people have the chance to an education. But that does not mean all have the right to go to uni and fuck about. The right to education should be respected. But equally those who do not have qualification may well be your intellectual superiors, so don't think that a piece of paper makes you in some way better.
Day 21 ⇝ One of your favorite shows
This has to be Being Human. It is basically everything I love about personal horror in one excellent show.
Day 22 ⇝ How have you changed in the past 2 years
Calmer, more hopeful, more responsible.
Day 23 ⇝ Give pictures of 5 guys girls who are famous you find attractive
Ok.
Emily Blunt
Keira Knightly
Kirsten Dunst
Anne Hathaway
Ulorin Vex
Anyone notice any trends???
Day 24 ⇝ Your favorite movie and what it's about
This has to be The Fountain, all about one man's journey across time and space to over come death and be with his loved one.
Day 25 ⇝ Someone who fascinates you and why
My wife, as I now that very soon she will have a chance to shine and do what she has always wanted, while I have had my chance and now continue on, she has not and that's quite exciting.
Day 26 ⇝ What kind of person attracts you
Intelligent, funny, demure, elegant, witty, geeky, gothic, red heads, pale like ivory, women. Hah. My wife! Suckers.
Day 27 ⇝ A problem that you have had
Loss of motivation for work as I get distracted easily when depressed with things, mainly money.
Day 28 ⇝ Something that you miss
To enjoy the odd spliff.
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
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Day 16 ⇝ Your views on mainstream music
It comes down to this. Listen to what you like. Good music is just good music to the listener. It is a shame real talent can get overlooked in the face of manufactured artists and groups. However, I also feel that is important for people to 1) accept a band they dislike is technically talented 2) for others to accept a person may just not like a band, not because they think they lack talent, but because it is not to their taste.
Balkenlisation of people based upon their taste in music e.g. 'I'm metal and won't compromise' is dumb.
Day 17 ⇝ Your highs and lows of this past year
Highs
- Going to Paris and Versailles
- Getting kittens
- Getting my literature review published
- Getting another year of funding
- Organising a new roleplay group
- Going to York
- Going to the CCG conference in Cambridge Genome Campus
- Sam's birthday
- My smartphone changed my life
Downs
- Up and down depression with work
- The flat being more of a problem because it is new build
- Money issues
- Not getting leverhulme funding
Day 18 ⇝ Your beliefs
I tend towards open paganism/hermetic philosophy, which allows for the integration of science, not it's exclusion. I may not believe in gods or spirits etc, but I do believe in some greater cosmic force, something that is more akin to the very essence of the universe and so in present in all, but greater than the sum of parts. I don't believe in magic in the typical 'oh your become a frog' stuff. But magic of the mind, the ability to recognise the mental energies that can be manipulated into allowing a person to do the things they wish to do. Science is of course magic of world that is well documented and reproducible, so I allow for there to be phenomena that currently cannot be explain by science and so falls into the realm of paranormal and magic.
Friday, 11 February 2011
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Day 14 ⇝ Your earliest memory
Difficult one this. I think I would go with something like when I stayed at my Nan's place and there was this epic colourful thunderstorm. I think I was perhaps 5.
Day 15 ⇝ Your favorite Tumblrs
Urghh.... tumblr... how about blog in general asshat! Right I would go with obviously my wife, but really, I think http://www.aiko273.co.uk/,
http://justinachilli.com/, io9.com,
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
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Day 13 ⇝ Somewhere you'd like to move or visit
Well this is easy. In order of preference. Venice/Verona/Padua/Veneto/Italy/Paris/France/New York/California/USA/Japan/Canada
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
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Day 09 ⇝ How you hope your future will be like
I'd like to be a senior lecturer by the time I am 50, have lived in the US or Italy or France for a time, have two children, and really look no older than 30. I'd hope to still be quite healthy (more than likely through taking up martial arts once more) and have written for some roleplay games freelance. Otherwise I will still be with Sam, and have had the chance to visit Japan, Cambodia, and Egypt. Otherwise by that point in my life I hope that the world will have calmed down after this last decade or so of madness and excess.
Day 10 ⇝ Discuss your first love and first kiss
My first kiss was with a girl at the leavers ball at sixth form. Basically the Xmas party before (she was a friend of one of the girls in at 6th form but went to a different college) thought someone else was me. So yeah basically that was all there was to it. It led to nothing after, and well it's not like I cared more beyond that as I was off to Uni.
My first love was Vicky, who was in the same halls of residence as myself, and was a biochemist. It all was relatively OK for the first year or so, but we grew apart. She basically broke my heart and caused me to find myself (I guess the person I should have become if I wasn't in a relationship like that) and it took a long time to forgive her for it.
Day 11 ⇝ Put your iPod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up
Ipod.... you mean Spotify.... I don't have an Ipod, and well my Xperia I cycle the music on it so using Spotify is better.
- Is It You - :Wumpscut: - Embryodead
- Adult Content - Combichrist - What the Fuck is Wrong With You People?
- Necessary Evil - Katscan - Weapons of Crass Dysfunction
- Winteryear - Combichrist - The Joy of Gunz
- Blumen - Kirlian Camera - Schmerz
- We All Know the World is Wrong - ESA - Rhythms For Decay
- Pulse - Mad Capsule Markets - OSC-DIS
- Android - Icon of Coil - Android
- Transfer - Negative Format - Cipher Method
- Kill Kitty - Angelspit - Blood Death Ivory
Day 12 ⇝ Bullet your whole day
- Get up
- Feed kittens
- Feed self
- Shave and Wash etc
- Pack gear for work
- Wait for bus and then get on the U1
- Arrive at Uni
- Read Emails and RSS goodies
- Work
- Unix programming of makefile
- Writing funding application
- Check simulations
- Build training database
- Return home
- Food shopping
- Cooking
- Go out to pub to meet Kat and David
- Home and sleep
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Star Sign
I had posted this up a while back on LJ, and it is here on my posterous, but I think it deserves a repost
Excellent gallery of Zodiac images
Thursday, 3 February 2011
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Day 07 ⇝ Your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality
I would not say that I believe in astrology, however, there do seem to be some general rules on personality etc that do fit with when you were born. This more than likely is the influence of seasonal effects during pregnancy.
From a web source
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
16,500 year old cemetery reveals the pets we kept before dogs [Archaeology]
http://io9.com/#!5750178/16500-year-old-cemetery-reveals-the-pets-we-kept-before-dogs
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Day 06 ⇝ Write 30 interesting facts about yourself
- I am a Dr of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Warwick
- My research focuses on the simulation of Transition Metals in order to design novel anti cancer drugs, and materials for computing.
- I am not a traditional chemist; I am a programmer of some C++, UNIX bash, Fortran, SVL, a little Perl. I am also a programmer of basic AI/Machine learning methods. Thus I know some computing, chemistry, physics, maths, quantum mechanics, and biochemistry.
- I studied my degree, Chemistry with Chemical Physics (hons) at UMIST in Manchester, before the merger with Victoria Manchester which formed the University of Manchester. I studied for my PhD at the University of Manchester, looking at simulations of water.
- I was married in Venice in 2009, on the 25th of Feb, the day after Carnival. I was engaged to Sam the year before in Venice during Carnival.
- I have a brown belt in Karate and a blue sash in Kick Boxing.
- I used to skateboard.
- I used to work in Games Workshop Altrincham while I was a degree student.
- I am an avid roleplay gamer, mainly White Wolf games, or anything with a goth streak in it. More horror games.
- My hair is naturally a dark brown, but it right now a coffee red, but is renowned for the bleached white 'Cloud Strife' look.
- I originally from Kington, Herefordshire. The place has a local ghost story that is the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles story.
- I have an elder sister who is a dr of linguistics.
- My high school, Lady Hawkin's High School, was founded on money from the slave trade by Lord Hawkins.
- I will soon be doing pod casts for the roleplay game podcast, Darker Days Radio, that focuses on White Wolf games.
- My eyes are green/brown,but more green.
- I have no tattoos or piercings, though I may in the future as Sam thinks that it would look good.
- I am very house trained. I was able to cook, clean and iron before I left for uni. I view other men who do not as a bit lame.
- My favourite drink is a Negroni - Campari, Vermouth, Gin.
- I am missing my two second upper incisors. My dental work brought my canines forward to give me a better bite. Thus the fang like look.
- I am picky about clothes. I care what I wear and find men's clothing too homogenous and bland on the high street.
- I have helped write, film and acted in a short film for a BBC aspirations project.
- I had a cat as a child called Bumblelion, named for the character in the Wuzzles.
- My favourite film is the Fountain.
- My favourite book is the Book of the New Sun.
- My favourite band is Mechanical Cabaret.
- I love dark chocolate and view lovers of things like Dairy Milk as barbarians.
- I worked part time jobs at high school, such as in a grocers and the local CO-OP.
- I got a large Megatron toy for Xmas of Sam one year. Possibly the best xmas present i have had since a kid (no really).
- I am 5' 8''. But, only 8.5 stone. This has been so since I was 18. I still have not really changed since I finished doing Karate.
- I like all things to do with the supernatural, mythology, ancient history, history in general, cyberpunk, posthumanism, transhumanism, dystopia, anime, roleplay games, devil may cry, batman, vampires, magic, hermetic philosophy and Venice.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
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Day 05 ⇝ A time you thought about ending your own life
I guess the one time that it truly passed my mind was when myself and Sam were going through a really bad time. It seemed that life would be easier for her without me. I was thinking why was I going through all this just to prove myself? But I knew it was a selfish thought and not the truth. I guess because I hate giving up on things like that and that I love Sam too much to hurt her like that.
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