| Breathtaking! |
[Sep. 23rd, 2006|11:56 am] |
Hey, all you microbiology wizards, and everybody else! Check this out:
The Inner Life of the Cell
Awesome computer animation of all kinds of cellular activities going on. It's absolutely breathtaking. I had no clue what was going on, but it was still amazing.
Now I want to be a microbiologist too. :( |
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| Exam-O-Rama |
[May. 1st, 2006|09:14 pm] |
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| | Phish - Live Phish Vol 10 - Rift | ] |
Fri 26 May - Final day of classes. Swotvac begins.
Tue 6 Jun - Real and Complex Analysis exam, 9:15 am (Wilson Hall)
Wed 7 Jun - Vector Analysis exam, 9:15 am (REB)
Thu 15 Jun - Algorithmic Problem Solving exam, 2:15 pm (REB)
Mon 19 Jun - Logic exam, 2:15 pm (REB)
Could be a lot worse! I'm extremely glad to have RCA first, firstly so I can study it without distractions of other exams, and secondly so it's out of the way early. It'd be better if Vector was a few days after, but it's not that hard and I'll give it some time during Swotvac. After that it's smooth sailing through the breezy 1st year subjects :)
And there I was, worried that RCA would be smack in the middle of a close group! |
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| Movie meme thing |
[Apr. 26th, 2006|06:24 pm] |
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| | Pat Travers - Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) | ] |
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 190 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 190 movies on this list. Add up your score at the end and put it as the email suject. Finally, send it to all your friends!
(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
( ) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) The Mexican
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane (Flying High in Australia)
Total: 6/10
(x) The Princess Bride
( ) Young Frankenstien
( ) Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw 2
( )White Noise
( )White Oleander
(x)Anger Management
( )50 First Dates
( ) Jason X
Total: 3/12
( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
Total: 3/9
(x) Harry Potter
(x) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil I
( ) Resident Evil 2
( ) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
(x) Donnie Darko
( ) Lilo & Stitch.
( )Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch
Total:3/12
(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) Signs
( ) The Grinch (jim carrey)
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
( ) Thirteen Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
Total: 3/9
( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
( ) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
Total: 4/11
( ) A Cinderella Story
(x) the Terminal
( ) the Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumb & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
Total: 3/12
( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
Total: 1/9
( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) Bad Boys
Total: 1/10
(x) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Se7en
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
total: 3/10
(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss' daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) Frailty
Total: 2/10
( ) Best Bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
(x) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
Total: 3/10
(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2 -- although I would have, if I hadn't walked out of the room after five minutes because it was so shit
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
( ) The Others
( ) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
Total: 5/14
(x) swimfan
( ) Miracle
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Boogeyman
Total: 4/10
( ) hitch
(x) The Fifth Element
(x) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones
(x) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith
(x) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi
( ) Troop Beverly Hills
( ) Swimmig with Sharks
Total: 7/10
(x) Air Force One
( ) For Richer or Poorer
( ) Trainspotting
( ) People Under the Stairs......
( ) Blue Velvet
( ) Sound of Music
(x) Parent Trap
( ) Parent Trap Re-make
( ) The Birds
(x) The Terminator
(x) Terminator-2
(x) T-3
Total: 5/12
(x) Empire Records
( ) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
( ) Nightmare Before Christmas
( ) The Silence of the Lambs
(x) Sleepy Hollow
( ) I Heart Huckabees
( ) 24 Hour Party People
( ) Blood In Blood Out
( ) Nowhere
Total: 2/10
( ) Thirteen
( ) Manic
( ) American History X
( ) Deep Blue Sea
(x) George of the Jungle
( ) Canadian Bacon
( ) Big Black Titties
( ) How High
( ) The Jackel
( ) My Little Ponys Grand Adventure
TOTAL: 1/10
TOTAL : 59
I win at having a life! |
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| Crazy New Meme! |
[Apr. 10th, 2006|11:07 pm] |
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| | Phish - 1999-06-22 - Avenu Mulcanu | ] |
Okay, that little thing with the checking Wikipedia for interesting events on one's birthday gave me an idea for a new meme regarding that most wonderful of internet resources.
Stolen from myself, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) maelin,
It works like this. Open up two random Wikipedia articles and take note of the titles. Then visit the Six Degrees of Wikipedia tool to find the shortest path between them.
Keep opening random articles until you get a chain with at least two articles -between- your start and end (feel free to try again if you get routes that are too long to bother with). If you get more than one year or date in your chain, try again. Remember that the return path might be a good one even if the way there is rubbish. Try to get a chain with a diverse spread of topics.
Then, your job is to visit each of those pages and give a brief two or three sentence description of whatever the thing is about, as well as one last sentence describing how it connects to the next item in the chain.
- The Spinesharkis a jumping ability that appeared in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, 'Super Metroid'. It involves running uninterrupted with a Speed Boost upgrade until the character begins to glow, then crouching and jumping, and it allows the player to break through a few special kinds of blocks that are otherwise an obstruction.
The Spineshark appeared in Super Metroid, a video game.
- Computer and video games are games controlled by a computer device. The player interacts with the game with the use of input devices (such as keyboards, mice, joysticks, controllers, etc) and the computer processes this and produces outputs of the game results via its output (usually a monitor/television, and often with accompanying sound).
Computer games are frequently in the news for their inclusion of controversial topics including advertising.
- Advertising is the promotion of a product, service, organisation, or idea, typically by someone with an interest in increasing its interest or public recognition. Advertising was once mainly by word of mouth, but slowly spread to forms of media, especially with the advent of the printing press.
Advertising was taxed by the state of Florida in an attempt to reduce it, but commercial interest groups gave Florida's tourism and mass media industries a royal reaming until the bill was repealed 6 months later.
- Florida is a state in southeast United States. Its capital is Tallahassee, and it has a population of around 16 million. Its economy was historically based on agriculture, until, in the early 1900s, the connection to interstate railway created a massive tourism boom, which has been a major basis for its economy ever since.
Florida is home to St. Petersburg College.
- St. Petersburg College is a university that was founded in 1927. It has nine campuses serving approximately 65,000 students each year, and offers bachelors degrees, associate degrees in arts and science, and various certificates.
Whew! Okay, your turn. Have fun! |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 10th, 2006|05:21 pm] |
Yoinked from just_bellae.
Hit the Wikipedia and open up the page of your birthday (article title format: Mmmm dd, e.g. June 7). List three cool facts, two births, and two deaths, along with the respective year.
August 12
Facts:
1099 - The First Crusade concluded with a decisive victory in the Battle of Ascalon over forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah
1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, was discovered near Faith, South Dakota
Births:
1930 - Jacques Tits, French mathematician (the same sort of maths as I'm interested in!)
1949 - Mark Knofpler, British guitarist (lead guitarist/vocalist for Dire Straits)
Deaths:
30 BC - Cleopatra
1964 - Ian Fleming, British novellist (wrote the James Bond novels)
Quite an interesting little investigation, I thought. |
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| The Power of Procrastination |
[Apr. 2nd, 2006|08:51 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Phish - 1999-12-31 - Sand > Quadrophonic Topplings | ] |
So I asked a friend if he'd like to take my Midsem test on Vector Analysis this Wednesday (in Soviet Russia, vector analyses you!) but he didn't seem too eager. He said he'd do it if I wrote his Criminal Law position piece. I asked what that is, and he said I had to develop and argue an opinion on an issue in Criminal Law.
Since it was a choice between that and actually doing some desperately urgent studying, I present the following for your amusement perhaps, or, if not, just to see the dumbfounded look on your face at the lengths I will go to to avoid doing any real work. It's probably not actually that interesting, but eh, I haven't done any pseudocreative writing for a while so what the hell. If you don't like it, I don't care, because I hate you. You can't tell me what to do, you're not my real dad!
( Waste Five Minutes of your life that you'll never have back... )
Finally, a shout-out to all my homies. You know who you are. |
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| Screw that Canadian arsehole |
[Feb. 17th, 2006|11:29 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Santana - No One To Depend On | ] |
'Spam man' wins gold
By Stephen Hutcheon and Jacquelin Magnay
The Age, February 16, 2006 - 11:35AM
According to the International Olympic Committee's website, Australia's gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith, runs an internet pop-up advertising company that he describes as the third largest of its type.
But that's about as much detail as you'll get out of the Lamborghini-driving Canadian-turned-Australian moguls skier who is reluctant to talk about his dealings which remain shrouded in secrecy.
Speaking on Monday at a pre-race press conference, the 21-year-old said he had wound down his multimillion-dollar internet business to concentrate on his Olympic ambitions.
He refused to reveal the name of his business, nor details of its operations or size. He did say it had "two or three" employees and that it wasn't really an issue with skiing because it had been wound down.
"I haven't spent much time on it, I've let it taper off during the ski season," Begg-Smith said when pressed about his work. "There's not much to say. We design technology and stuff like that, some advertising stuff, too."
But the companies that he and brother Jason Begg-Smith are involved with are some of the most annoying aspects of the web.
Two main companies - called AdsCPM and CPM Media - make money by skimming a small percentage each time an ad scores a hit or is directed to a client's site.
Begg-Smith said the figures being bandied about his business - one report had him earning $40 million - were untrue.
At his post-race press conference overnight, Begg-Smith became irritated when more questions were asked about his business. According to Canadian press reports he said: "I don't know why we're talking about the company. I just won Olympic gold."
Begg-Smith reiterated that his business was set up to help fund his skiing career and that he was now concentrating on his sport.
According to the Canadian Press news agency, Begg-Smith said "his business had never dealt with any specific kind of advertising, only the technology to track how often the ads were being seen. It was up to his customers to decide what kind of ads they wanted to use, he said."
Web searches reveal that AdsCPM Network has been a supplier of pop-under and -up advertising to websites.
Although they are a source of annoyance to web surfers, pop ads are used by many mainstream websites and are perfectly above board.
But there is a dark side to the pop ad business.
Hidden programs that launch these ads are sometimes secreted - by third parties - in many website with "honeypot" offerings, such as pornography, free games, downloads and gambling.
Unsuspecting web surfers visiting these sites can unwittingly become infected with so-called adware which spawns annoying advertisement and which can be used to secretly track a user's web surfing habits.
Numerous computer security companies have warnings about AdsCPM and CPM Media which are held responsible for the Xzoomy.com search engine directory page and a site called FreeScratchandWin.com.
According to the Spyware Guide website, FreeScratchandWin.com opens pop ads "every few minutes", hijacks users' home- and search-page settings and can spy on users' web usage.
Another CPM website, 2nd-thought.com, initiates a so-called browser hijacker program that resets the user's home page and often redirect searches to porn sites. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 28th, 2005|02:12 pm] |
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| | Phish - Live Phish Vol 10 - Llama | ] |
A Demon in the Rough
You scored 54 intelligence and intuition, 47 vainity, and 69 discretion! |
You have all it takes to be a legendary seducer, but not many people
see you as such because you haven't done enough to build that image
around yourself. Spiff up your surroundings and put more effort into
your appearance, wardrobe or whatever else may be lacking and things
will fall into place. As people begin to notice the change, don't be
surprised if you are suddenly swarmed with interested parties, and let
every breath and every step you take proclaim the confidence of your
inner succubus/incubus. |  |
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 16% on IQ or intuition | | You scored higher than 30% on vanity | | You scored higher than 47% on discretion |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 21st, 2005|08:33 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love | ] |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 14th, 2005|03:24 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Eddie Rabbit - I Love A Rainy Night | ] |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 1st, 2005|06:10 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Carlos Gardel - Por Una Cabeza | ] |
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| NaNoWriMo |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|01:10 am] |
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| | B.B. King - Ghetto Woman | ] |
Man, once again NaNoWriMo comes around and I have exams and think it would be insanely irresponsible to intentionally add distractions to exam period. :( How I envy those crummy students of other Unis with their early exams. But only for that.
For those who don't know it, NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, and it is a time when people from all around the world (the "National" is a misnomer, because it flows better than "InaNoWriMo") try furiously to write a 50,000+ word novel between 12:01 am, November 1, and 11:59 pm, November 30. It results in much fun and a couple thousand new, crappy novels being brought into the world.
I encourage all with even a hint of creativity in them to give it a go, unless you are unlucky like me, and have exams on in November. You can still sign up for it until November 25th, so don't feel like you've missed the boat. Good luck!
Richard |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 27th, 2005|04:33 pm] |
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| | Phish - Wading in the Velvet Sea | ] |
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
There are three books nearby. The first one didn't have enough sentences on page 123 so unfortunately I had to grab Zumdahl's and Zumdahl's Chemistry.
"16. Consider the equation 2A + B ---> A2B. If you mix 1.0 mol of A with 1.0 mol of B, how many moles of A2B can be produced?
17. According to the law of conservation of mass, mass cannot be gained or destroyed in a chemical reaction. Why can't you simply add the masses of two reactants to determine the total mass of product?
A blue question or exercise number indicates that the answer to that question or exercise appears at the back of the book and a solution appears in the Solutions Guide." |
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| Hot. |
[Oct. 18th, 2005|06:53 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | B.B. King - Gambler's Blues | ] |
| Richard's bits are best described as his "spasming sickle". |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 17th, 2005|10:50 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Neil Young - Cortez the Killer | ] |
Yoinked from jaffleiron.
If you read this, even if i don't speak to you often, EVEN IF I'VE NEVER MET YOU, please reply with a memory of me. It can be anything you want - good or bad, just as long as it happened.
Then post this up yourself and see what people remember about you. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 16th, 2005|12:59 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Santana - She's Not There | ] |
Comment and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
4. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
6. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
7. If I do this for you, then you must without fail do this in your own LJ. Yes you must. It's not fair otherwise! I will be CHECKING. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 12th, 2005|07:44 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb | ] |
If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal. |
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| Fictional Character Thingie |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|11:46 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Phish - David Bowie | ] |
Yoinked from endless_change.
This is pretty good :)
You have to come up with 12 fictional characters that you know reasonably well. Right them in a numbered list from 1 to 12. Then, and ONLY then, you should open the cut below and try answering the questions that relate to the characters.
1. Rincewind the Wizzard (Discworld - Terry Pratchett)
2. Egwene Al'Vere (Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan)
3. Zephram Cochrane (Star Trek First Contact)
4. Richard Wakefield (Rama II - Arthur C Clarke, Gentry Lee)
5. Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean)
6. Zaphod Beeblebrox (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams)
7. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
8. Han Solo (Star Wars)
9. Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien)
10. Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones)
11. Carl Johnson (Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas)
12. #47 (Hitman)
I realised after writing the list that all but one of my characters are male :(
( Open ONLY once you have come up with 12 characters. You will curse yourself if you cheat! )
Whew! |
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