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Re: Timetabling sucks sometimes.

Lucy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:51:46 -0000

At least a big gap means that you can do something profitable in that time. My timetable annoys the hell out of me because there are random hour gaps dotted all over it - not really long enough to justify returning to college each time, and certainly not long enough to get into any proper work, so that's an hour wasted by hanging around in the Chem Caf

Re: Oh, that’s cool.

Lucy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:26:20 -0000

And you use words like loquacious!

Re: Retrospection

Lucy — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:31:58 -0000

RE: Delving deep into Maths: Interesting, yes. Rewarding, yes. Fun in an exam, no! :-(

When the hell do you find time to watch all that television?! (I suspect I know the answer to this - when others are dreaming sweetly.. but I'll leave the question there to make the point!)

Also, the gym?! Stop it! You're making me feel really *really* unfit..!

I think that is all..

Re: Microsoft: Actually doing something interesting?

Lucy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:11:29 -0000

Hmm, that Writer thing looks kinda interesting, if only in a 'look, a shiny new web gadget!' kind of way. Something to investigate at a future date!

But I will, as normal, resist downloading any new Messenger before I absolutely have to... call me stuck-in-a-rut but I don't like aesthetics upgrades for the sake of it, especially if the change is a change for the worst. Yes, I do still use the Windows 98-style taskbar..

Re: Recording Minutiae

Lucy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:51:56 -0000

Yes it is depressing, especially for those of us who aren

Re: Recording Minutiae

Lucy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:52:42 -0000

Nooo, it took all of the tags out!

Re: My Timing Is Appalling

Lucy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:25:46 -0000

I couldn't comment on the actress - not only being straight, but not having watched Doctor Who.

But you're right about the fear thing - something in front of you can never be as scary as something which is created by your imagination. My mother remembers when the first(?) Doctor Who series came out. She was four or five at the time, and she remembers being at a neighbour's house (they didn't have a television) and hiding behind the sofa for the duration of the programme each week. She still can't listen to the theme tune today!

Re: Pain, Pain in my Sinus-place

Lucy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:02:08 -0000

:-( I know what you mean.

Here's to getting rid of it soon.

Re: A New Lick Of Paint (again)

Lucy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:20:46 -0000

Don't worry, I really haven't written anything interesting of late. That's to say, I haven't written anything at all...

Re: Anti-iPhone

Lucy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:29:10 -0000

Yay for my Nokia 3410! It may not be 'extremely sexy', but it keeps my phone book, makes calls and does texts.

Although in all fairness, it was bought in the deep dark depths of time when you could buy phones that did just that. My brother was recently bought a phone for his 12th birthday and accusations of hypocrisy aside, I have a certain amount of sympathy for my parents. The simplest, cheapest phone that they could find (that didn't cost

Re: Woohoo!

Lucy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:17:03 -0000

But Dickie, you live in a house with smokers, not a house with asthmatics... I've already noticed the difference in smoking-free bars and it's much, much nicer from every point of view. Unless you're a smoker, that is, but who are they to complain about civil liberties?

Re: Official: You all suck!

Lucy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:00:17 -0000

Haven't seen 300. Any good? Historically infuriating like Troy?

Oh, and I missed that programme on Athenian Democracy last night. I'm just not in the habit of remembering to watch/record things on TV... :(

Re: PAIN

Lucy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:15:17 -0000

Oh, Andy, Andy, Andy...!

Re: Oh, he must have felt stupid.

Lucy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:59:39 -0000

*is really, really confused*

Re: Oh, he must have felt stupid.

Lucy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:45:59 -0000

No. Sorry!

Re: Whoops.

Lucy — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:55:10 -0000

Seconded. I'm just not convinced that it's a book (/series of books) that should be made into a film at all.

Re: Happy New Year!

Lucy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:08:37 -0000

My laptop's refusing to deal with anything involving pdfs, so I can't read the link. But there was a film, wasn't there, where some fisherman sued God because his boat got smashed up in a storm...

Re: The Importance of Signage

Lucy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:50:12 -0000

There isn't?!

It is an excellent idea, though. Whenever I've been in London in the past year (which is roughly half the number of times I've been in my life, go figure), I've always found myself relying on a) my better-informed companion, b) my limited knowledge of the Tube map, and c) the position of the Sun. Having said that, my goals have generally been in the region of 'get to the river', not 'get to the nearest eye clinic'. The problem with the Tube is that it cocoons you into viewing London as a large number of separate areas with black space inbetween, not one large place that all links up.

And yes, Birmingham could do with way better public transport info.. Although the council did at one point publish a huge map of all the bus routes in the city which was quite useful. Shame they didn't replace things like "Every 10 minutes" with "6 times an hour. Probably.". But then B'ham's hardly a prime tourist destination.

Re: Joy and Rage

Lucy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:07:31 -0000

I'd go with 'yes'!

What is it about men and gadgets?! If the Asus Eee was twice the size, you'd think it was a really shit computer!

Re: Irrational Desire II & Other Matters

Lucy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:43:54 -0000

Was it an actual temperance pub? I went to a temperance inn in Cumbria once, where they only sold ginger ale. And, y'know, other soft drinks...

Re: The Asus Eee, a few days on

Lucy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:23 -0000

As a comparitive lay-person when it comes to computer hardware and programming and operating systems and stuff like that, I have great sympathy with your comment "You can do anything you like, assuming you know how to do it". What I dislike about systems like Linux, about technology like the Asus Eee (from the sounds of it), is that they are made unnecessarily inaccesible to the vast majority of computer users - it wouldn't take that long for someone to write an understandable explanation of what these things are and how they work. But instead they just bury everything under a swathe of acronyms, which makes everything seem to complicated, and therefore elitist.

I say a 'comparitive lay-person' because this is coming from someone who is interested in computers, is logically 'wired' (as 'twere) and can program to a reasonable level in Java...

Re: The Asus Eee, a few days on

Lucy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:59 -0000

*too

Re: PLRW, and the ASUSEEE

Lucy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:33:01 -0000

I saw about that Robert Winston talk on Facebook - it came up on my newsfeed that you or possibly Chris was attending. I have one word, and one word only: JEALOUS!

Re: Targeting the core demographic

Lucy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:39:32 -0000

Y'know, I always think that I should make a log of searches from which people have reached my site. Alas, I never do, and some of the sheer genius has been lost forever to obscurity.

I get reached by people searching for Shakespeare and for Bob Marley. I have been getting reached a lot recently by variations on 'london midland late trains', which I might find amusing if I didn't have a horrible creeping feeling that it's an indication of the state of the local train-line back home. 38 minutes ago precisely, I was reached through the search term 'randall munroe address', which is frankly scary...

Re: FYI, You’re All Gonna Die Screaming

Lucy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:42:31 -0000

I care! I comment! When you're not rabbiting on about Dr Who, that is, or operating systems which I don't understand...

Re: Late Train Blog

Lucy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:12:34 -0000

Wooo for Virgin Trains and cheap tickets! Says the girl who loathes Virgin Trains with a passion... Unfortunate, given the circumstances.

Re: Late Train Blog

Lucy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:07:21 -0000

re. Virgin Trains: They may not be bad at turning up when they're meant to, but they smell and make me feel sick and lack leg room (even the swishy new ones that I see they put on for Londoners!). Though admittedly they are also the long-distance trains that I have to use the most often, so am therefore more likely to complain about.

re. apocolypses: Global climate change, probably, so my family and I could say "Told you so!". Or death by asteroid 'cos at least we'd all go at once.

re. bad, bad, bad jokes: Oh dear. Oh dear!

Re: Concious of a vast, numbing stupidity

Lucy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:52:55 -0000

That's pretty bad. However I can't get too worked up about it, I'll be honest - Durham's union is pretty much ignored as things go, so the national one has even less of an impact and if it does, we don't notice it/ know about it.

It would be hell if we did disaffiliate, though, because our union cards are the same thing as our campus cards (which we need for ID, getting in to the library, IT service support etc.). They'd have to redo 14000-odd cards at a time...

Re: Before I Sleep

Lucy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:19:16 -0000

Didn't see either Doctor Who and have barely heard of Skins (are you surprised?). But I did see a load of Facebook statuses referring to Caecilius, Metella et al, which was a good trip down memory lane! And Dickie, I think you're right...

Re: Wow. Sometimes work really is worth doing.

Lucy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:52:03 -0000

That is where I think that Maths for the sake of Maths falls down - our AMV course centres around most of the stuff in that Wikipedia article, but most of us will never get to see where it's applied. Looking back over past years' papers, they've taken more and more context out of the module each time it's been taught. This doesn't bother me enough to want to take Physics, but I can understand the satisfaction of seeing some seemingly complex theoretical mathematical relation in 'the real world' fall out so perfectly - Fourier series took on a new light when I looked up about how they relate to different sound tones in Music!

On a not unrelated note, Green's functions. Urgh...

Re: How’d they let this one through?

Lucy — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:04:21 -0000

Nice.

Re: Revision is pretty much the worst thing ever.

Lucy — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:45:27 -0000

First exam on the 28th? That's... ages away...! Mine are finished by then!

Revision is horrible. I'm fine at revising hard stuff, but I'm awful at revising pointless stuff, like, I dunno, long proofs which you'd look up in any other context. Or A-Level Stats, if I had to :-P

Re: Interim Update

Lucy — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:21:49 -0000

*comments*

Line breaks? HTM<s>L</s>?

Hyperlinks?

Re: Interim Update

Lucy — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:29:56 -0000

And so that it shows up on the 'recent comments' list. Having to scroll down so far is a bit annoying, tbh.

Re: Musings on Science, and other things

Lucy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:45:17 -0000

"Pi is exactly 3"?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! !!!!

I am disappointed to say the least!

Re: Musings on Science, and other things

Lucy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:06:20 -0000

Physicists. And Americans. And the real world.

Pfff!

Re: iTunes

Lucy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:45:06 -0000

iTunes. Yuk. I could spell out what's wrong with it, but you seem to have done a pretty good job, only missing out the whole exclusive file format thing which is a right pain if you have an mp3 player. That and the C:\ drive organisational nightmare have very nearly tipped me into deleting it a large number of times - I've always kept it, but still get annoyed when large numbers of people insist that it's inherently superior...

Windows Media Player for me. Version 7, I believe it is. Damn straight.

Re: My Trouble With All Music Software

Lucy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:38:59 -0000

Ah, iTunes. WMP may not solve all your particular woes, but I stand by my comments on the previous entry. You should programme your own version then go make lots of money in your niche market!

Also, new design!! And I LOVE your final tag!

Re: Greedy Bankers: A Critque on the Shortcomings of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Thatcher Legacy

Lucy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:53:05 -0000

...and at least Birmingham HAS buses that go anywhere vaguely useful. Seriously, you don't know how good you've got it in London! And bloody hell, the rail network.

As another non-economist, I can only nod and agree wholeheartedly, both with Andy and, erm, Dickie. Unfortunately short-sightedness and greed seems to be part of human nature, and that is no less present in most governments than it is in the big financiers of the free market so an exhaustive solution to the problem simply does not exist. That is where I would hesitate to term Communism and Socialism as one at the same - to my mind, Socialism at least acknowledges the need for pragmatism.

I will conclude my comment by echoing Dickie's sentiments on "physics applied to finance but not like a sell out" - love it!

Re: Greedy Bankers: A Critque on the Shortcomings of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Thatcher Legacy

Lucy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:54:54 -0000

*seem
*and

(Good God, is this what doing science does to one's grammar?)

Re: Once again, the Lords defend our freedom.

Lucy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:26:28 -0000

Indeed.

Re: Shifting Sand

Lucy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:43:53 -0000

Yes. Yes.

Re: Fairtrade Fortnight

Lucy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:39:35 -0000

Damned right - especially to the point that Fairtrade is not a complete solution. But yes, it will always be a start. I've come to a conclusion that right-wing-ness is for thick people, but then I would say that, I guess.

Oh, yes, and "plug for an event my friends are organising" makes me feel like a very bad girlfriend in the analogous Durham situation....!

Re: Fairtrade Fortnight

Lucy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:36:20 -0000

Yeah, sorry Dickie. Possibly the not eloquent or intelligent way of expressing my feelings towards self-serving political ideologies. But sometimes vents have to be had.

Re: The Hard Slog Ahead

Lucy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:34:13 -0000

W.r.t. your Twitter feed (because I don't have Twitter and I don't want it) - I <3 Dynamical Systems!

Also, look positive, you can't do worse than I will...

Re: Paradoxical Freedom

Lucy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:44:34 -0000

OK, another comment on your Twitter stream (no, I don't want Twitter, I don't want it!!): posters? This is surely the way to go...

Re: Authoritarian Culture

Lucy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:03:37 -0000

It sounds ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. It took my brother five attempts to even log a matching thumbprint, and that's before you even start on the cost or ethics of the thing.

In other news, awwwww, cat!

Re: Hellenic Holidaying

Lucy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:09:27 -0000

Gorgeous. I'd love go back some day.

Re: Housing

Lucy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:36:09 -0000

That sucketh. Muchly. Sympathies.

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Re: Timetabling sucks sometimes.

Re: Oh, that’s cool.

Re: Retrospection

Re: Microsoft: Actually doing something interesting?

Re: Recording Minutiae

Re: Recording Minutiae

Re: My Timing Is Appalling

Re: Pain, Pain in my Sinus-place

Re: A New Lick Of Paint (again)

Re: Anti-iPhone

Re: Woohoo!

Re: Official: You all suck!

Re: *PAIN*

Re: Oh, he must have felt stupid.

Re: Oh, he must have felt stupid.

Re: Whoops.

Re: Happy New Year!

Re: The Importance of Signage

Re: Joy and Rage

Re: Irrational Desire II & Other Matters

Re: The Asus Eee, a few days on

Re: The Asus Eee, a few days on

Re: PLRW, and the ASUSEEE

Re: Targeting the core demographic

Re: FYI, You’re All Gonna Die Screaming

Re: Late Train Blog

Re: Late Train Blog

Re: Concious of a vast, numbing stupidity

Re: Before I Sleep

Re: Wow. Sometimes work really is worth doing.

Re: How’d they let this one through?

Re: Revision is pretty much the worst thing ever.

Re: Interim Update

Re: Interim Update

Re: Musings on Science, and other things

Re: Musings on Science, and other things

Re: iTunes

Re: My Trouble With All Music Software

Re: Greedy Bankers: A Critque on the Shortcomings of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Thatcher Legacy

Re: Greedy Bankers: A Critque on the Shortcomings of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Thatcher Legacy

Re: Once again, the Lords defend our freedom.

Re: Shifting Sand

Re: Fairtrade Fortnight

Re: Fairtrade Fortnight

Re: The Hard Slog Ahead

Re: Paradoxical Freedom

Re: Authoritarian Culture

Re: Hellenic Holidaying

Re: Housing

Re: PAIN