Movie Reviews

I have not updated for a while so I thought I should really post something but as I have not really done much except attend polymer science meetings and spend a week in cornwall at my parents. About the only interesting thing from my cornwall trip was going to one of the gardens (with mum and gran), I can't remember the name their all tre-something anyway, the gardens where impressive but what was great in my view was that they had peacocks, which where tame enough to be cadging food off people I really wished I'd had my camera they are very impressive up close. I also hadn,t realised that they like to perch in trees, it must be a remarkable effort to drag that tail up into a tree.Anyway to pad this out I thought I'd include my opinion on a few films I have seen resently:-Welcome to the Jungle - mindless action film but fun, similar to 80's arnie films but trying to be more comic, dialogue and characters motivations are a bit rubbish but action enjoyable + christipher walken scary as every.Master and Commander - pants, I couldn't much empathise with any of the characters, you got no real sense of the wider reasons for their actions so sort of like a documentary on naval history without any political context - not my cup of tea.Kill Bill Part 1 - enjoyable, feels at times like the names were invented by a thirteen year old (deadly viper assasination squad) and the scenes don't feel as connected (sort of a comic strip effect) as they might but most of the scenes are fadulously shot/set. So of the scenes of the brides recovery where a bit unnecessarily unpleasent I felt and could have been cut.Antway off to see shaun of the dead tonight I have high hopes since I loved spaced.

Mobile Phones

My current phone is getting on my wick, its a fairly new and shinny samung but and this is imporant its let down in two key areas which seem to be common to most samsung phones the T9 predictive text engine is horrible to use and since I send a fair number of texts this is important to me and the damn thing only rings at an audiable level two seconds before putting people through to the answer phone (maybe this is a feature of polyphonic ring tones but its v.annoying to constantly be too late to take calls).I was wondering if any one has used a sony ericsson phone, are they any good?I would like to go back to nokia but can't find a phone of theirs that suits me at the moment, are their any other brands/phones anyone would recomend?Also I am thinking of switching to O2 as their Pay&Go package looks superior to orange, but I have no idea what O2 is like as a company any info anyone has would be a help.cheers

guildford

I have been here for a few months now and was trying to think how I feel about the place in particular compared with where else I have been. Cardiff was a very vibrent city there was always something going on, somewhere new opening etc a great place to be an undergrad. Bath was quirkier on the one hand very conservative but on the other filled with interesting and slightly odd places, a very comfortable city and one I would definietly like to live in again. So far my impression of Guildford is that everything feels a little temperary, like everyone knows they are not staying that long and so don't really put their mark on anything. Maybe it's just that I have not found the right places in town yet, the university social facilities are all excelent which is so far a saving grace.

snaok (situation normal all ok)

Am bruised and tired from Aikido and my knee feels like it may go at some point soon. Does anyone know any good knee strengthening exercises? as I exercise I find that the tendons loosen (I reckon anyway) and then at some point the knee cap goes out of place. I need to find a way to tighten those tendons.On a massive up note, I can finally calculate the viscosity from my program, I have spent the last two weeks looking for the error in my program which turned out to actually be a combination of two subtle errors fixed now yeeeeeeeeeeessssss!!!!!!! don't have to bang my head against that wall now.

I am genius

hmm not sure I agree with the jealous treat I would say I have plenty of worse trates and am not particularly the jealous type. Also not good at acting crazy, stay with being calm or running away I think. Your True Nature by llScorpiusllUsernameThe quality that most appeals to you:CreativityIn a survival situation, you:Act crazy as a diversionYour hidden talent is:ResourcefulnessYour gift is:GeniusIn groups, you:Feel uncomfortableYour best quality is:Your insightfulnessYour weakness is:Your jealous natureCreated with quill18's MemeGen 3.0!

Nakered

I am trying to increase my activity levels, getting fitter and meeting more people at the same time. For some reason I was under the impression that exercising was supposed to make you feel more energetic, It certainly isn't working for me I am not in good shape my arms are particularly aching and I am trying to get enthused enough to go along to the climbing club this afternoon.I must admit that I am feeling a little fitter if more exhausted.A well back to my search for the errant factor of three.

snow yeah!

At last its snowed here, everything is that magical white and the sky is a gorgeous blue. I know lots of people don't like snow because it makes their lives a little bit more difficult but I love it when it snows, probably because growing up in cornwall it only snowed about twice when I was a kid. The only down side is I want to go sledging rather than do any work ho hum.I have escaped guildford on the past too weekends the weekend before last to do computer upgrading, sadly enough quite enjoyable, followed by a good staurday night out and the opertunity to demonstrate my complete lack of skill at pool.And last weekend to a friends 30th in bath, great food, lots of drink, good company alround a great evening. Only a slight headache the following morning although this was not aided by my walking ino a very solid beam first thing in the morning.Bath definitely still stands as a special place to me, I think I'd like to live there again sometime.Getting away has helped me get a bit more inthusiasm up for work. I have developed a new plan for dealing with the mountain of papers building up in my office (100's of the damn things). insetead of trying to read them in depth and really understand each one I am going to try and start reading them as I read novels, get a sense of what their saying but don't sweat the details. My sub-consious should absorb more information this way, its very good for physics type problems and mulling things over in the back of ones mind. I often suddenly realise the answr to something I am working on while doing something entirely unrelated.I just need to improve verbal reaction time and body langueage reading ability, both of which I think have a strong element of subconscious thought in them. By verbal reaction time I mean things like comebacks, teasing and flirting all of which about ten minutes after I should have said something funny, flirty whatever, I think of the prefect thing to say by which time it is too late and to try and say it then would just make you look stupid. Particularly a problem with flirting as my inability to read body langueage often means a five ten minute delay before I realise I should have been flirting.I think I'll start reading some books of quoteations stock up on other peoples wit and use good quotes as tactical conversation weapons.Ah to work, I wana go play in the snow.

cool I want to go to canada

You're Canada! People make fun of you a lot, but they're stupid because you've got a much better life than they do. In fact, they're probably just jealous. You believe in crazy things like human rights and health care and not dying in the streets, and you end up securing these rights for yourself and others. If it weren't for your weird affection for ice hockey, you'd be the perfect person.Takethe Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

No Much Happening

Very little has happened over the last week or so. I continue to try and verify my program is doing what I think it is but I am having much trouble geting to grips with the maths of viscosity and other rheological (the study of material stress, strain stretching etc) properties. About the only other thing I have really done is arrange a trip to Bath for a friends birthday. The Trains pleasently suprised me in that since I as prepared to specify trains it only cost £18 for a return, not bad really, maybe I will do a little more travelling in the near future, go visit my brother, I have been meaning to for a while.Need to start acting on my intentions!

anti-social holidays

I was thinking about *ing valentines day, I really don't like valentines day much, but a large part of this could be because I am single and alway have been. But I think Valentines day is the worst holiday in the calendar because it pretty much makes sure to rub single peoples noses in it. You can't move for couples holding hands, windows full of aweful pink s**t etc. Even if your part of a couple and so not being reminded what a sad bastard you are for not having a girlfriend from what I can observe its not that great as there is lots of pressure to show your other half how much you care etc. I can't think of any other holidays like this, christmas has part of the exclusivity in that it is a family holiday, and I can see that it would do the nose rubbing thing a bit if you had no family (hence hi suicide count i guess), but this is some what countered, or should be, by the christmas spirt where its good will to all etc.Yep I think *ing Valentines day is a rubbish holiday, about the only bonus I can see is the posible increase in ones chances of pulling, but that really isn't enough to have to put up with all the pink stuff.Hallowine now there is a good holiday, essentially no drawbacks, or it was until the americans introduced trick or treating, or small scale extorsion as it might more accurately be described.