Pete_the_Viscous

Do you remember doing that on Doom with the no-clipping mode? Making pretty explosion patterns.

--edit: Sorry, that sounded a bit too arrogant to post.

Some of my more interesting dreams involve me being able to move about in unrealistic ways. I mean, I tend to glide about rather than walking -- as if I just lean in the direction I want to go. I also quite often seem to be underwater -- and I'm usually rather surprised to find that I can breathe. Mostly my dreams are about fairly random stuff, though. A lot of them I don't remember. Lots of them are vaguely related to things I've been thinking about. Very rarely I can think "I want to dream about something in particular" and I do; most of the time that doesn't happen. Often if I have a really good dream, I wake up and realise how great the thing in that dream would be -- sometimes, if it's actually possible, I try and achieve whatever it was in real life; I see this as my subconscious telling me what I actually want, in a way.

QFT. I was one of those people who didn't work at school or college. That's now come and bitten me in the behind now that I'm at university -- I have to work now, and I'm just not used to it. I'm willing to do it, though, now that I realise I have to, so next term is going to be very different, I hope.

I've only done it once in a friend's boat. It was both easier* and harder** than I expected, all at once. It was fun, though. I'd do it again, given the chance, but I'm probably more of a rowing person. *more intuitive than I first expected, **more activities per unit time than I expected, also.

I've never really done it, but trying one's hardest at school is keeping working even when one has got bored of the work, paying attention all the time instead of talking to friends, and doing one's homework -- long before it has to be handed in. It's something most people just can't do because their attention span isn't long enough. I can't do it myself, really. It's something one can work at, though.

I think astrology columns should be replaced by astronomy columns. People would learn something, maybe.

OK, here goes. the Scott monument. (above) more of the Scott monument the palace. A small statue of a dog. the castle (outside) the castle (in a courtyard). looking out of the castle at the Scott monument somewhere else in the caslte and finally A guy strangling a cat. (Though I do actually like bagpipes). I am not Scottish -- I just live here.

I would probably go back in time and tell a great mind about the new advances in their field so that they could then work even better stuff out. That is, if that's all possible and so on.

You may laugh, but Loom is still great today. They don't make 'em like that any more, as they say. So much effort went into its making - there was a huge backstory and so on. I don't know -- I'm not even sure games look that much better these days. Of course they look more realistic but not necessarily better. There's a certain sort of "fantasy" look that one doesn't really see in modern things. I put it down to having to use more of one's imagination when looking at the screen with old games. It is interesting to think what we'd have thought back then if presented with a modern game, though. I mean, a modern game and a computer capable of running it.

...Although, as I said in the last favorite food topic, that's a really nasty looking example.

I'm all for religion being a major part of faith schools, as long as such schools are privately funded. I actively want people who have the strongest religious views to have lots of their time in education spent being taught about all sorts of religious issues. I don't agree with state schools teaching children that any one particular religion is right, but faith schools, I say, can do what they want: people who send their children to a faith school are likely to have told their children all about their religion anyway.

I'd say that's a very good way. That's what I do. That ensures you learn those things that you don't already know, and re-inforces the stuff you do know by repetition. Make sure to do this with the answers to hand if they are available, in case you get stuck. There's seriously no point in working at an exam paper with no idea whether or not you're doing the right thing. This is what I'll be doing for... well, the next week and a bit, probably. Then some more.

Nope. I don't really watch TV. Of course, were someone to offer me a free HDTV, then I'd take it. Similarly, were it to cost the same amount as a normal TV, then I'd get it over that. It's a moot point, though, because I don't want a TV, and I have a computer anyway.

then you'll live. :D Ah -- as opposed to dying, like I must have done every time thus far.

Ah -- I'll remember that, and make sure not to laugh at ganstas in the future.

Well, there are actual princesses who are involved in far less scandal and are probably far more "Princessy" than most celebrities... but their lives are probably not as interesting. Actually, I take that back: their lives are probably more interesting, but less shocking.

Why? Are they going to shoot him with their sideways-pointed pistols? What I do with my friends depends on what the time of day is, really. If it's one of the hours when I don't have to be somewhere pretending to pay attention to something, (and am not working somewhere anyway), then we usually go to a bar and lounge around doing crosswords together*. Outside of those hours we tend to be in and out of each others' kitchens (hence living rooms), being generally apathetic, as only people with lots of homework know how. We go to pubs and so on, but not particularly often because it's really too expensive to bother with. *that's right, we're the cool bunch. Ha -- earlier on one of my flatmates (who's an ... I don't know, "national" bridge player) was saying how he took up bridge because it was the only way he thought he could make himself cooler: being a bridge-playing chemical physics student.

I read them when I see them in girls' flats. If I'm feeling down, this reassures me that things aren't that bad: I could be one of them. Laugh until you cry, Zonorhc.

Basically I've been snowed under with work. I've been skimming most of the topics and not replying to even those ones to which I thought I might have something to add. Things will get easier, though, and I'll start posting more again.

I quite like some of the argument threads. I try and stay out of them these days (perhaps people have noticed this), mainly because it ended up being the same argument again and again. Some of them I still like because I find a lot of people's attempts at it rather funny. Between most of us, though, there's nothing new to be said about the religion thing, so there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of that any more, at least, none of the wild 50 page topic arguments -- where a decent amount of it was actual argument. Basically, I don't have time these days to sit and think of ways of explaining where people are wrong in what they're saying -- and there are enough people doing it already, so... What I particularly despise is when someone starts claiming that something along the lines of "rules of debate" apply. I have very little respect, really, for the typical person who (and no offence to anyone here who does this: I'm sure you're not the people I'm talking about really) goes to, say, a debating club, and thinks that this somehow makes them right or good at arguing about things. That, and when people call other people idiots or similar under circumstances where they're just being downright impolite to do so -- sometimes, of course, it's justified. Anyway, I think woman and homeworkclub should be brought back for a while to liven things up. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I actually liked everyone here being united against a common foe for once.

No I don't. Then again, I wonder if a lot of the people I see begging are homeless at all. A lot of them have rather nice watches that they neglect to take off. Most of them are rather clean shaven. A lot of them are too downright clean. I don't mean to be completely cynical: I'm sure there are homeless people who are homeless through no fault of their own, and I would like to help people like that (not that I think that I'm particularly obliged to do so when there are so many other, perhaps more worthy causes out there), but I'm certain that most people I see begging are doing it for the wrong reasons. I suppose it's very difficult for me to imagine a situation in which there was no-one to whom I could turn if I had no money and nowhere to live... I would do everything I could to avoid begging (which I think is abhorrent, frankly), but I do understand that perhaps there is sometimes nothing else for it. In such cases, as I say, I'd really like to help the person out. However, I actively want to hinder most of the people I see begging, and without asking the begger a rigorous series of questions to determine their actual motives, I don't know what to do. Unlike in the case of the death penalty*, "innocent" (or: worthy) people are not particularly likely to die if I don't give them money**. However, lots of guilty people are very likely to abuse trust if I do give them money. Of course, this could just be the beggars where I live at the moment. Perhaps (in fact most likely) the beggars in a great many other places are more often worthy of aid. In that case I just hope I'd get that impression from their appearance and change my ways accordingly. *which just this moment has struck me as a particularly funny expression to use to describe a hazard in a board game . **and yes, I realise that this could be a case of "but what if nobody gave them money!?", to which I'd say... oh well, sorry.

I used not to want to, but now I eat basically as much as I have time to eat in the morning. I've been getting very hungry of late. I think it's because I'm an awful cook. To clarify, I'm no longer in highschool -- when I was I didn't want to eat, now that I'm not, I do. Edit: whoops, I combined the highschool one and this one by accident -- whatever, it's somewhat relevant anyway.

True. Hey -- I still don't like looking at dark windows when I'm alone in the house. I'm always sure a face is about to appear at it and look at me. But seriously, you'll get to the stage when if you wake up in the night and you've just had a dream about all sorts of monsters and whatnot, you'll just think "meh", and go back to sleep without even looking around the room. It's really just a case of getting used to it. The older you get, the more you realise that there isn't a monster waiting down the end of the hall.

The thing that always gets me down regarding interesting ideas is that until you're way beyond university level in understanding of a subject like maths, someone has almost certainly had the same idea as you already. And it's "theorem", with an e -- not meaning to be pedantic, but really.