Racheya

Started reading Hilary Devey's Autobiography last night and got through a whole third of it. I love it so far, I think mainly because while I knew she came from Bolton it turns out she actually came from my area of Bolton and some of the places she's talking about I actually recognise or at least can guess whereabouts it was. She also went to my primary school at one point! I like her style, though, and her personality. I don't think it'll take me long to finish. I just have to decide what to read next - perhaps another autobiography.

I didn't have any of these games but I've always wanted to try Bastion, Amnesia and Limbo so I'm really chuffed - although I'm sure one or two might disappear off my steam eventually. I never did get around to playing all the games from the last bundle.

Telling a woman you wish she was raped and her family killed isn't 'guys being guys'. Yeah some of it might meant to be harmless, but boys being boys is not and never should be an excuse. Men can bloody well control their own behaviour and if they find it *so* hard to not call a woman a [bleep] then they've clearly got problems. But they tell other men the exact same things. Them calling a random woman a [bleep] isn't so different from them calling a random man a [bleep]. This censor is disappointing. The second [bleep] should be [cigarette]. In that case they should just stop calling anybody names >.< Women do get targeted though and it's not right.

Telling a woman you wish she was raped and her family killed isn't 'guys being guys'. Yeah some of it might meant to be harmless, but boys being boys is not and never should be an excuse. Men can bloody well control their own behaviour and if they find it *so* hard to not call a woman a [bleep] then they've clearly got problems.

Atm I'm gambling on when to buy the Humble Indie Bundle 5. I want to get Bastion by paying over the average but the average is going up! D= I'm gambling that it'll go down overnight. I thought everyone except me already had Bastion & Amnesia.

Something like that would annoy me. I'm kinda anal about time, probably too much so. If I say I'll meet someone at a certain time then I'll be worried and panicked if it turns out I'll be late. It drives people I'm with crazy.

Bought Dead Island while on offer on Steam. The combat is pretty fun and engaging but the minimap and UI could use a bit of work. I've only played a little but it's decent so far :)

Been playing Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion beta. Not a game I thought I would really ever get into but I find myself really enjoying it :)

I find it particularly striking that anyone could be scared of cooking. Is there anything particularly threatening about it? - is it the complexity of the skill, or the associated risk of poor cooking, or the perceived threat of hot surfaces, knives, and such? I see the lack of motivation for improving one's ability as wasteful - you could have so much untapped potential here. Bah. It's the threat of hot things burning me. It's probably partly because I get quite obsessive with my fears, but I'm definitely working around it. I did cooking at school and I made bread once, a cake, some pastries, spaghetti bolognese and a sandwich (these are the only ones I remember, I also didn't bother bringing ingredients in half the lessons since I didn't want to make food I didn't like). I say I made, I didn't learn how to cook any of these things, I just made them once. It probably doesn't help that I did food tech for about 3 years at most then it was another 5 years before I actually began to cook for myself. I think it needs to be taught in schools, better than it is at the moment. The fact is kids from more deprived backgrounds aren't going to learn to cook proper meals, at most they'll learn how to microwave and shove a pizza in the oven, and I think schools in these areas can help with that.

I used to cook nothing for myself before I moved out. I was scared of the cooker and the oven. I've gotten a fair bit better now. I don't make complicated meals by any stretch of the imagination, but I managed to grill chicken without giving myself salmonella so I'm getting better :P I suppose the only food I used to have regularly that I don't now are sunday dinners, mash, roast beef or chicken. I suppose I could probably follow the instructions and roast a chicken and make a pan of mash but I think I'm too lazy :unsure: Let me just say our George Foreman grill is a godsend.

Analysis of Algorithms exam today. I'm [bleep]ed. I'll be lucky to get a 2/2 in the module. There's one or two questions I'm confident on: Knapsack problems, Djikstra's & Prim's algorithms. They'll only make up half, if I'm lucky, of the questions I'll answer. I'm going to have to blag the rest.

Exams this week and next then a week visiting where I'll be working on placement. I'll be glad when it's all done with so I can get into a good routine. I've been super bad the last two weeks and not gone to the gym. Granted I had a cold last week but I feel lazy. I've not done laundry in 3 and a half weeks now either. I'm not wearing dirty clothes, I just happen to have enough clothes to last this long :P Waiting for a sunny day to do the laundry on so I don't have to use the dryer. Today is revision for my Analysis of Algorithms exam. Probably the worst module this semester. Too much horrible, incomprehensible maths. I'm not convinced I'll ever understand forward/backward substitution or mathematical induction or even logarithms <_<

Until I reread your sentence I was wondering 'why's he in a study on chaos theory? Who's revolverhead? :unsure: '.

I'm totally not jealous D= Me and the bf are thinking of travelling to America for PAX next year if we can afford it.

I bet if I pass it off to 4Chan, with a photo of you and your location within England, they'd get you within 24 hours. Yeah I know I'm not hard to find. But the idea is that anyone who shouldn't know me on the internets, like employers, shouldn't stumble across my username and related internets. With a bit of effort I'm sure it's easy enough though. If you know my username, not real name, it's easy to find me. I don't want people on the other side coming onto this one, that's the main thing.

What back end language are you using? We've been provided with some PHP scripts to connect to a mySQL database. We just have to adjust them a little to fit our own databases. In the PHP module last year we had to do that on our own but since this is *just* JavaScript & JSON files and not everyone took PHP we get the code given. I know that feel. Racheya is a fairly unique name and I've used it for years everywhere. My solution has been to completely isolate Racheya from my full name and anything which an employer would look at, mainly my Facebook. There shouldn't be anything incriminating if they looked at my Facebook and searching my name just gets you the name of a photographer, and a model ;) I'm just hoping nobody who doesn't know Racheya can connect the dots to me irl.

Unfortunately it's not going on the internets for real. Not to mention the forum's title at the moment is 'MY SUPAR FORUM' :thumbsup:

Got less than a week to program a forum using AJAX. Has to have threads, posts & members in it as well as the ability to edit/delete/add posts and threads. It's gonna be a long weekend.

Oh, I've never seen that before. I'm not into JDramas/KDrama ect. You'd want to be searching for live action Japanese films or J Drama if you want a TV series. All my suggestions are anime movies, although they are all good watches. Perhaps you should watch The Girl Who leapt through time in it's original animated version :)

Well there's the Ghibli movies, obviously, then there's Makoto Shinaki films: 5cm per second, The place promised in our early days and Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below. Summer Days is another good anime movie. For any more than that you're better off checking anime recommendation charts and such.

Spent this morning watching Iron Man. Iron Man 2 tonight then Captain America tomorrow, all on the run up to Avengers on Wednesday :thumbsup: Good tiems with superheroes. Also it's a great use of revision week :D Atm trying to find out of the gym is open on the bank holiday. Rang up but I'm not sure if no answer means it's not open or if there's just nobody at the phone :unsure: Edit: Looks like it's closed. Oh well, lazy day today then.

Definitely pissed when I heard this. Oh well. This will only stop, if anybody, those who don't know other sites to TPB *shrug*. Gotta love that censorship :thumbsup:

If I got £1,000,000 I would probably buy a nice house somewhere in England with my boyfriend, it'd not be too massive but it would definitely have a gym. I think we'd get a car as well. The money could easily pay off both our student finances and leave us not having to worry about money for a while. Maybe we'd travel, probably to America for an event like PAX or something. I don't think either of us are keen to really explore or move away from England, there's too many horrible, deadly creepy crawlies in other countries :unsure:

Wow. Everyone going on about how attractive (or not attractive) the girl is - why don't you shut the hell up? |^_^|

I hate having to spend money. I love shopping, a lot, but the part where I have to go to the counter ;_;