Everything posted by topham
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Hottest Celebrities?
my fave is probably Erica Oberg, although not that famous, very hot, she's the singer of the band Inja. but also, i think Eliza Dushku and Monica Belucci are my next favourites.
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Your Light in Teh Dark?
Up until today I thought it was my "best mate" but she let me down and forgot about our plans for the weekend just gone... Thankfully, I have other great friends who will listen to the problems and we'll discuss them, but they're only friends that I've made recently, but they are there for me more than who I thought was my best mate, and i'm there for them too. Also, the only person that I can talk to safely and have extreme confidence in is my dad, I can tell him anything, but it's not just because he's my dad, it's because he treats me like his mate.
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�����¢â�¬� on Flux?
i've seen both, aeon flux was the better of the two, ultraviolets story was slightly interesting and some of the ideas were good, but the rest just wasn't anything special. i could have been done a hell of a lot better though.
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overture facile
from the spoilers section in the game rules. "You are highly encouraged not to divulge the answers (or the URL of the levels) if you don't want to spoil the pleasure of others. However, you can help your friends by giving them some hints but be careful, do not tell them more than they need to know to fully enjoy the game." theres a hint there.
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overture facile
i'm stuck on the 5th... anybody got any clues? 4th was a bit hard... took me a while to find the answer, then i didnt know what to do with it.
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The pros/cons/dislikes/likes of where you live.
Northampton, England. well in a village nearby. where i live, i like: the night life, because me and my mates can afford it and its same distance for everyone. the culture, the friends, the groups of people of different friends the town isnt great, but i love it. its not more than an hour by train to london or birmingham. i don't like: the dirtiness of the city centre, and the cleanliness of the village i'm in, its so contrasting. chavs around the area, the ones that think they're gangsta and are not, there are some that are alrite tho. although i like it, i can't wait to move... hopefully to southampton, but thats later this year.
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What country do you live in?
from england although the rest of the family that are older are from scotland. i like it here... its not bad where i live, although i live in a village on the outskirts of the largest town... i'm lead to believe anyway... and i go to 6thform with friendly people, and the village is cool, however there is a severe lack of people i know that live in the village but live in surrounding villages it eats my petrol. i wouldnt change it for anywhere... well the country that is, i'm moving in september about 150 miles away from my family, and i cant wait... in a good way not a bad way. but even that far away it'll be different.
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What must you do before you die?
someone has been watching bill bailey... i was thinking about writing that before i read your post... as for me, complete a masters degree in chemistry at either southampton or york and get a job with a decent starting salary aswell as visit various places around the world, visit finland, spend a holiday with mates changing places every few weeks moving from country to country, go snowboarding many more times... etc.
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What did you get for christmas?
i got 5 awesome albums i got 3 dvds, nacho libre, brotherhood and perfect blue. a hell of a lot of chocolate. and some socks... i'm happy as this year because i was named the most thoughtful present giver in the family. i spent ̢̮â¬Å¡Ãâã300 on everyone else :) it makes me feel better that they will be appreciated alot. and theres only 4 others i bought presents for... well 4 people in the house, i spent about ̢̮â¬Å¡Ãâã100 of that on mates at 6th form. and theres not that many of them.
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Eating meat - right or wrong?
i'm a vegitarian and have been since i was born, i see no problem with eating meat and its never fascinated me enough to try it, and now, having lived without meat for my whole life i found that how ever much protein i get in my diet i'm protien deficient, compared to an average person, meat would make the protien levels in me be sufficient, however eating meat now would have tooo much protien and eating it will make me violently ill. anyway, yeh i'm a vegitarian but i see no problem in eating meat whatsoever, how ever there are certain meats i dont like seeing people eat. i cant drink milk, its actually the taste, it makes me gag, however i absolutely adore cheese, bit silly i agree, but oh well. and i dont like eggs on their own either.
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i'm new to recording music
thanks for the feedback, i knwo not very positive, i've only been learning guitar for 2 years... and thats the longest i've been playing any of the instruments, i'm actually trying to think of some lyrics, i need to get a new memory card cos i only have the one, and its only 128mb. and i've never had a lesson on the drums, so i dont expect it to sound good. i'm trying to learn the scales, and all the positions and the variations, but having not had a music lesson at school for 5 years doesnt help either, wasnt allowed to do it because i didnt play an instrument, well i had learned keyboards so i can read music, but i cant transfer it to other instruments. i'm saving some of my better ideas for a while. i'm gonna tighten up on the track i've already recorded tho. i've put a tap solo that just sounds wrong up... i need to get some decent chord progs from my bass player. edit: i'm writing some lyrics, its actually changing the song completely. for the better i hope
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Winter Solstice
Um. Isn't that the summer one? :? nope, the summer one signifies the longest day, whereas the winter one signifies the shortest day, so from now until the summer solstice the days are getting marginally longer each day. i dont think it will be too noticeable at the moment with all the fog over here in the uk issy
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Drivers Ed, Waste of Time and Money?
i'm in the uk and i learnt with my dad in my car, if we needed to go anywhere he'd make me drive, but i wasnt any good at the reversing exersises so i had to have a few lessons to teach me them. but i passed my test within 4 months of turning 17. saved quite a lot of money compared to some people, my mate passed her test the other day and she's been learning for just about a year and she's been paying ̢̮â¬Å¡Ãâã24 an hour and she's had roughly 1 lesson a week.
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i'm new to recording music
but heres the first track i've ever recorded on my shiny new 8 track. ok it doesnt have a drum track, i'm working on that, i'm going to buy some decent headphones tomorrow. but here's some of my criticisms/problems/facts so far with recording: at about 4.25 i accidentally pushed record on track one, the rhythm guitar cutting a bit out... oops. at the end of the first section of the song the bass stops then picks up, i recorded it in 2 different parts. the second solo was done with out backing, and harmonies were purely coincidental. the track can be found on my music myspace. its called topham music. search for it if you will. its named my 8 track, i was drinking vodka throughout and playing music to my 8 track that i got on the 13th. its the first track i've ever recorded. and it was the second time i tried to record it to cd. the solos are purely improvisation. i want to be in a band but i only have myself and a bass player. the recording volume is not loud because i was playing it through one of my amps that is rather loud and one of my sisters was asleep. feed back is welcomed. i'm moderately pleased with it, and yes that picture is of me... peace all. edit: i've added the drum track, i stopped playing when i thought i was off the beat so i picked it back upafter a few bars. recording is harder than it seems at first.
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Chemistry.....Chemical Reactions
potassium chlorate is KClO3... because oxygen is more electronegative than chlorine giving them chagres of 5+ for chlorine and oxygen of 2- each overall 6- giving the chlorate part having an overall charge of -1 and potassium being in 1+ it bonds ionically how ever due to the size of the chlorate ion and the potassium ion being so different the melting point is low in comparisson to different ionic lattices. and yeh the ammonium dichromate is going from Cr2O7(2-) in a 6+ oxidation state to chromium in 3+ oxidation state... hence causing the colour change from orange to green.
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Chemistry.....Chemical Reactions
potassium chlorate and a jelly baby. replace the potassium chlorate with another group 1 metal chlorate and the sasme reaction happens... basically, with more or less reactivity, and the flame is the characteristic colour of the burning group 1 metal. here is a link. there are many others, like ammonium dichromate being set alight, it turns into a green powder but its so exothermic the rreaction carries on long after the fire source is removed. it turns from orange to green but i cant find a video of it.
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Mocks
I've got 2 mocks on thursday, 1 for chemistry (trends and patterns) and 1 for maths (c3), dont know when my further maths mock is... and I'm resitting mechanics1 for further too... I have 7 exams in january which sucks... Forcibly entered for general studies, which anywhere I'm applying to uni for don't accept.
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Zombie killing tactics? ;)
isnt that vampires and demons that get affected by holy water? weapons: a handgun of some sort with lots of extra magazines defence: my car... and seeming as i livei nthe countryside it should be easy to get away as i know these roads perfectly. hiding place: umm probs my car but get somewhere remote as quick as possible. technique: hit them with the car, and if not shot to the brain... with multiple shots, i'm a pathetic aim. theme song: john petrucci - damage control
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Would you ever get a Tattoo?
i wanna get a large biomech tatoo over my right shoulder, with skin left over some areas then get mini tatoos on those bits of skin, cant wait. 10 days till i can get it done, i've been thinking about this for about a year, ever since my dad asked me "what tatoo do you wanna get?" however i dont wanna get it done straight away, might not be right, and i wanna have it properly designed first aswell. i'll go and see the guys who live 3 hours away near one of my mates cos her tatoos are awesome, and i trust them.
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fave genre of music?
well, i've been brought up with a wide variety of music surrounding me, mainly thanks to my dad, but also to my mates for showing me it all. all the styles i like: blues(jonny lang, robert cray etc.), jazz, ska(all forms), classical, preferably neo-classical (stravinsky etc.), rock, goth rock, heavy rock, metal, heavy metal, goth metal, speed metal, thrash metal, industrial metal, industrial, speedcore, nwobhm, goth, goth dance(cruxshadows), punk, electronic, rap(public enemy, run-dmc), happy hardcore, hardcore dance, prog rock, prog metal, neo classical metal, symphonic metal, power metal...etc... i could go on for days... well probs not but i could list all the bands and we'd be here for ages...
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What movie(s) did you last see?
i saw Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny earlier. i thought it was great. it made me laff a lot. it didnt seem liked it dragged on or anything, i thought it was entertaining, all the music was great throughout, i like tenacious d so it helped a lot towards liking the film, a lot of swearing in it, although that can be expected from JB and KG. i like the way the film starts aswell. the mini version of jack actually made me wet myself i thought it was that funny... however, deciding how funny it is for you is upto yourselves, all i can say is that i recommend it.
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What's on your christmas list?
umm i dont actually have a clue what my main present will be... but my christmas list (and birthday, as its only 2 weeks before), looks like this: Raintime - Tales From Sadness Suidakra - emprise to avalon Skyfire - Spectral Fates Warning - X and another 1 or 2 albums parents got pretty annoyed when i said that i dont really want that much... which seems really odd.
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Weirdest Brain Teaser I've Ever Heard
umm somethign along the lines of "could you please take my blindfold off?" they cant really lie about that can they? well thats my guess
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How long is your playlist?
songs: 8,000-8,500 Longest: dream theater: octavarium: 24.01 (i'm not counting 6 dergrees cos its split into 8 parts) shortest: dunno total length: 333 hours :shock: ... nearly 14 straight days with out repeating a track with out stopping :D edit: i was wrong, longest track igor stravinsky - the rite of spring 35.45 (classical :) )
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What movie(s) did you last see?
well i live in the uk and i party anytime my parents, or any of my mates parents for that matter, are out for more than one night, and it can be arranged in less than 2 hours aswell... i managed to keep it up for 2 weeks... my body didnt like me after those 2 weeks... i saw crank last week, it was awesome... fast paced all the way through, i thought it rocked... couldnt really tell what was coming next through most of it, although some of it did make me, and the rest of the cinema (it was packed) laff. monster house. ok so a kids film, rather funny at points although i did go with mates, it was only us in there and stupid, yet appropriate, comments the whole way though from us made it bearable. probs goin to see beerfest tomorrow.