Tea tea tea tea tea tea tea tea

In the CS labs doing maths for my tutorial, really, really {really} want some tea just now. :):S:(


Song of the Day: Another Brick In The Wall [Parts 1-3] (Pink Floyd)

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

Chapter One: I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the side walk.I fall in.I am lost... I am helplessIt isn't my fault.It takes me forever to find a way out.

Chapter Two: I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the side walk.I pretend I do not see it.I fall in again.I can't believe I am in this same place.But it isn't my fault.It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter Three: I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the side walk.I see it is there.I fall in... it's a habit.. but my eyes are open.I know where I am.It is my fault.I get out immediately.

Chapter Four: I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the side walk.I walk round it.

Chapter Five: I walk down a different street.


© 1993 Portia Nelson From There's a hole in My Sidewalk Beyond Words Publishing, Inc.1-800-284-9678


Song of the Day: Another Brick In The Wall [Parts 1-3] (Pink Floyd)

Extreme Weather

It's not really a good sign when you get to the train station and the car park is devoid of almost all life at 0800 on a working day. Furthermore when the only ppl at the station are leaving almost as soon as they get there, something is definatly wrong.

The reason is posted on the station monitors:

"The current extreme weather conditions have resulted in all First ScotRail services being suspended until further notice. No alternative transport is available."

The Fourth Road bridge was also closed in both directions to all vehicles due the extreme winds. {it has since re-opened to most traffic but remains closed to high sided vehicles}

So looks like I won't be able to get into uni today, weather is supposed to be calming down, but that aint until the afternoon and all my lectures will be over by then. :S {looks like I coulda played cube for a bit longer then, dang sorry Alan}


Song of the Day: The Astronaut (Something Corporate)

The world from the Study0

swindow0

The world from the Study1

Study

And this is where I'm currently hiding at the moment...

Craig 

Craig with clothepegs all over his face :s 

I haven't fallen asleep in this photo, just blinked when it was taken (oops).

Civil Alan

Blurred Claus 

alan 

alan's ear 

Phone 

Andy&dave 

Back at uni

Back at uni today. Off to a good start by actually getting here on time. Kinda looking forward to getting back to work, just cause I'm strange and like learning things. Should be interesting...

Todays Lectures:
Engineering Maths - Multi-Variate Calculus
Computer Science - Algorithms and Data Structures
(2000 word essay on peer-peer :S)
Electronics (Power engineering) - Crazy lecturer


Train reading: Shadow Warrior (Chris Bunch)

Song of the Day: Boy in the Well (R.E.M.)

Website explanation

pending...

Contradictions

It is one of the peculiar qualities of the human mind that, when confronted with a contradiction, it cannot remain passive. It is set in motion with the aim or resolving the contradiction. All human progress is due to this fact. If man is to be prevented from reacting to his awareness of contradictions by action, the very existence of these contradictions must be denied.

Fromm – Man for Himself

Random segments of code?

"There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity and even the nature of what we might call the soul.

Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out
the light?

Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space they will group
together rather than stand-alone?

How do we explain this behaviour? Random segments of code?

Or is it something more?

When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness?

When does a difference engine become the search for truth?

When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote of a soul?"

Dr. Alfred Lanning - I, Robot [movie]

Yey off to the dentist...

Well its been rather a long time but I suppose I'd better try and write something interesting {ish} for this blog. Today I get to make a nice visit to the dentist :S, which is why I'm awake at such a silly time of day... Also I kinda have to kick my sleep patterns into something slightly more sane for going back to uni on the 10th.

On the plus side I get to wonder to and from Inverkeithing listening to music, a good chance to clear my head and think. Hopefully the weather will be nice :D



Current reading: Man for Himself (Fromm), Other Worlds (Davies) & Game Coding Complete (McShaffry).

Song of the Day: Escape (Muse)

(nobody's) home.