wooohooo. msn works again!

jjust having a lazy sunday morning here. the family are sitting in the conservetory in the jammaria (conservetory) reading the sunday papers. last night we went to the italian resteraunt in town – it was lovely. not that this matters, but I wore some cool trousers, with FLIES. i’ve been secretly craving decent kecks recently, not joggers. anyway, the night ruled. the waiters were excellent at makking us all layugh, and the food was superb, if hard to cchew. dad chose somme excellent wines, especially thee chianti.

i know how this guy feeels. never before have i felt so sorry for an animated bunnny

my brothers are coming home later. i’m really looking forward to meeting them again. tomorrow night, the combined i.q around the dinner table will be over 900. it would be oover 1000 but my iq is about -150

what do we have here.

1 undergraduate bioinfomaticist, having used computers since he cam walk… can program the hind legs off a donky

1 phd student in physics, who can take apart a computer in seconds and then e have a troll, using a punctuation mark because sshe or he hasn’t the wit to find an alias. kiss goodbye to your computer!

…the arbouritum

It’s somewhere approaching freezing outside, but this place makes me feel tropical. I am sitting in the Arboretum – a place in the middle of the canteen with a high roof. It has tables to sit at, and beds planted with trees and shrubs. There is a palm and a pond with fish. It echoes in here with the sound of water. For some reason it reminds me of Stapely Water Gardens, and makes me feel botanical and scientific, which could explain my recent interest in dinosaurs and natural history.

well, last nite was cool in both senses ocf the word. I suspected it might freese so i took the chair to the disco; i didn’t fancy my chances of getting home safely. at 11,, security pushed me home, and the plan worked a trea.

I notice quite a discussion going onover my computer. becca vursus dad. its quite cool to have a friend fight my ccornerr for once – i appreciate it becs. however I just want both sides to know one thing: from what i have seen, both parties respect eachother loads. my parents seem rather fond of becca, and becca seems to like mum and dad, and for that matter the Lukester, aka afroboy. thus, if there appears to be annimosity on the reply threads, I strongly suspect it is an illusion.

that having been said, the quite insulting repliees of “.” really do nnot help. moreover, the fact that this person leaves comments while hiding behind a punctuation mark seems cowardly.

i’ll write a proper entry later.

luke, i wanna install the update to msn, but i need admin password. you don’t respond to my email, so i’m typing this here

the idiots is the second dogme 995 film, and i watched it this evening. i found it both appauling and hillarious. its about a group of young people who ‘spaz out’ i.e, pretend to be mentally disabled, as a form of expression. they take it in turns tto be the minder, and go to public places like the swimming baths, where their assumed disability seems to give them carte blanche to behave abominably. the funniest scene is where one of them leaves his ‘retarded’ brother with a group of bikers, who end up takingg him to the loo. what is telling, though, is a scene where a few people with down’s syndome come to the house, and they act with prejudice.

please note, though, that this film is highly pornographic in parts.

freedom of speech must be protected this is why

today I just want to say that I for one am welcoming bush’s visit. at last he has decided to mend fences. in iraq, although there is a long way to go, there is democracy, and I’ve always thought that democracy is a good thing. thus, the time has come to put aside our differences and work together.

surely this is a step in the right direction at last.

now this is funny!

i know i shouldn’t laugh, but it was funny. this morning for breakfast i had croisants, but my helper didn’t know how to cut them properly. sh tried cutting them sideways, like a rolll, and squidjing the butter and jam in, then cutting them into chuncks forr me to pick up. You know me – i slowly started to chuckle at these totally desecrated lumps of warm french bread. I then proceeded to eat them, getting rather sticky in the process.

i am currentlly having difficulties with my extended keyboard. it seems to be working now, but a moment or two ago it was going haywirde. too much dribble in it i suspect.

This May well amuse you guys.

this week is reading week. having written most of yesterday, i spent most of today reading. the fifhtieth chapter of summon the lambs appeared online, and it continues to be a sleek and sophisticated – and rather addictive text. I am also quickly finding how much off s git charlie chaplin was: mr. lynn’s biography of him exposes him as a hard and fast comunist. however, I’m starting to think lynn may be a little biassed. its still an exceelllent read though.

we just got back from my grandparents’ housse in london. my maternal grandparens arrived in london from cyprus in the late 50s, relatively poor. they met, and raised 3 children. these gave them 6 granchildren.

sitting in the front room of haycroft gardens an amazing statisic hit me: those grandchildren all hold or are doing degrees; 3 are doing PHDs; 2 wen to oxford. oddly, tho, I am unique in studying an arts subject.

Not bad for immigrants, eh mr. howard?!

Given the recent upsurge in the debate between Darwinism and Creationism, I will attempt to objectively compare and contrast the merits of the two theories. Both need to be given equal respect if one is to be methodical. However, if one has only empiricism in mind, the discussion will be one sided.

Working in the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin proposed that all beings on Earth had evolved, and were adaptive. This happens through the process of random mutation and natural selection. It follows that life on Earth has been in a constantly changing state for millions of years. This gives us a time frame from which to work from. The bible says, on the other hand, that the Earth was created 7000 years ago. This offers us a nice contrast which we can use.

First we can use plate tectonics as a test. The Earth’s crust moves at precise speeds, causing continental shift. There is strong evidence that Africa once met South America. Fossil remains of one species exist on both sides of the Atlantic, suggesting that they were once joined. At current continental speeds, they split about 150 million years ago.

This number does not marry up with Genesis. Moreover, the creationist claim that man existed alongside dinosaurs does not add up. Bones decay at a pre-defined rate, showing that the dinosaurs etc existed at a time which agrees with the tectonic data. If such fossils are only 7000 years old, then our theories about decay must be wrong. These decay rates are based on ions, which are part of nuclear physics. If these decay rates are wrong, it would throw all of physics out the window. The fact remains that there is no mention of such beasts in the bible.

WE see similar tales in Cosmology. When we look at the most distant stars, they appear red. The Doppler Effect suggests this is because the stars are moving away from us. Apparently when the paths of such stars are traced, they all originate from one point – the site of the Big Bang.

However, creationists claim that this evidence was planted by either God or the Devil to test our faith. If so, why did God go out of His way to so convincingly disprove Himself. All the available evidence points to a lack of God, from atomic physics to fossil evidence of ancient fish in the Himalaya. It’s true that I myself have heard this evidence second hand, and thus could have been lied to, but on the sheer volume of evidence 9including my experiences at Hebden) All my instincts rule out the existence of a creator. One can argue even with this, but then one might argue forever. What, then, is the purpose of asking the question?

I heard about this while I was eating breakfast. it’s quite an interesting project, and I think it would be good for preservation, which I strongly believe in although I reserve the right to eat meat. however, I think it’ll take two or three centuries to complete. good luck to the scientists!

Not that we see much of that around here! we at alsager are too busy playing football and hockey in the name of sport science to do much proper science. what the smeg is sport science anyway?

whatever it is, it seens to be rather noisy.

went 2c the tekkies about msn. said they’d get back fto me…on tuesday!

grr off to watch football

god frigging dammit. microsoft wants me to install the new msn messager, but my pc won’t let me because of the security protocol bullshit luke set up. now i can’t talk to anyone.

NOT FUCKING HAPPY!

I read last nnight that ellen macarthur has beaten the record for sailing around the world. she impresses me a lot. if it was up to me, i’d comission her as an admaral in the royal navy.

got into uni today to find that he work I emailed myself hasn’t arrived. bugger!

another 1500 word day. hurrah!

think i’l sleep well.

boy, did i overdo it last night? started off ok, but my friends kept topping up my beer. the disco was rather cool, and at one stage tthey played Greenday’s Basketcase, which is one of my all ttime favourite songs.

spent most of today reading: got through a fair chunk of the story of film by mark cousins, and thee chapliain bio arivedd so i rread two chapters of that. i forwent my nightly trip to tthe bar in order to read – its a fascinating work into chaplain, who, I already realise, was a very ambiguous, rather troubled character. the way Lynn uses reasoned, witty debate is marveloous. to top it off, i also read my daily dose of Palin.

quite, quite excellent