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Matthew
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massive
Oriel 2
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Oriel 2, Oriel 2, Oriel 2... Oriel 2,Oriel 2, Oriel 2... Oriel 2, Oriel 2, Oriel 2...
Oriiiiiieeeeeeel 2, Oriiiiieeeeel 2...
Yeah, massive sesh, yeah!
Matthew-
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You asked for a bump and we got it. Massiv sesh from Oriel 2!
Note
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No-one cares.
I'm quite worried you took the time to look up his result, but that's your business. I'm celebrating the end of the whole 9am exam thing, pity there's another afternoon one to go but, for now, LET'S PLAY CROQUET!
Note
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Thats LMH, 2 ahead, not LMH 2, ahead
Matthew
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You fool no-one.
Yes!
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What a massive row! Big sesh! Corpus had a blue an Isis boy and a blue lightweight and we still rowed them over. Oriel 2 dispell all the chat and show they're heroes! Almost bumped too, only shitness of LMH 2 ahead stopped us, but we'll have them tomorrow. MASSIVE!
Matthew
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Oh dear, looks like Richard rowed over. Can't even win a wooden spoon now :-(
Yes
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Indeed it will.
Matthew
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I figure it will contain an equilateral triangle?
Baz
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Having just put the finishing touches to the new downing t-shirt, it is amusing for me to open a copy of the Times and see how appalling Richard is doing.
Not only must you have crossed the Rubicon. You must have also burnt your bridges.
or
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"oops, we did it again..."
"We caught crabs at Oriel"
or less catchy
"My college had little to be proud of, now it officially stinks"
Matthew
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or "Things that get bumped in the night"
It would appear not
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A new T-Shirt "I am cursed"
Matthew
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So, do you have 'a warm glass of kick your ass'?
stato
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in 8 days of racing for oriel, I have been bumped 11 times
wrong
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mens 1st through 5th(!) headships
Bugger
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In a poor result, pembroke now hold the womens 1st, Mens 1st through 3rd headships.
Matthew
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I figure it wouldn't go down too well if I were to support Pembroke then.
Biogeography or volcanology?
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That is the question...
To the best of my knowledge
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1st Division
1. Oriel
2. Pembroke
...
3rd Division
2.Oriel 2
3. Pembroke 2
...
5th Division
9. Pembroke 3
10. Oriel 3
...I presume there are other colleges but doubt anyone cares
1st day of Eights
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Can you feel the excitement? No? Well poo to you!
And that doesn't even exist
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So new hot tip for overtaking Eat Ch at the top of the Eat Ch table is...Gr eat Ch ina Wall
Considering the competition
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(The best seems to be www.where-eat.ch) - not much of an achievement.
Matthew
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Hooray! Look what now comes top if you do a Google search for eat ch.
Make them regret the day they were born
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I made an interesting discovery today...if you put two 10p, two 2p and a £2 coin around a 5p coin it fits almost perfectly. I've been trying to make circles round coins for years and this is my first major achievement! Wow, I hear you say.
Matthew
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Message from the server admin:
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I am not planning to continue with this company when my current year's contact expires (August/September time I think).
hmmm
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Downtime issues must be addressed
Well
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I never felt no better. Blair out!
Matthew
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Great headline in today's Times...
Blair's £800m failed to lift city schools
(But underachievers felt better, says Ofsted)
Depends on working situation
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I will of course get back to you as soon as I know anything. At the moment I'm planning to do as much holidaying as possible in September, but nothing arranged as yet.
Edinburgh
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anyone had any more thoughts on whether they want to come to Scotland after I'm done thesping?
Not depressed as such
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Just more highly tuned than usual
So you felt depressed
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And that was more interesting than normality? good, you haven't lost the basic philosophy that being unhappy is essentially good.
Discovery
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Nothing ground breaking: sleep really affects your mood. I went two days with a total of about 7 hours sleep and began to feel like my first year self again. Whether this is a positive thing is debatable, but it made life briefly more interesting than just get up, row, eat, hours work, bed
Yes we did
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and i'm booing everything. That was the worst eurovision yet. The only decent song was France and they got virtually nothing. And ours was wank but it wasn't as bad as Turkey and Belgium. Israel was comically poor and still got some points.
You didn't even watch it to the end
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Don't know what you're booing, every song sounded the same, but I was supporting Belgium for their strange hand dance, very disappointing when they got pipped at the post. And Germany for the PERFECTLY cheesy dancers. Ours were a disaster, they couldn't even sing (and no-one in Europe likes us).
Matthew
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The shame
Eurovision
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I may be mistaken
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But you seem to have just had a small argument with yourself.
Why
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Not be drunk and happy now
(by the way, you won't be happy, just drunk)
Such drama! (hardly BBC-esque...)
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He went out and killed it.
(I have nothing interesting to say about the reality that is my life, as nothing interesting is happening. In one week and three days I will be drunk and happy. Unless something awful happens in the meantime, or I die before I drink anything, or before I get happy, or I decide to become a monk, which incidentally is a distinct possibility.)
But
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That's the one that survived - why did they send it to a pet shop? Bad associations?
I prefer this one though - who writes these stories?!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2415095.stm
Matthew
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It's a hard life being a rabbit
One day you get your head chopped off
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3047267.stm
Next day you get a parking ticket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/3051447.stm
How long does it take you to dream?
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You're a retarded dreamer! Ha!
Getting up TOO early
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I didn't have time to dream before I was back on the river, rowing 6.30-8, coaching (!) 8 til 9. Having gone to bed at 1 and not got to sleep now so tired...
Getting up too early
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My alarm went off this morning just as I was starting a really nice apple, and it was lost forever.
My tute work...
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what happens if we remove the odd orders in the transform plane before recombining the image?
It goes fuzzy
What happens if we remove 5 orders?
Goes a bit fuzzy
10 Order?
Goes more fuzzy
Numbers?
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Surely thats dirty
Maths joke
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Don't expect to hear anyone laughing. Or sympathising if that's what you'd prefer. Didn't even get it right the first time.
Matthew
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Except, that would have worked. I had calculated 1 x 1 = 2.
Matthew
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Today, I spent 10 minutes staring at a question before realising that the reason it didn't work was that I had calculated 1 x 1 = 1.
Nothing ever happens
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on your website, anyone would think hot cross buns were supposed to be an actual news event
Its white
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which is clearly wrong
What's wrong with my keyboard?
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Nothing truly interesting happened (although it did then, and I didn't tell you)
Matthew
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The random message generator is frequently apt.
(Sun, 19 Jan at 19:18) Andy- said:
If anything truly interesting had happened,
a) you wouldn't tell us
b) The fact that you still have a fucked keyboard would make translating it so dull
Oh, I forgot, and...
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'You don't do running? What do you do, you don't fucking row!'
Oriel 2 T-Shirts
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With quotes:
'Oh my God, I'm so damn good!'
'I've got a warm glass of kick your ass'
'Whats the matter, does your pussy hurt?'
'I'm gonna help you explore the boundaries of pain!'
'If I can for 60 minutes on my own how long can I go with you?'
all with 'MASSIVE' on one sleeve and 'BIG SESH' on the other.
Cool!
Sleep in the coffin too
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Multi-task the coffin and really worry everyone!
He's mad, but I like him
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3041681.stm
Incidently
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This is much more interesting, we'll see how long it lasts.
ooooooaaaa
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I was wondering what I'd written last night...reasonably coherent but quite boring really...
What did you tell Matthew? Sounds suspicious.
Small easily reversible advances are definitely the way forward, despite being a bit cowardly.
I'm fed up with all Valentina-related pain and anguish, I need to start looking elsewhere even though I don't really want to.
And I too am glad you're not gay.
By the way
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Matthew, I told you...
Personally
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I'd choose option 2. But I think we can see from experience that the best thing is usually the option i discard
Advice
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make some small, easily reversible advances. If they work, great, if not you have 2 options
1) Find someone easier, actually get somewhere, have a reasonable degree of happinessand some sexual release
2) Go down the valentina road all over again with all the pain, anguish and lack of progress that implies
From 2 til 11
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Helene actually thought I was gay, due to a 'funny' text sent by someone when i left my phone in the JCR. So when I rang her and sounded normal she got really confused, said i was strange, paused for ages then said 'but, how can you be gay...?' which was a bit confusing to say the least. However the good bit was that once i had tracked down why she thought i was gay, and reassured her i wasn't she said 'i'm so glad you're not gay!'
I need you to be nice....
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Nothing hard-headed tomorrow please...so many beers...so little time....aaaaaaaa//////
Can't do metaphors
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Now its just brutal hard headed advice
Boom...
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...sorry, I can only find one. I was thinking the same thing, but working too much tends to put a strain on the whole 'fun' thing. Even though I'm really not working much, I'm just pretending to work and thus getting the worst of both worlds.
I'm going to the beer festival on Jesus Green tonight (anyone interested?), will be there for five hours so might be interesting...
Tomorrow evening a game of badminton, might be even more interesting...might even need to ask some metaphorical advice just like the old days...
This institution
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needs more zing. Find your personal boombooms...
Baz
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Just a minor point Matthew, but S.Coulson is the Manager and Goalkeeper or Pondside FC. He is also the team's top scorer with 4 goals...
I don't want to seem harsh on the players, but it can't be a very good team if their GOALKEEPER is their top scorer...!
Matthew
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Ooh, controversy at Pondside FC http://www.freewebs.com/blitzer/
"Dear Ben and/or Rob,
I am aware that you have been posting rude, and obscene messages on my guestbook. I am not fooled by your fancy talk about you, and I couldn't care less about what your cousin is going to do to me and I am certainly not scared of you.
Let's look at the evidence:
1. The way in which the rude and obscene messages are written, is identical to yours, as you cannot spell and do not use punctuation or grammar.
2. You seem to be some what jealous of my website, as it is far superior to yours.
3. Today in period 5 you had I.T, and SUPRISE SUPRISE, I recieved another obscene message on my guestbook.
4. When we walked to school on Monday when I brought up the subjuct, you pretended that you weren't listening, although I was talking about it so loud people in Austraillia could here me.
5. I could go on and on."
Matthew
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Sorry about the long downtime.
Big Brains
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Small minds
Matthew
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Is the guy at the back the chair-mover again? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2548843.stm
erm...
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I'm not even sure how the picture even relates to the article, let alone the caption.
Staring competition
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3032833.stm
just look at the first picture...
Its 0
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Within the limits of the uncertainty principle
a high state of absenteeism
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meaning it is not absolutely absent, just primarily absent. There's hope for you yet!
No
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Logically the absence of my pseudo-geography envy implies nothing about the presence or absence of my geography envy, which in fact is in a high state of absenteeism
So
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you do suffer from geography envy?
I suffer from (pseudo-physics) envy, no credit goes to physics.
Dunno
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But its not that i don't suffer from (pseudo-geography) envy, i don't suffer from pseudo- (geography envy)
How do you know?
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What is pseudo-geography anyway? It might be amazing...
But
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I don't suffer from pseudo-geography envy, so I still win
Matthew
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Glad you were listening hard in the meeting Barry. Frankly I don't give a damn because we got quorum for the first time in donkey's years.
Don't understand
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(assuming that was Barry...)
Anyway, I'm sure you'll all be delighted to know my conclusion to the physics envy essay: I don't suffer from physics envy - in fact I suffer from pseudo-physics envy. A-ha!
Miaow!
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Just cos someone didn't get their 'personal crusade' passed by the jcr...
Cool
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We can talk about everything from Britney Spears to University life! It'll be just like the summer of '69...
Matthew
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The guestbook seems a bit quiet. Shall we grab a beer and head over to the Rodeo Bar?
Matthew
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Like a "bizarre horror movie". Nice.
Rampaging badger injures five
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Back to stories which aren't as amusing as the people who put them on here would like to think. Unfortunately the comedy is in the headline, which you've already seen, so there's very little point reading the article at all unless you want to waste a minute of your life like I just have.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3023369.stm
Matthew
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No, ency Maths
1. Physics prosposes ideas that are generally easily tested or at least, when tested, most people can agree on the result
We don't need to test our ideas, since they are all rigorously proven from the start
2. Individual effects can be isolated and studied without external influence
Indeed
3. Fundamental physics has a philosophical edge to it and comes as close as possible to answering the 'really deep' questions
Unless you really, really understand the concept of 'one' you won't get anywhere in life.
4. Saying 'I'm a particle/theoretical physicist' makes you sound really clever
Saying I'm a mathematician makes people feel sorry for you.
5. Physics students earn more
Maths students learn more
6. Physicists often make excursions into other realms e.g molecular biology, chemistry, economics, geology etc. The reverse is not true
Euuurrrgh! Applied Maths???
7. Physicists can claim credit for annialating hiroshima and polluting Nothern Europe via Chernobyl
Silly phyciscists
8. As a physicist you can go through life without being scared by all the 'scientific' nonsense written in the newspapers
As a mathmetician, you can snort with your mathmo friends about epsilon being a large negative number
Also
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Ever wondered why the sky is blue? I know, and believe me, you don't
It votes Tory.
Ever wondered why diffraction occurs? Maybe you know, maybe you don't, but i do
Ducks' wings
Why do radio waves bounce offthe ionosphere?
It's bouncy.
Why does the stock exchange behave the way it does?
Economics?
How does superfluidity and superconductivity happen?
Amazingly.
How does a fridge, a radio, a TV or a computer work?
Steam.
That was poor Barry
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Envy geography!
1. Physics prosposes ideas that are generally easily tested or at least, when tested, most people can agree on the result
>> Ok, fair comment. Law is pretty random.
Give up at the first point? What kind of argument is this Mr Bridges?
Most people can agree on any result. Are you just saying that physics is easier?
Individual effects can be isolated and studied without external influence
Mmm, not sure that applies to law. Not sure it's even very interesting though.
Interesting, no, important, yes. In geography, individual effects could never be isolated, and if they were the resultant model would have no relation to reality. Just makes geography more complicated.
3. Fundamental physics has a philosophical edge to it and comes as close as possible to answering the 'really deep' questions
No no no! With law you can answer all those socio-theoretical arguments and make yourself sound really moral all the time when in fact you a corrupt barrister charging poor single-parent families extortionate amounts of money to deal with the divorce proceedings and splitting up items held on trust between all three of their previous "boyfriends" and their six teenage daughters, not the mention those who depend on them, i.e. the kids of the teenage mums.
That's not deep and philosophical.
I think to be fair there's a lot more philosophy in my degree - speculative stuff is much better than 'this is how it is' anyway. And I've even incorporated a bit of physics-provoked philosophy this week for good measure.
4. Saying 'I'm a particle/theoretical physicist' makes you sound really clever
Until someone asks you something about it. Saying I'm a laywer makes people think not to annoy you, in case you prosecute them or something.
Descending into jokes? OK, I will as well - you can't just say 'I'm a theoretical physicist' to everyon you meet and then leave before they find out you're not actually clever. I can say 'I'm a geographer' and people will think 'Oh', but then I start talking and they think 'Wow!'
5. Physics students earn more
But not as much as lawyers. Slaughter and May suggested to us Downing students an average income of 72000 directly after graduating, rising to 950,000 (nine hundred and fifty thousand!) when partnership comes (typically within 10 years). Did Einstein earn that kind of money? No? Do I prefer kudos over money? NO!
There is the smallest possibility that I might earn more money than both of you. Hmmm....if you die before you graduate...
6. Physicists often make excursions into other realms e.g molecular biology, chemistry, economics, geology etc. The reverse is not true
True, but physicists tend not to make excursions into real life or society in general. Or even the bar, it would seem in Downing.
So what you're saying is 'True.' OK...
Geographers make excursions into all those things and more (possibly not molecular biology, but hey). And what's so much better is that they come to us as well and it gets all reciprocal. You're not friendly at all are you?
7. Physicists can claim credit for annialating hiroshima and polluting Nothern Europe via Chernobyl
Yeah, but it's more fun to help people get compensation for it, and then nuke them with ridicously high fees. Especially if they can't afford them.
Desperate metaphor, give up.
Geographers can claim some credit for much more widespread disasters. Hitler based his theory of expansion on Ratzel's geography. The problems of development can be shared between us and economics.
8. As a physicist you can go through life without being scared by all the 'scientific' nonsense written in the newspapers
Mmm. True. But if you're a lawyer you won't have time to read newspapers...
Don't need to be a physicist, just sensible. I think I'm sensible. (I've given up responding to Barry's points as he seems to have given up making sensible ones...)
and
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you won't earn that much. Unlike a critical scientist you clearly believe everything you hear
I'll let everyone judge
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Which they prefer. people still remember Isaac Newton, James Maxwell, Einstein, etc, who remembers 17th century barristers? I don't think Einstein ever went hungry
Envy law...not physics....
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1. Physics prosposes ideas that are generally easily tested or at least, when tested, most people can agree on the result
>> Ok, fair comment. Law is pretty random.
2. Individual effects can be isolated and studied without external influence
Mmm, not sure that applies to law. Not sure it's even very interesting though.
3. Fundamental physics has a philosophical edge to it and comes as close as possible to answering the 'really deep' questions
No no no! With law you can answer all those socio-theoretical arguments and make yourself sound really moral all the time when in fact you a corrupt barrister charging poor single-parent families extortionate amounts of money to deal with the divorce proceedings and splitting up items held on trust between all three of their previous "boyfriends" and their six teenage daughters, not the mention those who depend on them, i.e. the kids of the teenage mums.
4. Saying 'I'm a particle/theoretical physicist' makes you sound really clever
Until someone asks you something about it. Saying I'm a laywer makes people think not to annoy you, in case you prosecute them or something.
5. Physics students earn more
But not as much as lawyers. Slaughter and May suggested to us Downing students an average income of 72000 directly after graduating, rising to 950,000 (nine hundred and fifty thousand!) when partnership comes (typically within 10 years). Did Einstein earn that kind of money? No? Do I prefer kudos over money? NO!
6. Physicists often make excursions into other realms e.g molecular biology, chemistry, economics, geology etc. The reverse is not true
True, but physicists tend not to make excursions into real life or society in general. Or even the bar, it would seem in Downing.
7. Physicists can claim credit for annialating hiroshima and polluting Nothern Europe via Chernobyl
Yeah, but it's more fun to help people get compensation for it, and then nuke them with ridicously high fees. Especially if they can't afford them.
8. As a physicist you can go through life without being scared by all the 'scientific' nonsense written in the newspapers
Mmm. True. But if you're a lawyer you won't have time to read newspapers...
By the way
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I don't actualy class any of those things as interesting, but you wouldn't understand any of the things that are interesting, such as:
If I have a quantum computer so powerful it can simulate a whole universe, which i choose to obey quantum like rules, will creatures that evolve in such a universe be able to also create quantum computers. If so, will this universe be able to return more processing power than it takes to run it, leading to the possiblity of infinite processing power through an infinite series of such universes?
Also
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Ever wondered why the sky is blue? I know, and believe me, you don't
Ever wondered why diffraction occurs? Maybe you know, maybe you don't, but i do
Why do radio waves bounce offthe ionosphere?
Why does the stock exchange behave the way it does?
How does superfluidity and superconductivity happen?
How does a fridge, a radio, a TV or a computer work?
Envy physics!
Envy
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1. Physics prosposes ideas that are generally easily tested or at least, when tested, most people can agree on the result
2. Individual effects can be isolated and studied without external influence
3. Fundamental physics has a philosophical edge to it and comes as close as possible to answering the 'really deep' questions
4. Saying 'I'm a particle/theoretical physicist' makes you sound really clever
5. Physics students earn more
6. Physicists often make excursions into other realms e.g molecular biology, chemistry, economics, geology etc. The reverse is not true
7. Physicists can claim credit for annialating hiroshima and polluting Nothern Europe via Chernobyl
8. As a physicist you can go through life without being scared by all the 'scientific' nonsense written in the newspapers
more soon
Yes
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Why should I envy physics? Apart from its undeniable ability to produce passages of such incomprehensibility of course.
QM
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Is a system of dynamical laws entirely seperate from Newtonian mechanics, unlike Special Relativity which simpy proposes corrective terms to Newtonian mechanics. However, it can be likened to the system of mechanics based on the conservation of energy and the principle of least action (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics - look it up). Like in this system, there is an expression that expresses the total energy, the Hamiltonian. The main difference is that all qunatities, rather than simply being values, like momentum = p, are in fact mathematical operators, like momentum = ihd^2/dx^2 . Don't worry about what that is, just realise its not a number, its the second derivative, like getting acceleration from position. It is when these operators act on the wavefunction (just some function that satisfies Schrodingers eqn) that values for the quantities are obtained. Only vakues that are eigenvalues of the operator may be obtained (an eigenvalue is the constant in the eqn operator(f[x]) = const * f[x]) and the f[x] is the eigenfunction) if the wave function is constructed of several eigenfunctions of the operator being used then it is unknowable which eigenvalue will be obtained on measurement. The measurement collapes the wavefunction on to the eigenfunction found, which can then be a superposition of eigenfunctions of another operator, which when measured will again give an unceratin value, hence the first measurement affects the second, and hence uncertainty about knowing both values at the same time, hence the uncertainty principle, and thus all the 'strangeness'
Anyhting else??
Sorry
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Have been absent due to fool computer guy. Am back. Will come up with comprehensive list of reasons to envy physics, and description of QM
I think I've worked it out for myself
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You're talking about complementarity yes? No problem for an eclectically-minded geographer like my good self.
Matthew
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Andy, your question is too hard.
Matthew
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Not convinced. Do you want the hassle of a spam filter?
spam filter
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please!
It's a plague!
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(and can someone answer my question please)
Baz!
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HaHaHa!
You're having a laugh.
Bloody tit hall. grrrr!!!
In other words
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I've got no idea what you're talking about. That was obviously only the slight-idiot's guide, I need the full-idiot's guide.
OK
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What does mutually incompatible mean?
If they're uncertain, how do you know one of them?
Why don't you want to know the other one?
Quantum
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QM postulates that mutually incompatible variables (like x and p) not only have inherent uncertainty, but that when one is known it is meaningless to talk about the value of the other as it does not exist without measurement
Matthew
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Quantum mechanics makes the degree of uncertainty precise. You can't be certain where a particle is, but you can be certain how uncertain you are.
Another serious question
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What difference does all the quantum stuff make to physics? Does it just make it all more relative and doubtful? Can you give me an idiot's guide to quantum theory in a paragraph please...
Physicists approximate
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Geographers guesstimate
"nd Law of T.dynamics is certain. Woh betide you if your theory contradicts it
Matthew
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Physical laws, like geographical laws, are only best guesses at the reality. It's just in physics, the best guesses are closer to reality.
baz
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i didn't take one minute off my erg time, i took 6 seconds off, over one term, not much.
Physics envy
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Being the way social sciences (and probably biology as well) like geography envy physics for its laws and 'certainty'. Defend your laws and 'certainty' to me!
Other titles were:
Gender fieldwork
Understanding through metaphor
Geographer or polymath?
The tyranny of initial conditions
Path dependence
so at least there's a bit of humour to be had in physics envy...
physics envy
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why is that a an essay title, and why for geography
PS
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How did you take 1 minute 46 seconds off your ergo time?
Tout le monde
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I need your help if you can give it...geography open book exam...4000 word GEOGRAPHICAL (damn) essay on the following title (which I've chosen from a list of six equally ridiculous titles)...'Physics-envy'
I don't have physics-envy, let me make that absolutely clear, but all arguments for and against (doesn't have to be geographical, I'll stretch that condition as far as it'll go) would be much appreciated...especially from our resident physicist.
Matthew
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Damn. Let's hope that that wasn't the start of a flood.
4.02!
Where is the verification code?
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It seems to have finally caught up with us. Come back, Sara from Albania, you're much more interesting than a stupid REAL MONEY advert!
(PS 4.23 Ha!)
yeh but
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i can row
Matthew
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5.58
So there.
Baz
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ha ha ha!
6:47.
Sit and swivel.
They asked the question
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How low can you go? What will be the 2k score? And the answer...?
6.49
6.49
6.49...
Stupid pears
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When I die I don’t want no part of heaven
I would not do heaven’s work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell
Also (hehe)
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I hear that your friend, who probably reads this, tried to pull my 'favourite' Belgian former neighbour. hhahaahhahahhahahhahaha!
You have to ask?
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I don't have to ask. I go out of my way (via Bedfordshire) not to ask. Because it is isn't interesting. Not even as interesting as Bedfordshire.
e-mail bedfordshire@bbc.co.uk for more details
Matthew
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But you have to ask... how were the sparrow-men recruited? Adverts in the local paper? Or did they look up 'bird imperonators' in the Yellow Pages. What's the going rate for dressing up in a sparrow costume anyway?
Quality of websites diminishing
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Do you know how much I want to read about men dressed up in sparrow costumes? Well, you can probably guess.
Why did it take 6 hours to decide not to make any bad jokes?
Matthew
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2 hours intensive programming.
Too long.
Eyes going square.
Sleep.
i'm almost tempted
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to make lots of poor jokes about how I can go for 60 minutes
60 minutes on an erg
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60 miiinuuuutes on an eeeeeeerg!
Matthew
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If you think being stalked is scary, imagine coming face-to-face with a five-foot sparrow...
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2003050201
sorry
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you should follow the link to previous picture when you get to that site
google search
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http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-frencharmyknife.htm
Matthew
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2996793.stm
Not forgetting the 'Broadfield sex parades'
Or
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Run away from yourself.
Or alternatively, if you really want some wit
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Consider yourself lucky you're the stalkee rather than the stalker. Think what anyone who wants to stalk you must be like and pity them. Think how confusing it would be to stalk yourself, and to try to stop yourself stalking yourself. Be happy.
Wit?
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Que?
Baz
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I quote:
"If you want a BJ come round to mine"..
Perhaps she's got an attractive friend round her's, and this is a cunning ploy to see if you fall for fickle things like appearance. Of course, I, like everyone else, DO fall for such things.
Baz
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You won't do any better.
oh and
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i'm sure you'll all want to respond to that in your own witty way, but please no cliched, 'you won't do any better' jokes
I'm being stalked
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by the monster! Imagine being offered blow jobs and massages by the ugliest girl in the world, in front of everyone, without the slightest hint of comedy or irony, just plain 'if you want a blow job come round to mine'. And then emails to reinforce the message. I'm very afraid. She'll be lurking outside my door soon. We've already had one episode where she banged relentlessly on my friends door to try and get to me. Heeeeeeelp!
If that tiger hadn't got into tourism
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it would be nothing, it would be strands of cotton and orange dye. Tiger thinks: 'thank god for tourism, I could be nothing right now.' Alternatively it thinks: 'I'm going to eat you, little kiddie, and it's going to hurt.' Or maybe 'Grrr.' Perhaps even 'Grrrrrrr.'
Matthew
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Tiger thinks... why did I ever get into tourism...?
http://snurl.com/1a9m
Matthew
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No elections any more. No fun.
if we don't get blades
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with all the training we have to do, then i'll be questioning the whole ethical basis of rowing
Oioi
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I spot a big banana. Worryingly, it's gone pear-shaped.
Matthew
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I think that's fixed now. Tell me if other 'repetitive' messages are appearing and I'll block them too.
Yes, fix it
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it should be me all the time
Random message thing
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It's still doing Richard's bulk message at least half the time...
Yes
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In an 11-set thriller, I beat you by 11 sets to love. How bad are you?
Matthew
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Is that supposed to be our tennis score? I don't remember that many sets.
It should be said...
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7-6 7-6 7-6, 7-6 7-6 7-6, 7-6 7-6 7-6, 7-6, seven-six!
Outrage
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I would never lose even one goal to Dave Sher. My playing abilities have been misrepresented. I think i'll put my selection for downing on my CV.
Matthew
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Richard has beaten you to it...
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cutfs/div3week8-2002-03.html
Nice one! You won both doubles matches AND the singles.
hmmm
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Not quite sure why it's called Downing College Table Tennis Football Club, but it makes me much more of an asset.
I want to turn myself into a cat actually, is that allowed?
Ha!
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Ours are week 6 then ball week 8. Nice little break... Can I play for DCTTFC as well? I'm not very good.
Barry, stop being abusive or I'll divorce you. To all others whom it may concern, including the dog, stop being abusive or I'll divorce Barry and marry you.
excuse me
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I hope transport to and from cambridge will be provided!
dog
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turn yourself into a dog
Matthew
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1. If you really find our comments offensive, maybe you should stay away from guestbooks, forums and MSN Messenger for a while.
2. Why am I awake?
3. Richard, congratulations on your selection for the Downing College Table Football club.
Baz
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What the hell is your problem? You have got some serious issues. Why can't you just leave me alone? For heaven's sake stop putting me down you sad, arrogant, lonely idiots.
Ok, so I could have thought of a better putdown.
Matthew
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OK, 2.15 at the plodge. I will bring tennis balls. I won a prize for my hot cross buns! (See home page)
8th week
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and yes, Oriel ball and the end of 9th week
Please
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Don't descend into senseless name-calling again. Maybe it'll distract you if I ask when your exams are and if you're going to a ball this year?