This report by the BBC, published yesterday, gives evidence that we science/engineering graduates live longer than our artsy opposite numbers. Made my day.
Tag: education
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #50:
Sit up ’til 5:00am coding for a project that doesn’t have to be in until a week on Friday. On the up side, discover the root cause of the bug that was holding back the progress of the Group Project, and, by redeveloping some source code, cut down estimated production time by two days. Get lots of praise for this. Be happy.
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #40:
Fail to get elected as one of the two student representatives of module CS12320 (Concepts In Programming). What else could I expect? I was nominated against my will, gave an awe-inspiring speech, that declared that “if I get this position, I’ll slaughter every last one of you with a pick-axe” brought up the issue that “hell – I’m not even representative of myself; why do you want me to represent you lot?”, and made clear “I want this role as little as you want me to have it!”. I think they got the idea. I recieved a grand total of 0 votes, and that includes the ones from the people who nominated me (who, after hearing my speech, voted for somebody else). Victory
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #36:
(1) Recieve an e-mail from your Personal Tutor, asking to see you in his office in ten minutes. He knows I check my e-mail 1440 times a day, but dragging me to this level of nerdity is
ridiculous…
(2) …make it to his office, cross campus, within eight minutes of him sending the e-mail… Okay – so I *live* in my anorak. I don’t care. =o( I’m going to go and sit in the corner and
sulk now.
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:
Pass your first exam… with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:
Stay in and do some work.
Scary but true – this theoretically means that I haven’t done this until now. Eek.
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:
(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a “Cool Things”. Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three “Cool
Things” to help make up for it.
(2) Be elected Communications Officer for a confidential telephone listening and advice service.
(3) Take your first exam. Gulp. Still – 20 questions, and only 36% required to pass. From the results of people in my class who’ve done it earlier this week, marks range from 30% –>
80%. Remain confident. My result is out on Monday.
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:
Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read “drinkabout”) four times their weight in lager. As a result I’m probably going to have to (originally read “tpo”) proofread this several times before sending it. I’m having difficulty sitting up straight in my chair. Bloody hell
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:
Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Content Warning
This archived blog post has been flagged as containing content that treats or depicts people negatively based on their appearance or identity. This wasn't okay at the time and it isn't okay now.
I don't believe it's acceptable to pretend I didn't write them by removing them from the Internet - insofar as such a thing is even possible. However, I also don't want to give them any more visibility than they already have.
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #18:
Play drinking games and ‘dare’ in a pub on an Outward Bound weekend… with your lecturer. Laugh as he has to ask the bar staff if they’re virgins, announce he’s gay, and go into the ladies toilets with his trousers around his ankles. Laugh slightly less when you have to shout “the Welsh are all sheep shaggers” at the top of your voice, and subsequently get lynched. Ah well: you win some, you lose some.
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #17:
Attend a lecture in a shirt and tie, and carrying a bag full of clothes, and leave 20 minutes before the end, to catch a coach to Aberdyfi, and sit on it and sing! (actually, this hasn’t happened yet – but this afternoon, it will!)
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #15:
Find a quaint little shop in the middle of nowhere, in a quaint little town in the middle of nowhere, and buy a really awful tie. Truly awful. Plan to wear it to a (course-compulsary) team-building weekend to take the piss out of a lecturer who’ll be going who wears really awful ties. Odds are, this occassion will be the first time we’ll ever see him without one!
The ‘cool and interesting things’ were originally published to a location at which my “friends back home” could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which I started in September 1999. It proved to be particularly popular, and so now it is immortalised through the medium of my weblog.
Aberystwyth Admission
This photo was originally published to a closed group and republished to this blog on 25 May 2019.
Head Sizes
Is there a correlation between head circumference and intelligence, as measured by GCSE scores? Our research says no.
Raw data:
| MALE | Head Size (cm) | GCSE Score | TOPLINE | BOTTOMLEFT | BOTTOMRIGHT | |
| 60.4 | 45 | 12.87 | 115.025625 | 21.855625 | ||
| 57.2 | 48 | 31.605 | 56.625625 | 2.805625 | ||
| 57.5 | 44 | 1.565 | 61.230625 | 32.205625 | ||
| 56.4 | 41 | -18.83 | 45.225625 | 75.255625 | ||
| 57.1 | 44 | 1.485 | 55.130625 | 32.205625 | ||
| 56.6 | 42 | -12.465 | 47.955625 | 58.905625 | ||
| 54.9 | 42 | -9.405 | 27.300625 | 58.905625 | ||
| 55.3 | 38 | -32.625 | 31.640625 | 136.305625 | ||
| 55.6 | 49 | 30.81 | 35.105625 | 0.455625 | ||
| 57.5 | 42 | -14.085 | 61.230625 | 58.905625 | ||
| 56.9 | 43 | -5.78 | 52.200625 | 44.555625 | ||
| 54.3 | 41 | -12.95 | 21.390625 | 75.255625 | ||
| 57.4 | 42 | -13.905 | 59.675625 | 58.905625 | ||
| 56.9 | 42 | -13.005 | 52.200625 | 58.905625 | ||
| 53.5 | 44 | 0.765 | 14.630625 | 32.205625 | ||
| 56.7 | 40 | -26.695 | 49.350625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 58.3 | 39 | -41.4 | 74.390625 | 113.955625 | ||
| 57.7 | 43 | -6.42 | 64.400625 | 44.555625 | ||
| 53.5 | 40 | -14.535 | 14.630625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 60.3 | 40 | -40.375 | 112.890625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 57.2 | 45 | 9.03 | 56.625625 | 21.855625 | ||
| 53.6 | 47 | 12.56 | 15.405625 | 7.155625 | ||
| 58.6 | 51 | 64.26 | 79.655625 | 1.755625 | ||
| 52.3 | 53 | 24.15 | 6.890625 | 11.055625 | ||
| 55.1 | 40 | -20.615 | 29.430625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 54.0 | 36 | -33.735 | 18.705625 | 187.005625 | ||
| 54.1 | 43 | -3.54 | 19.580625 | 44.555625 | ||
| 57.1 | 49 | 38.61 | 55.130625 | 0.455625 | ||
| 53.6 | 45 | 4.71 | 15.405625 | 21.855625 | ||
| 54.4 | 46 | 10.395 | 22.325625 | 13.505625 | ||
| FEMALE | 56 | 38 | -36.685 | 40.005625 | 136.305625 | |
| 60.0 | 47 | 33.04 | 106.605625 | 7.155625 | ||
| 58.8 | 40 | -34.675 | 83.265625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 56.1 | 53 | 59.11 | 41.280625 | 11.055625 | ||
| 52.1 | 37 | -16.49 | 5.880625 | 160.655625 | ||
| 53.0 | 37 | -22.61 | 11.055625 | 160.655625 | ||
| 56.5 | 49 | 35.49 | 46.580625 | 0.455625 | ||
| 55.9 | 45 | 7.47 | 38.750625 | 21.855625 | ||
| 56.2 | 36 | -50.895 | 42.575625 | 187.005625 | ||
| 55.0 | 37 | -36.21 | 28.355625 | 160.655625 | ||
| 52.5 | 51 | 20.34 | 7.980625 | 1.755625 | ||
| 55.0 | 40 | -20.235 | 28.355625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 58.8 | 37 | -62.05 | 83.265625 | 160.655625 | ||
| 56.1 | 44 | 1.285 | 41.280625 | 32.205625 | ||
| 55.9 | 48 | 26.145 | 38.750625 | 2.805625 | ||
| 56.0 | 50 | 39.215 | 40.005625 | 0.105625 | ||
| 52.7 | 48 | 12.705 | 9.150625 | 2.805625 | ||
| 57.2 | 45 | 9.03 | 56.625625 | 21.855625 | ||
| 56.7 | 39 | -33.72 | 49.350625 | 113.955625 | ||
| 60.2 | 41 | -29.47 | 110.775625 | 75.255625 | ||
| 53.4 | 40 | -14.155 | 13.875625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 57.9 | 41 | -23.03 | 67.650625 | 75.255625 | ||
| 53.9 | 50 | 26.195 | 17.850625 | 0.105625 | ||
| 57.5 | 51 | 56.34 | 61.230625 | 1.755625 | ||
| 59.1 | 40 | -35.815 | 88.830625 | 93.605625 | ||
| 57.7 | 44 | 1.605 | 64.400625 | 32.205625 | ||
| 52.3 | 53 | 24.15 | 6.890625 | 11.055625 | ||
| 58.5 | 50 | 54.715 | 77.880625 | 0.105625 | ||
| 58.5 | 46 | 19.415 | 77.880625 | 13.505625 | ||
| 60.0 | 47 | 33.04 | 106.605625 | 7.155625 | ||
| 2980.5 | 2628 | -34.3 | 2864.3825 | 3362.5375 |
Avatar Diary
Went into college for Pure Maths, and for the first time in 1999, arrived on time (as opposed to one or more hours early)! Went out for tea to McDonalds with my dad and sisters in the evening. Went to my mum’s house, and spent five hours (almost breaking my personal record of 5 hours 27 minutes) on the phone to Fay, and, after failing to go to sleep afterwards, sat up and watched the sunrise before dropping off. If anyone asks about why I was on the phone to her at that time of night, I’ll tell them that I’m running a phone sex line as a way of making extra income. No – that won’t work… It was my call… Hmm… Let me think of an explanation, then…
