Elections

It seems like I haven't updated in a while - I was lying low after the last entry.

At the very start of the election results, it looks like Labour is going to get in again (although at 12/1/0 so far it's perhaps a little premature to declare that). I was hoping that people wouldn't vote for them because they're tying us too much to America, not vote for the Tories because Micheal Howard is undead, and instead vote for the Liberal Democrats, thinking that it was a wasted vote - the result of which would be that the Lib Dems would be running the country by tomorrow. That would be hilarious.

Edit at 02:48 - It's now 239-51-28, and as victory might be just slipping away from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, it's time to go to bed.

More results

I've received another solid battering of a feedback from Stuart Norcross (I find some of his comments quite rude, actually) followed by an inexplicable 17.6 at the end, and a complete lack of feedback from Tom Kelsey with a probably randomly chosen 18 put in to the Grade box. Now all I need to wait for is the result for my incredibly basic Database program - I had had enough of practicals by the time I did that and just couldn't be bothered to spruce it up. Therefore, I'm between a 16" polyurethane crash mat and a soft place as far as the practicals are concerned, and if it wasn't for the department's unfair upper grade bound of 2 above the exam grade, I would have very few problems at all just now. As it is I'm reading over my Logic notes and can remember neither being taught any of it, nor writing the additional notes and useless doodles in the margins.

I took the Geek Test that someone or other posted a few days ago. I got quite a low score, but I think I deserve extra points for correctly guessing what ROT13 was and bothering to write a program to perform it.

Ma, the Sane of Manic Norway

Since getting a high speed connection and discovering the Internet only three years ago, I've become a great fan of animutation, particuarly of the work of Andrew Kepple and the rest of Too Much Spare Time. The definition for this dubious art form isn't a rigid one, but they usually involve strange pop-culture images animated to cheery foreign music, with the amount of sense they make varying from "DC Cooper lyrics" to "The Junior Honours Logic course". Often the foreign lyrics are re-interpreted in to the English words that they sound vaguely like, and the visuals illustrate the new "mutated" lyrics. It's quite a hard thing to describe, but there are plenty of examples in my OddThings folder if you're priveleged/unlucky enough to have access to my shared files.

Often, after watching a particular animutation, it's hard to imagine any genuine video of the victimised song being any stranger than the parody version. However, every time I think this, I am proved very wrong indeed. This is what happens in countries where cannabis is legalised.

And this is the first time I've made three entries in a day since October last year.