Help is at Hand!

Struggling with your AS Quantum Physics course? Can't get your head around all the equations? Never fear, help is at hand! With my new Quantum Physics Help Sheet, all your equation-related woes will disappear! The sheet itself is available in the shiny new 'Downloads' tab, or here. This is an external link (to a document-sharing website, Scribd) and there are two download buttons- one on each side of the page. Hit one of these, and the .pdf file will be screaming through the blogosphere to your waiting hard drive. A bit like magic.

Revision for the Summer modules is well under way. They have no right to call them summer modules in this weather, it's damn cold. I didn't realise how much free time I had until I started revising, and suddenly it's all taken up with enthalpy and essays and electricity and logarithms. It's no fun being 'young' any more. 

I'd like to say I have Mass Effect 3 to take my mind off things, but I don't. All my money has disappeared somewhere, and I'm not entirely sure where. Leeds tickets, maybe. I don't even care if the ending is rubbish, I just want to shoot things. 

Until next time. 

Writing!

Hey guys, just a quick one tonight, as I am deep in the throes of writing my book, after too long an absence. Yeah, maybe revision time isn't the best time to take up writing again, but oh well. I think it's good. Basically, it's a swords-and-horses fantasy (my favourite type) based around two warring kingdoms, which were once one but split due to a difficult succession for the throne. A war broke out, with each son believing themselves to be the legitimate heir. The kingdom split, and the feud has been passed down for generations, with the king of each respective land believing them to be the true ruler of the land. It's all told from the perspective of a mercenary leader, Alaric Gabriel, who is distantly related to the King of the northern country. He is caught up in the middle of it all, when in fact he just wants to stand aside and let it all blow over. That's basically it, as far as a plan goes. We'll see how it all pans out!
On a side note, my iPad may be great for surfing, and writing, and Facebook and Twitter and everything else, but trying to write a blog post on it? Don't be daft. I can only edit it in HTML, which I'm a little rusty at. Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now.
Until next time.

An Easter Special

Hey guys, seeing as I won't be posting tomorrow- family stuff for Easter- I figured I'd post today instead. It's a bit of an Easter special, and is what happens if you leave me alone with a camera for any length of time. Yes, I should be revising, I know. But this was so much more interesting. 

Without further ado, let the egg puns commence!

My mind works in strange ways, but, I got to eat the egg. Win. 

Happy Easter to you all!

Until next time. 

An Outpouring of Thought

I'd like to say I have a legitimate reason for not posting yesterday, but I actually don't. I DO, however, have a legitimate reason for not posting the week before: I was calling at the club's TKD grading. Well done to all who passed, it was a pretty good group this time around. Also, it gave me a chance to show off the new certificates I'd designed; pretty good, if you ask me.


Right, to the reason I didn't post yesterday. I was playing, wait for it, a game. On my iPad. 
It's called Hunters 2. Screw Temple Run and Angry Birds, this is the best iPad/iPod game I've stumbled across. It's a strategy/turn-based/RPG/shooter. Sounds complicated. It isn't, really. Basically, you control a fire team of bounty hunters (hunters, for short, hence the name) as they fight their way through a galaxy controlled by big corporations. The main campaign is only 8 missions long, but there are 5 new missions generated every day, and I haven't come across a repeat contract yet. It is, in short, pretty damn good. Best played on iPad, in my opinion, as the graphics look better. 


Also, I'm going to CERN! I'm going to see particles collide! And hadrons! Yeah! Hopefully I'll find out more about it when I'm actually there...


Another thing; do you ever just sit and write down whatever comes into your head? Probably not. But I did the other day, and this is what happened...

"So, I'm sat here waiting for those files to attach. I am monumentally bored, and blame Aston's internet connection. I wonder how much I could write until these files attach? When you think about it, the internet is witchcraft. I mean, where is it? How the hell does it work? Is the one server with the entirety of the internet- and therefore the entirety of human knowledge- on? Isn't that just an STC machine? Why hasn't it been targeted by terrorists yet? That's one file attached. Attached to where? And another. Are these being pinned with glowing bits to a page of bytes? Or is all the information in this email soon to be a stream of photons/electrons? (Depending on what wires the area has. I know our lane is still copper wiring). Does, therefore, this email have mass? If electrons have mass, which the do (9.11x10^-31kg, at rest) (oh look, another attached) then therefore they must have gravity. Another attached. Can this gravity affect things? What could it do? If this email has mass, then can human thoughts? They are sparks of electricity, therefore electrons. Electrons have mass, and therefore gravity. Isn't that just the Force? Can we, if we get enough people thinking the same thing at the same time, literally move mountains? With our minds? Telekinesis. On a tiny scale. If all of this is true, mass prayer COULD work. Millions of people, all praying for something physical to happen, and it happens. Amazing, right? If, indeed, this email has mass. Ah, there's the last one."


See? That's what happens when I read Dan Brown and I'm left alone with a computer. Next thing I'll be spouting stuff about how antimatter is matter, just going backwards in time. Backwards to us, anyway. Actually... Hmm...


No. I'll stop there before I bore you so much your eyes fall out. If I haven't already.


Until next time.

Painting

Hi all!

We had an Inset day on Friday, so I decided to paint my room!

Good, eh? Not that most of you knew what it was like before...

I think it went fairly well, and the bonus is my room now looks twice the size, AND I've got a double bed. Double beds are good. I like double beds.

The con- my room is permeated with the smell of gloss. Now, I'm not averse to the smell of solvent based paint (it's not THAT bad), but every time the gloss is done in the house, and I can smell it, I wake up with a hangover. It's worse than a regular hangover, too. 

Gah, what else has happened this week? Not a great deal, actually... I sat down here with masses to write, but I can't remember any of it. 

OH, that's it. I'M GOING TO LEEDS. Not the city, the Festival, in August. Good eh? I'm massively excited for it. (I adore the Foo Fighters and Gaslight Anthem)

The grading at TKD is coming up soon, so I need to whip my classes into shape before I spend an entire Sunday shouting at them, ad giving out shiny new belts to the worthy.

Until next time.

Spontaneousness

I'm getting steadily worse at this, aren't I? Very well, from hereonin, I will update on Sundays, so I (in theory) have the whole week to write about! Good eh?

So, today I was pulled out of my usual It's-Sunday-Let's-Do-Nothing mindset by a call from a Mr William Gough telling me to 'be spontaneous' and 'seize the day'. Now, I live in a small village on the outskirts of the middle of nowhere. There isn't much to be spontaneous with or about. So, we wandered around with Lauren in tow (who should have been doing her art!) and filmed random things.

As Sod's Law of Cameras states, you only film the boring bits and miss the exciting bits. I'm afraid that's exactly what we did. Only there weren't many exciting bits. I do live in a small village on the outskirts of the middle of nowhere, where the most exciting thing to happen is the annual Welldressing Festival ("not to be missed!"- The Daily Day "The highlight of the social calender!"-Villages Bi-Monthly "Five stars!"- The Village Voice "What?"- The Times) In light of this, I don't even know what we did. We just walked around, and things happened. That's as much as I can remember, and it was only an hour ago. Either way, it will be in a V-Log (vlog?) At some point, and I'll link you if it's not too embarrassing.

January A-Level results cam out on Thursday (shock, horror). It's times like that when you realise how different GCSEs and A-Levels are. I wish I was doing GCSEs again; year 10s and 11s, take note.

It's time I got thinking about uni. Yes, I want to go. Yes, I'll be poor for the rest of my life, but hey. I'll have MPhys after my name, and that's damn cool. Top three at the moment:

1) Lancaster
2) Leicester
3) Leeds

No, I didn't just flick to the 'L' section of my prospectus library. They genuinely appeal the most to me. Durham does, too, but after my B in chemistry, the odds of me getting in there are slim at the very least.

I'm looking at (finally) getting ITF accredited for TKD instructing. I might start some kind of club at school in preparation...

Hey, by posting about school, I actually made a post relevant to the blog title! Sometimes, I even impress myself.

Until next time, folks.

Wow

Wow, it's a long time since I've posted anything. 


It's a case of 'my-life-has-suddenly-got-so-busy-I-don't-have-time-to-breathe', I'm afraid. Over the past week, I've done 9 hours of TKD (seven of those shouting. I mean teaching. Yes, teaching...), at least 6 hours of 'real work', and god-only-knows how much A-Level stuff. I haven't even had time to go on Skyrim, THAT'S how bad it's been. Oh, and I've had a driving lesson. 


So, yesterday I went to Pizza Express. Much better than Pizza Hut, in my humble opinion, especially the pepperoni pizza- 'American', I think they call it.
Why can't they just call it what it is? Margherita- Cheese and Tomato. American- Pepperoni. Fiorentina- Spinach and Egg (the hell is going on there?)


At least my EPQ has come on in leaps and bounds since last we spoke. I'm currently trawling through 15th Century fencing manuscripts, using my rudimentary understanding of Latin, and European languages derived from it. German- May as well be written in braille, for all I can understand of it, which is disappointing as the best fencing manuals were written in German. Ah well. 


Earlier, I changed the colour balance/saturation on my laptop. Everything is now neon. I'd take a screenshot, but your screen would display it normally, so there's not much point. It's safe to say, however, my laptop screen currently looks like an 80s disco, and I have yet to figure out how to fix it. Whatever I change it to just looks wrong; help would be much appreciated.


My current desk setup, however, makes me feel like an analyst;

From left, I have: 

-An extra screen set to 'Extended desktop'

-My laptop itself

-My iPad.

Three screens makes research so much easier than just one.

Until next time, folks.