Well as of 3o'clock yesterday, I am essentially unemployed. And it feels good ( Read more... )

And the next time is 36 ( Read more... )

I graduated today. It was very very very dull. There was a man who talked for a very long time and then we had to shake some chap's hand.

After that there was drinking and a home-made air cannon we filled with periodic table confetti. That was less boring.

I'm slightly worried that I am now responsible for a considerable number of children's

Rosie, Ben and I just spent the last twenty-five minutes paralytic with laughter about Uranus jokes.

I went downstairs yesterday morning to find a nice brown envelope on the doormat with my name on. I opened it, partly out of the novelty of it being brown. I'm bored with white envelopes. Inside I found a Very Bad Letter. It said this ( Read more... )

Reports of my demise have been somewhat exaggerated. My phone was in purgatory for a while (I left it on a train and had to rescue it from Royston station) but I'm still around. Which is good ( Read more... )

Hurrah! I have taken my final final and am now completely free! The exam itself was not a horrible as I had  thought, and I at least managed to write something plausible for most of the sections, so I think I've at least got my 2:2 in it. Woo ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of an easy way to create an avi (or other movie format - I'm not fussy) file by taking frames from an OpenGL rendering?

• I had my last-ever-but-one exam yesterday, and it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Which was awesome. No idea how well I did, but I managed to answer all the questions I needed to to at least some extent. Very pleasing. It seems my "last-minute-panic-and-cover-the-living-room-in-over-200-pages-of-hastily-written-notes" method worked.

• We ( Read more... )

I'm a bit perplexed as to where term disappeared to. I was at the beginning, and then mad plays and foolishness and marvellous things happened and now it's the end. Which is a little worrying as I'm floundering with my project (does anyone know lots about electromagnetic fields and is prepared to explain things in nice small words?) and have exams ( Read more... )