So I just had my last lecture of the year, which just so happened to be (the best song in the world…) Maths Analysis. In it were covered some properties of matrices, and surprisingly enough it actually looked quite useful. I’m actually pretty glad that I did the maths course because going deep into the maths can be both interesting and rewarding if you have a mathematically inclined mind.
I’m partly here because I’m sponging leccy to charge my MP3 player, but partly because I haven’t blogged properly for a while and I really quite enjoy it; it’s nice to leave a record behind of what you’ve been doing, those minutae that will escape you in times to come.
More if you hit the link…
I’ve been going to the gym three times a week for the last few weeks and I think I might actually be getting fitter off the back of it, which is quite an odd idea for me. The weight I can chest-press is going up pretty much every time I go, which is very encouraging!
Revision isn’t going brilliantly, but I’ve got two weeks from here on in to knuckle down on it with no distractions. Hopefully I’ll be able to motivate my way through it, because there are big scary exams on the other side.
In TV news, last night saw the airing of the Scrubs season finalé over in the States, and my computer is “acquiring” it as we speak. Scrubs for me has jumped the shark somewhat. In a way I’ve kinda stopped caring about the characters, they seem somehow shallower and more hollow than ever they were. JD and Eliot have become in a way parodies of what they were, Cox is noticably less hillariously caustic – it has all the feeling of a show that’s seen better days. I hear it’s been picked up for an abbreviated 7th series of 18 episodes, and I guess they can use that to wrap up the story / make Eliot pregnant. It feels sickly inevitable.
Heroes winds up early next week, and I have to say I’m really enjoying the big arcing stories they’re telling. The large interwoven cast of characters is great and I love the way that they so far seem to be using a storytelling device that tells you the ultimate destination, the cheerleader is going to be saved, the bomb is going to explode, etc. whilst making the real mystery about how they’re going to get there. I love the little touches like the battle between free will and destiny – what can you change, what should you change, what things cannot be changed. I love the moral ambiguity present in a lot of the characters, none of them are genuinely cookie-cutter bad guys.
The closest, Sylar, kills people and takes their powers without guilt or hesitation, but is horrified when he believes he might destroy New York, killing millions. I love the moment of Greek tragedy wherein his attempts to avoid this fate by visiting his mother lead him, inexorably, further down the path to mass murder. Linderman meanwhile is planning to rig elections and allow the bomb to go off, with a plan to “heal the world” afterwards. It’s excellent, and I can’t wait to see how they round off the first season. My only worry is that it might not have the legs to last - I can’t see anywhere interesting for the story to go after this year. It feels like in going for the big setup for this season finale that they might have played their hand too early. We shall see.
Last, but by no means least, Lost wraps up next week too. I’m enjoying it immensely this year, it feels like it’s picked up an awful lot of momentum. Almost every episode answers some question or resolves some mystery. In last week’s ep we got the first look at the mysterious Jacob, the long-mentioned but previously unseen leader of the Others. And for some reason he is invisible and has telekinetic powers. The rabbit-hole goes ever deeper.
And they’re clearly not making it up as they go along – in the same episode Richard Alpert is revealed to have not aged at in over a time-span of about 30 years, his appearance to young Ben having been preceeded by the mysterious whispers, which haven’t been seen in connection with the Others for a very long time. My personal hypothesis is that Richard and Jacob were two of the original others, and the whispers and invisibility are related in some manner to something that happened to them a long time ago. Like, centuries. I suspect they may have been part of the crew of the Black Rock.
Anyways, Lost is going to have three more seasons of 16 episodes each. which means they can plan the trajectory of the series to come to a satisfying conclusion with no filler episodes required, and no artificial extension of the series past its sell-by date. I’ve been saying all through this season that it feels like the mid-point has been past, and it’s clear sailing to the end from now on, and it turns out I was right.
On Imperial matters, apparently the Felix has failed to turn up this week, which takes the piss seeing as how the editor is paid full-time by the Union. Apparently it’s due to bad management of finances, but nobody can quite decide who’s to blame.
Right, now that I’ve apparently covered everything from the past that I can think to talk about… there can only come the future.
Stuff I’m looking forward to (or not, as the case may be):
- Exams
- The end of the exams.
- Harry Potter 7
- Halo 3
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2 / TF2 / Portal
- College starting up again
There are probably some others, but *shrugs* it’s not a complete list.
Right, I’m out of things to say right now.
AWAY!
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Retrospection
So I just had my last lecture of the year, which just so happened to be (the best song in the world…) Maths Analysis. In it were covered some properties of matrices, and surprisingly enough it actually looked quite useful. I’m actually pretty glad that I did the maths course because going deep into the maths can be both interesting and rewarding if you have a mathematically inclined mind.
I’m partly here because I’m sponging leccy to charge my MP3 player, but partly because I haven’t blogged properly for a while and I really quite enjoy it; it’s nice to leave a record behind of what you’ve been doing, those minutae that will escape you in times to come.
More if you hit the link…
I’ve been going to the gym three times a week for the last few weeks and I think I might actually be getting fitter off the back of it, which is quite an odd idea for me. The weight I can chest-press is going up pretty much every time I go, which is very encouraging!
Revision isn’t going brilliantly, but I’ve got two weeks from here on in to knuckle down on it with no distractions. Hopefully I’ll be able to motivate my way through it, because there are big scary exams on the other side.
In TV news, last night saw the airing of the Scrubs season finalé over in the States, and my computer is “acquiring” it as we speak. Scrubs for me has jumped the shark somewhat. In a way I’ve kinda stopped caring about the characters, they seem somehow shallower and more hollow than ever they were. JD and Eliot have become in a way parodies of what they were, Cox is noticably less hillariously caustic – it has all the feeling of a show that’s seen better days. I hear it’s been picked up for an abbreviated 7th series of 18 episodes, and I guess they can use that to wrap up the story / make Eliot pregnant. It feels sickly inevitable.
Heroes winds up early next week, and I have to say I’m really enjoying the big arcing stories they’re telling. The large interwoven cast of characters is great and I love the way that they so far seem to be using a storytelling device that tells you the ultimate destination, the cheerleader is going to be saved, the bomb is going to explode, etc. whilst making the real mystery about how they’re going to get there. I love the little touches like the battle between free will and destiny – what can you change, what should you change, what things cannot be changed. I love the moral ambiguity present in a lot of the characters, none of them are genuinely cookie-cutter bad guys.
The closest, Sylar, kills people and takes their powers without guilt or hesitation, but is horrified when he believes he might destroy New York, killing millions. I love the moment of Greek tragedy wherein his attempts to avoid this fate by visiting his mother lead him, inexorably, further down the path to mass murder. Linderman meanwhile is planning to rig elections and allow the bomb to go off, with a plan to “heal the world” afterwards. It’s excellent, and I can’t wait to see how they round off the first season. My only worry is that it might not have the legs to last - I can’t see anywhere interesting for the story to go after this year. It feels like in going for the big setup for this season finale that they might have played their hand too early. We shall see.
Last, but by no means least, Lost wraps up next week too. I’m enjoying it immensely this year, it feels like it’s picked up an awful lot of momentum. Almost every episode answers some question or resolves some mystery. In last week’s ep we got the first look at the mysterious Jacob, the long-mentioned but previously unseen leader of the Others. And for some reason he is invisible and has telekinetic powers. The rabbit-hole goes ever deeper.
And they’re clearly not making it up as they go along – in the same episode Richard Alpert is revealed to have not aged at in over a time-span of about 30 years, his appearance to young Ben having been preceeded by the mysterious whispers, which haven’t been seen in connection with the Others for a very long time. My personal hypothesis is that Richard and Jacob were two of the original others, and the whispers and invisibility are related in some manner to something that happened to them a long time ago. Like, centuries. I suspect they may have been part of the crew of the Black Rock.
Anyways, Lost is going to have three more seasons of 16 episodes each. which means they can plan the trajectory of the series to come to a satisfying conclusion with no filler episodes required, and no artificial extension of the series past its sell-by date. I’ve been saying all through this season that it feels like the mid-point has been past, and it’s clear sailing to the end from now on, and it turns out I was right.
On Imperial matters, apparently the Felix has failed to turn up this week, which takes the piss seeing as how the editor is paid full-time by the Union. Apparently it’s due to bad management of finances, but nobody can quite decide who’s to blame.
Right, now that I’ve apparently covered everything from the past that I can think to talk about… there can only come the future.
Stuff I’m looking forward to (or not, as the case may be):
There are probably some others, but *shrugs* it’s not a complete list.
Right, I’m out of things to say right now.
AWAY!
Tags: Imperial, Occurrences