Day: 17 April 2003

I won’t bother typing much out tonight. I didn’t do much of note today (apart from the usual stuff) except get my hair cut. I thought it would be a good idea to get it cut, especially as I’m going back to university on Monday and the barber’s doesn’t re-open until Tuesday…

Talking of going back to uni, I’m both really looking forward to going back and dreading it at the same time. Looking forward to it because I’ll be with all my friends again etc etc (I really enjoy uni life) — but dreading it because I’ve got exams coming up this term which I’m really not looking forward to! I have been revising and over the course of this holiday I’ve been through all my notes once (at least for the first five courses; the other two I’ve done more recently). That just scared me though, because it made me realise just how much I have to learn… Ah well.

Oh, and today I read an article in The Times (and watched the “Horizon” they mention at the end of the article) about something called “Neurotheology.” It’s basically that scientists have found a part of the brain (the temporal lobe) which, when stimulated, seems to produce a “religious experience.” It can be taken in different ways, but the atheist scientists out there seem to be taking it as evidence that we ‘evolved’ the need for God — that we do have a deep-seated need for God in ourselves but this doesn’t actually come from the fact that God created us, rather that we evolved like that for some reason… hmmmm. Oh well. Oh, and I found this linked to from the article — it’s quite funny, you should give it a read 🙂

Right, I think that’s me done here. Peace out.

Yep, another picture! But this time, I thought I’d let you know what all the Warcraft III stuff is about. While it’s uploading, I’ll tell you (a) this is actually Wednesday’s blog, not Thursday’s (as the date will show); (b) what I did today.

This morning my records arrived from Juno! I have to give Juno a quick plug here — they are fantastic. I’ve ordered quite a bit of stuff from them and it’s always arrived on time without any hitches! The staff are helpful too. If you’re into dance music of virtually any kind, visit them! They’re good 🙂 Just in case you’re interested, the records which arrived were Oceanlab – Beautiful Together [Captivating Sounds] and Svenson & Gielen – Beachbreeze [ID&T]. And I like them both!

Anyway. It’s been so incredibly hot today, I went out for a walk (as usual) — but this time I’m sure that I came back browner than I went out… heh, doubtful! Anyway. Um, and really just the usual stuff again… I’m more than half-way through “Out of the saltshaker…” now! In fact, I’d say I was two thirds the way through. Did some Java Programming revision as well, shock! horror! Didn’t go through it in any detail though, skipped over the parts about stacks / queues (the boring stuff, which we had to do in mind-numbing detail. It’s still mind-numbing…)

I’m probably going to watch “Johnny English” on Friday with Bridges (Michael). Rowan Atkinson is a genius, I saw him on Parkinson a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it will include some Blackadder style stuff, not just Mr. Bean…

And here’s the picture you’ve been waiting for! This is a picture of part of the map that I’m working on at the moment. It’s kind of hard to get screenshots with Warcraft, because maps are rather big. Still, I guess these things happen.

That’s all for now folks! See you later…

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