Student mocks Oxford rejections
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Saturday January 21, 2012 at 19:54
Saturday January 21, 2012 at 19:46
Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies
Saturday January 21, 2012 at 17:45
This hotel’s internet…
…seems to work on a fucking white-list basis.
So no Google+ for me, even. Good thing I set up Tumblr to post to Twitter.
Technically no wifi in the rooms either. I just brought an access point. And thank God I did.
Friday December 16, 2011 at 14:54
3 notesFrench vs. Spanish
IB: higher Spanish vs. standard French.
Christmas homework
French
- Read 3 articles and make a note of what they were
- Find 6 idiomatic expressions and what they mean in English
Spanish
- Update reading log with at least 1 article, video or image relating to hispanic culture every week (write about what it teaches you, how the culture contrasts with that of Hong Kong, etc.)
- Continue reading Bodas de sangre by Frederico García Lorca
Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 11:01
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…reblogged from Off the grid.
Monday October 31, 2011 at 22:55
To Twitter: Yangshuo day 1
In the hotel. Wifi. But of course, China blocks every useful site. Fucking hell.
Schedules are so fucking unorganised…we even got off the train 3 hours late. Christ. Not sure how much more I can stand of all this “being positive and working with the team” bollocks. Interacting with so many people really annoys me.
Food’s not worse than expected. Obviously no better than expected.
The bathroom in this hotel is bloody awful. The shower is just a shower-head. The water runs onto the floor. Basically, the entire room is the “bathtub”. Whole place is fucking flooded. Toilets here can’t flush toilet paper, so all the shit-covered toilet paper goes into a bin. Oh wait, our toilet doesn’t even flush! Shoddy.
I can’t be bothered. Small village with a population of under 1000 people. 10 rolls of film? Probably going to get through 5.
Fuck this. I knew school trips were bad, and I’ve avoided them for as long as I could, but nothing could have prepared me for such a bloody unorganised mess as this.
Bollocks.
Saturday October 08, 2011 at 13:52
270 notesClient: “I’m typing on the keyboard, but it doesn’t show on the screen!”
Me: “Have you checked the cable from the keyboard to the computer?”
Client: “Yes, I’ve checked all the cables.”
Me: “Okay. Could you please give me the serial number on the computer, and I’ll be right out?”
Client: “Sure, just give me a moment to find a flashlight…”
Me: “Flashlight?”
Client: “Yeah, somebody blew a fuse and there’s no light. I can hardly see anything.”
…reblogged from Clients From Hell.
Tuesday May 17, 2011 at 6:37
6 notes“My daughter was first sued in the womb. It was all very new then. I’d posted ultrasound scans online for friends and family. I didn’t know the scans had steganographic thumbprints. A giant electronics company that made ultrasound machines acquired a speculative law firm for many tens of millions of dollars. The new legal division cut a deal with all five Big Socials to dig out contact information for anyone who’d posted pictures of their babies in-utero. It turns out the ultrasounds had no clear rights story; I didn’t actually own mine. It sounds stupid now but we didn’t know. The first backsuits named millions of people, and the Big Socials just caved, ripped up their privacy policies in exchange for a cut. So five months after I posted the ultrasounds, one month before my daughter was born, we received a letter (back then a paper letter) naming myself, my wife, and one or more unidentified fetal defendants in a suit. We faced, I learned, unspecified penalties for copyright violation and theft of trade secrets, and risked, it was implied, that my daughter would be born bankrupt.”
— Nanolaw with Daughter, via billt. (via nevali)
…reblogged from Tumbled Logic.
Saturday May 14, 2011 at 6:40
221 notesMe: “I don’t think I’ll be able to work on the site today; my dog just died.”
Client: “What’s that?”
Me: “My dog?”
Client: “You can just use my computer, if you’d like.”
Me: “What? No, I need to go run an errand at the vet. My dog died.”
Client: “Oh! Hahahaha.”
Me: “…”
Client: “Sorry, I though DOG was just one of those techie acronyms you guys like to throw around. See you tomorrow.”
…reblogged from Clients From Hell.
Tuesday May 03, 2011 at 9:58
172 notesClient: “This isn’t a criticism, but I wanted to point it out.”
Me: “Okay… what’s the problem.”
Client: “This business card you designed for me is upside down.”
…reblogged from Clients From Hell.
Sunday March 27, 2011 at 23:36
11 notesPre-exam (well…) ramblings
A thought came to me a while ago, and this is quite a pessimistic one, even by my standards…and extremely fragmented. Note that none of this has been proofread.
Tomorrow’s the last ICT practical exam. Friday’s the real Spanish oral exam. What “is” and “isn’t” right now is basically going to be just that. It’s at that point where, if I pass, I pass, and if I don’t…I go home and eat chocolate.
Hang on, GCSE isn’t about passing and not passing! Well, it is, in a way…at least for me…at least for a select few subjects: Spanish, ICT and English (which I have slightly lower expectations for, even though it is my first language). ICT practicals, in particular, is one area where there’s not much excuse for doing badly, given that the help files are all there.
I normally don’t agree on competing with others — it’s about personal progress. But this one isn’t just about competing with others or personal progress — it’s both…I know of at least 2 people who have the same target grade as I do for Spanish, and for some reason, I feel as if I have to beat not only my previous score, but their scores as well. It’s ridiculous, really, but I think Spanish, ICT and perhaps Music will be the subjects which determine whether, in a few years’ time, I’ll be able to look back at this year and feel good about it, or whether I won’t want to look back at this year at all. I already know I’m not going to do amazingly well in Maths or Science; certainly not in Economics.
Not surprisingly, the one subject that’s been bugging me for a while is Spanish. And that’s because I know it’s not just a subject to me, like Science is — Spanish is…a life thing. Like French. You can’t “talk in the language of Chemistry”, but you can talk in Spanish or French — I mean, with this point, you either get it or you don’t.
…I’m not going to kill myself if I don’t do as well as I want in Spanish or ICT (much to your disappointment).
10% isn’t that many marks, is it? Is 13%? But I know I won’t raise my percentage by 13%, especially not in Spanish — the listening exam holds me back. And I can’t rely on continuous writing to raise my overall percentage anymore…I mean it’s just depressing innit. I think I’ll have a cookie right about now.
At least one thing’s almost certain — I shan’t be taking higher French along with higher Spanish next year, because the classes happen at the same time. Is it too late to sign up for the French GCSE?…of course it is. So I know one dream won’t come true — taking 3 higher languages for IB. I originally chose ab-initio French just for a laugh, but when I found out that I might actually be capable of getting an A in French GCSE (even though I don’t take it, as you’ve probably already figured out), I couldn’t stop thinking about taking higher French. Oh well, you don’t need certification to be good in a language. I’ll just be fucking around in ab-initio French next year then, I guess…strange that you can take two sciences, two humanities or two arts (I think) but not two languages.
No use dwelling on it, though…this is how it’s going to be. It’s far too late to revise for ICT — the exam’s in 8.5 hours. Spanish on Friday morning.
I remember saying to Ravish, just before the ICT exam on Friday, that I wasn’t as worried as I should be for a “real” exam — my thinking at that time being that it was alright to have a laugh in the mock exams, but I thought I’d be more worried come the real exam. But no, I was laughing my way in and laughing as soon as I got out. And laughing on the way home. And laughing at home. Because I grew up with technology, and I’m surrounded by technology and a lovely group of geeks every single day.
Not so with Spanish, which is why I’m far more concerned about Spanish than ICT.
But yeah…this is it. All my life, it seems, has been about building up to this first stage of “real” exams. And now it’s finally here, it seems unreal…I still don’t fully believe it. I guess I’m just slow. It really feels like a dream, and I haven’t quite figured out yet whether I like it or not. Right now, I’m right in the middle, as I usually am.
Wednesday March 23, 2011 at 22:40
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IT’S ALL EEK TO ME Last night’s perigee Moon, seen over the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. (Photo: Anthony Ayiomamitis / TWAN via NASA APOD)
What a different perspective from when I was there…best moon shot I’ve ever seen.
…reblogged from Off the grid.
Wednesday March 23, 2011 at 22:37
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File this one under: FULL OF WIN.
I see what you did there.
…reblogged from Off the grid.
Wednesday March 23, 2011 at 22:36
5 notesAngry Birds Rio
($4.99) – In Angry Birds Rio, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the magical city of Rio de Janeiro, where they eventually escape their captors and set out to to save their friends, Blu and Jewel – two rare macaws and the stars of the upcoming Fox motion picture, Rio. Angry Birds Rio will pair the physics-based gameplay of the original game with unique twists based on the film.
Best one yet.
…reblogged from Mac Apps That Rock.
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