It’s not like me to blog this much in one day, but I feel that I have to.

Although I’ve not been keeping in touch with F1 recently, upon visiting BBC News I decided to check the scores. What do I see? All but 6 cars have pulled out because the Michelin tyres are deemed to be unsafe, after Ralf Schumacher crashed.

Now, it appears that Ferrari have used this to their advantage, refusing to accept a deal that may have got the race going after all. One has to ask whether Ferrari have the best interests of the sport at hand, or if they’re just interested in winning Schumacher yet another medal so he can drool over his astounding brilliance.

Also, the FIA decided in their infinite wisdom that putting a chicane at the turn would disadvantage other drivers, because they’d brought proper equipment to the race and the other teams had not. Now, pardon me, but it’s not the fault of the teams if the fucking type company failed to perform proper QA on it. So, instead of accepting the deal, they bluntly said “no” and ignored everyone. How good of them.

Hey, guess what happened? Everyone left. Can you blame them - if I’d paid some extortionate fee to go to a race day, and nobody even bothered racing, then I’d bloody well leave as well. As well as bottles being thrown onto the track, amongst other assorted goodness.

To be honest, after Ferrari’s complete dominance of F1 I’ve complete lost any interest or respect for the sport. I used to be an avid viewer; now they’ll be lucky if I watch a single one. After this farcical “race” - and I even struggle to call it so - I shan’t be watching again.

The FIA just doesn’t seem to understand that they can’t do what they want. They have to listen to the viewers, because the viewers generate the revenue for their little endeavour. Unfortunately, I think they’re going to find this out the hard way.

8:42 pm | Posted in Ranting | No Comments »

So, I was just sitting here in the maths department, minding my own business, when all of a sudden a little thought pops into my head. “What exactly are you doing?” it said. Well, after I gave it a little thought, here is a nice itemized list of my life, and how exceeding dull it is.

• Get up.
• Mess around on the computer until my brain hurts, or do maths.
• Drop Sarah into work/wherever she wants to go.
• Go to the maths department and work, or mess around on the computers.
• Pick Sarah up, go back home, mess around on the computer.
• Sleep.

And there we have it - my life in 6 nice little points.

Now, personally I found this quite depressing, hence the iPod comes out and Linkin Park is turned on up to quite a loud volume in order to block out any remnents of thoughts - good, bad or otherwise. Unfortunately, this time it didn’t really do the trick and now I’m really quite down - hence the blogging.

I mean, Sarah has her singing, or goes out to work and has quite a nice little social life. In fact, everyone I know has some kind of social clique. Last year was great fun, and I used to go out quite a lot - now I’ve turned into some fucking maths-performing hermit. I want to get involved in something, but for some reason every time I go near the Union I just want to burn the place down. The sheer tedium of the politics and red tape there just makes me want to scream and beat people with overly large sticks.

I don’t know. Maybe I’ll give WTV another go, but again the red tape annoys me. I’d quite like to make a professional quality video there, but I just can’t seem to find the effort.

It just gets on my nerves that everyone else seems to be having such good times, whereas yours truly feels like a big pile of poo 90% of the time. Maybe it’ll be different if I get back on campus for my final year. Bah, humbug.

Mental note: must stop feeling sorry for myself.

7:42 pm | Posted in Personal, Whining | No Comments »

Oh well, I’m probably going to not do so good in this one. Never mind; it’s the last one.

Will update later. For now, bed.

11:57 pm | Posted in Exams, Whining | No Comments »

As I write this, I’m currently sitting back in Coventry awaiting a phonecall from Sarah to get me to pick her up from university. This is a rather boring wait (I’ve been here for a 1/2 hour now) so I decided to boot up her computer and write something. I can almost bet that because fate loves me so much, the phone will be going shortly.

Anyway, I’ve not done a lot this past week - although I really should have. Not only do I have this goddamn essay to write, but I also have an assignment for a module called Modelling Nature’s Non-linearity that’s worth 40% - and it’s a pig. On top of that, I haven’t been to bed before 4am for the past week and, after having got up at 7am this morning (and going to bed at 4) I’m feeling rather worse for wear and a bit tetchy.

Hmm. What else?

Not a lot really. Mainly I’ve been playing CS a lot and generally been tired. I may be working down at Oxford this week, which is always good since I could really do with some money.

And rather typically, the phone just went.

Blah.

2:20 pm | Posted in Personal, Whining | No Comments »

Hey all, Dave’s back with more wierd and wacky stuff from the world of the penguin fishcakes. Or not.

Today, I want to have a bit of a rant really. I don’t think I’ve ever done this before on here, but I think I’m going to start posting stuff on my opinions on world affairs, just to make myself feel better about the world.

So, a little background writing. I tend to think a lot about the current state of affairs in the world and I make sure I check the news (BBC News, of course) at least 4-5 times a day. Ever since the late 1990’s, I have never been as worried as I am today about what is going on in the world. In the space of 5 years, we’ve seen the biggest change in military warfare and tactics that we’ve possibly ever seen, ever. With the onset of the World Trade Centre attacks and the general “war on terror”, we’ve had to change our idea of warfare quite considerably from what it was 10 years ago.

I will say this now: this little rant is laced with my opinions on a lot of things. I do not like George Bush. I do not like Tony Blair. I am not biased extremely to the left, but I am definately not to the right.

The best place to start is, I suppose, with the election of George W. Bush - that fine, extremely colloquial example of a man. I mean, come on! What was your Average Joe thinking when he ticked the little box saying “Hey! I’m an idiot! Vote for me!” on the ballot poll? If there was ever a worse president to handle the current situation, then they managed to find one. I have never seen a muppet trying to run a country, but as muppets go, he’s a pretty crap choice. The fact that he got elected because he called some favours in really just rubs it in.

I’m not going to rant about what he was supposed to do with the entire WTC thing. I don’t know enough about what went on then, but I do know that another person in his situation would almost certainly have done what he did. I also won’t comment on Afghanistan because I don’t want to and this is my rant, but I will say that I do think that was very much for the better.

However, I think exactly the opposite of the situation in Iraq. Not only was that unprovoked and based on completely untrue accusations about that good old phrase “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, but America comes along and decides who can do what. It just pisses me off.

I was planning on writing more, but I’ve definately decided I can’t be arsed. Rant over.

Other than ranting, I’ve done a lot of maths and gone out a bit to get drinks and whatnot, so it’s all been fun. I’m taking some good modules (Vector Analysis is fun) but others (i.e. Analysis III and Algebra I) are definately unfun. I’m going to have to burn the maths department down, there’s just nothing for it

Will post something later maybe, probably more like tomorrow (or later in the week… or next week… or something. bleh).

Later all.

10:31 pm | Posted in Academia, Maths, Politics, Ranting | No Comments »

Hey all, back again.

Well, this week is completely sucking so far. Just got back from my first day at uni, and I have to say it was a complete pile of shit. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that I’d quite like to burn down the maths department using an overly elaborate setup involving liquid C4 and a small hamster. I don’t quite know why it’s sucking so much at the moment, and I’d quite like to blow things up, but I can’t; damned police.

Went to Tesco yesterday. Bought food.

That’s about it. Bleh.

Can’t be arsed writing anymore, going to go and eat pie and make myself feel a bit better about life.

6:39 pm | Posted in Academia, Maths, University, Whining | No Comments »