Sunday, October 24, 2004
Someone was screaming...
...for an update earlier, it seems.
Here's the deal:
This blog has passed on.
This blog is no more.
It has ceased to be.
It's expired and gone to meet it's maker.
It's a stiff.
Bereft of life, it rests in peace.
It it wasn't metaphorically nailed to this url, it'd be pushing up the daisies.
It's metabolic processes are history.
It's off the twig.
It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off it's mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.
This is an EX-BLOG!
Get the picture?
[rant adapted from Monty Python's "Pet Shop" sketch]
...for an update earlier, it seems.
Here's the deal:
This blog has passed on.
This blog is no more.
It has ceased to be.
It's expired and gone to meet it's maker.
It's a stiff.
Bereft of life, it rests in peace.
It it wasn't metaphorically nailed to this url, it'd be pushing up the daisies.
It's metabolic processes are history.
It's off the twig.
It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off it's mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.
This is an EX-BLOG!
Get the picture?
[rant adapted from Monty Python's "Pet Shop" sketch]
Friday, September 03, 2004
in and out my brain...
I hate Queen's chemistry department.
First, chem223 interferes with my Brain and Behaviour II course, now chem212 is preventing me from taking Level 1 Mandarin.
bah!
I hate Queen's chemistry department.
First, chem223 interferes with my Brain and Behaviour II course, now chem212 is preventing me from taking Level 1 Mandarin.
bah!
Saturday, August 14, 2004
mail me
"Suicide Club" is the most disturbing film I've seen since "Requiem for a Dream".
It's more confusing than "Donnie Darko".
It's gorier than the first Evil Dead and Kill Bill put together.
I felt physically ill after watching it; it kept me up at night, even though it wasn't a horror film.
Yet I feel a strong compulsion to watch it again....
"Suicide Club" is the most disturbing film I've seen since "Requiem for a Dream".
It's more confusing than "Donnie Darko".
It's gorier than the first Evil Dead and Kill Bill put together.
I felt physically ill after watching it; it kept me up at night, even though it wasn't a horror film.
Yet I feel a strong compulsion to watch it again....
Sunday, July 11, 2004
We can dance if we want to...
So I finished Life of Pi, and, contrary to what a character and the back cover said, it would not have made me believe in God, if I didn't already do so.
The first little bit...say, 100 pages or so...was interesting, but then it got quite monotonous.
Mr. Hazelton lent me my new piece of reading - it'll tide me over until my book comes in at the library (How to Solve Problems - written from a psychological perspective, it comes highly recommended by my Cognitive Psychology prof). As of the first 2 pages, it sounds promising.
So I finished Life of Pi, and, contrary to what a character and the back cover said, it would not have made me believe in God, if I didn't already do so.
The first little bit...say, 100 pages or so...was interesting, but then it got quite monotonous.
Mr. Hazelton lent me my new piece of reading - it'll tide me over until my book comes in at the library (How to Solve Problems - written from a psychological perspective, it comes highly recommended by my Cognitive Psychology prof). As of the first 2 pages, it sounds promising.
Monday, July 05, 2004
That's fine, that's good, that's nice...
Haven't blogged in forever, even though there's been much I could have blogged about - heck, I didn't even blog after the election results came in (Monday night - happy; Tuesday morning - unhappy).
Blogging has become more of a chore than a pleasure these days, so, to make a long story short (something I don't often do here), I'm going on leave...for an indefinite period of time. Perhaps this blog will just die, perhaps it will be reincarnated in a while in a different form, but for now it's in limbo; a literary coma (think Black Mamba after Bill shot her in the head).
Just before I sign off, two good things I saw/heard over the past while:
1. Coffee and Cigarettes - I specifically recommend the following vignettes:
-Those Things'll Kill Ya
-No Problem
-Delirium
-Cousins?
2. Happenstance - I specifically recommend tracks 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 [bonus track].
Addendum: I love my cog-psyc prof. Here's one of his examples for satisficing (basically, accepting 'good enough' instead of perfect, or, a reasonable degree of certainty instead of absolute certainty when absolute certainty requires much more effort/time):
Marriage is an example. If we seek perfection we will always be looking for 'an even better partner'. A spouse is someone who is 'just good enough' because the alternative is: "Hey I think you're perfect but do you mind if I check out a few more girls just to be sure?" (warning: don't ever say this!)
Haven't blogged in forever, even though there's been much I could have blogged about - heck, I didn't even blog after the election results came in (Monday night - happy; Tuesday morning - unhappy).
Blogging has become more of a chore than a pleasure these days, so, to make a long story short (something I don't often do here), I'm going on leave...for an indefinite period of time. Perhaps this blog will just die, perhaps it will be reincarnated in a while in a different form, but for now it's in limbo; a literary coma (think Black Mamba after Bill shot her in the head).
Just before I sign off, two good things I saw/heard over the past while:
1. Coffee and Cigarettes - I specifically recommend the following vignettes:
-Those Things'll Kill Ya
-No Problem
-Delirium
-Cousins?
2. Happenstance - I specifically recommend tracks 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 [bonus track].
Addendum: I love my cog-psyc prof. Here's one of his examples for satisficing (basically, accepting 'good enough' instead of perfect, or, a reasonable degree of certainty instead of absolute certainty when absolute certainty requires much more effort/time):
Marriage is an example. If we seek perfection we will always be looking for 'an even better partner'. A spouse is someone who is 'just good enough' because the alternative is: "Hey I think you're perfect but do you mind if I check out a few more girls just to be sure?" (warning: don't ever say this!)
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Nyet, nyet, soviet, soviet jewellery...
Two questions about Sunday nights:
1. Why is the Main St. Starbucks always so packed?
2. Why does the Mix play such weird music? (see this post's title)
Two questions about Sunday nights:
1. Why is the Main St. Starbucks always so packed?
2. Why does the Mix play such weird music? (see this post's title)
Thursday, June 24, 2004
I got it bad and that ain't good...
Just when I thought I was safe; just when I thought my hours of working out the perfect 4-year schedule to two degrees (BA (psyc) and BScH (biochem SSP)) was going to pay off, Queen's screwed me in a way I never anticipated.
That's right - there was only one lecture slot for chem223 (Organic Rxns) and one for psyc272 (Brain and Behaviour II) - and they were the same one! >.<
Not having psyc272 means I can't take psyc371 (Research problems in behavioural neuroscience) in 3rd year (the psyc course I was probably looking most forward to), and without those two half-credits in psyc, I can't get my BA!
I was pissed off for a couple of days, but I think I've found a way to salvage it. I have to drop psyc272 and 371, but instead I pick up psyc240 - social psychology. Arguably my favourite (and most readily applicable to everyday life) of the psyc100 modules, I tried to fit this one in but was dissuaded by a PASS advisor, who said I should take more sciency courses if I want to go into neuroscience (and she's probably right). However, with some of the more sciency courses unavailable, I'll resort to this course which I'm pretty much taking for fun.
So next year's schedule looks like this:
Chem 211*/223* - Main group chem./organic rxns
Chem 212*/222* - Chem. reactivity/structure determination
Stat 263* - Intro to Stats
Biol 205* - Mendelian & molecular genetics
Psyc 240 – Social Psychology
Psyc 271* - Brain and Behaviour I
Micr221* - Basic Microbiology
All except the psycs are required courses (except micr221, but that's a recommended elective, and I want to take it anyway). In third year, hopefully I'll be able to pick up psyc305 (Human memory) and psyc205 (Experimental Psyc: Learning - which I was going to take this coming year but dropped for psyc271), which will fill up my 5 psyc courses and net me my BA! ^__^
Oh yeah, one more thing: CHEM ROCKS!
Boo to all you people who dislike, loathe, or just plain hate chem. Don't hate the game, hate the player...and in this case, that player is YOU!
Just when I thought I was safe; just when I thought my hours of working out the perfect 4-year schedule to two degrees (BA (psyc) and BScH (biochem SSP)) was going to pay off, Queen's screwed me in a way I never anticipated.
That's right - there was only one lecture slot for chem223 (Organic Rxns) and one for psyc272 (Brain and Behaviour II) - and they were the same one! >.<
Not having psyc272 means I can't take psyc371 (Research problems in behavioural neuroscience) in 3rd year (the psyc course I was probably looking most forward to), and without those two half-credits in psyc, I can't get my BA!
I was pissed off for a couple of days, but I think I've found a way to salvage it. I have to drop psyc272 and 371, but instead I pick up psyc240 - social psychology. Arguably my favourite (and most readily applicable to everyday life) of the psyc100 modules, I tried to fit this one in but was dissuaded by a PASS advisor, who said I should take more sciency courses if I want to go into neuroscience (and she's probably right). However, with some of the more sciency courses unavailable, I'll resort to this course which I'm pretty much taking for fun.
So next year's schedule looks like this:
Chem 211*/223* - Main group chem./organic rxns
Chem 212*/222* - Chem. reactivity/structure determination
Stat 263* - Intro to Stats
Biol 205* - Mendelian & molecular genetics
Psyc 240 – Social Psychology
Psyc 271* - Brain and Behaviour I
Micr221* - Basic Microbiology
All except the psycs are required courses (except micr221, but that's a recommended elective, and I want to take it anyway). In third year, hopefully I'll be able to pick up psyc305 (Human memory) and psyc205 (Experimental Psyc: Learning - which I was going to take this coming year but dropped for psyc271), which will fill up my 5 psyc courses and net me my BA! ^__^
Oh yeah, one more thing: CHEM ROCKS!
Boo to all you people who dislike, loathe, or just plain hate chem. Don't hate the game, hate the player...and in this case, that player is YOU!
