Monday 7 March 2011

Lack Of Updates

Ive Been Busy, But In Other News Im Back And Writing Something So Someone Will Be Happy. Ive Had Lots Of Silly Plans For This Blog Anyway

First Off I Did Not Go To The Meeting, I Neglected My Duties But To Be Honest It Was My Birthday And I Forget So Here Is An Online Access Point For The Feedback To The Lesson, And I Will Be Naming Names So Millie Know Who Said Bad Stuff About Her.

The Blogs Are Good <-- Im Pretty Sure They Mentioned Millies And James Noone Mentioned Mine =(
Cake Is Good
The Cake Was A Lie (We Put Our Faith Into You Millie And It Hurts When You Lie To Us)
Lots Of Videos
General Praise

Bad Points
Everyone Wanted To Go To Break (So They Left)
Also Something About Sam And Cryss Looking Too Much Alike And Confusing Everyone

Counters
Most Cakes In One Lesson: 4 (Cupcakes Count As One, Muffins Count As 1)
Number Of Times Ive Made It Thru All The Songs On My Ipod: Once But Almost Did It Again Before I Had To Use A Song For Film Studies
Courseworks Handed In: 3/4 (4th Is Soon)
Times Sams Said Ive Stolen His Job: 10920938482745837947329576.1
Days Made It Thru On The 30 Day Song Challenge: 1 Wait Make It 2

Its A Song About The Wizard Of Oz.... AWESOME, I Cannot Be Held For Any Content Within Because I Did Not Watch This Video Before I Recklessly Updated And Left It For Millie To Watch.

Days Ive Been On The 30 Day Song Challenge: 15?
Videos Im Searching For One: Trust Youll Know When I Find It

Im Currently Adapting An Old Film Project For Coursework, I Might Upload For Approval At Some Point Hehe.

Geography Wise, Were On To Climate And Other Than The Fact That I Am The Cause For Global Warming, No Not Because Im Hot Because Im Literally About 10 Degrees Warmer Than Every Other Person On The Planet, We Got Through The Most Difficult Bit, Luckily Tristan Decided To Go For A Skive On That Day And Hence Missed It All..... Stupid Paintball Lazer Tag Thing He Does. Anyway I Thought I Would Describe A Few Awesomes About Climate.

1) We Are Not Responsible For Global Warming..... We Are Responsible For Accelerated Global Warming Which Means That It Was Gonna Happen, We Just Make It Go Even Faster.

2) A Mass Extinction Is The Removal Of Lots Of Species Over A Short Time This Is In Terms Of History Millions Of Years Hence The Human Race Has Been One Of The Largest Catalysts For Extinction (Depressing)

3) Milakovitch Would Be An Awesome Name For A Sandwhich =)

4) We Need All To Act To Stop Climate Change If We Dont When We Get Ice Lollies Out They Will Melt Instantly, Can You Imagine A Future Without Ben And Jerries. Can You

5) Climate Is The Easiest Module To Link To Other Areas, Volcanoes Made The Climate, The Weather Made From Climate Affects Populations. Rivers Are Made By Rain Thank You Climate. When We Harness Storm Power Climate Will Fuel Energy Erm
And Stuff

I Went To Essex The Other Week, That Was Hell My Mum Can Never See From My Point Of View. And Its Not Because Im Difficult To Deal With, Even If Everyone Would Say I Am (Gawyn And Izzie). Heres Just An Extract Of My Time In Hell From The Diary I Wrote On My Arm In My Own Blood.

Day 3:
Theres Still No Heating, Mum Used The Dog As An Alarm Clock At 6AM This Morning, Been Sleeping On The Floor Apparently If Shes Up I Should Get Up Never Understood That. Argued With Mum About Money She Said She Needed It For The House, She Has Someone Who Mucks Her Horse Out And It Needed A 2000 Pound Operation, Decided That Next Time She Says The Money Thats For Me Is For The House For My Brother I Will Call BS. Went To See My Grandparents The House Was Much Warmer But Thats Only Because My Grandad Heats It Through Smoking, It Was Worse Than A Rave Club In London In There. Went Back Home Argued About Money Again My Mums An Idiot, If My Dad Gets 33% Of The Profit And Pays 33% Of The Money To Upgrade The House Thats Completely Fair, She Didnt Think So......

She Then Said That She Will Just Sell The House As It Is (No Central Heating, No Wallpaper, Damaged And In Need Of A Good Clean. I Explained To Her That For Every 1 Person Who Wants A Handymans Dream 250 Will Turn It Down. I Also Explained That The House Was Almost Worthless In This Regard, She Didnt Really Care.

Bought 10 Guinesses But Drank 1 And Moved Onto Jack Daniels Instead. The TV In The Living Room Is Broken, A Small One Sits On Top Of It....... The Dog Is Trying To Chew Anything That Moves Including Me........ My Brother Gave My Playstation Games To His Best Friend.... The Ones He Brought Back Wernt Even The Ones I Was Looking For. He Said The CD I Wanted Wasnt In The Garage, It Was But It Was Waterdamaged Because He Put It Under The Holes In The Roof.

Broke Into The House To Get In, Its Not Exactly Difficult But I Think It Scares Potential Robbers Away, The Roof Fell Through Once On Me. My Mum Wanted Me To Sort Out The Arial For Her TV, She Couldnt Understand Why The Signal Was Bad. Had An Argument Because I Told Her That Having An Aerial In A Insulated Loft |Is Pointless, She Then Told Me To Go Up Their And Fix It. Took An Hour To Get A Passable Signal Then I Went Downstairs And The Dog Almost Broke My New Laptop.....

Meh I Dont Think This Blog Was As Funny As It Shudda Been... Ill Try Again Soon =)

Also For Those Who Wanted Topless Pics You Will Not Be Dissapointed ; ) Thats All I Will Say =D

Friday 11 February 2011

So Damb Tired

Its Friday the something something, anyway time for me to get back to blogging, courseworks been hell and I still have 2 pieces left and I do need something to make me feel better in between work so here goes nothing.

Counters (Maybe I Cud Get One Of These On The Side One Day Who Knows)
Number Of Capitalist Cakes: 3
Number Of Communist Cakes: 1 (Yeah)
Number Of Students Fallen Asleep In Class: 1
Number Of Coffees I Need Right Now: 47.23
Number Of Meetings Im Supposed To Attend: 1
Number I Will Probably Attend: 0
Number Of Belfast Sheets Burned: 26

Onto More Impressive Things I Think....
Damb Im Mega Exhausted Today

I BEAT MY OWN CHALLENGE 325 SONGS LATER
I made it through every song on my ipod with admittedly around 12 skips by just hammering shuffle songs, try it. Takes ages ¬ ¬ Almost as long as Sam's one vid a day thingy for 30 days.

Maybe I should do it too?















Day 1: Scary Japanese Metal Band Who Sing Crazy Fast And Also Dress Up Like Rappers And Play Metal
Kinda Funny xD - Also Their Singers Hair *Confused Face*

Also my laptops breaking which is doing my head in, makes using anything difficult and I forgot my coursework notes so I can't make good use of my time anyway i've started ranting over making funnies and that just won't do.

This week we has a super serious exam paper finishing it up today, when writing my conclusion I realised that I had gone off topic, its not been a good day ¬ ¬. Then we had a video from Mr Ian Stuart minus some appalling jokes I'm not too sure wether they were mine or his probably both we settled into a groove. Despite that the irish ragamuffin stole my future job *Mildly angry face*

Hell people don't even read this anyway...... So I can pretty much say whatever I want then right.... right...... thats it im gonna say it.... say it loud..... "Im Black And Im Proud" - Quoted From Someone From Some Song... JAMES BROWN - I Think

Todays Really Not My Day..... Need A Drink And Some Food A Nap And A Finished Piece Of Geology Coursework ¬ ¬!

PEOPLES
Its valentines monday, so I want some love themed cakes and we can all hand out roses and cards to our favourite smexy peeps in our class. Oh and we should wish Millie well when she leaves us, any excuse to get out of my Birthday :'( and millie don't read this bit. Thats an order from Class Rep.... I forgot noone reads this anyway.

Since i got 3 votes for topless pics I will have to upload something at some point, maybe after the gym when I look like Jacob from Twilight.... Not that i've ever seen that :S ehem

In regards to studies for today stick it =) Ima gonna upload my Merapi case study for you to all plagerise it's actually quite good. Nighty Night Guys

Also 99 views one more to triple figures. 98 of them were me =D

Monday 31 January 2011

24


And we have reach 24 hours until the deadline of the exam.After geography today I went home. Usually it takes 30 minutes but due to the interference of some cute cats and a trip to ASDA (I know Wal Marts beach) I made it back at I dunno 3. Haha then started my evening

3:00 - Got Home
        - Had A Lunch

4:00 - Played Dead Space 2

5:00 - Fell Asleep For A Bit

6:00 - Started Revision

6:02 - Finished Revising (Its Always Suggested You Dont Revise For Too Long)

6:03 - Worked Out.... (I Am Super Buff Hence The Suggestion For Topless Pics)

6:40 - Went On Laptop

6:52 and 11 Seconds - Laptop Has Mildy Loaded

7:12 - Just Got Facebook To See Stuff To Do

7:27 - Maybe Revision Time

7:37 - Maybe Not Dinner

9:00 - Back In Ma Room

9:00 - Attempting To Grab An Achievement On Heavy Rain

10.00 - Cannot Get This Achievement Am Getting Frustrated

10.40 - Swore A Ridiculous Amount Of Times And Turned Off My Playstation

11:00 - Read Through The First Half Of My Biography.... Its Kinda Short

11:45 - Getting Late I Should Probably Watch Family Guy

12:32 And 3/4 - Well Its The Day Of The Exam But More Importantly Its February That Month Of My Birth!!!

1:11 - Just Finished Reading Chibi Vampire :D

2.00 - Cant Sleep

2.01 - On Halo Reach

2.40 - Better Be Responsible (Turned The TV Sound Down On Reach Don't Wanna Wake Anyone Up)

3.04 - Found An Irish Guy On Xbox Live Asked Him What He Thought Of Belfast (Told Ya Id Do Ma Revision)

3.49 - Argued With The Irish Guy On What I Know About Belfast

4.04 - Xbox Off

4.05 - Playstation On

4.52 - Playstation Off

4.53 - Mobile Phone Alarm Set Up At 6 For Shower And Shave

5.02 - Went To Bed

5.05 - Asleep Good Night Everyone

Saturday 29 January 2011

There Will Be Blood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12312287
A talk over the idea of marches in regards to honouring bloodly sunday, it tells of the side from each those who wish to continue the marches they held before PM apologises quite good


No funny is late tired and I just found this

Love you guys xD

Friday 28 January 2011

Geography Mock The Week

Upon Further Decisions Im Hoping Our Class Of All Classes Will Be Able To Host Geographies Own Mock The Week.

Unable to decide whether to place myself as Dara O Brien or Russell Howard we will need to look for some people willing to be on my panel, I have a few people in mind but it comes down to who wants to do what. Im hoping we can have as many on the panel as willing. Hopefully we can have a large proportion of the class joining into the group if not we could have an audience. Looking for contributions and ideas in regard to this as well as people willing to be Frankie Boyle, High Dennis, James (From The Class) and someone willing to dress like a robot. Maybe.

Anyways it will be a nice day to chill out after the horror of Belfast which will be ever closer after a weekend at work.

In regards to fun, youll have to wait for this to become fun. I'm not a machine haha

Fieldwork

Another key part of the coursework is why the impact of fieldwork taken into Belfast, first off unfortunaltely Millie did not want to take us to Belfast and heres a comprehensive list of reasons why.

1) We did not have enough time to organise a trip to Belfast we recieved the information in November?
2) The risk assessment came back and said odds are Cryss And Tristan wouldnt survive the trip and although Millie has always wanted to be on the cover of the Taunton magazine, she wasn't willing to lose her job.

On a literal note a risk assessment would identify as high risk for students.
3) Belfast isn't an exactly safe area check BBC News students walking around doing fieldwork and asking questionaires may not get answers they are looking for.
4) Pricing, trips are expensive those without money cannot afford trips hence they do not go onto trips.
5) Staffing - Millie doesn't want to go, the class doesn't want to do can you think of anyone seriously willing to be another teacher on the list of those who didn't make it back from Belfast.

So what does that mean we can do, it means in regards to fieldwork we have to use what we have got and thats easy enough theirs loads of information on the internet about the wards in Belfast ive posted a little up here and theirs even more in the AIB. So what about Primary data you may ask we can take primary data using Geographic Information Systems Or GIS or Google Earth. Using these we can perform Environmental Quality Assessments online these are a much safer cheaper and quicker alternative than taking a trip to Belfast.

So how would we go about picking sites for the EQA well we need a sampling strategy. 4 Types
Pragmatic - Pick where it makes sence to pick, AKA where we have data for
Good Points
Provides data for the area so we know we have it
Avoid sites that are out of bounds of reaching

Bad Points
Can include bias

Random - Completely Random
Good Points
Removes Bias (Intentional)
Easy Enough To Work Out

Bad Points
May Lack Data
Can Be In Backgardens Oceans Etc

Systematic - Machine like as in I will sample every 11.22654567 cm in yards x 11.5
Good Points
Gives a good spread of an area
Removes intentional bias

Bad Points
May include areas that cannot be accessed.

Stratified - Divides the areas up into sections and you take a certain number of results from each section
Good Points
Represents an area well

Bad Points
Can have areas where results can be difficult to obtain

And you can also have a mix and match although it might be difficult to take a systematically random approach.

Good examples are a pragmatic stratified sample as it allows a fair representation of the city while allowing you to pick the areas that apply to your GIS system of choice.

What to do with the data, well from a starting point our EQA's can be compared with the other students and I know we all have different opinions in regards to housing coming from Essex I am probably more lenient to everything else. By combining results it does mean that you can an even representation of how varying people view these houses the other idea may be to have a very specific EQA

Heres and example in regards to Murals

1 - Best
Clean Murals, good messages that have not been vandalised or damaged. Shows the best of Belfast history




















5 - Worst
Murals that encourage divides in the community or have messages that are not appropriate for others. Shows the worst of belfasts history




























Remember the more in depth you are in the exam the more they will like it to an extent please no.

Any mural that has colours that may offend as well as a derogatory message and slandering and..... (11 and a half pages later) .... no pictures of scooby doo I hate him. The end oh I forgot........

What to do with the results
Kinda feeling a bit mellow anyway from the top take your results you can compare them against the results of others or secondary sources. Think the SOA's, you can also use iser lines to seperate the area into the best of the EQA and if your feeling really smart you can use your GIS system to create a bar charts that reach for the sky or in the case of duncairn maybe not haha.

Well I did go all out with some of the best bits of this weeks geography so lets have another story mayhaps. Ive gotta admit sometimes our parents just do your nut in, my mum probably never believed in me she must have been a Daily Mail reader because she was convinced that I was going off the rails at every oppertunity. Cryss your not doing drugs are you, No Mum, your not in a gang are you, no mum, your not going to go out and do in the real world what you do in those video games. Yes mum in a drug addicated, murderer in a gang...... Really? NO!!!!

Anyway sometimes we come up with some rubbish excuses im sure Millie has had her fair share of lame excuses its not often our parents come up with the same idea. My mum on the other hand was horrid in regards to making good excuses, so heres a little backstory. It was around 3am in the morning, I was home from Kent for the holidays, my mum had woken up and come downstairs. She started arguing with me about going to bed. As always a firm believer in the im awake your awake, im asleep your asleep movement she believed that I should be in bed. Being the royal pain in the ass I be I asked her why I should be in bed and she simply replied because I can't sleep knowing your not asleep. This horrible excuse led me to two conclusions, first off what the hell was she doing in between the 4 hours it took for her to realise I was still awake and secondly what did she do when I went back to Kent / Somerset. Its 4am in the morning she sits up looking at the moon through the window. A single tear streams down her face and in a wimpery voice she whispers. I.... just.... hope.... hes getting.... a good nights sleep.

Anyway hope that made a few people laugh. xD

Current Affairs o.O

Todays edition will be full of smiley faces, a rainbow attitude after another good geography lesson and to top it all off some Irish current affairs which arn't exactly that nice. Anyway most importantly of my many duties as class representative is to keep counters on the current state of our class. Heres the counters as of 28th January 10:20 something.

Number Of Communist Cakes: 1
Number Of Capatalist Cakes: 0
Number Of Times Told Off By Millie: Many More
Number Of Student Walk Outs: 1
Number Of Swears: Rising
Number Of Class Blogs: 3 (One Is Shared)?
Days Till Belfast Exam: 4

Today I would like to add my reasoning for how I act today I went tried to contribute in a meaningful manner and here were my reactions to an otherwise alien attitude. My arm hurts..... still hurts...... change arms..... damb my hand was up before that guy..... This is why I disrupt the lesson..... kittens.... arms dropped off. Picked dropped off arm up with other hand and waved it frantically. Got Millies Attention =D

Anyway something actually educational so feel free to skip down if you arn't here for this blog. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12302451 is referencing to another bomb found on Antrim road where it all seems to be going down, this time it was found behind the scout hut. The bomb found at a shop was from a group claiming to be republicans.

So far ive never posted anything good, about Belfast well heres something I suppose http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12302451 it basically states that the trade in Belfast harbour is up by 5% over the last year. Good news which also means that in the AIB the idea of expanding the lough may be a good idea for a little more than just tourism.

Remember what we learned today heres a few of my own points to help with the exam stresses, or in my case the ignore it and it will go away (4 days till that happens =D)

Key Words
Intergenerational - Passing Through The Generations
Cycle Of Deprivation - The Idea That If You Suffer In Areas You Start To Suffer In Areas, If Your House Is In Disrepair It Affects Your Health
Deprivation - The Lacking Of Basic Amenities
GIS - Geographic Information Systems Or Google Earth For Short
Enclave - A Segregated Community (This Word Makes Me Think Of Something Nerdy ^ ^)

5 Facts About Me
1) I Blog As Revision Or An Attempt To Accomplish
2) If I Was 250,000% Funnier I Might Try Being A Comedian
3) I Buy Collectors Editions Of Everything (I'm A Consumer Puppet)
4) I Stole Sam's Job
5) I Am In The Process Of Writing An Biography =D

Interesting Quotes
"I have long hair, am spotty as hell who's going to accept a flirt from me?"

"The minute she said no flirting I was so tempted to go up their and stroke her arm, but I didnt want to get slapped or arrested"

"The mistake we have made is that in electing me class rep you have given me absolute power even above Millie"

"Tristan Wa Baka Desu"

"Communism Was Smashed By Capitalism"

"It Goes Like This Me, Millie, Rest Of The Class, James"

"Theyre All Blonde, And You All Have The Same Hair Colour...
... Quick Hair Flick And Maybe Smile"

This video is for Tristan who seemed to be enjoying it haha!