It's been a while since I was on here, so a brief update is in order!

I'm currently undertaking my long study for university - the practical side of it is called "The art of a woman"

It's essentially about all the things women are, the people they can be, the struggles they face. The way they're used to sell things, expectations people have of us, the way religion see us...

It will be split into:
Sexuality
Religion
Age
Role

The first part (sexuality) - some of it's been uploaded already so please let me know what you think, I really need critique!

Thanks xxx

Mood: Arty
Listening to: Harry Potter 4 - Audiobook
Reading: The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

As I haven't been on here for around a year, I thought I'd come back and give a bit of an update on my life. It's changed quite a bit!

I'm now studying Digital Art and Design at Hull University - I'm based at the Scarborough campus. For those of you that don't know where it is, it's on the North East coast of England, not far from York. It's a really pretty place, a bit quiet and FREEZING in winter, but it's by the sea, has two lovely sandy beaches, lots of parks and it's backed by the Yorkshire Moors.

The course is fab - the perfect mix of technical and artistic endeavours. I've been here a term and have learnt loads - from hand coding W3C web standards compliant websites (quite tedious but interesting!) to studying the finer points of the surrealist movement. At the moment I'm making a game for children - it's pretty basic but quite fun - about Monty the Mushroom and his evil nemesis Bob the Bad Mushroom.... I've also done 3 pieces using photoshop - and in doing these have missed deviantart quite a bit!

I'm living in a house with 7 other students. We all get on really well - which is nice. Alex - my boyfriend of almost 2 years now - and me have the ground floor. The house is split into flats. (Most of Scarborough is!) It's an old victorian building with high ceilings and pretty light fittings. Huge rooms! Only problem is it's so very very cold, and our cooker looks like something from the stone age!

I spent last year (my gap year) working for Notts County Council on their website and being the Nottinghamshire Youth MP. I also travelled quite a bit (Eastern Europe) and made new friends. I learnt a lot about myself and my expectations about life - enough to change my career direction from Politics to Art. Politics is still a big interest, it's just not something that's right for me at the moment - I'm only 20!

Anyway. That's enough about me....


Please - if anyone's reading this who I used to have contact with, please note me and I'll give you my MSN. I'd love to get in touch again. I miss my American buddies.

Does B always follow A?

Why?

Oh, and I'm back, for the next couple of weeks anyway.

Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, "Do you need a menu?"
Descartes replies, "I think not," and he disappears!

I just lost a game of Checkers with Tim. I am a BAD loser. But I won the debate. And that's what matters. Right?

The Question for Today:

Should people with genetically transferable disabilities and disorders be sterilised to prevent their children suffering?

Why? Why not?

Please try to refrain from using words such as Nazi in here. It's about Ethics, not History!

Tonight, my invisible pink triangular square that jumps into your hand when you whistle and looks somewhat like an invisible parrot, met Tims un-seeable blue 5-sided, battery-operated rectangle

It was


Some people won't get these.... but they had me laughing for so long tonight!

Descartes walks into a café and sits down ready to order. A waiter comes up to him and asks, "Do you need a menu?"
Descartes replies, "I think not," and he disappears!

A philosopher went into a closet for ten years to contemplate the question, What is life?
When he came out, he went into the street and met an old colleague, who asked him where in heaven's name he had been all those years.
"In a closet," he replied. "I wanted to know what life really is."
His colleague asked, "And have you found an answer?"
"Yes," he replied. "I think it can best be expressed by saying that life is like a bridge."
"That's all well and good," replied the colleague, "but can you be a little more explicit? Can you tell me how life is like a bridge?"
"Oh," replied the philosopher after some thought, "maybe you're right; perhaps life is not like a bridge."



Tech Support Nietzsche Style

When a user is calling in need of help, don't forget that he is a weakling. Only a loser would need to come groveling to you, begging for crumbs of help that may fall from your godlike lips. And he knows that he is a loser in the race of the weak and the strong, that his kind is doomed to extinction. Therefore, show him no mercy. Treat him with the utter contempt that he deserves. It is the law of nature that you should do so.

Key Phrases:

"You aren't very smart, are you?"
"I can't believe you call yourself a programmer!"
"Our product is obviously too complex and advanced for you. Please desist from using it -- you are soiling it."

Nevertheless, there may come a time when you actually must help the user, even though he is sucking away your magnificent intellectual vitality with his grotesque shambling confusion. He is a lower form of life and you must make him feel it, lest he take on ambitions of evolving to your level.

Key Phrases:

"Now I will read aloud the section of the manual that you failed to comprehend."
"You have ignominiously blundered on line 35, committing an error that a Mongoloid programming an abacus would be ashamed of."
"What you've done in your function foo is the coding equivalent of failing to empty your colostomy bag."

Alas, upon occasion there comes a time when it is obvious that the compiler is at fault. This is no reason to let the user feel superior to anyone, however. The design of a compiler is still far beyond his limited mental capacities. His duty is to worship, not criticize.

Key Phrases:

"The inner workings of the compiler are far beyond your antlike comprehension."
"That behavior is described in ANSI specification 21.11.45.7.3.8. You are familiar with that section, I assume..."
"Our software can behave in that manner only if it has been corrupted by long exposure to users of your caliber."

And finally, a user may eventually want you to code something for him, or send him an example. The user has asked something that is against the laws of nature. Such creatures as himself exist to serve you and not you him. Therefore such a request is impossible and against nature, and does not exist, and therefore never happened. Response is not possible.

Yes. I am feeling silly!