Babylon 5 s5 30 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in TV.Tags: babylon 5
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So me and C have been working our way through Babylon 5, we’ve flown fairly quickly through seasons 1-4, (although holiday time and such helped with that) and we’ve enjoyed it. Actually I have seen Babylon 5 before and I do like it, its not one of my fave TV shows but I like it. However now we’ve hit season 5.. and progress has sort of stopped, the first half of season 5 is just.. some of the most annoying TV ever. I mean I’ve always known S5 wasn’t good, and I have actually watched it before, and I can’t have been paying much attention then because it didn’t annoy me nearly as much as it is now. I mean the whole issue with the Telepaths is a good one, it had potential as a story line, but the execution? Gah.
Byron and his bunch of hippy telepaths? Byron may be a charismatic leader, but he doesn’t come across as being much of a planner. I mean let’s go blackmail all the alliance ambassadors with their state secrets to try and get our own telepath homeworld. I mean what? I mean firstly why did he never even try to speak to Sheridan after he found out Telepaths are the Vorlons fault, its just a straight, we should get our own homeowrld thing. And then, how exactly is this homeworld thing going to work?! I mean the kids of two telepaths are necessarily going to BE telepaths. So what are you going to do with mundanes on this telepath world? They’ll just become some sub-slave race? Or will they be rejected and sent back to Earth?
Then at the end of ep 11, when they are arresting the leaders of Byron’s hippy telepath rebellion, the prisoner’s suddenly pull out guns when Bester and his blood hounds turned up. Er WHAT?! Who the hell lets prisoners walk around with guns, why weren’t they searched. Its not like these were all small easy to hid guns, one of them was suddenly wielding a PPG rifle? *sigh* I know there was more silly stuff, I just can’t remember it all.. I may be blocking it from my mind.
Thank goodness all this sillyness is intermixed with brilliant Londo and G’Kar interaction, I love those two, always have they are such brilliant characters, and G’Kar is especially funny. 
And thank goodness that this telepath story line is pretty much done with, although I still think my least fave episode is the very last one on season 4.
Edit to add: Just been discussing this with my friend and I thought I’d just quote what he said about season 5.
“It was because the network (Fox, are you surprised?) had told them “S3 would be the last” “Oh, OK, you’re popular, you can have ONE more, Finish it now” “S4 was awesome, you can have your last season after all!”"
Ahh Fox, the destroyer of great TV.
STRESSED 28 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: coursework, exams, stressed
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You see how I wrote that all in capitals? Thats only the tinniest of indications as to how stressed I am feeling right now. I have my project proposal to hand in on the 7th, and gah.. I don’t feel like there’s enough time left.. (my own fault for starting late i guess) but.. I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing, or how to write what I need to.. I’m feeling paranoid and tense, and don’t even get me started on the fact that I have 5 exams I should revise for too. I want to go hide under a rock.. Please? gah.. 
Socks… 22 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Knitting.Tags: Knitting, socks
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Woooo! I’ve done it! Finished my first ever pair of socks, and I am pretty pleased with how they came out. The pattern was pretty simple to follow, after I’d looked at a few tutorials on short row heels. I’m not really pleased with how my heel came out, I think I did slightly too many short rows so its a bit loose there, and the cast off on the first sock is a little tight, but I can live with it. So yes very happy and I think I may well now be taken in by socks. I think I mentioned previously I’m not a sock person, but.. I am quite taken with these, and I think I may well have to knit another set of socks at some point.
Pattern: Express Lane
Yarn: Regia Color 4-ply
Needles: 2.25mm
What a time waster 21 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Computer, Technology.Tags: audacity, troubleshooting, vista
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Unlike some people I am not a complete Microsoft hater, I mean yes at times the software can be really annoying, but I have found there are some fantastic features in Office 2007, and actually I do kind of like Vista, but there are some things about it that really annoy the hell out of me.. and I have just run up against one of them.
I want to edit some Librivox files in Audacity, using version 1.3.4 which is in Beta, and the software has suddenly decided that it will open in full screen mode, or just sit in my start bar, I cannot get it into windowed mode. I have never liked working with software in full screen mode, unless 1) it is a computer game that does NOT make me queasy, or 2) I am trying to focus specifically on writing up a piece of coursework. Editing Audacity files doesn’t fall into either of these to categories. So a quick trip to the Audacity help forum suggests that I need to reset audacity by deleting a few files. Here is where I start banging heads with Vista.
I need to get here Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temp\, but when I get to Local Settings, Vista tells me that my Access is Denied. Why does it do this? It’s Vista’s crazy way of telling me this because these files are located elsewhere. There’s some useful information about it here, and as the guy says, if Vista can tell applications where the actual path to these files is… WTH can’t it just take me there? Now I’m going to have to waste time trying to find the file locations. *Grumble*
Edit: Blah I think I’m still tired, if I read the webpage I linked to more carefully it actually tells me where such things are.. now to see if I can fix Audacity.
Getting creative 14 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Knitting.Tags: Knitting, lace, laminaria, stitch markers
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I have decided/realised that I may well need to invest in getting a ball winder, winding 1500m of yarn, even with a very nice bf kindly holding the yarn for you is backbreaking!. Ok so that’s a little bit of an exagguration, but it takes AGES (several hours!) and it makes your arms ache after a while. Still I did really want to cast on with Laminaria, is it not pretty??
I knew I had to get the right yarn for this so after looking around for a while I found the perfect yarn. Hand painted Merino 2 play from Violet Green. Here are a couple of pictures:
The second one is a slightly truer colour, and is slightly smaller than it was because here’s how far I have gotten.
Its not the best picture ever, in fact its much prettier in real life, I’ve just reached the transition chart and I have to say I’ve really enjoyed knitting it so far, the Estonian lace has been really fun and it has a gorgeous effect! I can’t wait till I’ve finished it!
I’ve got so many projects on the go at the moment, that shawl, another lace project, my socks and t-shirt, and I’m waiting to cast on for a cardigan. Too many things! Still I’ll get there.
I’ve also as mentioned in my previous post started to think about making stitch makers, and here is my first attempt. I am quite happy with them, although I do need to work on my attempts at manipulating the metal with the pliers. Still practice makes perfect.
Random update 14 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Gaming, Knitting.Tags: dark heresy, games workshop, Knitting, natural history museum, role playing, trains, wedding
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Well the first week of my ‘Easter’ Holidays has been and gone, and I feel much more relaxed now, I guess its about time I get started on my coursework that I have? Especially as one is my big project proposal write up thingy.. urgh. Lets forget that for now, and I’ll make this an update on the fun things I’ve been up to recently.
Ahhh I’m going to cut this because this post is getting long!! Anyway to give it a mini contents page I talk about Wedding, Natural History Museum, Roleplaying, and random other things.
Alan Tudyk you are funny! 2 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Uncategorized.Tags: alan tudyk, firefly, serenity, wash
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Ahh this is funny, although in some ways a rather big spoiler if you haven’t seen Serenity! (and you are a Firefly fan)
Ahh misunderstandings 2 April 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: confusion, coursework, presentations, University
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Had a presentation yesterday, we had 4 topics to pick from to talk about and we picked Grid Computing Applications, but when we finished our presentation the lecturer said that we had completely misunderstood what we were supposed to be talking about, and that if we were being assessed on talking about the topic we would have failed, but because we aren’t being assessed on that we hadn’t failed. We were being assessed on our ability to extend the content of the lecturer, the research we did and such. So where was the misunderstanding? Well we were supposed to talk about Applications of Grid computing, we talked about Grid Applications. Confused? One is how Grid is used to solve problems in the real world and the other is the components (applications) that the gird uses to work. Ah well. At least we haven’t failed.
