My mouse isn't scrolling properly. Again.

Another day passing by far too quickly. I'm fairly sure that I stuffed up at least part of a Maths test but I did manage to get my Computing homework done as well as getting a significant (not exactly large, but significant) chunk of my Computing project completed.

Now all I need to worry about is my Physics project. I'm meant to be doing something on wavelengths and dipole antennas but I really have no idea how or where to go from the basic notes I've got so far. I guess I'll just have to figure it out as I go along.


I really have nothing to say. I just deleted two big paragraphs that I wasn't happy with and I can't be bothered reattempting them. All they said was that, due to a chance that I may be in hospital overnight on Friday, I'll need to write two posts tomorrow and have Skippy upload the second if it looks like I won't be getting out. Also, I'm annoyed that I have to miss school, especially non-uniform day, for the surgery. Just my luck, I guess.


I'll leave with one final thought. Depending on how eloquent and interesting I find it after I've written it, I'll call this either a crappy post or a mini-post.

I've been watching a few crime mystery shows lately, Numb3rs and CSI: New York in particular and, while I like both of these shows, they do sometimes have rather formulaic plots*. Roger Ebert once said (referenced here) that you can often tell who a murderer is in a mystery fiction simply because they have no other reason to be there.

For example, in an early episode of Numb3rs that I watched tonight, I could tell instantly that a character was significant, probably behind it all, because all they did was drop in once or twice to tell their boss, who was being interviewed by the FBI, that they were late for a meeting or needed to sign something.

That may seem fairly insignificant but consider that this role could simply have been ignored. The viewer doesn't need to know what documents need signed. If the boss were late for his meeting, he could simply have looked at his watch before excusing himself. But the writers created this character and the production team hired and paid an actor instead, implying that they had a solid reason to do so.

Sure enough, she was paying for hired hits and had committed some rather nasty (and potentially dangerous) fraud.


Anyway, I'll end this here. And I think it's actually long enough to count as a proper post. Hurray. Now, I could go and watch another episode of Numb3rs or I could go to bed... where's that Rapidshare link?






*Come to think of it, you could say that the whole concept of Numb3rs relies on formulas, if you were really into puns.