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If my day were a game and hours were the points, Mass Effect would have beaten revision 5-nil.
And now you see why I never use sports metaphors.
I did play a lot of Mass Effect though. Five hours is probably a good estimate, with a little rounding. Sadly, nil is a good estimate for my revision time as well.
On the bright side, I did spot and dig out from under a pile of my other crap some more Maths notes, including my practice prelims and the sheet which tells me what topics are going to be in my exam. It's not exactly pulling an all-nighter but it's progress nonetheless.
I was reassured (mildly) by Sam telling me that he's done no revision at all. I say mildly because a) Sam doesn't take Maths, just its way easier, no-need-to-revise-for-it arch-nemesis, English, and b) he's a lazy git.
Turns out that one of the many reasons he hasn't done any work is that he's got himself an Eee PC as well. He went with the 2 gig version and spent the extra money on an SD card to make up the memory and a DVD rewriter since he needs an optical drive to put Windows on it and he apparently wanted one for his Mac Mini anyway.
All he really loses out on with his version, other than the memory, is a small increase in processor speed and the inbuilt webcam. It seems he was willing to sacrifice those to get it a bit faster (the 4 gig version, of which mine is one, is still out of stock almost everywhere). Last I saw of him, he was copying a cut down version of XP to a thumb drive to try and boot from that. I'll have to ask him how that went.
As I hate being outdone in the general geekiness department, I decided to enable the desktop mode on my Eee while he was doing that. All it required was a few command lines and some package installation and it now has a full desktop GUI, though I may set it to boot up into the simpler one just for convenience.
Now that I can install and access non-default applications, I've also added GIMP (the image editor), Audacity (everyone's favourite open source audio editor) and versions of Bejeweled and Minesweeper (because I have way too much time on my hands).
I'll probably play around with it some more tomorrow, after I get through with (or when I need a break from) doing some actual revision. Now that I have the sheet saying what I need to do, Maths doesn't seem quite so daunting. I figure it'll start being daunting again once I start actually doing the work but I may as well enjoy this brief respite while it lasts.
I also need to get on with my Computing project. As I can't be bothered using my Beaten Up Old LaptopTM every time I want to work on it, I've decided that I'm going to steal the little Thinkpad that my brother got for university a couple of years ago and which is now only used by my dad for his office connection once every so often.
I could theoretically work on it on another computer but, to be completely honest, I just want to sit at my desk and have two laptops and my iMac in front of me, running all three major operating systems. I'll probably laugh maniacally to myself and pretend I'm some sort of hacker supervillain.
I can but dream.
And that's it for tonight. Nothing much else to say, except that I'll probably have a woodle up tomorrow. Now, I'm off to bed before this headache gets any worse so...
Have a nice day, I suppose.
And now you see why I never use sports metaphors.
I did play a lot of Mass Effect though. Five hours is probably a good estimate, with a little rounding. Sadly, nil is a good estimate for my revision time as well.
On the bright side, I did spot and dig out from under a pile of my other crap some more Maths notes, including my practice prelims and the sheet which tells me what topics are going to be in my exam. It's not exactly pulling an all-nighter but it's progress nonetheless.
I was reassured (mildly) by Sam telling me that he's done no revision at all. I say mildly because a) Sam doesn't take Maths, just its way easier, no-need-to-revise-for-it arch-nemesis, English, and b) he's a lazy git.
Turns out that one of the many reasons he hasn't done any work is that he's got himself an Eee PC as well. He went with the 2 gig version and spent the extra money on an SD card to make up the memory and a DVD rewriter since he needs an optical drive to put Windows on it and he apparently wanted one for his Mac Mini anyway.
All he really loses out on with his version, other than the memory, is a small increase in processor speed and the inbuilt webcam. It seems he was willing to sacrifice those to get it a bit faster (the 4 gig version, of which mine is one, is still out of stock almost everywhere). Last I saw of him, he was copying a cut down version of XP to a thumb drive to try and boot from that. I'll have to ask him how that went.
As I hate being outdone in the general geekiness department, I decided to enable the desktop mode on my Eee while he was doing that. All it required was a few command lines and some package installation and it now has a full desktop GUI, though I may set it to boot up into the simpler one just for convenience.
Now that I can install and access non-default applications, I've also added GIMP (the image editor), Audacity (everyone's favourite open source audio editor) and versions of Bejeweled and Minesweeper (because I have way too much time on my hands).
I'll probably play around with it some more tomorrow, after I get through with (or when I need a break from) doing some actual revision. Now that I have the sheet saying what I need to do, Maths doesn't seem quite so daunting. I figure it'll start being daunting again once I start actually doing the work but I may as well enjoy this brief respite while it lasts.
I also need to get on with my Computing project. As I can't be bothered using my Beaten Up Old LaptopTM every time I want to work on it, I've decided that I'm going to steal the little Thinkpad that my brother got for university a couple of years ago and which is now only used by my dad for his office connection once every so often.
I could theoretically work on it on another computer but, to be completely honest, I just want to sit at my desk and have two laptops and my iMac in front of me, running all three major operating systems. I'll probably laugh maniacally to myself and pretend I'm some sort of hacker supervillain.
I can but dream.
And that's it for tonight. Nothing much else to say, except that I'll probably have a woodle up tomorrow. Now, I'm off to bed before this headache gets any worse so...
Have a nice day, I suppose.
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