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Reply 6780
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smilepea
Zoedotdot
I have double the number of volunteers that I need :s-smilie: I have one Mathmo but he can only do the third weekend and I don't think Emma have any rooms then :frown:


I have double too, but with 3 mathmos and 8 medics (I feel like I have achieved something there) but I think some of my people will get people from John's (well hopefully)
smilepea
I have double too, but with 3 mathmos and 8 medics (I feel like I have achieved something there) but I think some of my people will get people from John's (well hopefully)


I have four medics, a vet and 1 mathmo. But I have five linguists! Haha. I don't think being at Emma it makes sense to take John's people, but I think Pembroke's rooms could come in handy.
Reply 6782
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smilepea
Zoedotdot
I have four medics, a vet and 1 mathmo. But I have five linguists! Haha. I don't think being at Emma it makes sense to take John's people, but I think Pembroke's rooms could come in handy.


I'm trying my best to get a vet, and I'm going to ask to get an email sent to our medsoc list. I just wish we had more rooms, especially with the numbers of medics that I can get
Stratocaster
Next Monday night. I haven't really thought too much about it since I didn't think I'd be getting anyone to sing, so really whatever you'd like to do (as long as there's an acoustic guitar in there somewhere :P). I was thinking of maybe doing a mashup of crap pop music and songs you wouldn't normally expect to be covered a) acoustically and b) by guys, not gals. So, think Britney, My Humps .etc. Maybe switch up the lyrics a little and make it funny. Just an idea really.
You don't have to do anything if you don't want to, but I'd be happy to play in the background for you if you did.

Sounds interesting; I've never performed before (for good reason!) so it doesn't really matter what the songs are - if you post a list of ones you can play to I'll have a look at how they go (my knowledge of pop music starts at around 2008 :o:) and see which ones are easy enough for me. :smile:
I full retract anything I may have said about Them Crooked Vultures just being more QOTSA.

This album is just mind-bogglingly good.
aaaaaaaaargh algebra. Calculating baseline emissions for a NHS Trust in London. If bleeedin' electricity companies actually gave meter readings on their bills rather than just cost it would be seemples. instead I have to work out lots of nasty calculations, cos theres different tariffs for day and night. Also it would be nice if the companies wanting baseline emissions calculations actually gave you all their bills, not missing the odd month here and there and making me estimate things. Grrr

My day today would be useless for a shadow:

Until 1pm: sleep.
1-3:40: read incomprehensible (for the shadow) papers on syntax.
4-6: attend incomprehensible (FTS) seminar on syntax.
6-7:30: attend another incomprehensible (FTS) seminar on syntax.
7:30- : to the pub, to make incomprehensible (FTS) jokes about syntax.
later: maybe do some reading.

In my first year this guy had a shadow in our lab session, and the only spare lab coats they had were the yellow demonstrator coats, so everyone thought the shadow was a demonstrator and kept asking him questions. :p:
Reply 6787
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Tom
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scarlet ibis
aaaaaaaaargh algebra. Calculating baseline emissions for a NHS Trust in London. If bleeedin' electricity companies actually gave meter readings on their bills rather than just cost it would be seemples. instead I have to work out lots of nasty calculations, cos theres different tariffs for day and night. Also it would be nice if the companies wanting baseline emissions calculations actually gave you all their bills, not missing the odd month here and there and making me estimate things. Grrr



Tell me about it >.<

I have just written a dissertation on this sort of stuff, so if you want any help send me a PM :smile:
I've just put on three loads of washing and still couldn't fit everything in. Never mind, at least I'll have loads of clean clothes now :smile:
Tom
Tell me about it >.<

I have just written a dissertation on this sort of stuff, so if you want any help send me a PM :smile:

Oh, cool. I've sorted it out now, and my boss left this morning to present it to the company, so fingers crossed its right(ish!). I added a disclaimer that it was just an estimate becuase I'd had to fill in quite a few gaps and make several assumptions.

What was the dissertation on exactly? I'd be interested to see it. I am learning how to calculate baseline emissions so that i can help organisations start tracking their carbon footprints.

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Oh yes, any Classicists know what this means? Presumably something about not locking bikes to the fence, but I wondered about the exact translation?

Craghyrax
No, that's thefish_uk, and that's literally his entire life outside of engineering.

aaahhh i knew it was an engineer and it also explains how much time this has taken up.
On the other side, peeps come see When in Rome. Its on at the fitzpatrick hall in Queen's, running from tonight until staurday night. It's very funny. You can reserve tickets here. :smile:
scarlet ibis

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Oh yes, any Classicists know what this means?



a free translator gives out "two wheel this having inherited perimentur" so assuming this appears in cambridge i'm guessing from that it means "please don't lock bikes to the fence"
munro90
a free translator gives out "two wheel this having inherited perimentur" so assuming this appears in cambridge i'm guessing from that it means "please don't lock bikes to the fence"

Yes, i chucked it into a google translator but wasn't really satisfied with the response and wanted a proper Classicist rather than a machine to have a go.

rep if anyone knows where it is :wink:
I have 2.5 hours to do an examples paper and 2 tripos questions.

How the hell has this happened? :frown:
And I've just spent ages trying to buy print credits :dry: Seriously, what possible benefit is there to anyone? It's just annoying. I only have to do it because my printer has decided to object to me using it.
Reply 6795
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Tom
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Don't you get free ones? :s-smilie:
Reply 6796
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Tom
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scarlet ibis
What was the dissertation on exactly? I'd be interested to see it. I am learning how to calculate baseline emissions so that i can help organisations start tracking their carbon footprints.


I calculated a financial year 2008-9 baseline set of carbon emissions for the uni of plymouth. Focusing more on scope 3 (supply chain) emissions than the ones from utilities which I guess are more what you are looking at, but I'm happy to send you a copy if you like (PM me your e-mail addy). The references list might be useful to you if nothing else :smile:
Supergrunch
My day today would be useless for a shadow:

Until 1pm: sleep.
1-3:40: read incomprehensible (for the shadow) papers on syntax.
4-6: attend incomprehensible (FTS) seminar on syntax.
6-7:30: attend another incomprehensible (FTS) seminar on syntax.
7:30- : to the pub, to make incomprehensible (FTS) jokes about syntax.
later: maybe do some reading.

In my first year this guy had a shadow in our lab session, and the only spare lab coats they had were the yellow demonstrator coats, so everyone thought the shadow was a demonstrator and kept asking him questions. :p:


It would have been extremely funny if the shadow managed to answer all of the questions! :p:
munro90
aaahhh i knew it was an engineer and it also explains how much time this has taken up.
On the other side, peeps come see When in Rome. Its on at the fitzpatrick hall in Queen's, running from tonight until staurday night. It's very funny. You can reserve tickets here. :smile:

Am I right in saying that I just got an email from you explaining the subscription to the medical social list?
Reply 6799
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harr
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Apparently I am good enough to lose to schoolchildren if there's nobody else available. (If anyone wasn't bored of my mentions of squash after the first post, they must be by now.)
Craghyrax
That insulin index was based on only one scientific study, and it measured foods over a 2hr period, which is shorter than the time it takes to digest things. So the results are quite skewed. For instance with protein you see the spike for a short period of time, but the glucagon is released and the insulin decreases. Also with protein its only the leaner meats that give high spikes. Fatty meats don't because fat doesn't trigger such a high response. Pasta, on the other hand, peaks to the same level but stays that way for hours...I'd hope that they'd choose a sensible timescale, though they might have just copied the glycemic index one. I wouldn't have expected insulin to remain high for much longer than three hours since supposedly "glucose levels after eating some foods remain elevated for up to 4 hours or longer in people with diabetes" (http://web.archive.org/web/20080526113951/http://www.diabetes.org/glycemic-index.jsp) and it would seem strange to keep the insulin around for long afterwards unless it's beneficial, but we're going a long way beyond my medical knowledge.

In order to reduce insulin spikes we would want to have a diet lower in carbohydrate and protein and higher in fat. Unless you're basing your diet around olives and some types of nut this gives either lots of omega-6 (which you suggest is a bad thing) or saturated fat (which most people think is a bad thing, though I don't remember you giiving a view on the issue) or both. This suggests that we need to come to some sort of compromise rather than avoiding carbohydrate heavy foods enitrely.

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