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visesh

I think this is just a sign that Cambridge has actually taken over your brains...

Aside from that being meant as a joke, the truth of it really only factors in for arts students and people with coursework. If your degree only formally fits into 6months of your entire year it makes sense to make those 6months a bit more pleasant by getting a bit out of the way in the other 6months.

Also Cambridge has got nothing to do with it. I've always devoted all of my energy and thought to whatever the most important thing to me was at the time. That's just my personality.

Reply 841

Lidka

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Craghyrax

At Cambridge you get "vacations" not holidays...

It's so true. :frown:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1203

Reply 842

Catsmeat

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I'm going to put in a last (?) and irrelevant post before flying out to Turkey for six weeks to complete my fieldwork requirement. Actually, anxious in the knowledge that i'm having my half-sleeve finished tomorrow which gives it about a day (ha) to heal up before I start heaving earth and muck about in a field. Infection any?

Anyway, have an eventful summer everyone.

Reply 843

Craghyrax

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Lidka

It's so true. :frown:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1203

Reply 844

Craghyrax

OP

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Catsmeat

I'm going to put in a last (?) and irrelevant post before flying out to Turkey for six weeks to complete my fieldwork requirement. Actually, anxious in the knowledge that i'm having my half-sleeve finished tomorrow which gives it about a day (ha) to heal up before I start heaving earth and muck about in a field. Infection any?

Anyway, have an eventful summer everyone.

'Half-sleeve'? :eyeball:

Well good luck with it all regardless...

Reply 845

Catsmeat

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Craghyrax

'Half-sleeve'? :eyeball:

Well good luck with it all regardless...

Tattoo, from wrist to elbow. It's not like my travel insurance doesn't cover acts of stupidity, or at least I hope it does.

Reply 846

Craghyrax

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Catsmeat

Tattoo, from wrist to elbow. It's not like my travel insurance doesn't cover acts of stupidity, or at least I hope it does.

I wouldn't have put you down as the tatooing type, but cool :biggrin:

Have fun.

Reply 847

Scipio90

Lidka

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1203

Unrelated-to-that-comic rant:

If there's a word for gradually jumping the shark, PhD has done it IMO. Seems to have abandoned both storyline and all but occasional humour. Also, f you're going to design your site so you have to scramble through a load of adverts to buy crap to get to the content, at least make the content worth viewing.

Reply 848

Tom

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visesh

Any techno-geeks about? I need help deciding between an HTC Touch HD and the HTC Hero. By Friday. And to think I was >..< this close to going for the iPhone 3GS:/

Touch HD is a piece of crap.

Well, the hardware is nice but Windows Mobile is just a nightmare. Slow, laggy, buggy, totally un-touch-oriented (need a stylus for most of it). Like using Windows on the PC from years ago, it's that bad.

I've just finished reviewing one, and I hated it.

Whereas Android is great. But apparently the Hero is also a bit slow/unresponsive 'cos HTC have layered so much of their own custom UI over the Android basics - maybe a Magic would be a better bet, assuming you don't care about the camera (which is the only other advantage the Hero has). Of the many phones I've had to review so far this year the G1/HTC Dream has been by miles the best, so I'd definitely say go for one of HTC's three Android handsets over anything but the iPhone .

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visesh

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Thanks! I just wanted to know how Windows Mobile fared against Android.

I've found two pretty similar deals for both the Magic and Hero, so I guess I just need to head into town and check them both out for myself! I am intrugued to see what HTC Sense is actually like.

Reply 850

Craghyrax

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The suspense! Balloting has begun. Everybody has a 2hr slot and you can log in and see each room as they go. The double room ballots are done, and the single ballots started this morning. Top girl in our year (the other SPS girl who was top in the subject for first year) has just gone, and she didn't pick a G staircase room! :headfire:

I might stand a chance of getting my room :teeth:

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munro90

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Craghyrax

The suspense! Balloting has begun. Everybody has a 2hr slot and you can log in and see each room as they go. The double room ballots are done, and the single ballots started this morning. Top girl in our year (the other SPS girl who was top in the subject for first year) has just gone, and she didn't pick a G staircase room! :headfire:

I might stand a chance of getting my room :teeth:

good luck craggy! :smile:

I was surprised in our ballot that the "best" rooms (IMO) didn't go first- I guess people have different criteria for their idea of the "best" rooms- maybe she wants to be near her friends or doesn't want to spend as much :dontknow:

Reply 852

scarlet ibis

Craghyrax

The suspense! Balloting has begun. Everybody has a 2hr slot and you can log in and see each room as they go. The double room ballots are done, and the single ballots started this morning. Top girl in our year (the other SPS girl who was top in the subject for first year) has just gone, and she didn't pick a G staircase room! :headfire:

I might stand a chance of getting my room :teeth:

Good luck!

We're just off to spend a few days on the canals with our friends on their boat, follwed by a few days with James' family!

Reply 853

Scipio90

What's the weather like in cambridge at the moment?

Reply 854

Tom

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munro90

I was surprised in our ballot that the "best" rooms (IMO) didn't go first- I guess people have different criteria for their idea of the "best" rooms- maybe she wants to be near her friends or doesn't want to spend as much :dontknow:

Well, plus the 'best' rooms are usually the most expensive too, aren't they? Which may well be the most important criterion for many ppl.

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visesh

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Scipio90

What's the weather like in cambridge at the moment?

Partly Sunny, 20C, according to firefox.

In reality, it's pretty overcast and mild. Good cricket weather :biggrin:

Reply 856

Tom

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It's been raining solidly here in Devon for the last week or so. Absolutely pissing it down at the moment. Thoroughly depressing, though good for my productivity since I find it much easier to sit inside and model carbon emissions when sunny weather isn't beckoning me to go outside in it.

Also: Why does the uni's webmail server have to choose today to be down? >.< I wanted to send a first approximation of my results to both my dissertation supervisor and to the group that's funding me, to prove I am actually making some progress and now I can't e-mail them. Arrghghg.

Reply 857

scarlet ibis

Athena

I narrowboating from March to Wellingborough next week, I really hope it doesn't rain the whole time!

Aha! So that's where you're going! No-where near Cambridge realistically, although of course, you could stop off on the way to March (please do! although we're away til Sunday). Interesting bit of waterways. If you've done canals before, its pretty different. Well Creek (the main route through the Middle Level) is very fenny, but has its own charm. March itself is lovely. Then you'll go through Stanground (nr Peterborough) onto the Nene, which is very pretty, and quite a contrast from the narrow creeks of the Level. At Stanground, the Nene is a PROPER river, as wide as the Upper Thames. Have fun!

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visesh

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visesh

Partly Sunny, 20C, according to firefox.

In reality, it's pretty overcast and mild. Good cricket weather :biggrin:

Alas, the match has been called off due to rain :frown:

Reply 859

Craghyrax

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Tom

Well, plus the 'best' rooms are usually the most expensive too, aren't they? Which may well be the most important criterion for many ppl.

Nope. In G Staircase there are some average priced rooms and some expensive ones. The room the girl chose was the same price as the expensive rooms in G staircase.
Sadly my nemesis (college brother) has gone for a room in G staircase by now :reaper:

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