HMS RE-SITS cont.

Guys, Followers and anyone who may stumble across this post.
I've acquired an internet signal (thanks to my really great mum) and while I'm supposed to be using it purely for coursework and exam preparation, I thought I could expend a little on updating this blog and letting you all know how things lie.
I must have listened to about 12 hours of 'What is love' on repeat during the last three days. Time has been blurring together, while constantly slipping away. I've got a pretty good 'team' here, which currently metaphorically consists of me, the ships captain,  a ships mechanic, a new super-hero, the techno guy and my mum.
So far it's been a long stretch of  near consistent fighting with no one definitely winning, so its still all to play for. Although I'd keep playing even if it wasn't. Never give up, never surrender and all that jazz.
Thunderstorms keep stopping and starting, both literally here and in the metaphorical planes of my imagination. (The sky behind me just flashed with lighting and I'd love to be outside. I love lighting.)

Anyway in three days this ship will either be fine and dandy or it will be drift wood. (But I won't actually know for quite a while because LoBro are pretty slow about releasing results.)
I'm not going to give a goodbye speech because I've done that before and besides we're going to win anyway, so I guess I'll see you on the other shore.

Ruth.

[I'd post pictures (because I have them) but I don't have time. Maybe another day.]

In other news HSFWSHLFLSH BATMAN!!!! XD
Basically; I saw The Dark Knight Rises, and you should too.

HMS RE-SITS

I know all my posts these days are some variant of 'I'm not dead', and although it's true I'm also currently revising for resists so this may change shortly.
With my pretty poor track record with finishing anything I start, and also the fact that revising for resits means I probably shouldn't be drawing comics anyway, I figured I'd just go ahead and tell you sum up where we are.
We're near Ferry Dock (from which a reasonably large ferry has recently departed).
Ruth and Kiran have exchanged some form of epic goodbye's such as an adventuring due would when about to part ways for what may be the last time and Ruth has boarded the ferry. The ferry is a fair distance away now, the approximate distance where one would stop looking at the shore one had just left, and start exploring the ship itself. No doubt Kiran has turned to continue her journey inland, but it's too far for the camera's to see from here.
Ruth turns with one of those 'I totally knew you were the whole time' lines to face Numerical methods (Who appears to be splitting into two separate entity's, a green one and a purple one.) and Differential Equations. (Maybe someone else as well, we're not entirely clear who at this point.)
To be continued in the season 2 finale.


Anywho, that's what's going on.
It's not quite as cool or exiting as the 3 on 1 night battle with Numerical Methods, Differential Equations and Computing Law, but there you go. The consequences are more dramatic (although hopefully it will have a happier ending), because if this ship sinks that's it. I'll have to swim or something, because there is a rather large lack of life boats and flotation devices.

Probably the closest this will get to being  a comic.

So I'm back. Mostly because I don't know whether to go to bed or go to the computer labs, so I thought I'd compromise and hang out on the lines, and now my computer's thinking about stuff so I thought I'd hand out here for a bit.
I re-discovered Biro recently. They are amazing pens, I love the way the just flow so smoothly over paper. Although they do tend to make my handwriting pretty illegible, which is one of the many reasons I don't tend to used them when doing work. This is the other reason:

It's a long story.

I tend to get pretty distracted while holding a biro.
To be fair, my A.I lecturer goes really slowly, and it was a double.
Seriously though, they are the nicest pens for shading, because they don't just draw in block colour.
Actually biro ink is pretty weird. It's really thick and sticky, and is a right pain if it get's spilt, but it works because it never absorbs into the page.
Also it smells a bit weird, but I've encountered weirder smelling inks before. Like the black ink in my fountain pen I used to use. It smelt really nostalgic and sort of like, cinder-y?
However after smelling some biro drawing, I realise that black biro smell similar to this. Maybe this is just the smell of ink, or at least black ink.
Or maybe Terezi was right, and colours do all have tastes and smells, maybe this is the smell of black? Probably not though.
If you want to know more about ball point pens, you can look it up. I recommend Wikipedia.

Aren't they just magical?

Looks like my computer has finished thinking, and decided that it can't play any steam related things after all.
I shall now proceed to go to bed (even though I like, totally already slept and stuff) because I still have crazy amounts of group project to do.

It is now March.

Thought I'd let you guys know that I finally finished my H.C.D comic thing.(click link ← for bigger pic) It's not that great, but it would be a bit low if I didn't put it up here seeming as I've been mentioning it a fair bit as evidence of me actually doing anything.
In real life news not much is happening. Doing work, Bible study is going cool, failing spectacularly at exams. I found someone else who seems to like a lot of the same movies as me, discovered that 'buddy comedys' is actually a film genre (buddy comedies are pretty fun).
Dude life's a crazy thing. Did you know that? It's full of stuff all the time. I think maybe I should hang out in the kitchen a bit more, but I need to print screens some online test shots first. Guy next door ran out of tea, which is pretty sad but I've run out too so there's not much I can do about that. You never know what's Gonna happen next either. Also I think I've been accidentally stealing peoples mugs. I have 4 identical mugs here and I know that at least one of them isn't mine. I don't really know what I'm saying here. Not much really. Life is cool, try your best , generic statement!


Also, why is it that Pi had to be discovered first, but has the hardest background story to write? I know exactly what happens with e, and I'm pretty up to scratch on i so why couldn't they be first? Meh.

Also it's still nostalgia season, but I'ma Gonna try not to waste a load of time watching stuff or anything. OSTs are still cool though. Yes, I did watch the Baratie arc. So Nostalgic, man I can't believe it was that long ago.

Hourly Comic Day 2012

I watched V for Vendetta today. It was pretty brilliant. Seriously guys, it's like 1984 meets the born identity and then watched zoro. This is what I wanted from 1984. Not exactly, but 1984 was for me rather dreary. Nothing really happened, no one did anything. I don't care how it ended but nothing happened in the middle either.
I just thought that this was one of those films where I never felt 'Seriously movie? Why do that, it's not supposed to go that way?', so yeah. I really liked it and would recommend it.

I also finished Halo Reach. Yeah, I finished a halo game all the way through. The one with the trailer that made me say I'd maybe one day play Halo. Thanks trailer.

Also it's hourly comic day today!! (Thanks to my Mum who put it on my calendar for me. )
TBH I don't think I stand a chance of hacking it, but I'm going to try it. Maybe I could manage a 3-hourly comic day.
Here's the first one for you guys. (It's phone-cam'ed because I don't want to use my scanner at 2am.)
Gotta love those times when you're walking along to ELO, and it's really late and the moon is crazy big. Also the streetlamp that always turns off when I walked past turned on for me this time. That was pretty cool.

I'll scan it it later or something. Maybe.

Hope you guys have a great day.

Procrastination?

Well exam revision isn't being the best thing ever, but wh'ev. I hope it goes ok anyway.
I still can't really write anything exiting, so have some concept art instead. Don't worry, I didn't do it all today instead of revising. It's been sitting around for a while. (well sheet the third was from today's sesh.) Hopefully it will make it past the concept stage sometime soon, but you should know better than to trust me when I talk about finishing creative things. Can you guess who's who?

Oldest on the wall, newest at the front.

The Not Quite Last Stand

Sorry I haven't been around. I've had stuff to do, like dossing about and stuff.
I'm feeling a little shaken right now as the effects of driving in a car with a terrifying woman judging you are just starting to wear off. Still I achieved my thrice failure in one test, and with rather few minors as well. I didn't even think I might end up killing the examiner either, which is an improvement.

In other news,I'm afraid I lost my semi-done Java comic and my Mum says I can't start again until I've made a Dungeon Crawler game in Java. So I guess if it ever comes into being it's going to take some time. I procrastinate a lot anyway, but I feel kind of bad letting the imaginary side down.
Since I've got a small queue of not very important mini projects I guess it's probably not any kind of spoiler if I say, I got back into Uni again. I don't think I can make a comic, so I'll just tell you how it panned out:

There were five of us due in the dance studio, all strangers to each other. Most of us got there a bit early and started making last minute adjustments to the barricades although there wasn't really that much left we could do to make it any better. It was more the going through the motions to help us feel prepared.
 As 9 approached we got into position, most of us up against the barricade with various weaponry although one guy decided to snipe from the roof.  Robot Zombies are fairly vulnerable to head-shots. The last guy arrived with less than a minute to spare with just enough time to grab a gun and turn round before the first robot was spotted coming around towers. We had scarcely enough time to do anything before he fell with a bullet through it's motherboard.

Here is a quick sketch to help with your imagination.

We continued this success for quite a while with a perimeter of fallen robots fairly far from the studio and I for one felt pretty confident. If this was as bad as it was going to get then zombie invasions must be a piece of cake, but as time wore on the perimeter started to draw closer and closer. Maybe we were getting tired, but I think they were getting stronger or harder to hit as we picked off the weaker ones.
 Anyway the battle shifted from ranged to more close combat and it started raining a bit in attempt at a slightly dramatic setting. To be honest I didn't really know if I was going to make it at this point, and I took a few pretty bad scratches from the sharper end of the torn metal and exposed wires of these insane robots.

After over 2 hours the last robot zombie fell, and we sat waiting for the rescue copters among exploded toaster and shards of metal. Well most of us. I'm sorry to say while five of us went out to fight Robot Zombies, only four of us came back. I'd say that we'd never forget that one guy, but really I've never met him and I don't even know them so that would be a lie but I'll try to learn from my mistakes and remember that Robot Zombie attacks can be fatal and are not a walk in the park (they don't call it a last stand for nothing) so I'm going to try harder to work while I can and prepare for my exams better so that I don't end up missing the evacuation helicopters again.

I've still passed level 1, but it's not over yet.
Level 2 starts on Monday.

Robot Zombie Hoards

The Robot Zombie Hoards are coming. From what I gather the power crazed calculus adapted himself into a cyborg and infected himself with the Robot Zombie virus. It spreads through infected robot cables when they come in contact with other robot's cables and wiring, but this does not make them safe. Although it is not contagious to humans it overrides all commands with the basic instruction to kill. I would advise staying away from robots for the time being, especially humanoid ones.
Those of us who did not make the evacuation copters the first time round are setting up for a last stand in the dance studio, although I think there's another larger group of survivors somewhere else as well. Maybe more, who can tell. Our calculations seem to be pointing at one large final raid on Wednesday, so we'll be waiting for them.
I'm sorry I haven't written anything in a while, but I've been away training.
I know that none of you will really read this, especially as I've probably never met any of you before and may never again either but good luck guys. Lets try our best,( and trust in God,) and hopefully I'll see you on the other side.
*Insert 'Brave smile' face here*

Dear Statistics

Statistics what happened to you? Last time I checked, you were full of coloured diagrams and quirky exclamation marks. Now you have long formula's involving F's and X's and ... calculus.
How did this happen? Who did this to you?
I'm sorry I forgot about your exam, and I know I only left a day or so to revise for you but still. It comes as a bit of a shock to the system to realise you've changed so much.
You're not the topic I used to know. I can see traces of what I knew in you but now there's so much more. I need a little time to adjust to this.
Unfortunately all I have is 2 hours.
If I do really badly in this exam, please don't think I hate you.
 I assure you I really enjoyed your lectures, your colours and the anecdotes that came with your crazy examples. Whatever happens, I'll remember you for your perms and comms, P(A)'s and those funky tables, not the calculus and Central Limit Theorems.
Ruth.

Databases and Entities

Revising Databases in the chaplaincy, although I'm probably going to have to wait another 12 hours or so untill I can post this, so I don't end up posting more than one thing a day. Yeah. I decided that the rest of the world is probably right about when days start and finish, and even though last night feels like yesterday, technically (because real life is all about the technicalities.) it was still today. And it still does feel a bit like overkill posting two blogs in one day.
Anyway. Back to the point.

Revising databases is a little more interesting thanks to Linkara and ATFW. The whole 'Entity' (The Entity being the big bad of the season, although not much else has been revealed yet.) plot seems to have come at a pretty good time for me. Now the lines "An entity is something that has an independent existence" and "A piece of the universe is missing. Its voice is not its own."   sort of link up, and I can feel that tiny bit happier about learning about entitys. But what happened to Ninja style dancer!?!  

Exept I don't think I'm going to uncover any plot points in my "Relational Databases-Design and use" book, and revising databases is still really boring. (I've read 70 pages, and I'm still only about a third of the way through!)

The chapliancy is a really good place to revise though. If I were back in my room, I may have reached page 10 by now.

*Saving as Draft, I guess its back to work. Meh.*

Also, I think we have a solution for the hat coolness/ease of drawing problem. The Robin hood/Green arrow hat is both fairly cool, and fairly easy to draw. Yay for happy mediums.

Seeming as I now appear to be posting this now, I'll probably start updating it when I feel bored again.

And NB. (what does NB even stand for?) I know I'm doing a bit more of the 'talking about me', and a bit less of the 'talking about cool stuff', but as you may have guessed it's exam season and we already cleared up the fact that that happens in exam season.
Exams end on July 22, so you can always check back after that if you want to. :p

Thus ends our brief interlude.

I can't remember what I was going to say last post, so I'll just have to leave it as a picture of a kitten. Now that C++ is all out of the way and  my laptop is back, charged and letting me use blogspot again, I guess I can start writing here again. Not that I stopped for a particually long time, and not that I definitely will.
Talking of things that I may start up agian, Java comic has been confirmed by test subject as having a suitable plot (I guess you can't really jump the shark if you don't have a series) and should resume progress shortly. It will probably have even more wildly inconsistent art styles than before, be fairly much longer and may even contain a train. Which people may or may not be fighting atop. Because train fights are pretty cool.

The Java Comic, coming to a blog near you some time in the distant future. Probably.

Topic no.2

I was thinking today. There are some cool things that look really awesome to do, but if you actually did them in real life, just wouldn't be cool. Like taking your hat off when somebody dies. The fact somebody died would so completely overshadow the fact that you are awesomly taking off your hat in a 'I'm a cool person in a hat' way, that it would be disrespectful to even think about that.

The solution I came up with was to be in a movie. This resolves most of these problems because you would still be cool, but nobody would have actually died.

It's also another great reason to wear a hat (as I may have already mentioned to some people). I should probably get a hat sometime, but I think it would look silly.

Speaking of hats, it would be kind of cool to have a hat and trenchcoat guy on my team, if I ever had a team. Conspiracy theorist or private detective a plus. Exept I've already sort of chosen the team of 'take over the world-ness', and trenchcoat and hat people tend to be the good guys. Or at least usually some sort of anti-hero.

Can you get evil trenchcoaty hat people? It just feels kind of wrong.

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Hidden Quadratics

I have work so I can't talk right now, and I'm very  very distracted. Which is incredibly bad, but Calculus is just soooo evil and stuff.
In order to get myself not to get distracted here, you can have the product of my previous distraction. (Because that will render me unable to use Blogger for the rest of the day)

Click to enlarge

Hidden Quadratic equations. They're the velociraptors of Maths. Learn to spot them before it's too late.

After the fight

Some of you may have been wondering 'so what was the outcome of that truly epic fight you were going to have with that calculus test?'. [Ok I don't think any of you atcually are...]
This is what really and truly happerned last weekend (with alot of poetic license):