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I just volunteered to teach in this practical with no idea what it was about, then saw this:
Dear BIO1326 Student,
The practical 'human simulation of foraging' will be held 2 pm Monday 21st April.
It begins in GP101, but you will need to be dressed to work outside for a couple of hours.
You will be outside on the lawns, so wear flat shoes.
james
hahaha
Fortunately this is within my expertise, but it is a warning to myself to look before I leap!
I got some stuff done today that was good for my soul, namely my termly progress report and my report about my annual report, basically reporting that I'm being supervised and doing things. It's not good for my soul in the sense that I'm enriched, just it takes away the feeling of "having not done it yet" which is probably the only reason anyone ever writes reports, and I'm a pretty conscientious report writer myself.
I felt pretty crappy this afternoon and I went home a bit early, had a nap for about 3 and a half hours, save for when the phone went and woke me, arousing temporary rage, my housephone ALWAYS ALWAYS rings when I'm having a nap. I'm going to unplug it next time. I'm feeling a bit better. I've not done my usual thursday stuff yet but I'm not worried as I am quite rested and tomorrow is going to be a short day, I'll stay up late and get everything done.
I was thinking earlier about the difference between the nineties sci-fi type show, where the characters are consciously not-flaming-hott and the 2000's type sci fi show where they deliberately are. Take The X Files for example, sexy sex symbol types when people get to know the characters, but they're not pinups in their own right, they're just, you know, ok almost believable as FBI agent types. Star trek TNG and DS9, good looking people, definitely, flaming, smoking hott? No, definitely not. Voyager, of course, started in the usual mode and then hired 7of9 to be the hottest woman in the universe. Much hotter than any star trek character from the nineties. Babylon 5, good looking people, odd looking people, actually the casting of people and their looks appropriate to the characters is brilliant in B5, but the only truly smokingly hot actress in it is dressed up as a bizarre lizard woman all the way through, playing Na'toth in the first three seasons. Compare and contrast to Battlestar galactica, self consciously sexy characters all the way through what i have seen so far, and military type guys virtually tripping over their manly jaws, Firefly, yes we have some serious hottness here. House isn't sci fi but it is a sea of babes within which Hugh Laurie seems to cheerfully drown. The series that strikes an odd chord for me is Bones. There are constant allusions to how sexalicious the Dr Brennan character is supposed to be "who is this? America's next top model?" "YOU're a scientist??" that sort of thing, only, she's not. She's a nineties-style action science heroine and she's far too practical looking, bascially, there are hotter women working in my lab. Not that I don't like her, she's great and as seen in episode 1, she has a nice rack (run, Temperance, run!). The Angela character is hot hot hot, but nobody really mentions that, funny. I think Kathy Reichs is a bit of an ego maniac.
Actors don't need to be breathtakingly gorgeous to be amazing, and loveable, and brialliant. I'm actually wondering even if the 90's casting of non-modelly types was infact a cynical thing, to get people to like them more because they seem more gettable, somehow. You WOULD chat up Scully if you met her in a bar, you probably wouldn't chat up Seven of nine. I would, but hey, I have balls of steel
I also think it is definitely a nineties thing, well, an eighties nineties thing. I mean, compare Kirk, when cast, with Picard, phwoar. Ot Uhura with Troi. Or any of the women in TNG come to think of it. Ah, the eighties were a funny time.
I'm going to go now. Don't flame me about my unpopular fandom opinions! Unpopular fandom opinions are what the internet is for! That..and porn
I just volunteered to teach in this practical with no idea what it was about, then saw this:
Dear BIO1326 Student,
The practical 'human simulation of foraging' will be held 2 pm Monday 21st April.
It begins in GP101, but you will need to be dressed to work outside for a couple of hours.
You will be outside on the lawns, so wear flat shoes.
james
hahaha
Fortunately this is within my expertise, but it is a warning to myself to look before I leap!
I got some stuff done today that was good for my soul, namely my termly progress report and my report about my annual report, basically reporting that I'm being supervised and doing things. It's not good for my soul in the sense that I'm enriched, just it takes away the feeling of "having not done it yet" which is probably the only reason anyone ever writes reports, and I'm a pretty conscientious report writer myself.
I felt pretty crappy this afternoon and I went home a bit early, had a nap for about 3 and a half hours, save for when the phone went and woke me, arousing temporary rage, my housephone ALWAYS ALWAYS rings when I'm having a nap. I'm going to unplug it next time. I'm feeling a bit better. I've not done my usual thursday stuff yet but I'm not worried as I am quite rested and tomorrow is going to be a short day, I'll stay up late and get everything done.
I was thinking earlier about the difference between the nineties sci-fi type show, where the characters are consciously not-flaming-hott and the 2000's type sci fi show where they deliberately are. Take The X Files for example, sexy sex symbol types when people get to know the characters, but they're not pinups in their own right, they're just, you know, ok almost believable as FBI agent types. Star trek TNG and DS9, good looking people, definitely, flaming, smoking hott? No, definitely not. Voyager, of course, started in the usual mode and then hired 7of9 to be the hottest woman in the universe. Much hotter than any star trek character from the nineties. Babylon 5, good looking people, odd looking people, actually the casting of people and their looks appropriate to the characters is brilliant in B5, but the only truly smokingly hot actress in it is dressed up as a bizarre lizard woman all the way through, playing Na'toth in the first three seasons. Compare and contrast to Battlestar galactica, self consciously sexy characters all the way through what i have seen so far, and military type guys virtually tripping over their manly jaws, Firefly, yes we have some serious hottness here. House isn't sci fi but it is a sea of babes within which Hugh Laurie seems to cheerfully drown. The series that strikes an odd chord for me is Bones. There are constant allusions to how sexalicious the Dr Brennan character is supposed to be "who is this? America's next top model?" "YOU're a scientist??" that sort of thing, only, she's not. She's a nineties-style action science heroine and she's far too practical looking, bascially, there are hotter women working in my lab. Not that I don't like her, she's great and as seen in episode 1, she has a nice rack (run, Temperance, run!). The Angela character is hot hot hot, but nobody really mentions that, funny. I think Kathy Reichs is a bit of an ego maniac.
Actors don't need to be breathtakingly gorgeous to be amazing, and loveable, and brialliant. I'm actually wondering even if the 90's casting of non-modelly types was infact a cynical thing, to get people to like them more because they seem more gettable, somehow. You WOULD chat up Scully if you met her in a bar, you probably wouldn't chat up Seven of nine. I would, but hey, I have balls of steel
I also think it is definitely a nineties thing, well, an eighties nineties thing. I mean, compare Kirk, when cast, with Picard, phwoar. Ot Uhura with Troi. Or any of the women in TNG come to think of it. Ah, the eighties were a funny time.
I'm going to go now. Don't flame me about my unpopular fandom opinions! Unpopular fandom opinions are what the internet is for! That..and porn
Foraging sounds weirdly interesting though.