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May 26th, 2007
12:46 pm - I still exist.
Hi folks. Just so you know, I still exist. I have just finished university and am currently preparing for entry in to that 'big, bad world' thing that everyone keeps talking about.
I maintain a daily blog which I try and post to often. It's a fair bit more convenient for me than LiveJournal and other similar sites. You can find it at tom.opiumfield.com/blog/. I have set up a LiveJournal syndication feed at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) tommorris_feed. There are a lot of updates posted on there, so be prepared. I also can't promise that I'll respond to comments posted on tommorris_feed, while comments posted on the comments area on my blog or emailed directly to me will be responded to quickly (my email address is listed on my blog).
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November 26th, 2004
10:11 pm
The Great Opinions Survey | Created by colorfulrhythm and taken 192 times on bzoink! | | ·· Basic Info | | Current Time | 22:04 | | Name | Tom Morris | | Age | 19 | | Gender | Male | | Location | UK | | Political Affiliation [Democrat, Republican, etc.] | Libertarian-with-a-small-l | | Sexual Preference [Heterosexual, homosexual, etc.] | None-of-your-business | | Religious Belief [Atheist, Christian, Muslim, Wiccan, etc.] | Atheist | | ·· Social Issues: Against, For, Unsure — Feel free to explain your stance. | | Abortion | For | | Pornography | For | | Same-sex Marriage | For | | Sex Before Marriage | Don't care. Enjoy it. | | Smoking in Public Places | Go for it! | | Violence in the Media, Regulation of | Against. Censorship sucks bunghole. | | ·· Legal Issues: Against, For, Unsure — Feel free to explain your stance. | | Capital Punishment | Unsure | | Curfews for Kids + Teenagers | Against | | Gun Control | Against | | Legalization of Marijuana | For | | Legalization of Other Illegal Substances | For - legalise them all | | Racial Profiling | Unsure | | *What should the legal drinking age be? | There shouldn't be an age where it's regulated | | *What should the legal driving age be? | There shouldn't be an age where it's regulated | | *What should the legal smoking age be? | There shouldn't be an age where it's regulated | | ·· Politics: State your opinion on the topic or person in question. | | Federal Social Embetterment Programs [i.e. Welfare] | They are a shit idea. Get rid of them. | | Flag Burning [Other than flag retirement ceremonies] | Er, who cares? | | President George W. Bush [R] | "Giant douche" | | 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance | Shit idea | | United Nations | Don't care - they're ineffectual anyway | | Senator John Kerry [D-MA] | "Turd sandwich" | | War on Terror, Afghanistan | Find Osama, bungholes. | | War on Terror, International Effort | Yeah, whatever. | | War on Terror, Iraq | We got Saddam. Now get them elections running and get out. | | *What should the legal voting age be? | It should be as soon as the government can start taxing you. | | ·· Education: State your opinion on the topic in question. | | Homeschooling | Good idea (in the right hands) | | Prayer in Public Schools | Shit idea | | Requiring Teachers to Pass Competency Tests | You mean they don't have to pass competency tests already? WTF?! | | Saying the Pledge of Allegiance in Public Schools | Crap idea. | | Teaching Evolution in Public Schools | What's the alternative? Creationism. Puh. Fuck that. Yeah, teach evolution. It's the truth. | | ·· Medical Ethics: Against, For, Unsure — Feel free to explain your stance. | | Assisted Suicide | Go for it, as long as there are suitable protections. | | Cloning Humans | As long as it is done ethically, yeah. | | Cloning Other Animals | Yep. | | Genetic Engineering [Genetic modification of food] | Let the science roll on. | | Organ Donation | Brilliant idea. | | Stem Cell Research | Bring it on. | | ·· Environmental Issues: State your opinion on the topic in question. | | De-forestation | Not too much, but yeah. | | Drilling for Oil in Alaska | I don't know. | | Eating Meat | I'm a vegetarian. But I'm not a Nazi. Pork away, if that's your thing. | | Global Warming | We ought to sort it out. | | Nuclear Power | Brilliant idea. It could solve our power problems super quickly. It's only the moronic environmentalists preventing it from happening. | | Stricter Penalties for Pollution | Erm, I'm not sure. | | Stricter Regulations to Reduce Pollution | No, government regulation doesn't work. "Whole pricing" models woul work better. | | Violence by Environmental Activists | Fucking idiots. I wouldn't mind if they got their science right. But these people fuck up their science as bad as those they protest. Morons. | | ·· Grand Finale | | Current Time | 22:10 | | Time Elapsed Since You Started | 6 minutes. | Create a Survey | Search Surveys | Go to bzoink! |
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September 25th, 2004
06:01 pm
I have six Gmail invites. Here's the deal. If you sign up for a Flickr account today at my invitation (I so badly want a Flickr Pro account), you can have a Gmail invite from me. Once you send a request to me, I will give you an invitation to Flickr. Sign up with that and as soon as I get confirmation, I will send you the Gmail invitation. (See my blog entry)
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April 16th, 2004
09:07 am
Been meaning to do this for a while: Jew. Read why here. You should link too.
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April 7th, 2004
06:00 pm
Just making you aware of a creative commons/public domain project that I am starting - it's an 'open source' audiobook project. The aim is to get people to all read out a segment of a book in order to construct a full audiobook which would be released under a copy left licence - either a CC one, or similar (that's up for discussion). If you are interested, give me a shout!
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April 5th, 2004
03:18 am - On Liberty
Okay, I'm trying to get the word out about an audiobook project where we I'm hoping to get lots of people to all read out a chunk of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and turn it in to an MP3 file. Then it'll be put together in to an audiobook, which will be released under a copyleft licence so as to let people do what they want with it. If you are interested, give me a shout.
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March 10th, 2004
11:07 pm - Nicked from wibbble...
The scores are from 0 (not you at all) to 100 (dead on match).
Aries 49
Taurus 53
Gemini 58
Cancer 51
Leo 50
Virgo 62 <-- most probable
Libra 47 <-- least probable
Scorpio 53
Sagittarius 55
Capricorn 56
Aquarius 56
Pisces 49
According to our analysis, you are a Virgo, Aug 23 to Sep 22. But you are certainly not a Libra, Sep 23 to Oct 22.
You claim to be a Aquarius, but you are simply in error.
Fucking astrology bullshit.
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March 2nd, 2004
06:52 pm - No self-harm or cat pictures allowed.
You may be interested in an article I've just published in the Consumed Mag Blog: Praise Be To Posh Spice. In short, Consumed is a loose collective of writers with the common bind of consumerism and such. As David Thair, the Supreme Overlord of Consumed puts it: "We don't have very lofty goals, we're not expecting to change the world, we just want to make something good." I can't lay any claim to being any good, but I'm trying.
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March 1st, 2004
04:38 am
Back to Leicester on the train. Back to a course that I hate.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/lonely.gif) listless
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February 28th, 2004
01:15 am - Half-meme nicked from tinkerbell0025.
| Introverted (I) 51.43% Extroverted (E) 48.57%
Imaginative (N) 55.88% Realistic (S) 44.12%
Intellectual (T) 67.65% Emotional (F) 32.35%
Easygoing (P) 53.13% Organized (J) 46.88%
| | [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<td [...] left">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <div align="center"><!--51.43 55.88 67.65 53.13--> <table style="color: black; background: #eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <table style="color: black; background: #dddddd" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> Introverted (I) 51.43% Extroverted (E) 48.57%<br> Imaginative (N) 55.88% Realistic (S) 44.12%<br> Intellectual (T) 67.65% Emotional (F) 32.35%<br> Easygoing (P) 53.13% Organized (J) 46.88%<br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="color: black; background: #eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> Your type is: <b><font size="+3">INTP</font></b><br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="color: black; background: #dddddd" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="280quot;>> <div align="left"> You are an Architect, possible professions include - strategic planning, writer, staff development, lawyer, architect, software designer, financial analyst, college professor, photographer, logician, artist, systems analyst, neurologist, physicist, psychologist, research/development specialist, computer programmer, data base manager, chemist, biologist, investigator. </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <a href="http://similarminds.com/career.html">Take Free Career Inventory Personality Test</a></div>
strategic planning -> Not really my bag.
writer -> Ooh, yes please.
staff development -> Maybe not.
lawyer -> Yes please.
architect -> Too much drawing for me.
software designer/computer programmer -> Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, spilt beer down it. It's fun, but wouldn't want to do it for a job. My flat mate keeps telling me I'd be brilliant on a Comp Sci course. I prefer something where my political side can go wild on politicians, judges and anybody else. In comp sci, if there's a cock up it's only you and the API writers to blame. Okay, maybe the compiler writers, the debugger writers, anyone who doesn't open source their software. Oh, and Microsoft. They're always to blame.
financial analyst -> Blergh.
college professor -> Depends on the subject. something academic i could cope with. something practical would send me barmy.
photographer -> Again, hobby. defintely not a job.
logician -> Logic is sexy. But it's hardly a career. It's a requirement for lots of careers. And it's a definite disadvantage if you want to go on to become a Big Brother contestant.
artist -> Hobby, not a job.
systems analyst -> Maybe not.
neurologist -> No thanks.
physicist -> I am teh suck at science.
psychologist -> Medicine isn't my scene.
research/development specialist -> Depends who for.
data base manager -> SELECT * FROM 'jobs' WHERE boss != 'idiot'. Returned rows: 0.
chemist, biologist -> Again, I am teh suck at science.
investigator -> Depends what sort of 'investigator'. |
February 17th, 2004
07:14 pm
I've finally found a silly little flag I can get behind. Do join in. It's much fun.
Next time I post here it won't be in banner form. Promise.
Current Music: Angie Stone - Ingredients of Love
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December 10th, 2003
03:18 pm
You are Julia Kristeva! You were a student of
Roland Barthes, and came up with such important
notions as intertextuality and abjection. You
are a semiotician, psychoanalyst, scholar of
literature, and dozens more things. You are not
dead.
What 20th Century Theorist are you?
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Cool. Intertextuality r0x0rz my b0x0rz!
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December 9th, 2003
04:12 pm
Watch out: I've gotta post how I feel. And I'm going to do it by cut-and-pasting other people's lyrics in to my journal. Because depression is cool. Because LiveJournal matters.
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December 8th, 2003
06:08 pm
Argh! Some bastard is having a videoconference right next to me. SHUT THE FUCK UP! I can't hear myself fucking think!
Still, at least they're not playing Dr. Dre like some bastard was yesterday.
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December 3rd, 2003
03:18 pm - Test result
Got my first test result back from Media 1001 course. 32/40 - 80%. Which is surprising when one of my answers was: "The Sun has a 3.5 million daily distribution due to it's easy-to-read articles and even easier-to-read illustrations of topless women." Not only is there a misplaced apostrophe, but I just thought that this sort of cynicism would not be allowed in university exams.
Erk. I hate my grammar in exams. "An increasingly relaxed feel to news broadcasts has been signalled over the last decade with less formal methods of presentation...". What? It's been 'signalled' (wrong spelling as well). What idiot wrote that? Either there is an increasing wave of relaxation or there is not, and it's pretty easy to tell: it's on the god-damn screen! Whoever gave me full marks for that should have their head checked.
I even got full marks on the British Film question which I thought I'd completely crap out on. Still, I'm rather pleased with that. 80% on that test, which means 32% of the module mark. To scrape a pass I have only got to get eight marks in the essay. And it's still possible to get the top grades: A+ and A. That's my kind of exam.
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November 30th, 2003
November 26th, 2003
07:58 pm - Off to Bradford tommorow
Yep, I'm off on a coach to Bradford tommorow. And it leaves at 8am. Those of you who have yet to enter higher education do not realise what having to be up and ready at 8am means. Because those hall beds are so comfortable. Or something.
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November 3rd, 2003
October 30th, 2003
01:44 pm - Gender politics
After only a month and a bit at University, I am already writing a two thousand word annotated bibliography about Cindy Sherman! I am just working through the electronic resources I've been offered through Academic Search Elite and ZETOC, and once that's done I'm going down to "the dungeon" to read through lots of old copies of academic journals about art, feminism and much more.
Next to me in the study room is a group of feminists complaining about gender politics. University seems to be the best and also the strangest place in the universe, simultaneously.
Erk. Gender politics smells of wee. It's a bit like "politics lite" where instead of having to address real issues people just scream and shout as loudly as they can about 'representation' without actually coming up with any substantial points at all.
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12:21 pm - Errr.
Now the twats are playing Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé Knowles. Yuck. Other people's taste in "music" disgusts me.
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