h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Mog] Yes, Worcester Polytech ... and I'm planning on computer science as a major. Or, if it passes, that programme for video game creation they've put to the board ...

but would you be able to maintain an intrest in video games for three years.

IIEM can I have some Red Bull please - I have some motivation, the desire and intrest to do some work, but no energy. Admitly this might be something to do with the 3 hours of sleep I got last night. But I can't go back and get more sleep can I? And as usual I've left the work until the last minute.

Any other ideas?

IIEM, the usual, please.

My choices for teaching a grad class on the 17th century are the 30 Years War, Gender, or Religion. I'm thinking the war, simply because it's easy. I'd like to the Spanish Inquisition, though.

Call me ignorant, but I've never heard of the 30 years war.

I can tell you far too much about armpits though..

[Mog] Oh, I'm sure my interest in /specific/ videogames will vary, but ...

Ok, Just that my intrest wained when I got to the age of about 20... but that said I don't know how old you are?

[Dylan] [shoving Mog aside] 18. It's either videogames or music. Or manga-style comics.

Don't listen to me, I'm terribly at being a teenager.

Mr. Cobb, you draw? Can you actually do courses in manga??

As I drove to evening class I saw the snow coming in -- Sierra Blanca and Nogal Peak were both hidden in cloud and the curtains of snow were starting to sweep over the mesa. So I continued to class, showed my homework, and promptly asked to be excused.

Light hard snow was falling as I came home, and now, at what would be my coming-home time, it's sleeting. So I feel vindicated.

IIEM, a Lil Special but with anti-coffee, please.

For a simplified but wonderful view of the 30 Years War try Eric Flint's "1632." A modern comunity is transported to the middle of the war. It's not a great novel, but it's a good one, and it's a must read if you are at all interested in military history or military fiction.

Oh, and the 30 Years War actually lasted 30 years (unlike the 113 year long Hundred Years War)

Here's a link Z:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/thirty_years_war.htm

IIEM a cup of Ben's builders' please.

IIEM, something that will help me sleep please. Thanks.

IIEM, a cubb of hodd choglit please... danks *adds something from a brown paper bag, downs it all in one gulp, collapses in a sofa with a bad cold*

IIEM, a Mog's Usual, please.

*wraps herself into the *
It's *not* supposed to rain in February. If I won't return I have either drowned in slush or hit by falling icicle. The blizzard we had on the weekend just makes everything worse. So much snow and it's all melting very fast...

MR., I would probably take your 30 Year War class, but ,then, I'm wierd! What kind of readings would you have ?

Hi all
Stuck this obvservation here rather than in cafe as A not posted here for couple of days and i suppose in the weird sort of mind my mind works ,its related.,also there a fair mix of bilinqual speakers on both threads.
Bearing in mind many of the combatents in the thirty year war would have been commanded by officers who spoke a different lanquage than them ,class differences aside.

Do you think that the british ?i say this as generaly ! should be condeming those immigrints?
who choose not to speak english ,should be condemmed for doing so when all said and done
A large majority of the british dont bother to do the same thing in most of the parts of the world they have emigrated to.

MR I'd take the class in the 30 years war - it sounds really intresting.. in fact if anyone fancied writting an EG article on it ..

[Dylan] Oh, I'm sure there's /some/ courses you can take /somewhere/ for drawing comics and/or manga ... but this is something I've alreadt done:

http://www.angelfire.com/comics/yarkramer/images/Ranmatrix.gif

(For those not in the know, Ranma is a guy who has a curse where, if he gets splashed with cold water (or rain), he transforms into a girl, with -- as the ancient scrolls say -- hilarious results. And that's him ... her.)

oh no you don't, Z. I'm not going to do any more guide entries until my second year paper is done. That's final. Grad school before hootoo.

Bryce, I don't know what the readings would be quite yet. Perhaps a couple of general histories, a military history or two, and then there are number of new books out on specific issues of the war, including a work on Frederick V of the Palatinate (the Winter King).

I'd go for the Thirty Years War course myself. Nothing more relaxing than reading about ancient epic power struggles. I've been enjoying the Wars of the Roses recently...

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