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

Hmmm....homework, or playing more of Majora's Mask?

I'm so close to ending Majora's Mask....I beat Odolwa, Goht, and Gyorg's temples, saved the ranch from the aliens and the horse-riding ninjas, and countless tiny sidequests have been finished....all that remains is the last temple and the fight against the imp-who-wants-to-crush-a-city-with-the-Moon-for-some-reason....

As usual, homework certainly isn't the most appealing of the two options....

Candi, that is the saddest looking beaver I have ever seen...

It's waaaay too cute.

I can't seem to get away from the temper tantrum queen to get my tests graded. Between her and her father, I am ready to throw one of my own....

Well, I'm almost on my way home. Work was once again delightful. Have good days/evenings/nights, all.

*shaking head after having laughed quite a lot*

34 posts in 2 hours, I feel like I have just completed a marathon.

*phew* you've all been busy, I'm terriblely sorry but I don't think that I'll be able to contribute to the disscussion on programming laungages. I'm terribly sorry. My subject doesn't tend to attract s of the same caliber as computer science and physics. I'm pretty sure I'm the only Linux user. I was quite disapointed when the code didn't have an option for "geek of medicine".

MR thank you for taking the time to assess my situation. I think perhaps the thing that has recently changed about "planet gay" is now that most people in our culture come out at school, they come out at the age when they are forming the teenage identity. Therefore there is a group of gay people in schools, our identity the way we dress, and our teenage peer groups is gay. This becomes more prominent at universities - as you may have noticed. My social life entirely revolved around being gay, my closest friends were from the LGB (lesbian, gay and bisexual) and they were the ones who I shared a house with. I was quite scared of people who weren't gay, because the last time I had been involved in straight culture, and known straight people as friends it was in the homophobic enviroment of school. Whilst I'm still welcome in the gay community, my position there is by virtue of the fact that I'm transsexual, (I for some reason dislike the term transgendered) straight men do not go to gay clubs, by and large they don't share houses with three gay men, and they certainly aren't still honary memembers of the LGB. In fact this is an exact conversation I had at Manchesters Gayfest last year..

"you can't be straight, no straight man would live with gay men, and choose to come here, they're too scared"

"well I wasn't straight when I got to know them, I was female"

"Ooh that makes sense then"

In the last term I've started to get less invovled in the gay scene, and spend more time with my straight friends, and discover more interests on planet straight. In a way it's a nice relief not to be the token transsexual in social situations, it's nice to meet girls and not have them instantly think that I'm gay. But in a way I know I'm in a priveledged positon. I am lucky that I am convincingly male, and if I wasn't I wouldn't be able to use a bathroom in a straight pub without problems. I wouldn't be able to feel comfortable at a gliding club frequented mainly by respectable middle aged men, I wouldn't be able to go to a carol service at my grandmothers church. When I was at a s
ange when I could do none of these things, when I couldn't try clothes on in shops, when I couldn't drink caffine because I felt awkward to use a toliet, the gay commuity was their, it supported me, was somwhere i felt comfortable. - and I do feel bad leaving it behind.

And I can't help thinking that I'm not really straight, in the straight community I'm on the verge of being found out. I know that their are certain pubs that I drink in where I would be in physical danger if I was found out.

The following incident brought it home to me a lot - I was walking home from medical school, the other day, in the dark through a deserted campus I wasn't scared, - why would I be, campus is almost home after four and a half years. When suddenly someone who was rushing almost walked into me, I apoligised, and he picked up something in my voice - spending all that time on planet gay has made me appear a bit camp. "Are you a f**king queer?", I was a little surprised "No!" I snapped. He refused to believe me, and stood in front of me, blocking my path. I suddenly felt scared, and vunerable. I tried not to show it "Are you f**cking calling me queer?" I said as slowly and deeply as I could. Fortunatly he steped aside, and looked slighlty afronted. "Sorry mate - it's just I don't like queers". I pretended to hide my relief "just f**k off will you".

It really made me feel that, like Piggy in Lord of the Flies, my position in society is protected by society it's self. And perhaps by trying to conform to societies expectations of a male, I am doing nothing but setting myself up for failure. But I don't really want to be a rebel against sociey, I don't like being publicly transgendered, I don't like being on the front line of the sexual revolution any more. My Dad feels strongly that by trying to live as male without anyone knowing I am just conforming to societies idea of a male, and in a way I am not onlly letting myself down I'm letting queer people down. He really dislikes it when I object to him using the "she" pronoun whilst recounting events in my childhood This is when I point out that he isn't actually part of any minority at all.

- My apologies for the Effing and blinding in the above account.

Amy -

As usual your description was sublime.

Lil - an easy way of thinking of classes and methods are that classes are like nouns while methods are like verbs.

Courtesy

[Affy]

Z, your dad is remarkably astute. I'm sorry to say it, dear, but you are, by virtue of the choices you have made, something of a public figure. I think when you stop thinking about which friends are straight and which friends are gay, you'll be a lot less stressed about it. How about cultivating friends that don't care if someone is gay or straight or bi or transgendered or a dominatrix?

Like me, for instance. When my oldest friend told me he was gay, I asked him if there was a specific reaction he wanted, because my gut reaction was yeah, so what? When a fellow grad student introduced me to her female partner, my response was something along the lines of damn, your girlfriend is hot! I care about who people are in all aspects of their lives, not just whom they sleep with, or what they act like (although sometimes, gay men who are more feminine than I am irritate me...)

But then again, I don't really see skin color, either. So maybe I'm just myopic, or perhaps I'm too much of an idealist.

[MTG]

So a method is a procedure call? Except not?

After months of false starts and weeks and weeks of rendering, I finally have a scene out of Mojoworld that is now undergoing post-processing. I don't know how I am gonna show it to youse guys -- it's 4000x3000 pixels big. That makes a scene which will fit on 11x17 paper at a decent res.

It *would* be a bit tricky to just toss that out for us, wouldn't it? Maybe a supersized scanner....

[GDZ]

Woohoo! If my major homework assignment for the night was a coin, then I've just finished the Heads side! All that remains now are the Tails and the Edge! And it's not even midnight!

And just so you all know: I will not be moving as soon as I had previously thought. Turns out that we may be given the chance to rent our current house from the church because the new preacher that they're looking at doesn't need a parsonage.

So the only problem in my life is Icon, and that's over as of this week anyway. Even if an F is slapped onto my "permanant" record, it'll only be for a one credit course. I'm acing other one credit courses, so this shouldn't cause too much damage to my GPA.

A cold start here in The North Pennines NE UK
High pressure means still air and a frost of minus 7C
at this altitude. That means salt to the road outside and
the heat blower to the locks on my motor.

In a tight country like the UK the traffic around the urban
areas at peak commuting hours is heavy. Ice related accidents
are common despite the megatonnes of salt grit applied. But the winters are less harsh than the 80s. I had studded tyres and snow chains then. No more.

In rural locations your motor has to be upto the mark. It's a long walk if your not mobile. and of course a lot of folks are scared to stop in they get accused of mugging or attempted rape. Not yours truly...always ready to lend a hand...and a spot in the brig would keep a few people in work.

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a few beers go well with this...
not me unfortunately...permanently "on the wagon"

[Affy]

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Off to Halifax college for the second part of the food hygiene course...then to Lush in Leeds to replenish my toiletries supplies.

{[caer]}

Done grading nearly all of my papers...have to print out two, then I'll only have 12 to grade tomorrow morning before the exam, and then only 8 or 9 during the exam.

And then, of course, there's finals to grade. 3 questions each, 2 short and one long. And then grades to calculate, and I'm officially no longer a newbie TA!

YEAH!!!

Oh, yeah...and I have a 10 minute presentation on how I would teach the 16th century to an undergrad course, but that's no big deal. I just want this quarter over with. I have 4 classes, a shift at the pub, my teaching, and oh, yeah...a kid and a STBX.

I'm a little rough around the edges lately.

MR, your attitude towards human kind sets a fine example for your daughter. She's a lucky kid.

Indeed, well done on keeping the plates spinning MR, don't stop now
I was wondering the other day when you were complaining about the DMV how STB is the STBX, if you don't mind me asking MR?

Amy, that's the best example of object orientation I've heard. When they were trying to teach it to me at uni it didn't make sense at all (how much did I wonder) but that was much better. Then again I know I'm NOT a programmer and I don't have the head for it.