Dr who

For those of you who have not yet watched Dr who, in the words of Melody Riversong, this is 'spoilers, sweetie'.

First of all, congratulations to Henry, and a few a lot of other people, on guessing the plot.

Dr who is certainly well on course to regaining the top spot on my list of epic telly series. It was a Tennant (Oh yes i did) of this spot for a long time a few years ago but in recent years its gone down hill.

In the past, I've felt that Stephen Moffat has let a few to many story lines drag on for a bit too long. For example, the silence, massive hints throughout the last series about the silence along with the crack in the wall which could have led to a great finale, which in fact was on a par with endings such as 'and then i woke up'.

(On a side note the hints Davies gave were much more subtle then zoom in on a crack behind Churchill's desk)

So the silence then turn up in the first two episodes of this series and then seemingly die. I know that they will almost certainly return (the spaceship in James Corden's roof was the same as the Silence's space ship and James is returning) but you could have given hints to the silence in the first few episodes of a series (maybe starting with the flesh), killed them off and then brought them back for a finale.

When you leave a trail hanging for so long people get disillusioned.

Now with the astronaut trail, although its still along way from over, we've been given enough information  to keep us coming back for more. If he manages to end it with a brilliant plot then Moffat will regain my respect.

However, the one thing the series is still lacking is self-contained episodes (that are good) with no link to the main plot. The flesh got close but was brought back too quickly (and so if you had started with the flesh, then killed the silence, then gone pirate (why wasn't the banshee attracted to you Amy was it because you are flesh) then gone to devils run it might have worked better)  .

But you never know killing Hitler might finally give the doctor his top spot back.
But you never know killing Hitler might finally give the doctor his top spot back.(i had to repeat that sentence to make sure i actually wrote it)

I hope to tell you of some of my other favourite series over the next few posts.

Until then:

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Anti-Maths of the day No.1

Statistics-need i say more

maths of the day No. 6

Imaginary numbers

I chose them because they cause mega confusion and yet are much more useful then you could ever imagine. (But then again if you've got as far as imagining root -1maybe you can imagine anything)

Maths (based) challenge of the week No.1

The answer will come at some point next weekend

Why is x used to represent the unknown? (x-rays, planet x etc. are all phrases that were coined at a much later date)

maths of the day No.6

One, two, skip a few, 99, 100

You may have thought that this was one of the greatest things from your childhood, but for some amazonian tribes even this maths is too complex. Their numbers are 1,2 and many. Even the tribe members that have been taught numbers in other languages may be able to count but they still can't do simple addition.

This isn't as weird as it sounds because it turns out that the natural brain doesn't have a very good capacity for western mathematics and actually works in terms of ratios. More fruit on that tree, less sabre tooth tigers behind than in front etc.

Maths of the day No.5

Question 11 i) on the C1 paper.

I thought that the question was harder than one would expect in C1 but accessible once you applied the knowledge that was required.

(The irony is that this post is being written on Tuesday and scheduled for Thursday.)

Good luck in the C2 and FP1 papers tomorrow.

(Or if you have hacked my account the C1 paper tomorrow)

Maths of the day No.4

The fact that 1+1=2

The basic axioms of mathematics are taken for granted and this causes le moutarde me montre au nez* (insert accents) . These are the axioms that were created (without realisation) from observations in the real world and it is for these reasons that mathematics is the language that describes the universe.

*this cause the mustard to climb up my nose- this angers me (french gcse idiom)

Good luck in the C1 paper today

Maths of the day No.3

pythagoras' theorem

much simpler than fermat's last theorem and much easier to proove

infact here are 93 proofs.

Maths of the day No.2

Gödel's incompleteness theorem

Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.

What this effectively means is that there will always be a true but unprovable statement within any system of mathematics. 

What is so amazing about the statement is that someone was able to prove it!

Maths of the day (and an undisclosed length of time longer) No.1

As most people will know I have exams coming up and so blogging is not at the forefront of my mind

I have decided to take a leaf out of Benji's book (sorry about the colour of the link for some reason i can't change the background)

The first piece of maths has to be Fermat's Last theorem:

It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

For those of you doing Latin:

Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet. 

 night night x

I get the fake cake

I win the cake :)

The evil procrastination monster has been drawn.

Picture the scene:

3 hours into maths mocks and I should have been doing the final bit of checking. BUT NO. The temptation to doodle struck me like a kick to the gonads. My pen, no longer being controlled by my logical brain, began to doodle.

To cut a long story short I doodled a face on my calculator. I thought it was only fitting that he should be drawn by procrastination and so his face was found.

Then it struck me. He has a striking resemblance with a certain fictional character

Captain hook has a moustache.
Captain hook has a hook.
Peter Pan procrastinates about growing up. (could this have been hooks main aim?)
His nemesis is a crocodile who has swallowed a clock. (if you are currently laughing immaturely re-read)

and Captain cook once had sex withBanned due to super injunction.

So with exams coming up Be wary, Be warned, Be revising foo'. *multiple cringes*

Go to bed early and remember

The walls have Moustaches (auto correct would like this to be mustache)

COP OUT :) (real post soon)

Toby!

Rory!

Tardis!

Classic Matt Smith.

Why haven't I posted yet? I've been procrastinating.

All shall be explained.


Au revoir, mes petites choufleurs

What a weekend

Greatest weekend since a certain small step for man and a giant leap for manking? I'd say so. Perhaps greater? I'd say a much less confident so.

It goes like this: (insert dayeinu before every comma)

 
leave school (in the sunshine), eat cereal(in the sunshine), walk to park (see it's already as good as the moon landings), play frisbee(in the sunshine), get on bus(in the sunshine), watch thor(unfortunately inside), profess hatred of 3d glasses, eat chicken, eat some more chicken, eat burger surrounding chicken, get back on bus(it was dark), PLAY NIGHT FRISBEE(unfortunately not in sunshine otherwise it would have been the greatest game of pitch black frisbee ever), sleep.


Wake up, hear tv, see Royal wedding (damn she's fit) (damn her sisters fit), eat cheese toastie, play frisbee, hurt back, keep playing frisbee, sit with ice cube prodding into back, play mario kart, lose at mario kart, friday night dinner, eat brownies, help grandma deal with vicious politicians (shul leadership)

DON'T YOU DARE GET BORED AND STOP READING


Wake up, learn the vicious politicians had surrendered, heal back, receive portal, be unable to play portal, free gift from fifa ultimate team, Ed Kate's party, drink pimms, drink pimms, drink pimms.

Get embarrassed by Benji in cab ( I do not believe that a cab driver wants to know that our headmaster likes...), get free gift from fifa ultimate team,  sleep, wake up, play portal, play portal, play portal, play portal, play fifa lol jk portal, watch dr who (still as shit as it has been for the last year but with just as amazing cliff hangers as ever), watch arsenal beat the Mancswho miraculously returned home very quickly after leaving the stadium (which is in london), think that we should be one point ahead, laugh at the MUTV schedule (match day review) , work, tutor, watch tv, sleep.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN ASLEEP YOU CAN WAKE UP AGAIN NOW


wake up, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD, conspire some theories, reject the theories, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEFINITELY DEAD, (please read the previous line while watching this), finish portal, walk dog, tutor, watch Norwich get promoted at the same time as John Higgins wins the snooker world championship, write blog.

I had planned this post to be about the royal wedding but in comparison to the weekend it really does only deserve the small mention it got.

What an image

And to leave you with  a taster for next week "stay hooked'

Stumpy vicar loses electron (8)

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Evil procrastination monster-6.02*10^23
Me-1

Yes, that's right I actually got one over the evil procrastination monster. Most people normally complain that they spent more time creating their, soon to be ignored, revision timetable than actually revising; but i didn't have that problem. LADIES AND GENTLEMAN YOU ATTENTION PLEASE, over the next fIw lines I shall reveal to you my technique.


Wake up
fool yourself that you are going to revise before breakfast and then go on facebook, bbc football gossip and rewatch Benji and Jamie's vlog post from the previous day ( i didn't say i'd beaten the procrastination monster just that i'd scored)
breakfast whilst watching sky sports, who if you hadn't noticed have celebrated their 20th anniversary.
ACTUAL REVISION (hour and a half)-past paper probably maths
ACTUAL REVISION (half hour)-mark the past paper (this is the best revision possible because you learn what the examiners want you to say because more often than not they want you to say the wrong thing)
Turn on Fifa
Play Fifa
Turn off Fifa
Turn fifa back on for just one last game
five games later, turn fifa off
Lunch
ACTUAL REVISION (2 hours) -second past paper + marking. (it is obligatory to have facebook and fifa ultimate team trade pile open during this time)

it's now only about five o'clock and you can enjoy the rest of your evening by doing things such as:

go  on sky sports, did you know it's their 20th anniversary
WATCH THE NEW DOCTOR WHO OMG IT STARTS TONIGHT WE SO EXCITED WE WE WE SO EXCITED* (tommorrow is sunday and the day after that is monday by the way)
watch doctor who confidential
watch benji and jamie's new vlog post
go back on sky sports, who are incredibly celebarting their 20th anniversary

for the answer to the title, which is apperently not allowed to be called cryptic
go here, here or here

that's all folks (cue bugs bunny eating carrot)

*yes I did just quote rebecca black on my blog-may the procrastination monster haunt me for years to come

Holy shit it's a post-and a ridiculously hypocritical one at that

In the beginning there was nothing, and the big G was bored so he made our world.

Unfortunatley, a snake came along/Pandora's box opened/the big G decided to be spiteful because he was pissed with Eboue and so sins were released into the world. There was Hatred and Jealousy and being a united fan but at the end of the day you could put up with them.

This angered the snake/some stupid prick opened Pandora's box again/ the big G remembered about last sunday's game and so one last sin was released into the world. This sin would plague people for all eternity. It's favourite pray was a  16-25 year old with homework due in the next day. It was the evil procrastination monster.

Well, I declare an end to this abuse; I solemnly swear that for the rest of my life I will fight back; I will go to sleep without reading every single article on the bbc; I will infact do the 50,000 past papers I have to do; I will win!!!!!



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SHIT





I've just stayed up to write this blog






I give up. Procrastination will haunt me as it haunts millions of youths. I'll join the slap bet too.

abe presentation

You can do it Benji! You only have to understand one of the most fundamental equations in applied mathematics.

confused.....you try having an Abe presentation in for tomorrow

It can't be "clear, concise, well thought out: not in the slightest." (rather forced quotation i apologise)

In other news, Daniel Fretwell is a god.  https://nrich.maths.org/discus/messages/27/150551.html?1297291763

weirdest weekned in football/ drunk french teddy bears/ 16^2

What a weekend.

It all started on Friday with Elena's birthday party. Arived a bit late cos of friday night dinner and the alchohol levels were running distinctly low. But in the words of Nicky (and noone else) who needs alchohol, especially when a friend dressed up as a teddy bear starts speaking fluent french

Then again the french teddy bear was created because he was a virgin drunkard (by virgin i mean first time drunk) and there was a fit french exchange present. If you want to know how fit, ask my only follower.

and then came the football

4-0 up drew 4-4 nuff said

and then along came Mick Mccarthy in all his northern godliness

I have to say, I became as scummy as a Tottenham fan as i celebrated in alex Ferguson's demise. But, I think i deserved my moment after what my team had put me through. And....

49>29 suck on that fergie

which brings me neatly on to maths. not the greatest of weeks. Knocked out of two competitions losing to forest in one and coming 57/64th in the other. I also thought 16^2 was 64. Should have use the graph in my mind.

But some other graphs:

       dy                    and x-(x^2-12)^0.5      (you know you want to plot it)

d batman

and on the subject of abrupt stops (plot the graph) . Goodb.

Unrelated quote: bounce baby bounce