IM INTERNATIONAL!!!!

just a quick little note to say that thanks to the new 'STATS' bar, i can see that i've had views from not only the UK, but the USA, Denmark, and Vietnam!!

i just have one question to anyone who views this who doesnt know me.... how did you find my blog :P

dont get me wrong, im not complaining.. im an attention seeker at the best of times.. but i find it fascinating that from half the world away, all be it through potential accident, people have found me.

like i said, this was supposed to be a quick blog so i shall end here ish...

one last thing before i go though: would anyone care if i did a Vlog? i was toying with the idea before but never got around to it.

also, ANYONE can now comment on this blog. its no longer restricted to member commenting only.

CIAO

back in the saddle?

achem... lets see if i remember how to do this thing

hello boys and girls, welcome back to the rantings of 'that guy' who doesn't do much with his time. yes, this is the blog that maintains that if sarcasm is indeed the lowest form of wit, then here we scrape the dregs from the bottom of each and every barrel. hell, it's a job

so what have we, by which i mean me, done in the last 6 months...

in a nutshell, not a great lot.

I've finished school with an impressively poor set of A-level results; started to sort my cadet career out and now i like to think that i'm in serious contention for promotion (against myself); i got a job working in dominos pizza as a delivery boy (god, this is where i wanna be...); and i have been driving down to exeter now and then.

oh yes, and today, due to a long and boring explination about how the government are currently fucking over each of her majesty's forces, i have tried to go back to st cenydd to redo my chemistry A-level to go from a pitiful grade to a respectable one.

so that is my life: 4 areas of concentration; cadets, work, school, exeter. i've condensed what i had by so much it scares me.

money... a thing i didnt have before, is also becoming something fun to own for however brief a time i may possess it. hours in work, to gain access to this fountain of fun, is however, a bitch to sort out, with me swapping my hours and days more times than i change my underwear...(think about that for a second and ask yourself, 'can we still be friends?')

friends... with everyone going in their separate directions for university and other fascinating voyages of discovery, i do feel as if i've been left somewhat behind. this isnt such a bad thing however because after those clever dickies invented the interweb 5000, i can keep up with people and still maintain a pretty good social life :) i've driven to swansea to meet up with gwyn and sarah once and i've made friends in exeter too :) this makes me feel as if life hasnt run away from me and there is hope of keeping my dear friends, dear.

im happy to say that there are no significant problems in my life right now apart from some family being a bit under the weather, and certain very good mates of mine being in some not very good places right now. otherwise i cant be sad. my life, in perspective with some around me, isnt as bad as i moan about. i feel incredibly lucky, if betrayed sometimes by people...but even then it could be worse... im welsh, not english for example.

this is where i want to pretty much want to wrap it up... im sorry to those who i've not been a great friend to, im grateful to those who've kept me as a great friend, and i love you all. in a gay way.

ciao dudes

the tipping point

ok, it's official...i'm no longer scared to enter the big bad world of work.... i just want to leave this fucking place....

this morning has been the straw that broke that proverbial 4 legged, desert dwelling, creature's back. my ICT coursework. on memory stick. got run over and broken. by all means lol.... god knows i did
needless to say it's a years worth of work down the tube... and yes i did back it up but another series of failures has led me to believe that god truly does shit on me.

so this has culminated in my mood being fragile, and i do appologise in advance if i have a go at anyone or say anything particularly horrible.

anyways, in slightly happier news, for me... my first exam is like a month away :)

-here enter the stress-

it started off fine....

....and in the end, i had to draw 3 separate diagrams, play with some matches, and send a complaints dvd to nasa, just to prove that you cant play jenga like that....


hello again my fellow homosapiens

its cloudy -.- i dont like it.

i havnt really got anything to discuss today, or even elaborate upon...maybe i should try harder to get a job.....
anyhoo, ive just decided to ask a simple question:

Formspring:
can someone explain to me why someone thought it would be a good idea to have an annonomus (excuse any spelling catastrophies) questions site that would enevitably end up filled with slander and bitching and general misery for half the users?

how much abuse gets put on there every day?

and finally, why do we keep the accounts, even though we receive these intollerable questions?


ciao bambinos

i'm a nerd (1)

well howdy.

firstly, camping.... didnt think it was too shabby for something we threw together in an hour :P all gurd :)
and gwyn touched a chicken in the end...bravo gwyn


yeah, anyways, i have a friend who has recently been asking me alot about black holes and the threat they pose to us: since ryan wont accept my answer of, 'NONE WHATSOEVER right now'.... i've had to go into some details.

the big one!
firstly, scientists believe the only threat to the galaxy is from a black hole in the centre of the milky way...and it's not hungry right now (in leymans terms). even if it was, we're 30,000 light years from it.

that's:
30 000 x (9.4607x10^12) = 2.83821x10^17..... or to write it in full: 2,838,210,000,000,000,000 km
in other words, we're safe..

the odd one
i was also asked how big the planets would need to be in order to form black holes in our solar system. this is, im sure, down to the fact i told him about the 'Schwarszchild radius'.

the schwarzschild radius is the maximum radius an object would need to be in order for a non-rotating, uncharged, black hole to form. any bigger than the radius and the object doesnt collaps into a black hole.... any smaller and the object becomes so dense that the escape velocity exceedes that of the speed of light... hence it becomes a black hole.
it can be calculated by this equation:

Rs=(2GM)/c^2

Rs is the schwarzschild radius
G is gravitational constant
M is mass of the object
c is the speed of light

so i worked them out :)

the sun- 2.949 km
mercury-0.487 mm
venus-7.21 mm
earth-8.86 mm
mars-0.952 mm
jupiter-2.815 m
saturn-84.3 cm
uranus-12.9 cm
neptune-15.2 cm

and there you go.

there are 3 other types of black holes that exist, but this is just one type. i cant be arsed to do all the workings out tonight

now i've done my maths, im off.
CIAO