J'Dona

Wow, looking back at my earlier intro post actually makes me want to let blood. I guess it's a healthy reminder of what I used to be like. Anyway, I haven't posted regularly for about four years, mostly due to my finally realising that I basically didn't know anything, and that as such I shouldn't talk about it. I still don't, really, but at least now I better understand the bounds of my knowledge, so with my small but now firm basis I may actually be cabable of rational discourse. So it won't be much (it still takes hours to write a long, coherent post) but I'd like to start practicing again. Since my last major activity (pre-university), I'm now in the fourth year of my Physics MSci and hope to do an MSc next year to shift my emphasis to theory, then go for a doctorate after that. I'll try to post in the phsyics section if I think I can be useful.

Worn off? Those GIR stand-ups are hilarious! However, Phi for All has yet to do one on himself... Here's a joke to make it look like I wasn't just posting to point that out (I think I've told you this one before on chat, 5614): What do you call someone who speaks three languages? - Trilingual What do you call someone who speaks two languages? - Bilingual What do you call someone who speaks one language? - English Or at least in most cases...

It's not really meant as a stand-alone joke, but here's one of my favourite quotes from Douglas Adams (from "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"). Maybe it's not as funny without context, but it cracks me up...

As long as we're on Englishman/Sctosman/Irishman jokes, here's a highly edited one... An Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman were standing beside a cliff, accompanied by the rich and eccentric Duchess of Sloufingboroughtonshire. Planting herself on a rock with a good view of the water and rocks below, she beckons them over. "Now, my good gentlemen, I have for you a challenge of your strength and bravery. To whomever can jump off of this cliff and survive, I shall award one million pounds sterling." The Scotman leaps off immediately and, for several seconds, experiences perfect weightlessness, followed by a thousand fatal G's as he hits a rock. The Irishman, not to be outdone, careens off the edge with a spin, hits the wall twice, and splits like a watermelon as he catches one of the outcroppings. The Englishman steps back and bows. "After you, madam."

You guys have probably heard this one before (maybe it's somewhere else in the forums but I just can't find it), but here it is for those who haven't: ---------------------------------------- It's not the fault of the student if he/she fails, because the year has ONLY 365 days. Typical academic year for a student: 1. Sundays - 52 Sundays in a year, which are rest days. Balance 313 days. 2. Summer holidays - 50, where weather is very hot and difficult to study. Balance 263 days. 3. 8 hours daily sleep - means 122 days. Balance 141 days. 4. 1 hour for daily playing (good for health) - means 15 days. Balance 126 days. 5. Two hours daily for food & other delicacies (chew properly & eat) - means 30 days. Balance 96 days. 6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal) - means 15 days. Balance 81 days. 7. Exam days per year - at least 35 days. Balance 46 days. 8. Quarterly, Half yearly and festival holidays - 40 days. Balance 6 days. 9. For sickness at least 3 days. Balance 3 days. 10. Movies and functions at least 2 days. Balance 1 day. 11. That 1 day is your birthday. How can you work on your birthday?

I felt guilty so I've deleted my old post and making this new, real one. My name's Jesse Garman, but if you want you can call me by my middle name. It's "A". Doesn't stand for anything, just the letter by itself. I don't usually tell people that so accept it or else I'll... edit the post. I did my GCSE's and A-Levels two years early and am currently in the process of blowing that lead on more A-Levels and a gap year, the end result being that I might actually be able to socialise with someone in university. I'm very much interested in science, particularly physics and even more particularly anything to do with space. I also like writing, and I plan to be a writier as well as a scientist in the future. Also, I love aliens, everything about them, although I don't believe they have visited the Earth and I think Star Trek's image of them is about as accurate as a milk clod is good at jetskiing (or something... but I still like Star Trek). Guess what genre of fiction I'm most likely to write about in the future? J'Dona is the name of one of the characters in a book I'm planning to write, and yes, she's an alien. I'm a liberal, and an athiest turned agnostic. I'm liberal because I'm probably too young (17) to have any idea about what it really takes to run a country, but even if I did I'd still be a liberal because, well, I'm not going into it right now, just my personal opinions (actually I'm afraid of offending blike or fafalone even though they're wrong ). I used to be an athiest but then I realised that athiests would have faith in the non-existance of god(s), which is unscientific, so agnosticism is the only logical way as far as I see it. My top four internet browser bookmarks are: - Strong Bad Emails - goats.com - 8-Bit Theater - scienceforums.net <--- see? I like moderators. Don't ban me. So, in conclusion... you should listen to your cableman. Cableman Jorje. P.S. to admiral_ju00: Sorry if this is too long or non-serious, probably should set a limit for these things and I can edit it down. :/ EDIT: Fixed it for blike.