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I escaped from the Dungeon of Ruanae!

I killed Snowelf the gelatinous cube, Digitaldemon the floating eye, Theferrett the goblin, Kaitharshayr the zombie, The Unforgiven2 the leprechaun, Nyte Starre the dragon, Clairebemoo the giant spider, Psycoticfurby the zombie, Pablohunny the floating eye and Nellyserj the gelatinous cube.

I looted the Wand of Mysticjuicer, a Figurine of Mamalaz, the Sword of Scioptic, the Crown of Eldahir, the Amulet of Keele, the Armour of Tlredhawke, the Wand of Vampires, a Figurine of Pontius and 143 gold pieces.

Score: 343

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Current Location: At home

Current Mood:

sick

Tags: cold, dungeon, ill, randomness

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Argh	Jun. 6th, 2006 @ 03:11 pm

( Warning rant type stuff ahead )

Current Location: ST5 5DT

Current Mood:

In Pain

Current Music: No Pressure Over Cappuccino - Alanis Morissette

Tags: genetic freakery, pain, ranting

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» And out of the blue an update appeared

So...its been how long since I last updated? Hmm too long I believe is the answer. But to be fair I have had a lot of work on. And by a lot I mean A LOT.

So what have I been up to? Well I've now finished my first degree. 4 years of blood sweat and tears (In about equal measures) and I've finally finished it all. And hopefully when the lecturer's decide to mark my work I will even graduate. WIth a nice shiny Master in Science in Astrophysics and Computer Science.

So having finished my (first) degree it now begs the question of now what. As some of you may know (I've probbably gone on about it often enough) I wish to gain my PhD (There's just somethign about being called Dr that appeals) so to this end I have applied to both Keele University and Exeter University to study for my PhD. Both universities have offered me a place. In fact Exeter even offered me an Unconditional place to study for a PhD in Data Mining and Artifical Intelligence (Keele want me to get a 2.1 which I hopefully will)

Now we come to the tricky part, how to pay for this PhD. I have heard from Exeter that they are unable to offer me funding to study, but I am on the waiting list so if some one doesnt accept their place I may get funding. Keele haven't said anythign about fudning, although when I spoek to the person who is gong to be my supervisor if I study at Keele, he said the COmputer Science Dept didn;t really have any funding for the type of work I wish to do. Plus, while I like Keele a lot, Exeter did have a certain appeal. Firstly the PhD topic closely ties into my two specialities in computer science (Not to sound too smug by I got 75% in my A.I. Module and 87% in my module on Advanced Databases and Data Mining, its stuff I can do). BUt I cannot afford to fund myself through a PhD. Which leaves me in an interesting postion. I can either wait and hope that someone doesn't accept the place and so I get the funding... but I have no idea how long I'd have to wait or, having emailed Exeter I've found out that I can defer my place for a year and they'll apply again for funding for me next year.

Defering my application is a possibility, but then I have to find somethign to do for a year. I will have to seek some form of gainful employment, but I have no idea what. I can;t think of many places that would employ someone for a year. And I can;t do anythign involving my degree as thats all research and I need a PhD to be taken seriously in anyway.
One possiblity is a company on Keele Campus called COmptuer People, whom I went to visit a while back. They're a recruitment agency that specialises in I.T. Specialists/Computer Science COntractors. And I have the contact details of the person who deals with the short term contracts. Usually lasting about a year. So it might be worth re-doing my C.V. and sending it to her.

SO that might be an option, but if anyone can think of anything else. Or if some one happens to have won the lottery and want's to give me some money to fund my PhD then please let me know.

Anyway, this is enough about my PhD woes. I may write an entry about other stuff later, but right now I'm going to head to bed.

Peace, tranquility and random insanity
Jun. 4th, 2006 @ 02:28 am

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» Taking a break/being distracted from work

Currently spending most of my time with my head buried in my project report. But as I'm have a break for lunch I did this test and got

I Am A: Chaotic Good Half-Elf Ranger Bard

Alignment:
Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups.

Race:
Half-Elves are a cross between a human and an elf. They are smaller, like their elven ancestors, but have a much shorter lifespan. They are sometimes looked down upon as half-breeds, but this is rare. They have both the curious drive of humans and the patience of elves.

Primary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.

Secondary Class:
Bards are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.

Deity:
Solonor Thelandria is the Chaotic Good elven god of archery and the hunt. He is also known as the Keen Eye, the Great Archer, and the Forest Hunter. His followers respect nature, and only hunt when needed, but are quick to defend the forest from intruders. Their favorite weapon is the bow, and they tend to be extremely talented with it. Solonor Thelandria's symbol is an arrow with green fletchings.

Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of

NeppyMan (e-mail)

Will write more interesting entry when i have time and don't have about a bajillion more words to write for my project.

Bye!
Apr. 10th, 2006 @ 01:54 pm

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» To much work to do a proper update. So have this instead (stolen from mysticjuicer)

Its a meme, basically you leave me a comment on this entry and I will:

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. Tell you to pass it about, but you know what? If you want to do it awesome, if you don't, that's fine too.

I don't make any guarantees about how quickly I will respond but I will try and answer everyone who leaves me a comment.

Peace Tranquility and Random Insanity... we now return you to your usual program
Mar. 22nd, 2006 @ 01:48 pm

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» Warning pissy angry rant ahead
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» Ooh Shiny (and appropriated from nonstrvngartist

Get your own spectral analysis from Area 23^®

Might write a proper entry at somepoint... if I have time
Jan. 30th, 2006 @ 08:26 am

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» Quizzy Goodness

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Tuesday

theferrett and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). Last Friday I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In January I gave

kaitharshayr a kidney (1000 points). In June I gave

clairebemoo a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). Last Saturday I stole

nellyserj's purse (-30 points).

Overall, I've been nice (1032 points). For Christmas I deserve a Lego set!

Sincerely,
ruanae

And for the alternative Santa:

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely sedulous devotee this year.

Yesterday, I rescued mysticjuicer from being sacrificed (-200 points). In December, I defiled the grave of that traitor, Lovecraft (90 points). In May, I recruited frank as a new cultist (30 points). In September, I prepared an ocean voyage to R'lyeh (200 points). In March, I fed mysticjuicer to a Shoggoth (250 points). Last week, I wore an Elder Sign (-10 points).

In short, I have been very good (360 points) and deserve to be eaten first.

Your humble and obedient servant,
ruanae

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

Funky :)
Dec. 7th, 2005 @ 01:14 pm

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» Whoot

You scored as River Tam. The Fugitive. You are clever and dangerous, which is a nasty combination. The fact you are crazy too just adds to your charm. They did bad things to you, but you know their secrets. They will regret how they made you.

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River Tam

81%

Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye

75%

Hoban 'Wash' Washburne

63%

Inara Serra

63%

Capt. Mal Reynolds

56%

The Operative

56%

Shepherd Derrial Book

50%

Zoe Alleyne Washburne

44%

Jayne Cobb

44%

Simon Tam

31%

Which Serenity character are you?
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Proper entry when I can be bothered writing one I.E. When workload is not crippling :-S
Dec. 6th, 2005 @ 01:15 am

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» Yoinked from nonstrvngartist (again :-) )

You scored as Captain Jack Sparrow. Roguish,quick-witted, and incredibly lucky, Jack Sparrow is a pirate who sometimes ends up being a hero, against his better judgement. Captain Jack looks out for #1, but he can be counted on (usually) to do the right thing. He has an incredibly persuasive tongue, a mind that borders on genius or insanity, and an incredible talent for getting into trouble and getting out of it. Maybe its brains, maybe its genius, or maybe its just plain luck. Or maybe a mixture of all three.

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Captain Jack Sparrow

67%

Batman, the Dark Knight

58%

Neo, the "One"

58%

Indiana Jones

54%

James Bond, Agent 007

54%

The Amazing Spider-Man

54%

William Wallace

50%

The Terminator

50%

Maximus

50%

El Zorro

46%

Lara Croft

46%

Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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Nov. 10th, 2005 @ 10:54 am

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» Yoinked from nonstrvngartist

ruanae's Halloween party:

canadageorges dressed as something slate, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
clairebemoo dressed as the Swelling Power Ranger.
darkarts777 dressed as a swift ideal.
digitaldemon dressed as the Viscount of West Harbor.
eldahir dressed as Sir Ian McKellen.
group_mum dressed as your cousin.
kaitharshayr dressed as a application.
khayallah dressed as a moose.
mamalaz dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Quiet Contender.
mysticjuicer dressed as the King of Monaco.
nellyserj dressed as a linebacker for the Browns.
nyte_starre dressed as a bottle of Medsaramex.
pontius dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Squeezit Wafflehiney".
psycoticfurby dressed as Mr. Spock from "Star Trek".
ruanae dressed as someone who just poked themselves in the eye.
scioptic dressed as Theodore Roosevelt.
snowelf didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
the_unforgiven2 dressed as Optimus Prime, and it suited them disturbingly well.
theferrett didn't dress up, spoilsport.
tlredhawke dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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Now I'm off to the Comp Sci labs.... joy
Nov. 1st, 2005 @ 10:52 am

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» Stolen from nyte_starre Hmm...

You fit in with:
Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

80% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Oct. 19th, 2005 @ 05:45 pm

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» Ooops...

Okay, so I've just noticed I havent updated in... um a while.

Apologies for that (kinda).

Letsee, whats been happening *cue wavey flashback effects and sounds*

Well I'm back at Keele for the final year of my (current) degree. Its going okay so far, although I am feelign kinda adrift at the minute. Mainly as I'm not 100% sure of what I'm meant to be doing. But hopefully I'll get to grips with it. I've settled on my final year project, I'm writing a parser and an indegrated design enviroment for the artifical intelligence language Prolog. This will, hopefully, be written in java. Problem is I now have to remember all the Java I used to know. And if that all went over peoples heads, dont worry about it, its kinda going over miy head as well.

In other news archery is going well. My new bow is very funky and cool. Would help if I could shoot better, but I'm workign on it. Well I would be working on it if I wasnt spending most of my time teaching newbies how to shoot. Which is actually quite rewarding (oh dear gods whats happening to me)
Oh I also get to tell people when to shoot and collect, the joys of being the Safety officer. Although I did manage to make everyone jump. Well they did say I wasn't loud enough when shouting.... so I started actually trying... 4 years working in a fairground, plus a number of years in the Scouts (including being a leader) means I can be LOUD if I want to be. Ah well its all fun :-)

I've also been to the cinema a couple of times. I've seen Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Wererabbit. Its highly predictable and very enjoyable :-) I've also seen Serenity twice. And I love it. Its sooo coool :D
Theres plans to go see Howl's Moving Castle on Saturday and hopefully we'll go see Nightwatch if it comes out here. So its all good at the moment :-)

On the roleplaying side of things, I'm in two games at the moment. A Fireborn game on wednesdays, which will start this evening as it's taken us two weeks to gen characters and a Mage game on Tuesday.
The Mage game is interesting in that there is actually two games going on at the same time, a Mage one which I'm in and a Werewolf game running alongside. Both of them are set in Chicago, and are likely to start crossing over soon. Various events have occured, in the Mage game (in two sessions) we've done a job for the mob, jobbed a Vampire, broken into the Police Station to steal and artifact, stolen 2 kg of pure cocaine (which we sold for 80K), one of the mages killed a cop and the cops got me on CCTV. But I managed to talk my way out of being arrested. Oh, and as the Vampire we killed was a childe of the Prince we had to do them a favour... it involved killing a Vmapire hunter, but instead we just convinced him to leave and burnt his house down.
The werewolves are having more issues, in that they also killed a Vampire, but in doing so they let the person they we're trying to "save" bleed out and die. Ontop of this the Cops got involved... three of the pack were involved in the whole incident (Liz's character was safely at home) and when they were interviewed they managed to contradict each others stories. SO they all got arrested. An Elder Werewolf bailed them out, and also contacted the head of the order two of the mages in my group (there's three of us, the other two belong to the order) who contacted us, so now we have to break back into the police station and remove/destroy all the incriminating evidence for the werewolves.... the way things are going we're going to end up with a Mage and Werewolf war vs the Vampires. Oh and we'll probbably have to re-paint our cars again... wonder if we can charge the werewolves for the paint... although as most of them are broke, we'll probbably end up paying for it ourselves.

Anyway, its all turning out to be very interesting.

And thats most of what I've got to write about for now. Um, I'll try and update regularly (ish) if only to keep people informed of whats happening in the Mage game!

Peace tranquility and random insanity.

Message ends....
Oct. 19th, 2005 @ 02:51 pm

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» Its my birthday...

And I will eat crips while coding if I want to... or something

Yes, I have survived another year on this planet. Making a grand total of 21 years so far... go me.

Day's been quite quiet so far, mainly due to me being in work... but I have had cards, txt messages and even some pressies of people. Yay!

Planning to go to the Cherry tree this evening. Hopefully there will actually be some people around to go.. if anyone's in the Keele area and wants to come we're planning to go for 7ish... all welcome.

Right, thats about all I've got to report atm.

Hope to see alot of you at the party next sunday.

Take care

A slightly older Ruanae (as the card from my Grandma tells me... its only 9 years till I'm thirty.... FRELL!)
Jul. 11th, 2005 @ 01:53 pm

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» Whoo

Okay so I'm kinda bored atm. There's hardly anyone around, except for people discussing French grammer. Not fun being the only unilingual (word? I mean I only speak one language) in a block of bilingual and multilingual people. But never mind. The whoo is that I've been looking at the Canadian Immigration website, and basically they have a "self-assesment test" to see if you qualify for Imigration as a Skilled worker. Basically if the job you've done in the past 10 years is listed on their list it counts as Skilled Work. And both Computer Programming and Physics/Astrophysics is on there. So working through this test, so long as I get my Masters/PhD and do at least two years work experience in either one of my fields then I get a score of 68 points. At the moment, the number of points you need is 67. So I just scrape through. However if I do my PhD/Masters in Canada (something I am considering) then my score goes up to 73. Which should be more than enough to allow me to emigrate to Canada.

All this is still planning for the future, but it still counts as a Yay :-)

Okay, i'm going to go try and get some sleep now.
Jul. 4th, 2005 @ 11:59 pm

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» Website update

Just a quick post before I finish at work. I've updated my website with photos from our Canada Day celebration. And also a short video of us singing the Canadian National Anthem. Be warned however I accept no responsibility for any mental/aural/occular scarring which occurs when you watch the video. Its entriely at your own risk :-P

But the photos are safe enough.

All can be found at www,gothic-gecko.org.uk

Any comments etc, um email me or leave me a comment. (Or any suggestions for captions for the photos)

Peace tranquility and random insanity.

P.S. I'm thinking of changing the poll on the main page, any one got any suggestions for topic?
Jul. 4th, 2005 @ 04:18 pm

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» My eyes...

Right, so random question for any biology type people who read this. Namely can the radiation from CRT monitors dry out your eyes. Because its beginning to feel like it. Addmitedly I've been staring at a CRT screen for 7 + hours a day for the past 4 weeks. Plus I also have my laptop on next to me as well, mainly because my CD player has died so I've had to improvise to get music while working.

Ho hum, work is going slowly. Would help if I had more of an idea what I was meant to be doing. But I'm working on identifying "good archetypal stars" in the database to see if they'll make a better set of training data for my neural networks.

Anyway, I have a roast dinner this evening to look forward to. And its Canada day 2mrw so will be celebrating that as well.

Right, back to work, or maybe watching the funky patterns of lights and dots that keep swimming infront of my eyes.

Joy

Oh yeah, if you havent heard my 21st party at my rents house on 17th July. All welcome, but let me know before hand if your coming. So i can give you details and get an idea of numbers.

P.S. Does anyone have any contact details for Alicia? One I havent spoken to her since last summer and two she's got two books of mine! Cheers.
Jun. 30th, 2005 @ 01:31 pm

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