The "We're Having More Fun Not at RV" Thread

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:47 pm 0

Twas my birthday on the 11th so RV was out. (Unfortunately). So I've had a Veronica Mars blowout today and someone gave me a PS2 and Ico so I've been playing that as well.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sat May 12, 2007 11:49 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Twas my birthday on the 11th so RV was out. (Unfortunately). So I've had a Veronica Mars blowout today and someone gave me a PS2 and Ico so I've been playing that as well.

Some of us have celebrated our birthdays at an RV.

sty · Post by **sty** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:19 am 0

It's mothers day today here in NZ so we're out for an early lunch in 40mins time and then over to meet some new neighbours who have moved in next door, another UK family, later on at a BBQ

I'd rather be at RV to be honest though.

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:34 am 0

Bought a couple of bookcases and built one tonight whilst half watching Eurovision.

Also watched "Rocky Balboa" with the girlfriend.

Tomorrow will probably be spent: putting together other bookcase; playing some paper mario: thousand year door (c'mon super paper mario!); tidying up flat; picross ds; and procrastinating.

skip · Post by **skip** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:44 am 0

Went to two parties yesterday. Spent the bulk of the day guzzling beer. Today (once I fully sober up) I'll be teaching myself Javascript so I can teach it to my students tomorrow

Driller · Post by **Driller** » Sun May 13, 2007 8:55 am 0

We're just waiting around for our new fridge to be delivered. The old one broke down last week and it was too difficult to get repaired

And no- I didn't break it

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:26 am 0

PVB wrote:
silent_unicorn wrote:It's quite easy to get a shotgun on the plane here in the UK, aslong as you have the paperwork and hand it in, it is given to the pilot IIRC.
In October 2007 this comes into force:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/60038--e.htm#36

So it'll be very difficult to import/buy/transport replica weapons.

Replica guns and realistic looking toy guns have been banned in the Netherlands for many years now. Toy guns may only be sold if they obviously don't look like a real gun. You can't even legally buy for example an orange or blue revolver if it looks like an actual revolver.

It's a bit silly because in Belgium and Germany you can buy replica guns easily. And it also occasionally generates outraged news articles when some 7 year old is detained by an overzealous police man for carrying a too realistic water pistol.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:50 am 0

See?
Not going to RV was much more fun than being there...

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:59 am 0

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PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:00 pm 0

gravy wrote:990,090

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Ooh, so close.

So far today I have been to Homebase to buy some hex keys and a set of screwdrivers (both for the Pulse Rifle (PR) build), then onto ASDA for the weekly shop.

Now just catching up on the forum while the latest pages of the PR assembly guide print out, then I shall have some lunch before doing the next stage of the PR build.

arron · Post by **arron** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:10 pm 0

Well, it's been a fantastic weekend not being at RV. I'll be booking ahead for my not-RV ticket again next year as it was an unmissable experience!

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:08 pm 0

I'm going down the pub. Who's with me?

funkstar · Post by **funkstar** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:34 pm 0

Acronym wrote:
funkstar wrote:
Acronym wrote:I'm graduating for the third time; my doctorate (PhD, from Cambridge, where I was studying mineral physics in the Earth Sciences department)!
That merits a hearty "congratulations"! Which kind of work did you do? X-ray diffraction studies? Theoretical modeling?
Modelling, both classical and ab initio (DFT) - some work on electrochromism in WO3 (that's been published already, PRB) but mainly developing a new algorithm for predicting transition states and applying it to Li+ diffusion in aluminosilicates and silica glass.

PRB as in Phys.Rev. B? Sounds very cool, btw.

I'm *rubbish* at X-ray/neutron structure determination; I'm a much better theorist.

I know the feeling...

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun May 13, 2007 1:44 pm 0

arron wrote:Well, it's been a fantastic weekend not being at RV. I'll be booking ahead for my not-RV ticket again next year as it was an unmissable experience!

So you weren't there too? I thought I didn't see you.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Sun May 13, 2007 2:00 pm 0

funkstar wrote:
Acronym wrote: Modelling, both classical and ab initio (DFT) - some work on electrochromism in WO3 (that's been published already, PRB) but mainly developing a new algorithm for predicting transition states and applying it to Li+ diffusion in aluminosilicates and silica glass.
PRB as in Phys.Rev. B? Sounds very cool, btw.
I'm *rubbish* at X-ray/neutron structure determination; I'm a much better theorist.
I know the feeling...

Yeah - here's the abstract (there's a preprint on arXiv as well). I'm currently trying to get the rest of my thesis written up and published, there's at least a couple more papers in there.

I'm working on ontology design/knowledge management/semantic web/high-throughput simulation stuff at the moment; building systems to do high-throughput computation of materials properties. Interesting stuff, and I just got invited to a conference in California