- There is no selective entry for undergrads so anyone with any grades can apply anywhere
- Over 2/5s of undergrads drop out
- There are no tuition fees
- Most of the University libraries close at weekends
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
French Universities
I am amazed how the French can manage to have the best healthcare system in the EU but at the same time fail so dramatically with their Universities-
Monday, 13 September 2010
SXSW 2010
I cannot drag myself away from this recently discovered music. From a festival in Austin, Texas called SXSW 2010.
Here is a sample..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2BsWVBNqCU&NR=1
Here is a sample..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2BsWVBNqCU&NR=1
Sunday, 12 September 2010
"An electronically transmitted voice is not a real voice" I said. "We've all grown used to these simulacra of ourselves, but when you stop and think about it, the telephone is an instrument of distortion and fantasy. It's communication between ghosts, the verbal secretions of minds without bodies. I want to be able to see the person I'm talking to. If I can't, I'd rather not talk at all".
Admittedly being stranded on a train for the best part of two hours makes having a mobile phone incredibly useful, however at times I find the use and need for one burdensome; having to report and maintain communication with people when they're not in your presence, solely to fulfill the needs of a socially constructed action.
'Iya. Wuup2? Tb.xx'... 'Got such a nastee hangover. Gud nyt tho. Wen r u uploading the photos online?xoxo'.
Now more than ever the original invention and introduction of technology is being abused to create and sustain the extension of a person's identity, an identity which is fraudulent and insincere, not to mention misleading. Admittedly I have veered more to the debate of facebook/myspace/bebo/twitter, however all can be coined together to see how it is terrifyingly disturbing if you are to consider the effects this is having on the basic levels of communication on a wider social plane. Rather not talk at all?
Admittedly being stranded on a train for the best part of two hours makes having a mobile phone incredibly useful, however at times I find the use and need for one burdensome; having to report and maintain communication with people when they're not in your presence, solely to fulfill the needs of a socially constructed action.
'Iya. Wuup2? Tb.xx'... 'Got such a nastee hangover. Gud nyt tho. Wen r u uploading the photos online?xoxo'.
Now more than ever the original invention and introduction of technology is being abused to create and sustain the extension of a person's identity, an identity which is fraudulent and insincere, not to mention misleading. Admittedly I have veered more to the debate of facebook/myspace/bebo/twitter, however all can be coined together to see how it is terrifyingly disturbing if you are to consider the effects this is having on the basic levels of communication on a wider social plane. Rather not talk at all?
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Stamford welcomes Malik
Malik paid me a visit this week.
Inevitably it was eventful.
Birds were flying into train tyres causing 2 hour delays and our canadian rugby exchange endured the spanish inquisition, being made to outline his 3 favourite things about Canada beginning with C. Cuddles, culture and his cat he responded.
On taking Lucas back to the boarding house we had a drunken chat with the housemaster after which Malik proceeded to pose on bridges pretending to be a stamfordian.
Once safely in 'the wig', we were accosted by army guys and head boys and other stamford raas. Malik pursued an intellectually rigorous debate on whether Hitler was a good leader.
It was a good night.
Malik is now recovering from spending his 21st birthday night out at Chinese karaoke, something which I am envious of. I am expecting an update on his destruction of liverpool, no more biography style please.
Inevitably it was eventful.
Birds were flying into train tyres causing 2 hour delays and our canadian rugby exchange endured the spanish inquisition, being made to outline his 3 favourite things about Canada beginning with C. Cuddles, culture and his cat he responded.
On taking Lucas back to the boarding house we had a drunken chat with the housemaster after which Malik proceeded to pose on bridges pretending to be a stamfordian.
Once safely in 'the wig', we were accosted by army guys and head boys and other stamford raas. Malik pursued an intellectually rigorous debate on whether Hitler was a good leader.
It was a good night.
Malik is now recovering from spending his 21st birthday night out at Chinese karaoke, something which I am envious of. I am expecting an update on his destruction of liverpool, no more biography style please.
Starstruck
FILM STAR SIGHTED IN STAMFORD.
Hands had been cured from their sharp edges.
Make-up artist was on holiday.
Usually spotted on far-off islands or manning the surrounding seas.
WHO AM I?
Hands had been cured from their sharp edges.
Make-up artist was on holiday.
Usually spotted on far-off islands or manning the surrounding seas.
WHO AM I?
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Narcolepsy
Once the narcoleptic woman had finished her meal in the hotel restaurant, her friends left her slumped and sleeping alone in the room having turned off all the lights. After a lovely fright on finding this woman, having anticipated an empty room once illuminated, I continued to clear the glasses from around her. The sleeping narcoleptic customer told me very loudly to ssshhh much to my surprise. Now I have lots of questions about narcolepsy.
1) Can she fall asleep whilst she is walking?
2) She must have been semi-conscious to ssshh me and therefore did she not semi-realise she was in the restaurant?
3) Is it inherited and similarly can there be narcoleptic families?
4) Do they dream in the same way?
5) Is sex a problem?
6) Shouldn't natural selection have weeded out this bizarre illness?
1) Can she fall asleep whilst she is walking?
2) She must have been semi-conscious to ssshh me and therefore did she not semi-realise she was in the restaurant?
3) Is it inherited and similarly can there be narcoleptic families?
4) Do they dream in the same way?
5) Is sex a problem?
6) Shouldn't natural selection have weeded out this bizarre illness?
Friday, 3 September 2010
Moral dilemma
When one drops a punnet of blueberries in a Morrissons aisle, is it acceptable to pick them up (whilst ignorant shoppers wheel past tutting, secretly delirious that this has not happened to them and basking in their power to carry on their trip up aisle 14 uninterrupted), put the punnet back on the shelf and get a fresh bunch for oneself?
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Potentially one of the most sensual visual pieces you will probably ever see in Liverpool:
http://vimeo.com/14294056
http://vimeo.com/14294056
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