Author: Miriam

The Worst Poetry in the Universe

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Inspired by some recent HHGG listening I thought I might show the worst poetry in the universe as described by Douglas Adams. The poet in question was in fact a schoolmate of Douglas Adams – Paul Neil Milne Johnston and the address mentioned in the radio series is actually the poets address.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occasionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pools mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

Apparently this guy won several English prizes at school and received a scholarship to Cambridge… What’s wrong with this picture??

Incidentally..

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Stupid Fuckwit of a Network

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I just wrote a post. It was a post of perfect length. It was humorous, it gave insight into who ‘Miriam’ is . It contained amusing anecdotes about how when I was a kid I wanted to be a boy and went by the name of ‘Julian’. It was a perfectly formed specimen of blog post.

But then the network went down…

as I clicked Publish Post…

AND I LOST THE WHOLE FRACKING THING!!!!!

So now you will have to continue with your lives never knowing what amazing insights into the world which might have inspired you to come up with the single most brilliant idea of our time might have been contained in the post that the internet lost.

A Clarification

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I just got a comment regarding the type of engineering that I’m doing and sounding very confused.

I’m not doing mechanical engineering,
I’m not doing electrical engineering

I’m doing Robotics and Mechatronics/Computer Science and Software engineering as a double degree.

Basically Robotics and Mechatronics is really just mechatronics with the robotics bit added so that parents have some idea what the hell their kids are doing.

Mechatronic systems use a processor and hence electronics to control a mechanical system; anything from automatic transmission and the button you press to turn on the air conditioning in your car to robotic submarines which locate and deactivate sea-mines. So I do a whole lot of mechanical engineering subjects and a whole lot of electrical engineering subjects and some software engineering subjects for the first bit and the second bit is almost purely programming.

Waiting

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At the moment I’m waiting for my lazy arse lab partner for Digital Electronics Design to turn up so that we can work on our VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) assignment which is due tomorrow. At the moment we haven’t even tested the program on the FPGA (field programmable gate array) board so we’re not exactly in the best position and I’ve been waiting for over an hour now.
Unfortunately I cant get on without him because he has the FPGA.
Fortunately the damned thing is only worth 10 marks however if we get zero for it I will have to get 96% in the exam to still get an HD.

I am currently using my spare time to work out what I will have to get in the exam for each subject in order to get an HD.

Technical Software Development: 85%
Digital Electronics Design: don’t get know, somewhere between 81% and 96% depending on the assignment.
Engineering Mathematics: 88%
Structural Mechanics: don’t know yet

Distinctions seem more likely than high distinctions for most of my subjects but TSD shouldn’t be too hard to get an HD in.