treeduck Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Birmingham is the where Black Sabbath and Judas Priest are from! :haz: :haz: :haz: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Birmingham is the where Black Sabbath and Judas Priest are from! :haz: :haz: :haz:So is John Lodge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Birmingham is the where Black Sabbath and Judas Priest are from! :haz: :haz: :haz:So is John Lodge.And Jasper Carrot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Robert Plant is from a place not so far away from Birmingham too, West Bromwich. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Had my first lecture today. As of today I finally have all of my classes figured out after dealing with all sorts of bullshit like conflicting classes, people not being available, etc. but it's done. Had my first British meat pie today at the food court on campus, filled with lots of turkey and gravy. Much love. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow everything will be figured out. Still having issues with the living office cause they haven't been helping us set up a direct debit account with our US bank account to make housing payments. We've refused to pay through credit card cause of the outrageous fees. One of my classes still doesn't have a room location and we meet on Thursday so hopefully they'll get their shit together soon. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet this weekend...I did find out that the UK's largest guitar store is only like a 20 minute walk from where I'm living so maybe I'll check that out. Trying to find societies or clubs that do traveling so I don't have to spend a lot of money to travel to London or other areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Had my first lecture today. As of today I finally have all of my classes figured out after dealing with all sorts of bullshit like conflicting classes, people not being available, etc. but it's done. Had my first British meat pie today at the food court on campus, filled with lots of turkey and gravy. Much love. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow everything will be figured out. Still having issues with the living office cause they haven't been helping us set up a direct debit account with our US bank account to make housing payments. We've refused to pay through credit card cause of the outrageous fees. One of my classes still doesn't have a room location and we meet on Thursday so hopefully they'll get their shit together soon. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet this weekend...I did find out that the UK's largest guitar store is only like a 20 minute walk from where I'm living so maybe I'll check that out. Trying to find societies or clubs that do traveling so I don't have to spend a lot of money to travel to London or other areas. Sounds like you're fitting right in. Also sounds like typical college BS. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Gotta say, I like you being over there - you're online more when I'm online :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Gotta say, I like you being over there - you're online more when I'm online :) That makes zero sense cause we're in the same time zone when I'm at home. WTF are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Gotta say, I like you being over there - you're online more when I'm online :) That makes zero sense cause we're in the same time zone when I'm at home. WTF are you? I'm on while coding at work... pop in while stuff is compiling or whatever. Almost never online while at home. While I'm at work, you're at school... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) First week of class is over and I've finally got everything hammered out on the school end of things. Classes I'm taking: Object-Oriented Software Design: this will be a cakewalk. It's UML which is easy as hell. Nature Inspired Optimization: An advanced computer science topic on solving problems through "natural" means. Really interesting but I'm worried it'll be one of those awful theory classes. I prefer writing code... Models of Computation: A comsci theory class. Not looking forward to it, though so far it isn't too bad. Baroque and Classical Music: My "fun" class that will transfer back as humanities credit. Gender and Sexuality: BS class for a social science credit I need back at home. My schedule worked out so I don't have any class on Fridays. Hello 3 day weekends! Tomorrow I'm planning on going over to a place called GuitarGuitar, which claims it is the largest guitar store in the UK...and it's only 20 minutes walk from where I'm living. This weekend I'll probably go visit downtown Birmingham again just to sightsee, last time we needed to get necessities so we didn't really take it all in. I'm gonna hold off on taking trips outside of Birmingham for another week probably once things settle down with school. Would like to head over to London soon, or perhaps Manchester so I can go kick treeduck in the balls like LiX requested Edited January 15, 2015 by BowlCity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Gotta say, I like you being over there - you're online more when I'm online :) That makes zero sense cause we're in the same time zone when I'm at home. WTF are you? I'm on while coding at work... pop in while stuff is compiling or whatever. Almost never online while at home. While I'm at work, you're at school... I'm 6 hours ahead...what the hell kind of shift are you working? Are you that weird breed of programmer that does everything at night? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 How do you like the weather so far in England? How you finding it? Too cold? Warm? Too changeable? Boring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Has treeduck found you yet? As bad as being a Bears fan is... don't let him talk you into rooting for the Saints! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Has treeduck found you yet? As bad as being a Bears fan is... don't let him talk you into rooting for the Saints! :madra: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 How do you like the weather so far in England? How you finding it? Too cold? Warm? Too changeable? Boring? The Januarys are certainly better than the Midwest's. It isn't going below 40F during the day. In essence if it weren't for the accents and people driving on the left side of the road I'd think I was in Seattle with all the wind and rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Has treeduck found you yet? As bad as being a Bears fan is... don't let him talk you into rooting for the Saints! Certainly better than being a Packers fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Has treeduck found you yet? As bad as being a Bears fan is... don't let him talk you into rooting for the Saints! Certainly better than being a Packers fan.http://media20.giphy.com/media/12XMGIWtrHBl5e/giphy.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Going downtown again today, this time to actually do some sightseeing since last time I went only cause I needed to get some stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikenrooster Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I'm so envious. I'm also very happy for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Going downtown again today, this time to actually do some sightseeing since last time I went only cause I needed to get some stuff. Downtown you say??? Maybe someone can fetch a youtube vid of that British sensation of the sixties, Petula Clark, singing Downtown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Booked my first weekend trip elsewhere. Going to London this Friday afternoon, coming back Sunday evening. Should be fun. It'll be hard to cram everything into 2 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I guess I'm the only one ancient enough to remember Petula Clark. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I guess I'm the only one ancient enough to remember Petula Clark. Nope. Here you go... Things will be great when you’re… (My wife heard this and said..."I love this song!" Thanks for the inspiration, Lorraine!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) Another Petula Clark classic... Don’t Sleep in the Subway Lorraine, you should get Earl to start a Petula Clark appreciation thread for you in Music of the Spheres. Edited January 19, 2015 by goose 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I guess I'm the only one ancient enough to remember Petula Clark. Oh no, I remember her. Only song I know that she did, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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