The 'Today' Topic

• karo: the joys 
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:59 PM
• karo: I've been busy doing this Summer School for Access to Uni thing.  For the past week or two I have had at least one big essay per week(by big I mean 1500 words, so not massive but still a fair bit for a weekly essay) got one due Monday this week and another due Friday
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:46 PM
• E.Maree: That must have taken some organisation, wow. :O Mega congratulations!
  July 15, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
• Triss: We're hoping to make it an annual event since the first was pretty successful.
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
• Triss: A group of us from the LARP society I'm part of decided to put on a role-playing convention, catering to roleplayers of all types from tabletop to LARP, so we got in a whole load of traders and people promoting their groups and stuff. There's quite a big, active RP community in the north-east, so we thought we'd tap into that. So 'Nerd East' was born!
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:13 PM
• E.Maree: Running a convention? Oooh, tell me more! :O
  June 27, 2010, 11:34:45 AM
• Triss: 'lo guys - I'm good, still busy, alternating between a degree and convention running. I didn't predict anything of this sort this time last year...
  June 25, 2010, 11:17:06 PM
• E.Maree: I think everyone's lives have taken a turn for the busier lately, I know mine has. xD How are you?
  June 22, 2010, 09:55:21 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: I have not been on here for a long time but I am very busy. It is my bastard degree; it takes up almost all of my time.
  June 16, 2010, 11:00:12 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: Hello.
  June 16, 2010, 10:59:49 PM
• E.Maree: Tightened up the anti-spam measures on the forum.
  May 31, 2010, 01:47:46 PM
• karo: we need to spark up activity again... hardly anyone comes on anymore...
  April 30, 2010, 01:40:19 PM
• E.Maree: Hi XGIANNIX, how are you?
  April 26, 2010, 09:27:37 PM
• XGIANNIX: E.Maree
  April 20, 2010, 01:34:32 PM
• XGIANNIX: euhmm hello
  April 20, 2010, 01:32:18 PM
• E.Maree: The new forum domain is now live, please change your bookmarks to emmamaree.com/forum.
  April 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
• E.Maree: I made a logo!
  April 06, 2010, 12:48:12 PM
• E.Maree: http://emmamaree.com/ is well along its way now. I'll have to move this place over soon. :O
  March 21, 2010, 10:38:08 PM
• E.Maree: Oh man, it's so cold around here, even with the snow gone. 
  January 22, 2010, 08:31:36 AM
• karo: thank you
  January 18, 2010, 05:43:17 PM

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

[Sharp retort.]

[karo]

I have had the same problem

[Faux-flippant provocation.]

Funnily enough I have had the same problem with a swan called 'Sylvester' >.>

^^ and that isn't?

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

I swear to god, I have had a female swan called Sylvester. 

[karo]

I didn't say you didn't.

Just the way you said it sounded to me like sarcasm.

Being the son of a vet you probably do have a few animals.

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

Today I read Hamlet's first Soliloquy (Our English Study).

[MysticSafewayBag]

Good man.

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

Don't patronise!... I was trying to get the conversation back on track...

[karo]

today I got a letter from Alex Salmond.  Because I e-mailed him about something important(Gaelic, Independence and Global Warming basically).

[MysticSafewayBag]

That is rather important.

[E.Maree]

Congrats, MSB and Triss. You'll both get in no bother, I know it. :3

Yesterday, I went to the library for the first time since I was 15 (so, first time in more than a year). =O

[Triss]

Thanks Emma.

And what exactly did the letter say, karo?

[karo]

I asked him about Global Warming.

They plan to get rid of normal fuel and use biofuel(under present circumstances bad idea.  Biofuel is good but how they make it is very un-enviromentally friendly) by 2010.

I asked about the future of Gaelic.

The answer I already knew but I wanted to get more info.  The Gaelic Digital channel starts up soon and the Gaelic Bord will be opening medium centers across the country.

He also said that by 2010 again they aim to have a vote on the Independence of Scotland.

He also said he had a great time at Turriff Show(I worked their)

[E.Maree]

Biofuel is an awful idea. Their first steps should be to create a surplus of crops to support the project and solve world hunger, instead of doing it without the resources and starving a hundred thousand people or so.

That, and it would help out struggling farmers. Farmers ftw!

[karo]

yeah, I agree.

Fact thats why I said.

(under present circumstances bad idea.  Biofuel is good but how they make it is very un-enviromentally friendly)

what would make it un-enviromentally friendly would be how they got the area to grow the crop.  What will they get rid of?  I'll give you a clue, tall, brown, has green leaves.

[Triss]

Well the environmental impact is one thing I guess, but the human impact is a lot worse - because of the increased demand for biofuels, poor countries are growing them for the money, while their populations get even less food, compounding what is already a serious problem. If anything, biofuels should be boycotted.

Renewable energy sources are all the rage nowadays, but they are not nearly efficient enough to meet the energy demands of today. Nuclear power still remains the best option right now in my opinion, but some serious funding has to go into making renewable energy efficient enough to meet demands (my bet is on marine power - Google Pelamis for something I think has real potential) and into fusion research. Once we can get more energy out of fusion than we put into it (without breaking the First Law of Thermodynamics, obviously) then our energy needs will be more than accounted for.