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I want to see his face too(the hamster's), looks pretty cute, how old is he? Those are nice budgies, I've found myself liking birds alot recently, though I don't think I'd get any I have to keep in the house, they're so messy! I would like to get some little chicks one day though, and raise them to chickens, just in the garden or something. I need a low maintainence pet, I'm too lazy otherwise. Except a cat, I'd make the effort for a cat.

So, after some reasizing and scaling down by 75%, I have a number of photos of my rabbit, guinea pigs, a cat that I like but hate because it's mean and wants to eat the pets, and a pigeon next to a tree in which it was making a nest. The rabbit, Bertie. The pigeon has a stick in it's mouth, it kept coming and going into that tree with twigs; Nature's lawnmowers, the guinea pigs, Sugar and Spice; Then, as I was in the garden this cat appeared. He's appeared in the area in the last few months, and seems very fiesty, trying to catch anything he can. Even just birds in the sky interest it. As I was taking the picture(of it standing there eyeing up my rabbit), a bird flew into the tree above its head. Then it went back to spying the rabbit, I made this one a bit bigger so you can see his slightly menacing eyes! I couldn't believe this cat, it was intent and totally <insert word I'm thinking of here>. Basically, it was totally unbothered by the fact both me and my mum was right there in the garden. We shouted at it, whistled at it, made random noises, it didn't even LOOK at us. It was as if we weren't even there! Then my mum described it as presumptious, I pointed out it's just a cat. Here's another of bertie, after the cat had gone. And this is what remained of the patch where the guinea pigs were, they were only out for an hour or two. I highlighted the rectangle of slightly shorter grass, in case it wasn't noticeable. Pig is an apt name for them!

That just sounds like you're upset because it didn't turn out to be what you wanted! I never watched the first season, I remember I got into it cos my brother watches it and I saw him watching it one time, and I sat and watched it too, and thought it was pretty good. I probably got into it just before rex and bree seperated and that.

Interesting stuff in the last few posts, I've not heard much about them before. Except genetic memory, I'd put that down to evolution of reflexes personally.

Those are terrible photos. *votes* He's barely got the lead guys, bump him up!

Yep, results page is here; http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100walkup/article/0,28804,1611030_1612457,00.html

Some theories of memory and general processing do work on a sort of web network theory, with nodes and related nodes and stuff, I think it's in the field on neuropsychology as it goes into activation voltages and stuff. There's also lots of memory theories on that too, quite a few too many to list(as memory is in theory central to being able to do or be anything). They all have their pros and their cons, and there's different explanations in the different theories for the tip of the tongue phenomenon and problems with memory retrieval. Just building on the above post of a web theory, say you can think of the actor's face, which is on one part of the web, his name could be all the way over on the other side. So what you do is think of things nearer his name(people acted with, films he's been in) which may be closer to the name, or can link you there. Maybe for some reason or another, the route from his face to his name is just blocked at the time you're trying to think of it, though that is more just a theory of what's happening and not why. I've never come across that before, interesting stuff. I wonder how much it applies in psychology, I might have a search around for some articles! That is actually something I've considered trying to test. Unfortunately, other than monitoring someone throughout their life, I'd need a way to test it at one point in time, and that has its flaws. In my first year(last year) we had to do 4000 words about anything we wanted, and I actually wrote my essay about whether personality changes over time or not. I think generally research has show certain dimensions to be releatively stable from teens onwards, and a few others only changing slightly. As for whether someone can actively change their personality? I'm not sure what the general consensus on that is, but I personally believe they can/can be helped to. What's that? Those, are some good questions! I've wondered them before myself. Personally, and I haven't looked for studies on it, I believe crying is a learned/conditioned response from when we are babies. When we have problems we cried(and maybe we were upset at the same time), and someone would respond and solve our problem. As we get older we cry less, but the response remains that when we get upset we cry. The only idea I've had of how to test it would basically mean neglecting a whole bunch of babies when they cry, which is just plain unethical. The colour thing, interesting too. In theory, it doesn't matter at all as long as the inconsistency is consistent. If red and blue were simply entirely swapped, it wouldn't matter. If however, you saw both blues and reds as just red, it'd become an issue. Alot of post, I'll post some more later on too, gotta pick my bedsheets up off the line so that I can schleep!

Wow, alot of questions in this thread, I've been avoiding answering them because a, I didn't originally intend to and b, I'm not an expert and c, there's alot of them! I have gotten a couple of vague ideas of the sort I wasafter, though none of the sort that would jump out at me. I guess I phrased the original post wrong.

You fell out of the loop? Silly time to fall out of it, things have been pretty good this week. Hmm, Will situation, Russ and Mercedes arguing about stuff, Jacqui finding out about Aleksander and Carmel and going crazy about it, who then in turn found out about her and Tony. Also, Warren's sister has come to town, and has her eyes on Justin after a bit of interest on his part, but having found out she's warren's sister, then seeing him go a bit mental at someone, he's seems pretty worried about doing anything. Aaand...thats about everything of note in the past week.

Smoooth. :wink: Myself? I am a pirate and yes I AM free, so I do what I want. There's no way I'd listen to alot of stuff I listen to if I couldn't pirate it, music is an expensive habit. On the other side of the coin, I do know people in bands(who by the way, write all their own stuff given that they aren't signed, in fact, check the bottom link in my sig for a rather awesome band). Erm, where was i? Oh yeah, music's too expensive, obviously, 1p a song(plus 10 million downloads, a bit unrealistic) is a bit stupid, but if I could buy a CD for like half of what they cost in the shop, then I'd consider it. Individual tracks...maybe 30-80p each? Consider how much a music CD is, then divide that by the number of tracks you could fit on it on average. Then cut it by 10%, that should be a fair enough price...maybe. I dunno, I'm just making crap up.

I don't want to be one of those people who knows about something then starts rattling on about it, but sleep is one of the topics in my biological substrates module, and it appears that the brain is actually rather clever at catching up on lost sleep. Your brain cycles through 4 stages of sleep when you're sleeping. In stage one your brainwaves are very similar to that of waking life, and in fact it is in this stage that dreams occur(re-emergent stage one that is). In stage two you get some wave patterns called sleep spingles and k complexes which are punctuating waves similar to stage one, although frequency has dropped a little whilst amplitude has increased. In stage three freq drops low and amplitude goes up more, I think these might be called theta waves. In stage four, freq drops even lower and amplitude goes even higher, these are delta waves, and the deepest form of sleep. You'll end up here on average by about 30-40 minutes of being asleep. Then it cycles back through them in reverse, gets to stage one and REM occurs(rapid eye movement, also the period of dreams, when you wake up remembering dreams you most likely woke up from stage one). Stage one stays for a good part of an hour, then it drops through back down to stage 4 again, and up to stage one, then back down etc. According to the graph in this book, over a 8 hour sleep period you re-emerge at REM 5 times, waking up on the 5th typically. Anyway, the important part of sleeping is the deeper stages, 4 in particular. Apparently this is where the restorative purpose of sleep occurs. Basically, to get to the point, when you haven't gotten enough sleep, the next time you sleep you will spend longer in the deeper stages(3&4) and less time in the higher stages. I thought that was actually pretty darn interesting. It said something a bit earlier in the chapter about REM sleep increasing in the deprived, so it might be stage 2 that is cut down on. Waking people up during REM doesn't have much effects, but waking them up during slow wave sleep apparently has major effects. Also, a guy who set a record(since broken) of 264 hours 12 minutes consecutive without sleep, only slept for 14 hours the first night after, and after that first night he returned to his usual 8-hour schedule. Funny you should say that, psychology of eating is also part of my biopsych unit... But I won't go into it. After a while, as long as the sleep cycles are fairly consistent, the body should adjust to them that you can sleep at those times, not sure how much of a detrimental effect it will have in the long term, although apparently there isn't much of a significant effect after the body adjusts. (I guess it seems I did end up like one of those people)

My exams start on wednesday(end of 2nd year) and run until the wednesday after, got an exam every weekday between except for tuesday. Bit gay really, like 80% of my year rests upon one week : Having said that, I'm about to purchase and play lylat wars on the VC

Who said you need so much sleep? There's always stuff about sleep and people not getting enough of it, but apparently if you sleep too much you die earlier.

That sounds to me like pretty much being broken up, I guess now it comes down to extent of how much of a break the break is. Goron, hasn't had much explanation as to why, you gave your guy a decent explanation. Where does goron stand? Can he go meet other people? Does he have to wait until she makes up her mind? Your situation is different from what I understand, don't you live at opposite ends of the world? If she'd broken up with goron, what are the real chances of never seeing her again? I'd say slim, besides, there's nothing to say when you're broken up that you can't actually remain friends, is there?

Darn, I was hoping there'd be some handy site full of game music rips and remixes. I know of a few which are all right for midis, both close to the originals and remixes, but for some I want the actual original soundtrack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_%28Desperate_Housewives_episode%29 That's got a nice little recap. You could always catch the repeat of last night's on sunday on E4, or on C4 on wednesday. I don't watch this too religiously, I missed it for a few weeks recently, but with the whole E4 next episode and stuff, it's not too bad as it reduces how many episodes I miss. As for why I like it, I like it for kind of the same reason I like ugly betty, it's a bit beyond realistic but just on the border that it still could be real in a world full of coincidences, it's like comedy drama.

I think I gotta agree with some of this, there's some bits I've seen where he just seems like he's trying to act, and failing. It usually is at the angry shouty bits too.

Where do you guys get your music from?

I remember a post about something similar quite a while ago, http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/ It appears to be made more with the wii in mind, I checked out tversity, but at the moment it doesn't really have any wii info. I haven't actually tried anything like these yet, so I can't say what they're like. Does TVersity need for videos to be converted into flash stuff first?

On the subject of gameplay, have they always owned it, or did they acquire it at some point, and if so, when exactly was that?

*is starting to hate the word official* As it happens, I'm watching next week's right now, well funny bit with susan! It's got such a great cast, and scripts, it's fantastic.

I had meant to change that 'survive' to compete, I changed what I was saying halfway through. I won't mind about this, if they try and leave gamestation as much as it is, but I just can't help but think they won't do that

Now now, let's not break out into a war of the sexes, I don't think we'll win. I also think alot of people have jumped on what darkcloud has said and accused him of saying she's doing this solely to toy with goron, which isn't true. I, personally, would rather that because then I would know exactly where I stand rather than spending however long just waiting and wondering. I like to know what's what, and I don't like uncertainty, but maybe that's just me. Being 'on a break' isn't fair imo for the reason it leaves the other person just in a state of wondering and uncertainty, no idea what's going on, and fretting about the worst and not sure what's going to happen and what isn't, which is why I don't think it's fair. As Moogle has also pointed out, from what we've been told she didn't even give him a real reason for it.

Maybe he is, I really wouldn't know how to tell other than what they were told at the petshop. He's definitely smaller than the older rabbits, and they weren't exactly huge, so by that reasoning, I'd say yes, yes he is! I'm gonna take a picture if I let him out tomorrow/if the weather is nice and I sit in the garden, then you can all marvel at his unmarvelousness.

Seeing as you aren't going to give it to him, can I change my name to Dyson? The truth?! THE TRUTH?!? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!