Bob Hoskins’ Finest Performances
A look back at an amazing actor and an amazing career. I remember him from Super Mario Bros, Who Frames Roger Rabit, and Hook. Not to mention the BT commercials . What’s your favourite Bob Hoskins moment?
Our hero is busy…but won’t be for long.
I haven’t forgotten about you, my darling public. I have many exam to study for and not much time to do so.
But in a week it’ll all be over, so I can get back to talking to you. Yes you. You know who you are.
*wink*
Did You Know? Christopher Reeve Had a BRIEF Cameo in Man of Steel
That is unbelievably cool. Never noticed. Thank you for sharing that!
I was watching Man of Steel for the second time today, when I forgot about something very very cool – something that’s so brief, millions missed it. And once you see it you’ll never un-see it. During the scene where Superman finally overcomes the World Engine and stands up to the rising pressure, there are a few flashes of light, and every few frames it flickers back and forth between Henry Cavill and Christopher Reeve’s face. They may have completely gotten rid of any trace of John Williams undeniably classic score, but it’s nice to see the Reeve get a cameo, albeit brief. Take a look below.
Here it is, frame by frame:
And the most obvious frame:
Our hero takes stock of his mathematical abilities, shares his culinary secrets, and then partakes in some TvT.
The maths exam…did not go well.
I’m actually certain that I will get next to no marks for it.
So afterwards I went home and played on the Xbox until I felt better. This took about 8 hours.
As is always the case with exams, they ask questions that you’ve never seen before. Sure they LOOK fine, but when you really look at it, you realise that they are slight variations on things you’ve studied, but have not been shown how to attack such questions.
BAH!
On a lighter note, I made myself a mean batch of fajitas! Turkey thigh bits were involved. The trick was to marinade the meat in a mix of cumin, chilli powder, paprika and lots, and I mean LOTS of lime juice. Amazing stuff there. No need to thank me, just eat, grow fat, and be happy.
Well that’s my strange night taken care of, I’m now off to watch MMA vs MVP play some TvT.
If you don’t know what that is, you probably have more friends than I do.
Ciao.
Our hero is sensitive to climate, becomes statistically embarrassed, defeats the swarm and reaches out to his public.
No photograph tonight, I’m all out of good looking juice.
How are we all this actually really nice evening? I sound surprised as I’m from the UK and when it gets about 13 degrees C people die of heat stroke, so it’s kind of a big deal for us.
I had to mention Celsius as there are some people out there (get ready for this) who actually measure temperature in Fahrenheit…
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I KNOW!
Although I do get it, I hate working with a simple to remember and sensible numbering system as well. I mean when remembering the freezing point of water 32 is a LOT easier to remember to 0! Although I might switch to Kelvin as mess with everyone’s fragile souls.
Right sorry about that, on with tonight’s show.
I am DANGEROUSLY under…um…dammit whats the term…ah, UNDER EDUCATED for this statistics exam tomorrow. There’s been tree diagrams and Venn diagrams and standard deviation and normal distribution and something to do with z points that I didn’t even get round to. So if I get 30% out of this exam I’ll be surprised.
I hate it because I’ve been doing not too badly up until now. I was on course to pass this year with room to spare, but it’s all spiraling out of control too fast…I’ll just have to fly through the last exams with flying colours. NOT going to be a fun month that one.
I had to stop for tonight, so I played a tiny bit of Starcraft II to relax, which helped a lot. Exams might be beating me, but I’ll be damned if I don’t know how to turn away a Zerg rush!
I hope you are all doing well though. I would love to hear from peeps suffering the same pre exam jitters that I am. We can get through it together!
Our hero faces mathematical problems, lowers himself onto something and spins, buys more biscuits than is healthy for a person, and generally breaks down. (Not in a dub-step way)
Today has been…trying to say the least. For hours I’ve been throwing myself against questions to do with probability, Venn diagrams and things like P(AnB) = P(A) x P(B|A). I’m not even sure if that’s right…anyhoo. It feels as if it’s all been for naught. Especially when you realise that 7-8 hours study has blinked by when all you’ve done is about three question on the first sheet of about 20. Does anyone else feel like this? How do you get through it?
No one seems to take into account that their might be some people, (ahem), that haven’t studied anything science like for about 12 years. I’m not saying my course needs to slow down for my benefit, but it just seems like they are saying “If you can’t keep up, sit on it and swivel!”
I decided to cheers myself up and go out to buy a LOT of short bread fingers that I digested almost within seconds, thinking it would illuminate some path toward enlightenment, some great secret of knowledge only known to the eaters of such sugary treats.
Alas, that was all bollocks.
It’s just vary hard to not go totally librarian at times like this. (A Discworld reference. If you didn’t get it, then shame on you.) It doesn’t help when your natural state is to worry about every single thing in your life to the point of heart attack. So convincing myself I’ve already failed in the ambitions doesn’t really calm the old heart rate.
I keep going back to my Cosmos DVD’s and Brian Cox documentaries, however, to remind myself why I’m doing this. To hear them talk of dark matter and dark energy, multiverse theories and distant, yet undiscovered exoplanets. And I think to myself that maybe I’ll be the one to come across that tiny, seemingly insignificant piece of data, that point on a graph or a ring of light where there shouldn’t be one, maybe I will have, at least in some small way, a part in the discovery of something wonderful. And it gives me strength.
By the way I apologise for my morbidly depressing rants. I guess I just want to know if anyone feels the same. If anyone else feels that they are banging their head against a wall that is the only thing between you, and the thing you want more than anything in the world. Except that wall is made of adamantium. And your head really hurts. And you keep doing it. And nothing changes. And your heads hurts even more…
On the plus side I was rocking out to the Pokemon soundtrack today, which brought me right back to about 1997. 18 years ago…
Ye Gods.
Anyhoops, I’m going to try and make this a daily/nightly thing. Any comments I will really appreciate it. It won’t be all doom and gloom I promise, it’s just how I’m feeling right now. 
Genuine mid-photo yawn. I wasn’t going to argue with it.
A new blog, by order of the therapist.
Well, I don’t think he would count himself as a therapist, but I know what I mean.
In what sounds like a moment from Sherlock, I’ve been told that writing a blog might help with my life, by giving me a way to vent my anxiety and giving me a chance to rant about my college course. (I’m doing a year of college, which is half finished, before I start my astrophysics course at university).
A lot of whats going on is I’m feeling very far behind with my work load at college. I’ve never been a great student, but I’m pretty damn proud of myself to be honest. I’ve moved across the county to follow my dream of becoming an astrophysicist, studying things I haven’t gone near in well over a decade, and things I was never good at in the first place.
But I am so pleased I’ve done it.
I never had a passion for anything up until a few years ago. No inspiration. No goals.
Until I was introduced to these names:
Sagan
Tyson
Cox
Dawkins
Nye
My life exploded.
I leaned so much in a few months. The fact we came from stars, how unimaginably large the universe is, that alien life isn’t just possible, it’s mathematically probable. In the words of the astronomer Giordano Bruno “The revelation of this immensity…was like falling in love.”
The cosmos was opened up to me, and I wanted to see and learn as much as I could.
So here I be. Bashing my head against wall and desk, struggling to do maths and physics problems that everyone else seems to be sailing through.
But I know that the older me, or at least a younger version of myself, would have probably given up by now. But if I do that I will never forgive myself as I know this is what I want to do.
I’ve never had something to aim for befroe, and I’m not going to stop now.
Well that’s it for my first attempt. I’m off to watch this Starcraft II tournament in bed.
That’s how I roll…
Ed of the Cosmos 