RMweb Gold SouthernRegionSteam Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hmm, that's interesting Robert! I never really thought of Sri Lankans as mathematicians before, but then I've never met one so that could be why! The lecturer we have is actually pretty good and does explain everything. However, I just feel that perhaps he could be a bit more enthusiastic or more inspiring as it is a bit of a bore at the moment. I know I certainly can't do maths sums in my head - even simple ones I really struggle with. I guess we all have different skill sets! I'm actually doing OK in the maths lecture today. I'm managing to answer the questions so far... There is a test on I think the 13th December which I am worried about, but I guess all I can do is revise and ask for help if I get stuck. I'm not one for easily admitting defeat, but also, I'm not one for asking for help either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I forget what course you are doing - so I am not sure what sort of Maths you will need. However, don't be afraid of asking for help! This is one of the most important things you will learn at Uni. I read Electronic Engineering - My Maths wasn't hot, but where computing/ programming was concerned I was better than many of the others in my year. I used to help the guys out with the computing stuff, and they'd help me out with the Maths. Find someone in your group who is good at Maths, and do some skill swapping! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SouthernRegionSteam Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 I'm studying product design - so that's all to do with vectors & scalars, tensile stress/strain, equations, moments and forces, shear force and bending/stretching. If I was any good at my AS Physics it would help here, but I still remember parts of it, particularly in scalars and vectors. Today we had to work out the 2nd moment area of composite bodies. Sounds absolutely horrific, but actually is fairly straightforward when you get past the name! I think the name and symbols they give in maths is the thing that often throws me and leaves me confused. I'm getting better though. It's a good tip about exchanging skills though, thanks Robert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 The downside is I'm being pressured to do some clean up work in Inver-bloody-ness for a few weeks. Can you say no fecking way? Oi! - whats wrong with Inverness? Blue skies and sunshine all day today, although a little cold here, 22 miles further North. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I'll back Shortliner up on that. Inverness is lovely. Particularly worth going around Hallowe'en to the Ness Islands Hallowe'en show too, especially if you have kids with you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2011 Man. Just past six p.m. in these parts and it's pitch dark already. I wonder if that's why I am getting sleepy that early these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Jam said: I really need to try and create some sort of timetable to organise myself to try and stop lazing around when I should be doing something productive. I say: +1 on that - if you create a good one let me know I'm too lazy to do it myself.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Don't worry Dominik. Another month and the nights start drawing out again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Don't worry Dominik. Another month and the nights start drawing out again. But will it still be foggy? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2011 But will it still be foggy? Snowy would be more likely, methinks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 Snowy would be more likely, methinks. Probably not here now, I bought two snow shovels yesterday. Folklore suggests that these will act as talismans against settling snow. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 It's not foggy..... ......it's just mists and mellow fruitfulness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2011 No today was foggy first thing by 10.00 it was misty. and mellow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) When I was young fog was often thick and yellow rather than mellow. Of course that was in the good old days that some hanker after! Edited November 22, 2011 by Tony_S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2011 I can still remember smelling Sheffield before you could see it. The good old days when men were men who went out to work making stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) The good old days when men were men who went out to work making stuff. Until just before I was born my mother worked in a factory! Actually my Dad worked there as well, they met after he sorted out her pay grade, he was the Shop Steward. When my brother and I were sorting out my Mum's stuff after she died we found the note Dad had written to her (on the back of a "Meteorite" quality control card) asking her out. Sounds like the plot of one of those Soviet worker operas! Tony Edited November 22, 2011 by Tony_S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) Sky box up and running again. Fault code 06-0 indicates a fault with the HDD. Having taken a hammer to it this afternoon, it is certainly duff now. Fitted a 500mb drive this afternoon and now all working perfectly. Just wish Sky could have told me that..... Edit: Just realised I've been missing for two pages, so some catching up to do... Edited November 22, 2011 by gordon s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Evenin' all...........Just had fresh-off-the-tree banana, we buy a bunch (about a dozen or so) some get eaten, some get made into banana bread, some just ripen to quick and drop straight into the bin.......unless they miss. Yes the smell of good old industrial Britain, if the cloud base was low you could smell Stewartby brickworks (near Bedford) about 30 miles south! And the "aroma" of the cellophane factory in Bridgewater........I could (but wont ) go on........but I guess some one else will? Trev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Truemans Brewery at Spitalfields on brewing day - amazingly beautiful yet oddly ugly stench. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 The Marmite tankers pulling out of the Guiness Brewery in the City ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I think I spelled Guinness incorrectly. It doesn't matter - I won't be ordering any in writing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 ....but what if you ever want to claim a world record? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 It's OK - I can spell DVD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 22, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2011 The tannery in Canterbury (early 1970s) used to have rather an interesting aroma. For a few years Pitsea Tip was not particularly pleasant when the wind came from the west. I was once the senior teacher (ie I'd just passed my probationary year) on a school trip to Chessington Zoo. The traffic caused the coach to be delayed outside a brewery in South London. Some of the children started being affected by the smell and reacted by retching. I do remember when being asked to organise another trip requesting parents to supply their child with plastic bags without drainage holes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Morning all, still pitch black out there...........so no idea on the weather yet. Got an early meeting to attend. So just now waiting for the driver (and its a two hour drive in heavy traffic) Ah yes school coach trips, and plastic bags, are the schools still allowed to run them? Trev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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