Merry X-Mas Slackerz!

Here's a lil' song to show my opinion on the holiday(nah,not really,'cause I love X-mas eatin' and gamin')!

"Satan Is Comin' To Town"

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town

He's making a hitlist,
Checking it twice;
Gonna find out who's dieyin' 'n' why.
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

With little red horns and little guns
Shooty shoot shoots and bummy bum bums
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town

He comes you when you're sleeping
He comes when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So run fast for goodness sake
Goodness sake

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not shout
I'm telling you why
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming to town
Satan is coming
Satan is coming
Satan is coming to town

(Coming to town)
Satan's a busy man he has no time to play
He's got a million kiddies to kill on Christmas day
(Satan is coming to town)
(Coming to town)
(Satan is coming to town)
(Coming to town)


Sorry,I just couldn't help myself... Still,I love the holiday and despite my age I do still like the idea of Ol' Saint Nic ! Anyway,I'm offffffffff on a jet plane back to Bulgaria for the next month or so.... So,cool!
bk109 out of the silent planet (It's Iron Maiden,bitch!)

WTF?!

What the fuck is happening lately in Bulgaria?! They kill a dweeb(a.k.a. student) in Sofia and now everyone is starting to scream bloody murder(ironic,eh?) that the gov't is fucked up and that there should be changes...
Yeah,right... That hasn't happened since '89 and will definately won't happen again,courtesy of the stagnant and rather couch-revolutionary culture of my birthcountry... First,noone seems to check the rather peculiar fact,that the fuck that got himself killed was A) intoxicated as hell and B)had a lenghty confrontation together with his friends with some other company at the disco... Ergo,he wasn't "innocent" and the fact that there were defensive and offensive wounds on his body suggest that he was far from merely "fighting back"... That's sad,but it's also evolution,so fuck 'em... I'm more sympathetic to the poor bastards that are now probably going to spend a hefty time in jail for something that they did while officially out of their minds...
So,a word to all my countrymen that start to scream against the perceived injustices that they see in Bulgaria...
Took you long enough,eh?! That + STFU before you know all the facts!
bk109 out and startin' a revolution!

NEWSFLASH:I'M DONE BITCHEZ

Well,the title more or less sums it up... I'm done!!!Yippie... Now I only have to stay awake for just 7 more hours,in order to fall asleep in a relatively normal time to catch up on my Zzz after a record-breaking 80hrs straight! Anyhow,4 exams later and I'm still alive and actually pleased with my performance(just a tad hesitant on the outcome of ECON10020,but will see)... So,the battle is over... now we only have to wait for the butcher's bill ... in January...
Meh,I'm kinda accustomed to the waiting,so I'll live through it....That,plus surviving the flight home,which on an Airbus is strictly optional,so I'll probably leave some viable DNA in order to be identified relatively easy...Still,I'm goin' home in 5 days,just 5 days of drinkin' and lovin'!
Well,
bk109 out cold for the next 18 hours...

D-Day+1: Meh...

Well,obviously,I survived(more or less) unscathed... Now we get to repeat this excercise only 3 more times and DELIRIUM,HERE I COME!
...Oookay,maybe I get a little carried away,but hey... I HAVE FUCKING EXAMS! So,the experience was rather less painful than expected and obviously the whole "No Mobile Phones Allowed" was sorta loosely enforced... in the sense that you can actually bring your mobile,but you'd better turn it off and leave it on the floor,or else! Other than that the whole shebang was relatively straightforward - 800+ peeps,40 questions, 2 hours and only one correct combination(well, 2,but it was due to a typo)!!
Now comes the fun part,Here we go again,but with the bonus part of doing it on Saturday at noon,so here go my holidays..... At least this time I'll get my camera so the day is not a complete loss...
Errm,any volunteers to do my shoppin' 'n' laundry? :D
Thought so... Well,I'll probably catch up on eatin',sleepin',fuckin' and lovin' after the 17th ... But until then I'll make do with truckloads of Coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and my world unrenowned baked beanz/insta noodles combo (perhaps with some souer kraut...) ... Yep,I do eat the stuff,but you'd be surprised how the toilet smells after 6 continuos days on the stuff... ;)
bk109 out,but not rly...

Day Seven: Err,sorta poetry

Sorry Iron Maiden,but it's just a sentiment here....
...
In the gloom the gathering storm abates
In their seats gimlet eyes await
The call to start to scribble at the sheets
To blow them wide throw exams to their fate
...
Again,sorry,It's just.... err,please don't kill me...
Anyway,day Seven was a bust... my C330 Camera sorta died on me during my recon of the RDS test complex,where I'll wish to die tomorrow at 3 (Only on selected basic cable and satellite providers)... So,crap!
bk109 out of his mind 'n' going slightly insane

Day Six: ...Insert Evil Laughter then serve cold

So,we're nearly to our first skirmish with the Exams and what do you think I'm currently doing? Well,I'm trying to determine the optimal parameters of a impact event on my homeland's capital in order to erase it along with most of its population out of the planet.... You thought that I was studying?! How little do you know me.... SOOO,anyway, for now the best(or worst depending on where do you reside) option is a 70 meter pure tungsten projectile impacting at at least 45' at a velocity of around 16.8 at impact with an estimated explosive equivalent of ~89.3 Megatons(1.80 Tsar Bombs),which'll produce a 3.007(diameter)x0.600(depth) km crater together with an 20s earthquake rated at ~6 on the Richter scale with a potential of 6 to 7 on the Mercalli scale at 20km(an arbitrary boundary of our target due to the desire of the crazy genius[read me] to optimally erase Sofia from the face of the planet) and also together with second degree burns on the exposed parts of the body + some flash fires.... Nice....
The only problem with this is to actually create this impact event,but as a lowly 1st year Economics student I find it just a tad impossible,but one can hope,right? If someone like Ted Turner or Bill Gates throws some money my way,though, it wont be that impossible...
I'll only need some 1436755.04 cubic meters of Tungsten(some 27657534.52 tonnes of Tungsten(or 27.658 Megatons)) plus some boosters,which for the sake of simplicity wont be taken into account in the final damage estimate,which'll propel the projectile on a short trip 'round the Moon(to propel it to the required 17km/s orbital velocity) an' back... Smack in the middle of Sofia...... Nice......Expensive and/or Impossible.... But NICE....
Of course,there might be some problems - funding,ethical and moral implications (nah,not really) and logistics,but I don't care.... I(and most likely everybody in Bulgaria who's not living in Sofia) want to see a big friggin' bullet drop from the skies and effectively erase this infection from the face of the world... Some critics might suggest it'd be better to simply buy a second-hand Russian warhead and detonate it in or above the city... My response? - FUCK YOU,after years of Fallout 1'n'2 I learned something important - NUKES ARE BAD('n' for pussies)... I mean it too... Hell,if I really put my back into it,for a fraction of the costs only for the boosters I'd successfully create a Manhatton Project times 50...but that's not the way...and it's not that spectacular as well... I mean friggin' space bullets,guys!
So,errm,yeah,I think I'm losing it turbo-big time... and it wont be pretty,but still if someone discards all logic and/or thinking at large,it sounds kinda cool... Anyway,I think I'm gonna leave now to watch something decidedly non-violent to return back to sanity(not likely,but it's worth a try) and then dinner...
bk109 out and about in the secret underground volcano-top evil lair of EEEEVIIIILLLLLL
PS.Here's what I'd want from the GOD as a X-mas or B-Day present...
Impact Event Sofia,Bulgaria(insert date,God)

Distance from Impact: 20.00 km = 12.42 miles

Projectile Diameter: 70.00 m = 229.60 ft = 0.04 miles

Projectile Density: 19250 kg/m³

Impact Velocity: 17.00 km/s = 10.56 miles/s

Impact Angle: 45 degrees

Target Density: 2500 kg/m³

Target Type: Shithole of the planet/Capital city of Bulgaria

Energy:

Energy before atmospheric entry: 5.00 x 10¹⁷ Joules = 1.19 x 10² MegaTons TNT

The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth during the last 4 billion years is 4.4 x 10³years

Atmospheric Entry:

The projectile lands intact, with a velocity 16.8 km/s = 10.4 miles/s.

The energy lost in the atmosphere is 1.24 x 10¹⁶ Joules = 2.97 x 10⁰ MegaTons.

Major Global Changes:

The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.

The impact does not make a noticeable change in the Earth's rotation period or the tilt of its axis.

The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.

Crater Dimensions:

What does this mean?

Transient Crater Diameter: 2.46 km = 1.53 miles

Transient Crater Depth: 0.869 km = 0.539 miles

Final Crater Diameter: 3.07 km = 1.91 miles

Final Crater Depth: 0.655 km = 0.407 miles

The crater formed is a simple crater

The floor of the crater is underlain by a lens of broken rock debris (breccia) with a maximum thickness of 304 m = 996 ft.

The volume of the target melted or vaporized is 0.00307 km³ = 0.000735 miles³

Roughly half the melt remains in the crater

Thermal Radiation:

What does this mean?

Time for maximum radiation: 0.0937 seconds after impact

Visible fireball radius: 1.54 km = 0.958 miles

The fireball appears 17.5 times larger than the sun

Thermal Exposure: 5.67 x 10⁵ Joules/m²

Duration of Irradiation: 20.5 seconds

Radiant flux (relative to the sun): 27.7

Effects of Thermal Radiation:

Much of the body suffers second degree burns
Deciduous trees ignite

Seismic Effects:

What does this mean?

The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 4 seconds.

Richter Scale Magnitude: 6.0

Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 20 km:

VI. Felt by all, many frightened. Some heavy furniture moved; a few instances of fallen plaster. Damage slight.
VII. Damage negligible in buildings of good design and construction; slight to moderate in well-built ordinary structures; considerable damage in poorly built or badly designed structures; some chimneys broken.

Ejecta:

What does this mean?

The ejecta will arrive approximately 64 seconds after the impact.

Average Ejecta Thickness: 4.07 cm = 1.6 inches

Mean Fragment Diameter: 1.33 m = 4.37 ft

Air Blast:

What does this mean?

The air blast will arrive at approximately 60.6 seconds.

Peak Overpressure: 38700 Pa = 0.387 bars = 5.49 psi

Max wind velocity: 79 m/s = 177 mph

Sound Intensity: 92 dB (May cause ear pain)

Damage Description:

Multistory wall-bearing buildings will experience severe cracking and interior partitions will be blown down
Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse.
Glass windows will shatter.
Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.

Day Five: What the funk was that?!

Well, 2 days to go ... and I'm reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyyy starting to lose it big time! This is unfortunate,because I kinda grew attached to my sanity and I'll hate to lose it - especially over ECON10010! So,after a rather disturbing studying session which I estimate to have lasted excluding the small breaks between seven and eight hours... WOW,right?That from the guy,who hasn't studied (at the very least actively) for the last eight years... so the feeling of utter emptiness after this marathon made me make the biggest mistake of the day - to get fooled by a movie trailer in youtube. The result 190 minutes of a movie that is best characterised by "It's so bad,I can't believe it's not Uwe!" The trailer gave all the right signs - a interesting,if slightly overused, post apocalyptic scenery, an adventurous treasure hunt ala Indiana Jones 1-3(Let's face it,4 kinda sucked big time!) and a decent female lead,or at least so she looked,a religious fanatic,a generic billionaire villain...
And now,what REALLY HAPPENED:
Well,it's sucked,turbo!In fact,it's so bad,it's recommended for it to be included in the basic "rigorous interrogation",not torture, in the non-existent Gitmo Bay,where they certainly don't torture or actually even have innocent people or terrostas... Rly! I mean it completely,in reality the movie is 90mins including the credits,which you could skip,but if you manage to watch it in one run-through without gouging your eyes out with a teaspoon in order to remove the infected parts of yourself and to stop it from spreading into your system,that or by finding out that you're actually a terrorist,who knows everything about everyone in Al qaeda,PLFP,Ira,Eta and the secret Cabal Of Circus Clowns and that you feel the need to call those oh-so-nice guys from Homeland Security to take you away and to call Jack Bauer to have a little chat with you,you'd need to be studied,because you're Superguy and the scientific community will need to develop a gene therapy to help others survive this level of abuse.
So,what was that wrong that such a sure-fire movie turbo sucked?!
Well,it simple - It IS A SCI-FI CHANNEL TV MOVIE MADE TOGETHER WITH PRO F-ing SIEBEN!!! It was destined to suck,but someone found it important enough to exclude that little bit of info from both the DVD trailer on youtube and from the entry at ReleaseLog... Then comes the cast... Not that I'm prejudiced or anything ,but it'd be a nice idea to A)Cast people who can talk in the appropriate accent for the part and B)see A),but with the addition of an appropriate lines for the characters... I for one was near stupor each and every time the German members of the cast tried to speak in English,because the effect of the sounds coming from their mouths made me seriously consider entering the laptop screen and to summarily execute everyone with the exception with the two guys in the two "starring" roles... Alas,it was impossible and so I took a 100 minute break during the movie to try and calm myself and to soldier on to the end... The other elements of the movie are typically less worse than the beforementioned stuff,but still relatively sub-par,with the exception,maybe, of the CGI,but the jury is still out on it...
So,the verdict is - KILL IT,KILL IT NOW! I mean it,because if SCI-FI want to continue making movies they might want to talk with their colleagues in TNT or HBO to find out what a TV movie should look like,that or preferably just repurpose the money from this suckfests to fund another season of SG:A or maybe to add to the budget of Eureka,so they hopefully resume filming earlier...
But for now,I'm off to try to burn the memories from this movie using either an obscene ammount of beer and Far Cry 2 or more likely by a lil' soak in the bathtub while listening to the soothing sounds of Manowar and Iron Maiden(don't judge me,please!)
bk109 out but still screaming in his head!

Day Four: A new hope

Well,we're halfway there kids... the big 8th. It's rather strange,really,to think about the 8th of December as a Exam Day. 'Why' you don't dare to ask? Well,because I'm your father,Luke...
That and the meaning of the day in Bulgaria- On that day every High School and university student has to blast himself beyond oblivion with the most excessive amounts of hard alcohol available...preferably in large groups in order for him/her to maximize their stupidity and damage-inflicting potential...
And now... I have to forego this sacred tradition and for what?! To study and to take part in an exam,which could possibly change my life one day... but still it's not fair! I WANT MY ALCOHOL INDUCED FRENZY! That plus the fact that I just don't like the whole concept of the Exam... especially when I am so intimately connected to the whole exam expirience...Fuck...
Well,the battle rages on and the casualties pile continues to grow... Today it's the HOLY EIGHT OF DECEMBER,tomorrow it'll be the abandonment of the quality gaming experience and after that... my precious bodily fluids...
Anyway,I'm calling it a night for now and I'll redirect my last battery power (body,not laptop) to a couple of Fringe eps. ,because the backlog is starting to get big-ish for my taste...
bk109 out (or am I?)

Day Three: The Curse Of Day Two 'n' a Half

Sorry folks for the missing day two of the race to the White Exam hall(or something like that...), but yesterday was a unmitigated disaster... First the toilet friggin' ceased to flush,so we had to resort to plan B(ucket), then I had to look for a fucking X-mas present for a kid I don't even know because a certain individual made a promise that 'I'd be delighted' to help out (Yeaah,right!)... so I spent the rest of the day with something rather reminiscent of a flu attack and then to really fuck up my day - my Windows died... Without warning or a chance to save it...
It just died,but thanks to Linux(Ironic,isn't it?) I managed to copy all my stuff from the stricken partition and then let loose ol' man FDISK to prepare the soil for a new Vista installation... btw I can't see why MicroSuck complain about piracy when their products are inherently fucked up beyond any recovery.... and then prepared a short (25pt) checklist of the most important programs and tasks I had to do in order to restore my Laptop to its former glory...
And then MicroSuck struck again...this time with it's dumbtarded VistaInstaller which for reasons unknown began to mess with the other partitions and for all intents and purposes did something incredible - IT MADE ME USE LINUX TO INSTALL WINDOWS - NFC
I mean,why for fuck's sake it would change the boot-flag and then try to install the bootmanager on a compressed drive when IT REQUIRES A NONCOMPRESSED DRIVE OR IT REFUSES TO WORK?!
Some 8 hours later and 1.5l Coffee later It's sorta done... So now I'll probably skip most of the studying of day three (read CoD:WaW) to sleep and maybe to watch the newest House MD eps...
So for now,
bk109 down and out....
out

Exams: Day ONE

Well,it's that time of the semester,folks,the FINALS... Grrr,how can they taint such a holy word is beyond me, but alas,that doesn't change my predicament...
Anyway,It's day one of the race for the Econ10010/20 and Pol10010/20 (For those blessed not to know what does this mean - Econ10010 - Intro Microeconomics, Econ10020 Intro Macroeconomics, Pol10010/20 Intro Irish Political System/Political theory) and i have the luxury of an entire week to prepare myself (medium-rare,hold the garlic...) for the first one ... the MICROECONOMICS exam(debacle) ahead of me... So next week at approximately this time I'd be screaming inside my mind 'bout all the stuff I supposedly revisited during that week(actually,not,but still) and I'd also be thinking about some reaaaaaally creative ways to kill myself to spare me the embarassment and/or misery that'll surely follow. Then I'll have another 5 days or so to try to remember WTF Macroeconomics was and to go conquer(or be conquered) for the second time in a week by the darned textbooks and lectures I had more or less cruised through... Then another brief respite and a whopping 2 in 2 with both Politics modules comming to a sudden and rather painful stop while leaving some grotesque skidmarks on my student record... (AND I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO FUCKING SPELL HALF OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF IRELAND!!!! I mean,Jeezuz, they're all speaking English,but the fucking PM is called a Taoiseach [It's pronounced somewhat like Tea-SHOCK]...Fuck,I wrote that without consulting wikipedia,THERE'S HOPE!... anyway,errm,yeah... So,anyway I'll have to write at least once each of the Irish institutions in their Gaelic glory until I turn to the R34L English...
After that,Oblivion...
Not the Game...
Just Oblivion,the haze of the one thing that's truly Irish - WHISKY - to dampen somewhat the sneaky suspicion that I'm truly fucked.... And then ze Voayage Home...
On a plane...
Which I won't be flying...
And then a whopping 30 days of drunken stupor and fireworks... mmm... Explosions... niceeeeeeee
Hell,here're some timers to show you how well and truly fucked I am...




AND THEN:

bk109 out