Recent content by nifedj

I also have a severe scoliosis, though not quite as bad as that (45 degrees, which I think is the borderline for "severe"). I would get the same operation as you (or similar) except that I don't feel any pain from it, much to the surprise of my doctor. Also, my spinal cord is tethered and no...

I'm seeing the sandcastle one, and it reminded me of this (Not sure if this is visible outside the UK as it's a BBC video):

As others have alluded to, the way that the EC video tries to make parts of science fit the definition of "faith" requires quite a lot of twisting the definition. It's one thing to think that definitions are malleable, but using one word - faith - to describe a religious belief like the belief...

There are certainly plenty of small towns here in Scotland. SpiralDots' suggestion of Aviemore is a good one, I've been there a few times and it's a great place. As I said there a lots of possibilities, It depends exactly what you're looking for. I grew up in Perth (Scottish Perth, not...

Penalising people for leaving the question blank pretty clearly defeats the point of using negative marking to cancel out guessing. With regards to differing pass marks, it seem pretty clear that someone who gets a 60% at one university could get a 50% or a 70% at another and the grades are...

I'm in Scotland, had my fresher's week a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed it. My uni - or rather, the union and all the societies - put on loads of events. I met most of my uni friends standing in line for a James Bond themed party :D You don't have to get totally hammered to enjoy...

I'm at my second day of fresher's week at the University of Edinburgh! Amazingly few Scottish people, I've met people from Gibraltar, the US, Hungary, Singapore, China, Lithuania, Australia. I'm enjoying myself so far.

Yeah, some people say it as a joke. But I posted it because someone said it to me totally sincerely yesterday.When she said it I thought she was joking then I realised from her face that this was her idea of incisive social commentary...

"It's always in the last place you look!" Of course it is, because when you find it you stop looking! You'd be missing the point of searching for something if you found it and then continued searching. The above sentence is just a statement of an incredibly obvious truth. It's such a...

That's weird. I got an email from Blizzard yesterday saying my Battle.net account had been locked due to suspicious activity. I recently installed StarCraft 2 on my new machine, and had a bit of trouble with authentication, so I figured it was to do with that. I followed the link, went through...

A fellow scoliosis sufferer! :P That's the main thing, I have a rather severe congenital scoliosis. I continue to confuse my doctor by being asymptomatic despite my spine being a massive S shape. There's no way of knowing whether I'll develop symptoms in the future, the operation can only be...

I was born very ill, and my dad has told me that this song perfectly describes the start of my life. The singer wrote it about his daughter, who was born prematurely. As for my life in general so far... It's not about everything being perfect, but about having a good attitude to life...

For me, the utilities/simple features built into the OS are a big plus. I just replaced my desktop with a MacBook Pro and I'm absolutely loving the Magic Trackpad. I'm able to easily keep track of what I'm doing with lots of full screen apps open. The 3 finger tap for definitions is a great...

My original point was that Deus Ex has more potential than most games that have been adapted into movies. I never said I had high hopes - in fact I said the opposite - and I never said I liked the producers or the director. You're arguing against a point I didn't make. I think you're being a...

The exploration of the benefits and dangers of augmentation is what's at the core of the game. It shows how augs can improve and save lives, but also brings up the issue of a part of your body being technology that could be seen as being owned by a corporation. For me, the game's biggest...