Space Cadet

I don't smoke- I'm allergic to tobacco. I can't even be around when someone's smoking- my head hurts, I get sick to my stomoch, and my throat closes up so I can't breathe. Until the local government imposed a smoking ban I couldn't even go in places like resturants or bowling alleys- anywhere where there was smoke lingering in the air. My grandmother died of lung cancer a couple of years ago. She never smoked a day in her life, and didn't really know anyone who did. When she was in her teens and twenties she worked in the kitchen of a hospital and the doctors think the cancer was caused by secondhand smoke she was exposed to then. Crazy to think that it could have stayed in her system to affect her so many years later. It looked like a scary painful way to die.

Ok, yeah Vancouver supposedly isn't so bad... but as a die-hard east-coaster I've seen more of England than I have of the west coast. It's actually cheaper to fly to Europe than the other end of my own country- how's that for irony...

:speechless: It's a horrible thing to laugh at, but what the hey... *BWAHAHAHA!!* Burocracy at it's finest. This ought to give those "we never actually went to the moon" conspiracy theorists some ammunition.

Your Mom is into it too? That's really cool. Only other fan I know in real life is my Dad- he's obsessed. When I was into go-karting for awhile I would always be the only girl at the track (unless my sister tagged along). None of my friends care about sports at all- especially racing. Races put my dad to sleep too for some reason- I think that's part of the reason he records them all, so he can go back and see what he missed, although I usually wake him up if anything happens.

:dozey: You and your polar bears... I'll polar bear you! *sic 'em fluffy* :laugh3: :P

^That and Hollywood really has run out of ideas... between this and Indiana Jones... *shakes head* Hey, it might be good, though. :rolleyes:

That's really neat. Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind my asking, what language do you think in and dream in and stuff? Is it still Spanish, or has English taken over completly? Yeah, I have nine years of fruitless french classes to prove that immersion is the way to go. I wish I had tried it but it was too worried about it affecting my other classes. That approach does have it's downside though, with less common languages. Up in Cape Breton a couple of generations ago, from what I understand, people just stopped speaking Gaelic to their kids because they were worried about the accents and stigma and their kids ability to lean English and all that stuff. Now what's left of the last generation to speak it as a first language is in nursing homes, and people are worried about a whole culture just dying out with the language.

^no I hadn't. Wow... scary stuff. Thanks for the heads up. :worried2: On a totally unrelated note, have I mentioned how incredibly cool it is that there are other girls on here who like F1? Cause it is. :cool: :nice:

Wow... as another massive F1 fan I have to say that is a bit surreal. Very cool, though.

Like they said, Coldplay did play at the Metro Center... I was one of the people talking to Chris on the sidewalk outside right after soundcheck. I was *this close* to asking him if he thought Coldplay would ever come back to Halifax, but I chickened out. Hard to think straight when he's standing right in front of you. But I do really, really, really hope that they thought enough of the place to come back again for a proper concert- with any luck when they start touring the next album they'll keep Halifax in mind now that they've been here once already.

It's been slightly better than last year. Which isn't saying much of anything at all, because last year sucked big time. So yeah... as for the reasons, I could go on for far too long, so I won't.

Wow... kinda scary... And if you want a good example of just how fake those photo shoots actually are, just look at how much they photoshopped his eye.

My impression is that it's something he is considering if he has to, but he would rather get another seat with an F1 team. Who knows where everyone is going to end up though... they call it silly season for a reason, and it's in full swing this year. :dizzy2: :laugh3:

:lol: You guys do realise it's cold in Canada, right? But I like it here anyway. I wish I could move to the UK, Ireland or New Zeland... but I doubt it would ever really happen- I would miss my family too much.

Which UV image? :huh: edit: Wait a minute, the one with the question mark in the middle? Yeah, that's freaky.

The freaky thing is, if the trailer is anything to go by, the whole film actually IS Warning Sign in movie form. A good choice. :cool: Garden State was awesome.

You know, I think he takes after his father enough to come back again if he can at all...

I really don't think so. He just doesn't like to put up with crap and can't handle politics. He's a real racer- he likes to be on the front edge, not mucking away at the back. He never should have followed his manager to BAR- it was the worst possible environment for him and it killed his career. He doesn't need to race, but it seems like he wants to... otherwise he never would have come back. The other stuff is just sideprojects- like many drivers have. And I doubt anyone outside of Quebec will actually listen to his cd. But I have to admit Kubica was quite good.

9 to 29. Wow. :shocked2: About 6 or 7 years ago, John Rhys Davies (Gimli) started saying in all his interviews that LOTR was going to be bigger than Star Wars. I though he was insane. So did most everyone else. There was hope, but Star Wars was unapproachable, and LOTR was unfilmable (just look at that horrid Bashki cartoon). How wrong I was. :thinking: Sorry, John! :D Ack! A stab to the heart. That's my childhood you're insulting, buster. :P :laugh3:

I used to be a voracious reader. I kinda burned myself out on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books, though. I even used to forget to eat when I was reading those. Will they ever end? I mainly read the newspaper and magazines these days.

Hey Kapone, I don't mean to sound like a pest about this, but could you work out Sleeping Sun? I've posted my somewhat pathetic attempt back here: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17813&page=21 but I haven't gotten any farther since then. Thanks for all the great tabs so far.

Yep- I already wrote about it here: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27342&page=14

^ You too? :laugh3: It's funny how some of them stick, eh? The weird thing with me though is that I can't remember references for the life of me. I'm like I remember this verse, it sounds cool, I think it's from somewhere in Isaiah, but it might be Romans... I can't remember authors either. I still can't remember who wrote the Highwayman, even though I can spend a good ten minutes reciting it off the top of my head. Very weird. Tyger tyger burning bright in the forests of the night what immortal hand or eye can frame thy fearful symmetry? Still there, though.

Well, different techniques work for different people, but my style might help, I guess. Hope this isn't too long or confusing. I used to go to one of those private Christian schools where they made you memorize big passages from the bible and write them out word for word. Drove me crazy at the time, but I can remember long poems and stuff now when I want to. It's actually a really useful skill to learn. What I do is I read through the speech or poem or whatever it is. I break each paragraph down into an idea- a general gist of what is being talked about. I memorize the ideas and the order that they go in first. I'll read through it again, and this time try to get an idea of what the text sounds like- the rhythm of the words, I guess you could say. Then I try to recite the whole text without looking. I don't worry about what it actually says; I just repeat my version of the ideas. The point is to make sure I know the ideas, the order that they appear in, the ways that they connect to each other, and how they should sound together. This way, if I have trouble later, I already have practice ad-libbing, and I have something to remind me of what comes next so that I don't blank out even if I forget something. After I know the gist of the text, I start going through it, line by line. I read it over, cover it up and say it again, and then check to see if I got it right. Even if I have it right, I keep reciting it and double-checking until I know the thought isn't going anywhere. When I really know the sentence, I move onto the next one. I also try to think of ways to remind myself what order the sentences come in- usually something in one sentence will point me toward what the next one has to say, and if it doesn't, I think of an unrelated association that will help. It's not until the very end that I think of the text in any unit bigger than a single paragraph. It keeps me from being overwhelmed by the length of the thing. This is where memorizing the ideas earlier comes in. It's how I know how to string the individual paragraphs together. When I have it sort of memorized, I start reciting it to myself whenever I get a chance. For instance, on the bus I'll be like "paragraph 5, go" and I'll run through paragraph 5 in my head. Or if I'm driving and come to a red light, I'll just mutter paragraph 3 to myself before the light changes. This kind of practice makes what I memorised really accessible because I brought it up in so many random contexts. I always make sure that I have a spare copy tucked away in my purse or backpack so I can double-check the stuff I have trouble with in a hurry. The most important thing I use, for the really tricky parts, is the power of association. For instance, when I was having trouble with the line "for now we see as through a glass darkly" I created a picture in my mind of an old Victorian woman sitting in a dressing gown looking at a corroded mirror. Whenever I came to that sentence and blanked out, I would see that old woman, and it would remind me of the line. Or as another example, I memorized this (very long) poem called 'The Highwayman', but I always have trouble getting it started for some reason. It goes: "The wind was a torrent of darkness, among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon, tossed upon the cloudy seas. The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, When the highwayman came riding, riding, riding, The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door." When I can't remember those first two lines, I always try to remember the picture I have for them, and suddenly I'll see the wind taking the form of the headless horseman galloping through a forest (the torrent of darkness) while overhead an old wooden sailing ship made of moonlight sails in the sky. Once I get going, everything else falls into place because I recited it so many times already. May not work for everyone, but that's how I do it. It's not as much work as it looks like. Mainly I just say it over and over while I'm doing other things. Oh, this may be the one time music and other distractions are a bad idea- you need to be able to actively hear and trust your own voice inside your head, and for some reason even if you do get it memorised, that stuff makes the info harder to access.

Whoa. Now THAT ladies and gentlemen, that was a race. Guess the weather decided to make up for Belgium being off of the calandar. Congrats to Button. For those who get the ITV feed, what was with the n00b in the commentary box? I guess he was a Honda test driver? When I first heard him talking, I though it was Jenson Button again (sure sounded like him), and freaked out because something must have happened, but then he was driving, and I was confused. :laugh3: