Going back to the thread title, Congrats to Jo on her 2:1!



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Do something pretty while you can...

Hmm, here's a question you can all help with:
Almost all my books have already gone back home, I've read all the one's I've got here, and I'm currently between books. So, the question is, what should I (re)read next?
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Dark Light - Ken MacLeod
WOLP - some FForde blokey
Any ideas?



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If you even have to ask, you don't deserve WOLP and should post it to someone who can't get it! ;o)



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Do something pretty while you can...

Yeah. Many congrats Jo.

I'm reading Pattern Recognition along with WOLP. It's very good, so far.

I've just finished 'Star Riders of the Moor'.

Sorry Jo, neglectful there in congratulations!

Dave - I'm a lazy person, one who also knows absolutely sod all about Linux (apart from the penguin, or is that Pingu I'm thinking of?). I'd be very grateful for 'In the beginning'. The only code writing I ever did was for FoxPro and my that was an exciting event. LOL

Btw I was sort of disappointed in 'The Straw Men', it just didn't spark on the imagination in quite the way I was expecting. Usually I would voice imho, but some of it deals with sprees that I don't want to really express on an open forum.

Jo, congrats - and well done for keeping the stratford standard flying (Jimmy and Sara Swindlehurst got 2:1s too)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

*sigh*

Okay. Ill-educated Aussie shows her ignorance ONCE again by asking: "What does 2:1 mean?"

Honours degrees are graded just like any other examination.

The top students earn a First, then comes a 2:1 (Upper Second), 2:2 and then a third. A pass is basically an acknowledgement you tuned up for some lectures...

A first or 2:1 are regarded as 'good' degrees, and post-grad study normally requires that you reched that standard.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Thankyou, I didn't know either.

And back in the eighties, a lower second used to be known as a Desmond.

Say 2:2 out loud and you'll realise why . . .

Ah, we were such a witty bunch.



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Should you say " Two two" or "Two colon two", or two two's with a funny thing in the middle"?
Please note: Here in Aus we have Distinctions, Higher disctintions, credits and then (I think) passes. Since I never made through college, let alone university I am only going on heresay.
HOWEVER - I do know that getting a First is really good (I can thank Eva Ibbotsons adult books for that), so a Second must be better damn good too. So I can now say: Cngratulations Jo!

PSD: presumably it's music students who tune up for their lectures ? Just asking.

Yes Jo is undoubtedly v. clever. Congratulations to that woman.

But we knew she was clever anyway -- she's here after all, and if appreciating Mr Ff's books isn't clever I don't know what is.

Kaz -- it's "Two two" -- think of ballet skirts and 1980s South African politics and you'll see what I mean.

I myself am the proud owner of a Desmond . . .



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Drinker's degree, innit?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Yes so they tell me.

Can't think how that happened.

Or maybe I just can't remember . . .



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Oh right. Gottit now.

*embarassed blush at thickness*

I got a 2:2, along with the distinction of consuming virtually no alcohol whatsoever during my student years. Going to the cinema twice a week, roleplaying twice a week, parties, medieaval re-enactments and being chair of two societies might have had something to do with not quite getting the mark I needed for a 2:1, mind you.

my third was due to
a. sheer bloody laziness, and
b. an inability to do physics.

Which, in a degree entitled 'Physics with Astrophysics', is somewhat of a problem.