User:Pydos

Hiya,

Pydos here...

I was a student of Yale College Wrexham (note NOT THE UNI), and yes am responsible for the terrible page about it. I love wikipedia because it brings everybody together in pursuit of knowledge. I do a lot of good work (mostly small edits, but occasionally new pages such as Louie Knight) if you see anything good i've done please leave a message on my talk page.

I am studying Law at Aberystwyth University (Wales), so am interested in the law pages here (but not the overtly American law portal). I am interested in postgrad work after it (possibly a Batchelor of Common Law)

'''I'm on a wikibreak at the moment, so may be one or off wikipedia sporadically. A law degree is a lot of work so I cannot guarantee when I will be on or not. Be Bold and use your best judgement without me (but it's on your own head) '''
 * Is this user a Holmesian? Well his AS English language coursework was a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and the commentary was 2218 words long!!!

Tasks

 * Chill out (ALL EXAMS FINISHED. NOW AT AMBER ALERT).  I need to stop re-writing my exams in my head =-(
 * Get my bloody money back off Julian
 * remind myself what 8 hours of sleep feels like again
 * Enjoy myself...but i cannot use an eliptical sentence with a single verb - "you will not use 'party' as a main verb in my shop!"
 * Get Sherlock Holmes to become a featured article!!!
 * Salute the wonder that is Rosie Kendrick

Web Comics
Until I learn how to draw one myself (and, lets face it, find enough time) these are absolutely brilliant. Please check them out!


 * http://thinkingapeblues.com - Abe, Bob and Carl and their adventures in a dystopia (or is it merely somewhere in America with more zepplins?) as they reflect on the human (ape and robot) condition. Not for the naturally optimists among you


 * http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ - 'sparks' interfere with the industrial revolution and total war breaks out! Where are the Heterodyne boys when you need them [or failing that a clank]?  Steampunk becomes gaslamp romance in the online version of the well known series


 * http://www.smbc-comics.com - Not a story as such, more a series of amusing vignettes

Music
I am a fan of Jazz and particularly acid Jazz. I really like Courtney Pine, but in the more acid areas the inimitable Zero Seven (you've heard Jose Gonsalez all of you!) , Sébastien Tellier (but can you find La Ritournelle for love or money? NO!) and some 'Little Fish' and 'Cloud' sounds good too. 'Two banks of Four' and 'Polar Bear' show promise as I love Chill EJazz - Rosie Kendrick rocks! I need to buy some Jazzanova - notably 'Secret Love 2' and whatever their latest one is. Helps to kno that Jazzanova now work for Sonar Kollectiv of course!

Favourite Quotes
Lord Peter Wimsey may have believed that quoting others was a substitute for real thought, but we know thats wrong. Here are some of my favourite quotes - both wit and wisdom;


 * what's good isn't original, and what's original isn't good - Samuel Johnson


 * This essay would not (should not?) have passed at GCSE - Bill, my history teacher, a tab - but i still got an A at AS-level (I stress this is through extreme hard work and not because A-level is easy!!!)


 * Lifes not like coursework baby - it's one damn essay crisis after another! - Boris Johnson


 * When one burns ones bridges what a pretty fire it makes Dylan Thomas - a fellow countryman


 * The thing I love about fox hunting is that you get to meet people from all walks of life - lawyers, doctors, peers - everyone! - one MFH, quoted by Mark Steel


 * [Judge]I find you a fecund liar, but i am forced to let you go
 * [defendent]Aye, you're a fecund good judge


 * "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing, answered Holmes thoughtfully. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different." 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'


 * "I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles." - explains me on wikipedia - 'The Adventure of The Lion's Mane'


 * "How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
 * The world forgetting, by the world forgot;
 * Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
 * Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." - by an ancestor of mine


 * "You are put on this earth to piss around. Don't let anyone tell you anything different" - Kurt Vonnegut


 * "Reason as motive, or reason as logic, or reason as a way of life?  They don't have to give me a reason - i can write my own damn reasons!" - Smiley - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy


 * "I don't know how you survived - you were thoughtful, discrete and good at your job" - Tinker, Tailor


 * "I had eighteen straight whiskeys. I think this is a record." - Dylan Thomas. Only 18?  what a weakling!


 * "Oh brave new world that hath such people in it" - The Tempest


 * "Integra Lex Aequi Custos Rectique Magistra Non Habet Affectus Sed Causas Gubernat" (Impartial justice, guardian of equity, mistress of the law, without fear or favour rules men's causes aright) - the motto of Gray's Inn


 * To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
 * Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
 * To the last syllable of recorded time;
 * And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
 * The way to dusty death. Macbeth (Act V, Scene V)

Pydos - the film
Just some fun, taglines for what my life might be like if someone recognised my bright future...and made a film!


 * 'She was a CSI fanatic, he wanted to change the world...'
 * 'Worlds that cannot be...'
 * 'United they fell...'
 * 'He knew he was right - no one else seemed to notice' (comic)
 * 'to see her one last time...' (I admit this would be based on Tapestry)
 * 'Where the falling angel meets the rising ape'

Expertise

 * Ancient History


 * Egyptology


 * Sherlock Holmes et al


 * Doctor Who


 * Freemasonry


 * Literature


 * International Diplomacy


 * British Culture


 * British History


 * International Politics


 * Human Rights


 * Philosophy


 * Cryptography

Portals
Classic Civilisation - created this one

Star Trek added significantly to this one

coming soon...the Sherlock Holmes portal...'

Hope you find that useful.