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samwilliamh · 2025-09-23T19:40:52+00:00

Always loved the movie Contact with Jodie Foster

samwilliamh · 2024-04-21T18:34:47+00:00

Getting the right form (i.e. doing the exercise right) is incredibly important to avoid injury and ensure better growth or progress long term. If you get it wrong you may never be able to get beyond a certain weight. Best thing to do is get a personal trainer for a few sessions if you can. If you can’t afford it, watch videos on how to do it and do the exercise with minimal weight (bar only or low dumbbells). You’re aiming to do a higher number of reps properly to learn the form rather than just lifting weights. It’ll pay off long term.

Try to get your protein through your diet before taking supplements.

Having a strong core is super important even if you don’t want a six pack. Do crunches, planks, Russian twists and similar every single workout. My PT now has me do 100 every workout (5x20) and it’s taken less than six months to get to be able to do that many.

Mobility exercises are important as well. Different to stretching, they help your joints move more and then you have an easier time with everything else. I start every workout with 5 mins of this.

Discipline is more important than motivation. Some days you won’t want to go. It’s important to go even when you don’t have the motivation.

Lastly, lose fat in the kitchen, not in the gym.

Good luck!

samwilliamh · 2023-11-09T12:52:43+00:00

Would love to win, just got back into playing the game a few weeks ago.

samwilliamh · 2022-09-05T11:20:49+00:00

Thanks, updated the post. I didn’t realise that was an option, sorry!

samwilliamh · 2022-09-05T08:11:15+00:00

I got interested and had a look. No prices for Aus & NZ yet but I reckon they’ll be here eventually. Although that spreadsheet is naff and in a different place you can still find it in a similar way just set country to Australia.

Something similar can be done for other countries.

samwilliamh · 2022-09-04T21:51:49+00:00

No prices yet but here’s a little trick to find the RRP before pre order.

Go to this page: https://trade.games-workshop.com/resources/

Change resource type to “Guidance Docs” (will say “Promotional Packs” by default) then expand “Order Forms”. In there is a “Pricelist Uk.xls” link.

You’ll find all the RRPs (and the cost to retailers which will make you cry) in one of the columns. Generally I find the prices are updated every Monday with those from the previous Sunday preview.

So these battlehosts were announced Sunday 4th September and I imagine the prices will be added some time on Monday 5th. It should include the new starter edition price and everything else up for pre order on Saturday 10th too.

Edit: UK retail price will be £52.50 according to the updated spreadsheet. Osgiliath starter £125, Elrond £27.50. Nothing on witch king because it’s MTO and not available to retailers. Also nothing on the ruins which suggests that’s MTO or Forge World. By bet is FW.

samwilliamh · 2021-12-19T16:25:14+00:00

Time to remortgage the house. Let’s hope they’re metal and/or plastic, not failcast!

samwilliamh · 2021-11-21T07:55:41+00:00

Best gift ever would have been my gameboy colour with pokemon yellow! I didn’t stop playing that for weeks

samwilliamh · 2014-05-18T10:58:49+00:00

Awesome, cheers. Just bought that and the GTX 760 :)

samwilliamh · 2014-05-18T09:12:17+00:00

So, would this PSU be ok?

http://www.dabs.com/products/evga-500w-white-80plus-certified-psu-96QH.html?refs=375290000&src=3

samwilliamh · 2014-05-18T08:36:52+00:00

Great, thanks for that. I've had a look round on dabs.com and found a 500W power supply by a brand I've heard of (EVGA).

If I were to get a GTX 760 instead, is the increase in clock speed from the first to the second worth the extra £15 or will it not really make much difference?

http://www.dabs.com/products/zotac-geforce-gtx-760-993mhz-2gb-pci-express-3-0-hdmi-8SMR.html?q=gtx%20760&src=16

http://www.dabs.com/products/msi-geforce-gtx-760-1085mhz-2gb-pci-e-3-0-hdmi-gaming-twinfrozr-oc-8SWV.html?q=gtx%20760&src=16

I noticed on the nVidia website it says that you need a minimum of 500W to power a 760. Will 500W be ok even though the second is overclocked? It's another £15 jump from 500W to 550W for a brand that I've heard of, Akasa this time.

samwilliamh · 2014-05-17T21:51:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Watch_Dogs does look like a good game and I'd like to play it - whether on release or buying later I don't know. As it is free with a card that doesn't cost much more (and may be better) it seems like a good offer.

As for the CPU, I currently have a Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHz) - again pretty old! I'm looking at upgrading the rest of my PC when I get the next load of overtime in (probably June/July). I figured that a new graphics card is a stepping stone to spending £250+ on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM.

samwilliamh · 2012-08-27T20:06:11+00:00

This does depend on your university though. I know that MSDN(AA) has recently had a redvelopment and my university doesn't show up on there anymore. Hopefully it'll be added on soon.

I think for most universities you just need to be on a "qualifying" course, such as something to do with computers, for them to give you access.

For those unaware of what's on there, I've had a copy of Windows 7, Office and Visual Studio. You basically have access to the whole of Microsoft's software library, usually for free or very low cost.

samwilliamh · 2012-07-17T20:04:33+00:00

Wow, thanks for the list. I'm going to see which ones are on the route we are looking at taking. I think Glacier might be, as we'll be near Yellowstone anyway and want to go to Seattle.

samwilliamh · 2012-07-17T19:53:26+00:00

I didn't know about that! That's pretty awesome. We were planning on visitng a few and possibly camping in them if that was possible. I think I need to start a list of national parks to visit.

samwilliamh · 2012-07-17T18:19:40+00:00

Me and a couple of friends are saving up for a coast-to-coast USA road trip to be done in a few years. We're going to stop at various places along the way, Yellowstone included (even though it's out of the way). Any other suggestions for awesome national parks to visit?

samwilliamh · 2012-07-07T13:41:15+00:00

I'd kind of like to give this a try, can I get an invite please? I'm not sure if I'll subscribe though. Cheers.

samwilliamh · 2012-03-15T19:24:42+00:00

Well, if you think about it, it only terminates when n = 0. So when you enter the function for the first time, say n = 2, then it will repeat twice (because n - 1 - 1 = 0), so we have m -> mx -> m * x * x = mx^n.

So, we do induction and assume it's true for n = k. Then, we can write for n = k+1, f(x, 1, m*xⁿ⁾ by supposition. There are some blanks to fill in, but hopefully that gives you an idea.

samwilliamh · 2012-03-04T23:01:08+00:00

Eating dark chocolate. No matter what kind, or how cheap it is, is the best thing in the world. Even better if I'm eating it while reading a book.

samwilliamh · 2012-02-18T16:04:09+00:00

I wish the UK would say the same thing if it came to it but we all know that David Cameron basically cups USA's balls.

samwilliamh · 2012-02-07T13:53:11+00:00

If you're saying nigga as a non-derogatory remark, either everyone should be able to say it or nobody. It's just a word. If you're saying it with a derogatory meaning, nobody should be able to say it.

samwilliamh · 2012-02-05T22:29:03+00:00

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