User:Simpsons contributor
So, who is this guy?
My name is George Miller. I currently live in a town, Castleford, on the outskirts of Wakefield in England. This is a city just 'next door' to the better known city Leeds in West Yorkshire (which won the current series of Master Team on BBC Radio Four tonight! 4 March 2006). There has been a lot of fuss and childish arguments on the Michael Moore discussion page about how he didn't live in Flint, but in a suburb of Flint. I though I'd give my exact location rather than just saying I was from Wakefield in case I become famous any time soon!
I'm currently studying A2 Math's and Physics at Wakefield College. I've had replies from all the universities that I was hoping to attend to study computer science and only Cambridge turned me down, probably owing to the fact that my title is Mr. George Miller as a pose to Prince George Miller. Well screw them, I'm too good for them anyway!
Luckily I have been granted a place at Edinburgh University, arguably the second best university in the country for studying computer science. I'm probably better off because I couldn't possibly afford to live in Cambridge in my current financial state and Edinburgh is a much nicer city than Cambridge, the residence of some of the most beautiful architecture in this country.
The course which I will be studying is ‘Computer Science With Electronics’. I’ve been fascinated by electronics from a very early age. This interest began when I dismantled a Sinclair Spectrum and gazed upon the main circuit board inside. To see the curious black rectangles spread across the green background with odd blue cylinders and small sausage like structures instantly captured my imagination and have been obsessed ever since. To this day I have probably dismantled around 200 electronic items from my grandma’s broken VCR (dismantled with the help of my mum), to 100MB hard drives which are still fully functional after I’ve dismantled them so the platter can be seen rotating and the arm which contains the read-write head fly backward and forward in its startup test can still be viewed (the next time you turn on your computer try listening to this noise)
The short and empty career of George Miller
I joined Wikipedia on the 19 November 2005 with the hope of expanding some articles relating to the Simpsons, hence my username. Since then I've expanded into other areas, mainly relating to biochemistry. I have asperges syndrome, so I have narrow interests which I’m very knowledgeable in. I’m just as fascinated by the elegant structures of proteins as I am by the elegant structures inside microchips (or ICs as I like to call them). I’m disgusted by the quality of most biochemistry articles on Wikipedia and my current goal is to rectify that situation as best I can.
I'm presently 19 years old (it was my birthday on the 28th of February!) and I'm slightly embarrassed of showing pictures of myself today, so I will use a picture of a more sprightly me from some time ago; when I was 6 months old to be precise. I look great don't I? No? Well whatever.
So what’s right and what’s wrong George?
First I want to say I’m a bleeding heart (or I’m altruistic as we say in Britain) and proud of it. I despise Tony Blair, who’s destroyed our reputation and George Bush, who’s destroyed Americas reputation (not to mention half of Iraq) with a fiery passion which I can’t easily put into words. My dad comes from a mining family so stubbornly voted for the local ‘new’ labour MP, though he told me how dirty he felt doing this.
I don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong, or, owing to the labour party and the conservative party’s new images, who’s right and who’s left. I’ll hopefully be in Scotland this time next year where the Lib Dems rule everything. Under the Lib Dems the people of Scotland have free access to university, but since I’m English, and Tony still rules the show here, I’ll have to pay!
I also want to say that religion is a backward belief system which serves no useful purpose in these enlightened times. A recent series of programs broadcast on Channel 4 called ‘The Root of All Evil?’, presented by Prof Richard Dawkin, illustrated how religion breads ignorance and hatred and that it brings out the worst in all of us; everything from sectarian religious education in London, to the horrific religiously inspired hatred and war of Palestine, to ‘Hell Houses’ in the United States. How innocent children are taken and scared to death with images of hell fire and eternal damnation is, as Prof Dawkin pointed out, a form of child abuse; unfortunately you never see stories about religious child abuse on the front cover of the Sun (although you might see it mentioned in the Daily Miller).
I also despise the right wing nut jobs who have taken over the United States brainwashing the public to make sure they remain ignorant, while at the same time perpetuating the myth that there’s a ‘liberal bias’ in the media. This is what I like to call the ‘broken dove’ paradigm. In the classic movie Bob Roberts, Tim Robbins (Roberts) is a far right wing folk singing rebel and senatorial candidate . While undertaking a photo opportunity in a local school he sits down in front of the children and sings
What did the teacher tell you in school today, in school?
What did the teacher tell you in school today my child?
She said: “it’s a crime to say a little prayer”, said “god’s no longer wanted here”
Oh that’s what the silly teacher said today in school
Bob’s stated goal is to eliminate drugs with the help of his private relief fund ‘Broken Dove’. But it’s revealed as the movie progresses that Broken Dove has a dubious past. It was funded by an unpaid loan from an S&L (which had since been shut down as a result of misappropriation of funds), a loan which was supposed to pay for housing. But Bob used the money to buy transport planes to smuggle drugs to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. The tactic of diverting attention away from your own wrongdoings by accusing your opponents of those very same wrongdoings seems to be ubiquitous amongst the American right.
And what about Bill Clinton? Well I have to admit, a rich middle aged man fondling his young female intern is certainly a rare occurrence, but I still consider it worse to lie to a country that a defenseless foreign state is the biggest threat to the civilized world, and then trying to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of the citizens by leaving their hearts in one place and their minds in another. And as for bill Clinton, well here’s what the White House webpage has to say about him:
During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.
In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president.
Please come back!
What about video games?
Personally I hate modern day video games, especially those which glorify war and suffering. I’ve never been one to submit to conspiracy theories, but I believe these horrible war games are designed to condition this generation to fight sectarian wars in the future. These wars are being fought today with active encourage from the two ‘men’ who go by the names Tony Blair and George Bush. Through my eyes these two people are not men, they are cowards. George Bush’s draft dodging in the 60’s illustrates this point quite well.
I like simple and addictive games like those of the ‘Ball Revamped’ series. A print screen of the highest score I’ve ever achieved in the game Ball Revamped III: Gemini is shown in the image to the left. This is quite an impressive score and I’m quite proud of it. If you’re interested, I’ve collected all the level codes for Ball Revamped IV: Amplitude; they are shown on the discussion page.
Getting back to modern day games, I believe they are boring, unoriginal and extremely expensive. It seems like the only games that are available today are the aforementioned war games, role playing games and football (and other sports) games. Boring!
Contributions and accolades
I started the article photosynthetic reaction centre on the 5 February 2006. I proposed the article should be a featured article on the 1 march. Although it's looking unlikely it will be a featured article, the user Durova though it was a 'good' article. That's good enough for me! I will be rewriting the photosynthesis article soon, so watch out for that.
