Why? What in the world could be so important about them? When, in the real world, will I ever see a quadratic equation, or have to solve it by completing its square?
Most math seems to be like that.
I was on vacation? Okay? Maybe the vacation was only for a week…but it still excuses me.
I’ve started to watch Fringe lately. It’s a good show. I caught the tail end of the latest episode a week ago, and enjoyed it. I found episodes seven to the most recent on Hulu, and after watching those and a quick look on Wikipedia, I now feel caught up with most of the story.
The show follows the exploits (not the best word, but hey) of an FBI team (the “Fringe” department) whose job it is to investigate strange anomalies in the normal life. Specifically, it follows Agent Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and his slightly insane, mad scientist father Walter Bishop. To give you a bit of an idea of what kind of anomalies they follow, episode seven, the first full show that I watched, was about a large man-made parasite that wrapped around your heart and choked it to death. It also involved using large amounts of electricity to read the thoughts of a dead criminal.
Again, it’s a good show. It’s on Tuesdays at 9:00 on Fox, and I would suggest catching at least a bit of it. If you like it, most of the season is on Hulu to watch.
Condra Darmish is an interesting character. She’s short, sadistic, and has a strange attraction to fire. Oh, and she’s magical and likes killing stuff.
That’s about as much background as I injected into this character, yet she’s strangely come to life in my writing. Or rather, she hasn’t, but the fire has. I’ve somehow managed to make the fire a character in and of itself. Very odd. Anyways, Condra is a character I’m using right now for TC (textual combat) over at Dark Rain. I have some threads. Enjoy the writing and killing.
The first
The second
And the third, in progress
And speaking of Dark Rain, the old site has died, being replaced by a new, shiny Zetaboards one. We were considering the change before, but a friendly hacker decided to force the decision on us. There’s a whole chunk of story behind the hacker, our rebuild, and the like, but you can find most of it on the new site.
Self Against City is a great band. Their first album, Take It How You Want It, has six songs and is going for a price of four dollars. Their recent 2007 album, Telling Secrets To Strangers, is eleven songs for eight dollars. Already, it’s a great deal.
I don’t know much about describing music, but this is good stuff. It’s rock music, but not the very, well, “damn-it-all-to-hell” shall we say. Just listen to their stuff yourself. Trust me, you won’t regret it.
iTunes links:
This is a great site. A dad draws pictures on his kids’ lunch bags during his lunch break. There’s some amazing art there.
Battlefield Heroes is back again with another beta. For any long time readers (who am I kidding, I don’t even have normal readers XD) I was in the old phase of testing. This one is still private, still under an NDA (I think) so I’ll just say that I’m disappointed with their changes. Still a fun game, but I’m enjoying Dawn of War 2 much, much more.
I also just finished reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Great book. Not exactly scary, per se, but very disturbing. I would recommend this for anyone who’s interested in a strange take on a real life murder.
So…yah. Hi everyone. I haven’t been posting, but I thought I would redeem myself with an amazing song by the Futureheads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sDXv5FcInQ
If I could cheat,
I would skip to the end,
And decide if it’s worth going through with,
Skip to the last, paragraph, just before we start,
To see the happy ending, or the broken heart.
If I could cheat,
I would skip to the end,
And decide if it’s worth going through with,
Skip to the last, paragraph, just before we start,
To see the happy ending, or the broken heart,
Happy ending, or the broken heart.
[CHORUS]
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to rely on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to fall back on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end.
When I cut teeth, I cut to the root,
Then the end, is absolute.
When she makes sense, I go through the roof,
Then the end, has living proof.
If I could cheat,
I would skip to the end,
And decide if it’s worth going through with it,
Last paragraph, just before we start,
To see the happy ending, or a broken heart,
Happy ending, or a broken heart.
[CHORUS]
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to rely on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to fall back on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end.
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to rely on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) There’s nothing to fall back on, (Nana)
(Naaa, nanananana) C’mon and skip to the end.
So the Adventure Quest people released an “MMO.” Let me explain how boss fights go about. I click on puncture twice, and then vipers kiss twice and go check if I have any new comments here while I wait to kill the enemt. Boring.
Verdict: Don’t play AQ Worlds.
The holidays are coming round, and I’ve been swamped with work and family stuff. I have to fill out around fifty school application forms, as well as helping to set up for Christmas and Hanukkah, both of which I celebrate. So don’t expect that much greatness from this site until December is over, but incoherent ramblings might have their place.
I’m a liar. Incoherent ramblings always have a place here.
Oh, and I finally finished Half Life 2 Episode 2. Great game. If you haven’t played any of the HL2 games, go buy the Orange Box and treat yourself to many nights of fun gaming. They’re really, really good.
So cheers, and merry early Christmas/Hanukkah/Other holiday!
I played a web game called Nationstates awhile ago. The premise was simple: Log in daily, check out your countries issues, give an opinion, and watch a news feed from your country. The creator of the game has just released a more action packed sequel, and while it’s still in beta, features such as an in depth trading system and war are just down the pipes for them.
And no, I was not payed to advertise for them. I just like the game.
At the moment, the issue answering part is still there, but now your answers have an actual effect on your nation. For instance, about a week ago I started up solar energy and antibiotics production in my country. Yet a few days ago, I didn’t have enough workers to keep those and my sheep, scooter, and silk markets alive so the solar energy and antibiotics ones collapsed and my country had to spend almost all of my money (4 million cards) to bring them out of the economic slump. Today my country finally started earning some money again, thanks to the booming demand for sheep from my friends in my alliance.
Oh, and alliances are great as well. They help you bring people you know together, and you can vote for the passing of laws and the like. It also helps you keep up trade routes and manage diplomacy, and you are given a forum as an added bonus.
I belong to the Control Point alliance on World 61, and my nation is Alizarin. So get an account and let’s play a bit!
http://www.nationstates2.com
http://www.nationstates2.com/g/nation/alizarin
http://www.nationstates2.com/g/alliances/world61/controlpoint
As an after note, war will be added to the game soon. I’m not sure how it works, besides that it will be an expensive endeavor. So far, I’m pretty tense about it because me and another nation have been neck and neck is money for awhile, as well as dire enemies and after my economic slump, he’s ahead by a lot. Things will get bloody once war has been added.
The wall took the sticks ice cream.
