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.
Archive for April, 2009
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.
