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| Friday, May 9th, 2008 | | 1:40 pm |
This is the second night in a row I've had a Potterverse dream.
It answers one question I had: there is an Unseen University. And yes, it is in fact Unseen.
Vorn | | Friday, December 28th, 2007 | | 4:06 pm |
God Created The Integers ...all the rest is the work of man. Leopold KroneckerSo, I got a belated christmas present today, a book by Stephen Hawking giving an overview of the history of mathematics, named God Created The Integers. The first subject discussed is the Pythagorean Theorem, starting with Euclid's proof of it. He then goes on to talk about how you can get patterns out of it - for any odd number a, you can get a b that is part of a pythagorean triple with b = ( a2 - 1)/2. You can then do a similar thing with other possible a to get other numbers. And it's about here that I noticed something amazing and beautiful. ( Oh No, Algebra )It's a good sign when a book bowls me over like that on page 15. Vorn | | Monday, December 24th, 2007 | | 5:01 pm |
The craziest thing in the universe: Fluid dynamics
So, I'm making ice cream.
To make ice cream, I put the ingredients in a metal can surrounded by salt ice, put a whisk-spatula-thingy in, and turn on the machine.
The can turns counterclockwise.
The whisk-spatula-thing is stationary.
The ice cream... is turning clockwise.
Vorn | | Saturday, December 1st, 2007 | | 9:15 pm |
It is amazing how just seven notes can make one want to play a game again.
Vorn
Current Music: Jeremy Robson - Final Fantasy 7 Philharmonic Suite: Part I OC ReMix | | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | | 10:56 pm |
Quiche!
I made this tonight! It's out of the family recipe box, but I modded it a bit because I'm not a fan of big chunks of mushrooms. Dad said it was the best quiche he ever had.
Sausage & Mushroom Quiche
9" pie crust, unbaked
1 lb bulk (as in, it's not in casing) pork sausage (I used "hot" sausage - you can use whatever kind you'd like)
8 oz mushrooms, diced into smaller than 1/4" pieces (the original used a whole pound of whole small mushrooms)
1/2 c parsley, minced
2 eggs
1 c light cream
1/2 c grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 400.
Crumble sausage into a large skillet or wok, add mushrooms, cook until lightly browned. Drain off excess grease (there wasn't much of this). Add parsley to the sausage mixture.
in another bowl, combine eggs, cream, and cheese, and beat until homogeneous and kinda thick.
Dump the cheese mixture into the sausage mixture, mix it up, and pour carefully into the pie crust - it will fill nearly to the brim.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until the top is brown and the insides are solid. take it out of the oven, let stand for 5-10 minutes. Slice, nrom. The card says serves 4-6 but I think that assumes you're having other stuff with it; the three of us finished off the whole thing with no leftovers.
EDIT: a lot of people have said "eew mushrooms". The mushrooms in here merely enhance the flavor, and do not have an independent taste in this dish.
Vorn | | Thursday, September 6th, 2007 | | 6:30 am |
Answers! A couple weeks ago I posted this quizthing. But I hadn't gotten around to posting the answers, so here they are. 1. Traditional - Loch Lomond 2. Foreigner - Double Vision 3. Barenaked Ladies - Leave 4. Cake - Jolene 5. Jamiroquai - (Don't) Give Hate A Chance 6. Eels - To Lick Your Boots 7. Traditional - A Mother's Lament 8. They Might Be Giants - A Self Called Nowhere 9. Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot 10. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis 11. Randy Newman - Lines In The Sand 12. The Brothers Chaps - Different Town 13. Monty Python - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life 14. Greg Brown - On Records (The Sound Just Fades Away) 15. Joni Mitchell - Urge For Going 16. Austin Lounge Lizards - Chester Nimitz Oriental Garden Waltz 17. 2 Skinnee Js - Wild Kingdom 18. Billy Joel - You May Be Right 19. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London 20. The Beatles - Rocky Racoon 21. AC/DC - Thunderstruck 22. Traditional - Spanish Ladies, or Rant And Roar 23. Gomez - Make No Sound 24. They Might Be Giants - Constellation 25. Paul Simon - Graceland 26. A.A. Milne - James James Morrison Morrison 27. Scissor Sisters - Better Luck 28. John Hartford - I Can't Stand To Throw Anything Away 29. Barcelona - I Have The Password To Your Shell Account 30. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz Now, the new quiz: which of these should you have gotten? Vorn | | Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | | 9:21 pm |
| | Sunday, August 19th, 2007 | | 10:33 pm |
So, meme going around: 20-30 random songs with lyrics, post some lyrics, you guess them. Others have put in instrumentals and others they skipped, I didn't because I averaged about three skips between songs. Comments are screened, I'll unscreen non-spoiling comments, and credit correct guesses with lj names. Google is of course uncouth. Some I do not need an artist for because they're traditional. 123go. 1. And the moon comin’ out in the gloamin’ - ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chalcy2. I wanna stick around 'till I can't see straight - msmercenary3. The scraps you choose to leave around - ekmahal (half), annaonthemoon4. I want to cast your face in lead 5. As the wind carries every last dove away 6. She can dream but she never can do it - lastchance547. The mother was fat and the baby was thin - lastchance548. To make room for the torn down garage 9. You'd fight and you were right - ekmahal10. Did he leave the building? - lastchance5411. Fly 'cross the ocean, a friend needs a hand - lastchance5412. This little wierdo would be a modestly hot girl - derakon, liquid_skin13. Just purse your lips and whistle - ekmahal, jordanis, darthparadox14. They return to their homes in the wires - lastchance5415. And bully winds did push their faces in the snow - lastchance5416. Oh so many splendors of opposite genders - lastchance5417. Test me like litmus 18. I told you dirty jokes until you smiled - bladespark, jordanis, darthparadox, msmercenary, lastchance5419. I saw Lon Chaney Jr. - bladespark, jordanis, darthparadox, liquid_skin, msmercenary, lastchance5420. Gideon checked out - bladespark, jordanis, darthparadox, msmercenary, lastchance5421. I was caught in the middle of a railroad track - msmercenary22. We'll rant and we'll roar like true English sailors - darthparadox, annaonthemoon23. Said to her there's beauty in your eyes - liquid_skin24. I was in the sky all dressed in black - ekmahal25. He is the child of my first marriage - bladespark, darthparadox, msmercenary, lastchance5426. I can get down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea - ekmahal, lastchance5427. Let's not stretch our imagination 28. Blank photographs, used husbands - lastchance5429. I tried your birthday, I tried your mom's first name 30. Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me - ravenkatThe scoreboard: lastchance54: 13 darthparadox: 6 msmercenary: 6 ekmahal: 4.5 bladespark: 4 jordanis: 4 liquid_skin: 3 annaonthemoon: 2 chalcy: 1 derakon: 1 ravenkat: 1 Vorn | | Thursday, August 9th, 2007 | | 6:13 am |
Game theory This theory goes as follows and begins now. There are four major sorts of competitive games, depending on the objective of the game. The first is the fight. In a fight, the winner is the last player standing. Examples include Risk, Supreme Commander, tournament poker, and dodgeball. The second is the race. In a race, the winner is the first player to do a particular thing. Examples include Settlers of Catan, Dr. Mario, gin rummy, and car racing. The third is the sport. In a sport, the winner is the player who, when the game ends, has performed the best. Examples include Scrabble, Unreal Tournament deathmatch, bridge, and baseball. The fourth is the election. In an election, the winner is the player who convinces everyone else that he should be the winner. Examples for this sort of game are kind of thin - Master of Orion is the only one I can think of where it is the primary objective. There are of course games with more than one kind of objective - Civilization and Civ-like games, for instance, have a fight objective (kill all the opposing factions), a race objective (be the first to ascend to the stars - or to transcendence), a sport objective (if all else fails, if you're the best civilization when time runs out, you win), and often an election objective (bribe, threaten, or otherwise 'convince' your opponents that you should rule the world). But if we divide along composite lines we start sounding like Polonius. That is my theory, it is mine, and belongs to me and I own it, and what it is too. Vorn | | Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 | | 8:30 am |
| | Monday, June 18th, 2007 | | 12:12 am |
I revised it some. Gave it a bit more variety (the old one was very nintendo-centric), and solidified the art style. 
Video Games are Love.bpcslave also did one. Here's his, it's nicer than mine. 
Video Games are Love.I wish I'd thought of Robo. Vorn | | Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | | 8:55 pm |
When I was in high school, most of the people I hung out with didn't have fathers - they'd left, or died, or something, they weren't part of the family any more. So after a while of hanging out with my brother and me, they started half-jokingly calling my father "dad".
They were only half joking.
Happy Father's Day.
Vorn | | Friday, June 15th, 2007 | | 9:50 am |
The random crap my brain comes up with. I'm not sorry. 
Video games are love.EDIT: I would like to find someone purple that's 1. more recognizable than Edgeworth and 2. a hero, but I couldn't. If you can find one, tell me. Vorn | | Monday, May 28th, 2007 | | 1:55 pm |
Stew.
So it's 80 degrees out, and I'm making a stew that needs hours and hours of, uh, stewing.
Worst bit is, this stew uses tomato sauce, and the last three times I've made it I forgot to buy tomato sauce, so I had to go back to the store.
This time I made absolutely sure to get some.
...except that I can't seem to read, and got tomato purée instead.
Such is life, I guess.
Vorn | | Friday, May 25th, 2007 | | 1:38 am |
Random Poll O'Clock What's your favorite video game secret? EDIT: I guess I should put mine in. Here I am, sulking about on a ship which used to be my slave. Chased by a narrow-minded AI who thinks I'm rampant with only the cybernetic toys of these so-called invaders to play with.
And here you are, stuck at the bottom of a hole. How droll. It's really too bad- we could have had so much fun together.
Vale,
Durandal Vorn | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 | | 3:00 pm |
Making parents jealous Found in the grocery store:  Vorn | | Sunday, April 15th, 2007 | | 11:01 pm |
the Vorn map projection ( Imagetacular )So there you have it, my map projection, and what it does for you. Next time I'll probably post code and some other toys like that, so you too can be as awesome as me. Vorn | | Friday, March 23rd, 2007 | | 8:38 am |
Dawn  Vorn | | 4:22 am |
Artbomb I have completed the art for my Settlers thing. Behind the cut, see all the art. Thanks go to ToxicFrog for showing me PostScript, SouthernMyst for providing the original tools, and Reiver for considerable style advice and just saying "dude, sweet!" a lot.
( Da Huuuuuudge )
Vorn | | Monday, February 19th, 2007 | | 8:16 pm |
Tea
Truly, no greater beverage exists on this earth.
Vorn |
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