I'm looking at "Wave Motion in Elastic Solids" by Karl Graff. Here is a page (page 250, for those of you following along in your own copies!) that consists of almost nothing but huge equations (long enough that they have to wrap around to a second line) of sin, cos, sinh, and cosh of some greek letter I don't recognize. One of the equations is so ( Read more... )

I finally have a good enough excuse to do something in a non-intertial reference frame.
Not only that, but once I finish this basic problem I get to use an oscillating reference frame ( Read more... )

I've had my new instrument for all of four days, and I'm already improvising alongside Sol Invictus and sounding pretty good. To be fair, it turns out Death of the West is all in the same key and largely the same rhythm patterns, but still.

I have, today, acquired a bowed psaltery. It is awesome. I shall have to take pictures of it at some point. The psaltery is a great instrument, it's really easy to just pick up and start making music. I've learned to play "Scarborough Fair," "Aura Lee" and "Iron Man." I think it is essential to learn the main riff from Iron Man on every instrument ( Read more... )

Go to Wikipedia and hit "random article." This is your band name. Hit "random" again. This is your album name. Hit "random" fifteen more times, and this is the track listing ( Read more... )

I have been working* on this paper for approximately six hours tonight, and I'm-not-sure-how-long last night.

I have almost written a page.

*Sitting at my computer with a book open on my lap and a word document open

Promethean should have been called Dionysian. Dionysos gets torn apart (the only Greek god who can be killed) and then reassembled and reanimated. They should at least have some sort of association with him, maybe a lineage.

Tonight's recording session went really well. My friends write awesome songs.

I got a webcam for the sole purpose of making stop-motion animations.
Within the first twenty minutes, I have made this:

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...I think I'd go for Autonomic Control. The ability to voluntarily go to sleep (among other things) would be awesome.
In other news, it turns out that meeting all the necessary conditions for sleep does not necessarily trigger the falling-asleep action.