June 2011
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Just a reminder for all, there will be no stream tomorrow, or for the next few weeks; I’m on vacation, so Stargate will be on pause until the end of July.
Now, Rodge might possibly be streaming on Wednesdays while I’m gone, but last I heard that was still up in the air. She can tell folks better, I suppose!
(Umineko is still up in the air; definitely not this Saturday, but possibly...
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Got the preshow started, I should be starting Umineko itself in about 10 minutes. Come on in :D
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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So right now I’m thinking I’ll try shooting for starting the Umineko stream a little earlier. I’ll be trying to start things off today at 12:00 EST instead of 12:30. We should reach the actual plot of the episode today, I imagine.
If you’re interested but you’re behind in past episodes, don’t forget, I’ve got summaries of all the past streams up here on...
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Ep 2 Part 1 Dossier
I am really bad about getting these up, aren’t I? Well, here’s the summary of last week’s Umineko stream, the first part of Turn of the Golden Witch. And barely 7 hours before the next part at that!
Not much additional information to give after this post on this one, so this is it as it stands right now.
So, starting out we mostly have backstory into the relationships of the...
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Stream starts in about 5 minutes! Come on in for Stargate :D
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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Just a reminder to everyone, Stargate’ll be continuing today at 3 PM EST. We’ll be picking up with episode 1x13, Hathor! (And sorry in advance. :P)
sudrien:
So there’s the thought - I don’t think it would be classified as survivalist - that one should purchase gold and silver in the case that the backing for paper money collapses.
I’m sort of not seeing the point.
Of 100 people, say 50% have some gold. Most are going to have it in the form of jewelry, but a few will have it in the form of bullion and coins.
So…
What is most likely going...
intothecontinuum:
The 120 cell is a 4 dimensional figure that can be considered the 4 dimensional analog of the dodecahedron. It has 720 five sided faces, 1200 edges, and 600 vertices. This animation shows 3 dimensional cross sections of the 120 cell in a way that is similar to taking 2 dimensional cross sections of a 3 dimensional figure.
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Umineko Stream starts in 10 minutes! Hope to see folks there :D
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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And now that that stuff’s up, just a reminder that in about an hour or so, we’ll start in on Episode 2 of the VN of Umineko no Naku Koro ni.
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Magic Circles
Now let’s get into the meaning of those magic circles we kept seeing in the last episode.
Each of the magic circles shown in Umineko has its origins in Hermeticism, a pseudo-Christian set of beliefs dating back to the 3rd century supposedly based on the writings of Hermes Trismegistus, a figure conflated from the gods Hermes and Thoth who was said to have left a great deal of hidden...
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Ep 1 Part 3 Dossier
All right, this is very late, but let’s get a summary of the last section of Umineko Ep1 up here, picking up where we left off in the last one.
Day 2, ~7:00 AM
As Eva and Natsuhi come back downstairs, Genji and Kanon return from walking the grounds, reporting the discovery of something very strange; on the shutter of the rose garden shed is a massive symbol made in some sort of thick...
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All right, Umineko is over, and Stargate’s starting! Folks that were waiting just for that, go ahead and come in :D
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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Bit late, but the Umineko stream’ll be starting very shortly! And Stargate will start in about 2 hours or so.
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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First off, sorry I don’t have a summary for last Saturday’s stream of the Umineko VN up yet, I should have one up within the next day or so. Second, since we did end up concluding episode 1 of the VN, in today’s stream, I’ll be streaming the episodes of the anime that correspond to that episode of the VN. The stream will be starting at 3 PM (bumped back a little just for...
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At least a few minutes now until I start streaming Umineko, though I’ll probably wait until a few people pop in like usual.
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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Remember, folks, I’m streaming Umineko in about an hour!
Quick, someone show that $$i^i \in \mathbb{R}!$$
leafdude:
Bonus points for justifying that it’s a transcendental number.
edit: I guess nobody was interested in this. Anyway,
$$i^i = (\sqrt{-1})^i = (-1)^{\frac{i}{2}} = (e^{i\pi})^{\frac{i}{2}} = e^{\frac{-\pi}{2}},$$
by Euler’s formula. As the reciprocal square root of Gelfond’s constant, a known transcendental number, this number is transcendental.
archery: Non-overlapping cubes can be used to fill... →
intothecontinuum:
Non-overlapping cubes can be used to fill ordinary space (where the three angles of a triangle add up to 180). This would look something like a 3D grid. In hyperbolic space (where the angles of a triangle sum to less than 180), regular dodecahedra can be used to fill the space….
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Just about 5 minutes or so before Stargate starts up again!
http://www.livestream.com/idran
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About two and a half hours until I stream Stargate, hope to see folks there :O
leafdude:
Got an A+ in vector calculus. 3 finals left.
Congratulations!
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Klein's Quartic Surface
hearseethink:
Klein’s Quartet Surface turning itself inside out. This surface can be constructed from the equation u^3*v + v^3*w + w^3*u = 0.
Animated by Greg Egan.
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Ep 1 Part 2 Dossier
All right, we’ve just finished another day’s stream of Umineko Ep 1, and in the process we’ve run into our first questions. (I know it’s mostly only Rodge following along at this point, but hopefully the rest of you are interested enough that you’ll read through this and respond too :P)
Now, there’s one big question that a lot of the events around the end of...
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The Witch's Letter
Welcome to Rokkenjima, everyone of the Ushiromiya family. I am serving Kinzo-sama as the alchemist-adviser of this house and my name is Beatrice. I was serving him obeying a contract that extended for many years but, today, Kinzo-sama sentenced the end of that contract.
Consequently, during today, I’ll have my duty as alchemist-adviser of the family to come to a closure, so please be ...
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Epitaph of the Witch
Behold the sweetfish river running through my beloved hometown. You who seek the Golden Land, follow its path downstream in search of the key. As you travel down it, you will see a village. In that village, look for the shore the two will tell you of. There sleeps the key to the Golden Land. The one who obtains the key must then travel to the Golden Land in accordance with these rules. On...
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About 10 minutes before the Umineko stream starts up!
http://www.livestream.com/idran
citygrifting:
medicationmambo replied to your photo: These, my friends, are the only donuts you should…
American doughnuts are weird. There are so many different kinds! I like the ones you get at the seaside over here: freshly made out of batter and then dunked in sugar. REALLY hot and REALLY bad for you but so nice. c:
Nums! I dunno I don’t think these donuts are so different from yours,...
Everting the punctured torus and unpunctured...
hearseethink:
idran:
intothecontinuum:
This animation shows a punctured torus being turned inside-out. So in principle, if you connected the cuffs of your pants together you could still turn them inside-out. Try it!
The other interesting bit is you’ll notice this reverses the directions of the stripes, from being around the hole to being “parallel” to it. (I don’t know enough topology...
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Giving an earlier reminder since people’ve been missing them, don’t forget that tomorrow at 12:30 PM EST, we resume the stream of Umineko no Naku Koro Ni!
intothecontinuum:
This animation shows a punctured torus being turned inside-out. So in principle, if you connected the cuffs of your pants together you could still turn them inside-out. Try it!
The other interesting bit is you’ll notice this reverses the directions of the stripes, from being around the hole to being “parallel” to it. (I don’t know enough topology to...
sudrien:
What is the level of irony of a woman wearing a kilt?
5.
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Realized last night that I’d never posted this. Witch’s Hunt (the group behind the fan translation of Umineko) included a grimoire with some extra information and the occasional easter egg in the game. I’ll be including these after the streams where applicable, and once an episode is done I’ll link to the whole thing for that episode just for the sake of completeness. ...
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…Boehner’s let’s-get-a-deal-done stance masks a deeper belief within the House Republican Conference — that Obama will back down eventually and agree to its demands, forcing Capitol Hill Democrats to follow suit.
“Of course, it’s dangerous,” a House Republican close to Boehner said of the politics of a government default. “But it’s...
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Proving 1+1=2 →
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Stream starting in 15 minutes! We’ll be starting from the movie and moving onto the series after that.
http://www.livestream.com/idran
