Darn you, krfsm

[michiexile]

• Scan my interest list. List any that seem odd to you.
  
• I'll explain it.
  
• Then you post this in your journal so other people can ask you about your interests.
  

Comments

*hysterical giggle*

[michiexile]

Oh come ON!

Did you leave off -any- of my interests?

Re: *hysterical giggle*

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

No, she didn't. Are you that much of an enigma?

Re: *hysterical giggle*

[michiexile]

Apparently.

[michiexile]

algebra: the study of computational structures of varying degrees of abstraction and complexity. For instance deals with why rotation of a dice and addition of numbers is more or less the same thing, only different.

apotheosis: the becoming of god, acquisition of dietary status.

augmented reality: the use of technological tools and methods to enhance the perception of reality, possibly with networking capabilities to add a shared virtual layer to the common perceptions of several agents.

baking: the act of turning mainly grain-based produce into higher, more reformed forms, such as bread, cookies and dough; but normally taken to exclude derivates such as beer, glue and popcorn.

chocolate: originally a medicinal herb in the south americas, now a delicacy best enjoyed in company or alone, but preferably as dark as humanly possible.

clarinet: an instrument in the single reed family the playing of which I bear certain limited skills at.

combinatorics: the mathematical study of the answers to "How many?" - often also including the disjoint area of studying graph theory. Possible direction for my future as a researcher.

computational algebra: the study of how to find effective implementations and algorithms to answer questions posed within algebra (see above).

computers: These clicky things full of bits that seem to facilitate occasional preoccupations. Take care not to lose any bits of your.

conlangs: artificially constructed languages, mainly as a form of art. My own creations include an arabic derivative used for the Orion's arm worldbuilding project and a language using tri-vocal chords struck by an insectoid vaguely centaurean species.

conscripts: artificially constructed writing systems, mainly as a form of art. My own creations include a graph-theory-based representation of the tri-vocal chords described above as nodes of degree 3 in a graph describing the possible paths a certain word could be uttered.

cooking: the process of turning whatever you could find in a student's refridgerator into a meal worthy of even the Foxette, not to mention all other various degrees of choosyness found in my vicinity.

creative destruction: See destructive creation

destructive creation: See creative destruction

eschatological engineering: the systematic approach to bringing about godhood on earth, the end of all times and other nice activities. Will be practised once I get my erisian sect and my golden submarine rolling.

fantasy: literary genre concentrating on the imaginary, the fantastic and the otherworldly; often with magic and medieval/historic components dominating.

food: that which makes us keep on going

homological algebra: the study of abstractions of the topological process of homology; instead of forming chain complexes expressing features of a topological objects, generalised chain complexes - i.e. differentially graded modules - are formed and similarities, operations and other attributes concering the dg-modules are studied. A probable future direction for my research career.

illuminati: fnord

kladdkaka: the food of gods - and of course a very good place to introduce white chocolate chips.

[dominicflandry.livejournal.com]

chocolate: originally a medicinal herb in the south americas, now a delicacy best enjoyed in company or alone, but preferably as dark as humanly possible.

I can't agree with the above, (prefer 65%), but this sounds interesting:


kladdkaka: the food of gods - and of course a very good place to introduce white chocolate chips.

You put white chocolate in Kladdkaka ? Details, please... :)

[michiexile]

After my fiancee had been to Andorra, I received about 2kg of white cooking chocolate. Chopping it into small pieces and just adding it to kladdkaka will give you a normal kladdkaka with occasional scrunchy pieces of white chocolate goodness occuring all over the place.

VERY delicious.

Oh, and yes, I have tried 99% and found it a tad TOO dark. 85% is about right.

[michiexile]

languages: means of verbal and non-verbal communication.

linguistics: the study of languages as a general phenomenon

literature: collections of books, mainly readworthy such.

mathematics: the study of abstractions, wheeling free without relation to real world applications this may well be one of the few places where Truth, Beauty and Deity may actually be found, observed and inquired upon.

music: the shaping of sound in a pleasing, provoking or pathetic manner, often including melody and rhythm as central components.

piano: an instrument for playing music by means of engaging, through a primitive touch-key interface, a sequence of small mallets striking metal strings that excite resonance not only within the strings as such, but also within a metal frame giving the sound as such more complex phonological properties than the "mere" handling of metal strings spanned across a resonance chamber normally does. My first and most welltrained means of generating music.

rapture for nerds: the singularity. the place in space-time where everything we've ever dreamed of comes true, not through divine providence, but through the work of the intelligent, the crafty and the creative.

roleplaying: the act of stepping out of your own mask and into another mask, constructed for the purpose of entertainment of self-knowledge.

roleplaying games: the act of performing roleplaying within a predefined framework

saxophone: another of the single-reed instruments; with a much wider span of articulation than the clarinet with its tight reed handling would allow for. Also within the range of instruments that I can persuade to sound vaguely harmoniously with the environment.

science fiction: a genre of literature focusing on the fantastic, futuristic and visionary; often by means of invoking technology, space travel and other worlds in this same universe as means to look back on the present.

steve jackson games: The origin of Illuminati!, Munchkin and other good things. Have survived a anti-terrorist-raid at least once.

techno: Music. Technology. Beauty. Harder. Faster. Scooter.

topology: the study of properties in objects that rely on notions like connectivity, geometric properties that ignore metrics. the place where you seriously cannot tell the difference between a coffee cup and a donut. And I still haven't figured out why the donut keeps getting hot, soggy and taste bad. =(

transhumanism: the belief that humanity is not a dead end; but rather that we can and should do anything we can to transcend humanity in a direction personally perviewed as progressive. Couples very well with various tastes of aggressive liberalism.

vernor vinge: top-of-the-line SF author. Must read.

vnv nation: top-of-the-line technological music creators. Must listen.

weird science: the things you would not expect until you realise that they are, in fact, everything you never thought they'd be.

world building / worldbuilding: the act of constructing a world from the core and up, often putting significant amounts of work into language-building (see conlangs and conscripts) and the sketching out of a coherent history explaining the cultural and linguistical choices made in producing the end results.