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Yesterday was a rather busy day for me. I met Dan for lunch and then went over to Mike’s house to play MtG. The major purpose for Dan and Mike was to test their Odyssey Block Constructed decks against other similarly built decks.

On the way, I stopped and bought some packs of Judgement and Torment cards, getting some interesting choices. Of the cards that were of any use, I pulled two Soulcatcher’s Aeries. These are very good enchantments that make for some really huge birds on the late game. For each Bird that goes into my graveyard from play, a counter goes on the Aerie and each of my birds in play get +1/+1 for each of those counters. Just a few dead birds, and I have a nearly unstoppable horde of flyers to stomp on my opponent.

I was also mildly inspired by Mike to try my hand at a mono-black deck. A couple of Laquatus’s Champions, a Devouring Stroussus, and a Nantuko Shade form the main kill conditions, with several black weenies (Ravenous Rats and Crypt CREEPERS) to be fodder to my Stroussus. Of course, I have included plenty of creature destruction, land destruction, and discarding effects. And, a supply of cards, like Gravedigger, that let me get back some creatures, such as the Nantuko Shade and the Champions. This deck is totally untested, but I might try it out this weekend.

I have neglected to post here, likely since no one ever reads this….

Anyway, I did post to the NCOLUG website that Debian 3.0 has arrived. This was several weeks ago. Since then I have ordered and received the CD’s, an 8 CD set. I will be looking forward to changing my distribution at some point. I will have to test it out on a seperate partition as a sacrificial lamb…

A couple of weeks ago, in my Tech Math class, we were asked to find the areas of various triangles. No problem, any student worth their salt in geometry skills knows that the area of a triangle is one half times the length of the base times the height.

For one of the problems given, we had a scalene triangle with only the length of the sides of the triangle listed on the page. After much confusion by the whole class, Mr. Nichols told us in the next session that we needed a formula that we were not given before, Heron’s Formula. An excellent white paper exists to explain this, but I will try to condense that after I understand it myself. I just do not have time to read it at the moment.