Deviating From The Script

It was a silent night, at least initially - calm - but bright.  Much brighter, in fact, than the average night.  The local radio had mentioned that the full moon would appear larger and brighter - something about the rotation of the earth.  The radio also mentioned the influx of visitors from afar, drawn by the glowing sky, however the radio failed to mention the exact rhyme and reason for at least one of the visitors.  Peace, or conquest, it motives were up in the air, crackling with static electricity.

At The Sideshow (Utah State Fair)

Not featured in the sideshow, but present nonetheless: fanatic evangelic scrapbookers, a AK-47 carved out of wood, $16 lemonades with nary a lemon to be found, 9-5 pencil mouse pushers from Midvale thinking they have better lives than carnies, funnel cake, bulging dairy cow mammary veins, someone singing a capella at the Crest Toothpaste booth, all the booths by the main sponsor - an LDS apocalyptic (i.e. The Second Coming) preparedness organization - featuring food storage buckets, generators, and emergency scrapbook supplies to document it all.

If you survive it all (the fair, or the apocalypse), this is your reward:

Attempt at Something Hip (part x of np)

Where np is the set of all problems (complex or otherwise), here defined as the solution to a two dimensional vector, for which the solution can be verified in polynomial time (i.e. it is possible to determine the solution in the time given to us).

Mountain Meadow Meanderings

I have not yet decided if the redness of the dress makes this more a massacre than a meander.